Melbourne Design Studios co-founder Felicity Bernstein will take up the specialist position of sustainability judge at the 2026 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Bernstein has long been an enthusiastic proponent of sustainable architecture. She says she was lucky to “dive in from day one”, undertaking her degree in Germany in the 1990s, during the infancy […]
They say ‘write what you know’, but Studio Gram discovered this can also apply in interior design, with the team winning the Workplace Under 1000sqm category at the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2025 for designing their very own workspace. While no one in the A+D industry could ever accuse IDEA 2025’s triple-award-winning dynamo, Studio […]
From Tasmania’s rugged south, So. Architecture shapes a built world of quiet strength, guided by Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen. There is a quiet intensity to the work of So. Architecture. The practice, founded by Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen in Hobart, has built its reputation on an architecture of distilled clarity. Its projects hover […]
Michelle Dunas and Stephen Clement, architects and co-founders of Sydney-based architecture, interiors and objects practice Complete Thought Studio share five minutes and five insights with Australian Design Review. Origin story We met early in our architecture studies and spent the first part of our careers working for a range of practices in both Sydney and […]
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