Wood Melbourne’s 2019 range is considered in its use of material, functional in application and minimalist in style, making all six designs unique pieces to enrich any bathroom space.
Set within two dramatic concrete shrouds, the Hawthorn House pushes at the boundaries of residential design, yet it is simultaneously driven by a singular focus on the essential activities.
DENFAIR Melbourne 2019 has drawn to a close after three days filled with best of local and international design, alongside DENFAIR’s largest-ever activation program.
A sense of adventure and love of the coastal northern-New South Wales landscape is at the heart of Daniel Boddam’s most recent work, which both encompasses furniture and architecture.
No. 6 Sydney Street is a boutique project of only 16 apartments overlooking Orrong Romanis Reserve in the Melbourne City of Stonnington, by Wood Marsh Architecture.
Resisting the typical impulse to extend their small cottage to allow for its growing family, clients of the Garden Bunkie chose to engage Reddog Architects to create a standalone dwelling.
In FMD Architects’ His & Hers House, a couple with two previous separate design schemes are brought together in a design that marks the commencement of their new shared home and future lives together.
Nestled on the shores of Lake St Clair in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, The Retreat, designed by JAWS Architects, is the latest accommodation offering at Pumphouse Point.
Stylist Claire Delmar has created a microcosm of a peaceful interior world, rich in form and texture, for the latest studio shoot of the Egyptian collection.
Nestled among the quiet streets of bayside Melbourne, the Silhouette Hytte House overcomes a number of challenging site conditions to create a playful and updated reference to the existing vernacular.
Ancient masses of pink granite provided a powerful source of inspiration for Liminal Studio’s design of the Coastal Pavilions in Frecyinet National Park.
With a new range of black appliances designed to match, Fisher & Paykel has drawn on insights from architects and designers to introduce a new level of design freedom.
Saturday Indesign returns in 2019 for a fifteenth consecutive year, in the process reaffirming the event’s commitment to fuelling creative inspiration whilst supporting the Australian design industry.
Set in heritage-rich Balmain, Sydney, Downie North’s Machiya House respectfully takes lessons from its Japanese influences, instilling privacy, connection and a new access to light.
A respectful restoration and extension of an existing Victorian terrace in Paddington, Smart Design Studio’s Regent project sees punctuations and extrusions openly encourage natural light inward.
Restrained, even minimalist in its simplicity, Manuel Aires Mateus describes his work as “unfinished art”, paring back all extraneous elements to create a quiet luxury.
We explore Owen Architecture and Lineburg Wang’s Indooroopilly House, taking the traditional Queenslander vernacular and integrating stepped levels to allow access to sightlines from each room.
We speak with founding director, Rob Kennon from Rob Kennon Architects about the Brighton House, their firms’ approach to domestic living and fusing the old and the new for a family in Melbourne.
Chris Tate Architecture’s provides Forest Pavilion a contextually appropriate nod to Californian modernism a reference that connects the project to a wider architectural legacy.
Elbow Room sees Spacecraft Architects refine their response to the landscape through a rationalisation and robustness, delivering on accessibility of design.
Wairau Valley House sees Parsonson Architects respond by blurring boundaries between landscape and build form, playing on concealment and revealing elements.
Blurring the lines between architecture and landscape, PopovBass’s Sunshine Beach House sees a contemporary approach to the traditional Queenslander typology revisited.
We explore David Boyle Architects’ Five Garden House, where landscape elements are utilised as spatial generators in the new alterations to an existing 1950’s modernist home.
With DENFAIR, the leading destination for contemporary design in Melbourne this winter, only three weeks away, the biggest-ever activation program has been announced for the event.
Comprising of four unique residences in a boutique development envelope, 131 Residences embodies a strength and clarity of concept, which permeates all aspects of the architecture and interiors.
We explore Studio Four’s Central Park Residence, where an existing 1970s brown brick home is opened up to return its character and materiality to a sense of honesty, embracing the client’s heritage.
After launching Universal Light to success in September 2018, Australian lighting designer, Unios have published the second edition of the educational lighting-based magazine.
Set above the streetscape in Sydney’s north-shore suburb of Middle Cove, H House is referred to as the ‘tree house’ by its owners for its fanciful placement above the tree line.
The centrepiece of the Woods Bagot-designed KPMG Perth is the American walnut timber reception wall by designer Jack Flanagan that offers insight into the design capabilities of American Hardwoods.
We explore Nobbs Radford Architects’ Riverview House, where the existing bones are opened to create a sense of connection between the previous stagnant living zones.
Responding to the clients’ changed lifestyle, South Yarra Townhouse sees Inarc Architects breathe new life into an existing neo-classical townhouse in Melbourne’s south.
We speak with founding co-director Poppy Taylor of Taylor and Hinds about her practice’s approach to the creation of krakani lumi, its cultural sensitives and integration into its unique landscape.
Blinco Street House facilitates this unique process through the layering of private to social zones leading the journey from solitude to the friendly reacquaintance with a larger community.
Acting as a counterpoint to its original warehouse bones, Darling Lane by Welsh Major Architects is a refined and simplified gesture of amenity in amongst a texturally-complex home.
A heritage semi-detached cottage proved a uniquely challenging yet rewarding project. Originally owned in the 1900s by two brothers who informally founded Australia’s surf lifesaving culture.
We explore Edition Office’s Point Lonsdale house, where a series of vaulted pavilions connect around a central living space, and are aligned to create a linear play on the coastal home aesthetic.
Designing a large family home on a small urban site would usually result in a structure that prioritises indoor over outdoor space, this project takes the opposite approach.
Perched on a hillside, atop the carport of an existing residence, the (Gr)ancillary Dwelling is an alternative to elderly care, an exemplar of intergenerational living.
We explore a well-versed collaboration between Woods Bagot, Hecker Guthrie and Simone Haag, in the form of Tidal Arc and its reinterpretation of the coastal home aesthetic.
A pair of single-storey townhouses take inspiration from the surrounding architectural context to create two sustainable, affordable and well-designed rental homes.
Defined by the interplay of lightness and weight, the Paddington House creates an industrial, urban aesthetic that is unexpectedly resonant with the original Georgian architecture.
We explore Edition Office’s Mount Martha house, where influences of mid-century modernism and a relaxed Australian coastal aesthetic combine in an outward-facing series of volumes.
We speak with founding director, Christopher Megowan of Megowan Architectural about Pleated House and its play on form, materiality and the traditional roof silhouette.
The Stella Collective on their drive to create projects that instill genuine happiness and their relationship with Artedomus which culminated in a project described as “a love letter”.
JR's Eco Hut designed by Luke Stanley Architects and Anthony Hut Design traverses the many possibilities of remote living and sustainability on an exposed hill-top site of the rural Kimo Estate.
Robert Plumb Build is a premium residential building company based in Sydney. We sit down with Managing Director Bill Clifton as he explains what separates his company from the competition.
Richards and Spence bring a sense of Palm Springs nostalgic grandeur to the centre of Brisbane through their design for Australia’s first urban resort, The Calile.
The Lansdowne Project by Preston Lane Architects plays with volume, geometry and materials to transform a 1920s semi-detached house into a private inward-focused world.
The House in Darlinghurst by Tribe Studio is at once familiar and slightly unsettling, reinterpreting the traditional red brickwork with an extruded glass brick crown atop the heritage building.
We explore Vokes and Peters’ QLD Architecture Awards entry Teneriffe House and the resulting celebration and restoration of its heritage bones, through the impassioned nature of its custodians.
We explore Andrew Burges’ Plywood House II, where the traditional Australian residential block typology is challenged, and an expression of its geometry is articulated.
On the shores of Bruny Island, an angular black-clad form emerges from the coastal vegetation. The project by Dock 4 Architects is a unique structure, designed as a built tent-like layer.
The Artedomus Expert Series draws upon the wealth of knowledge within the company, delving into the most frequently asked questions on their products and materials.