Like many great designs, Omnia’s Plant Glider was inspired by taking an existing object and turning it into something more functional and beautiful. The seed was planted by a homeowner disheartened by the existing pot trolleys on the market. Keen to find a better solution, Peter McKinnon and the team of designers and engineers at […]
Australia is a land of many shades. From golden sandy beaches, lush, verdant tropical rain forests, bucolic, rolling hinterlands, to inner city sanctuaries that offer a slice of nature and respite from the cacophony of busy cities. While IDEA may have been conceived in 2003 as an award for interior design excellence, we recognise that […]
In an age of urbanisation and technology, landscape architecture practice CONTEXT reveals how we can harness good design to encourage children to spend more time outdoors for free play and hands-on learning. Landscape architect Hamish Dounan, director of Sydney-based studio CONTEXT, is dedicated to working with school communities to design outdoor landscapes with nature at […]
Summer Hill-based firm Carter Williamson has created a sleek and sky-high iteration of a family home in Alexandria, New South Wales. Erring on the cusp of residential and multi-residential, Tree Island is only four and a half metres wide internally. However, this limitation was transformed into arguably the most impressive feature of the house. The […]