RAIA Gold Medallist Kerstin Thompson of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), Professor Maryam Gusheh, Associate Professor Lee-Anne Khor and Professor Louise Wright of Monash Urban Lab, Monash University, have been announced as the creative directors for Australia’s 2027 Venice Biennale exhibition titled Lived In. Announced by The Australian Institute of Architects, Lived In will feature at […]
Applying to join Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 in order to be ‘part of the conversation’, Blake Hillebrand currently works full-time at Kerstin Thompson Architects. He says his work is driven by ‘curiosity, generosity and accountability’. Australian Design Review: Why did you enter the 30UNDER30 program? Blake Hillebrand: I entered because I care deeply about where […]
Edward Linacre Studio specialises in adaptive reuse, but for its recent collaboration with Kerstin Thompson Architects the team needed to learn a whole new set of paper-making skills. One of the big surprises – certainly for those involved – at 2025’s Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) was the winning project selected in the Sustainability category, […]
Oriented by the central hearth, Aru is a restaurant full of earthy and warm colours with bespoke bricks, spotted gum timber, and low lighting. Located in Little Collins Street, Melbourne, Aru offers Sino-Indonesian-Australian cuisine. The colour palette underpins themes of heat and spice with a gradient combined with level changes defining dining areas. Speaking on […]
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