Bellbird Retreat is Steendyk’s 2019 QLD Architecture Awards entry, seeing inspiration taken from its plentiful bushland surrounds to create a disconnected weekend escape.
We speak with co-founding director, Jonathan James of James Design Studio about Garden House and its Gable-inspired geometries, responding to its modest neighbouring urban fabric.
Australian design-focused furniture brand GlobeWest has released Collections 2019 Volume #02 encompassing seven individual new collections and over 200 new products created to suit any home.
We explore Casey Brown’s Hart House in Mackerel, echoing the archetypal Australian one-room beach abode, where the architecture takes on a box-like structure, opening one side to the elements.
A kitchen that challenges all expectations, the space is a haven of tranquility, more a place of quiet retreat than typical busy work zone, finding the balance between minimalism and functionality.
We explore the sleek and industrially-inspired Lighbox commercial project by Clare Cousins. A sense of the minimal, with a controlled restraint come together in a fresh approach to the workspace.
One of the greatest skills an architect can offer to their community is their ability to facilitate the meaningful connection between inhabitants and their environment.
We speak with founding director, Emlyn Olaver from Olaver Architects about Thornbury House, their firms’ approach to facilitating flexibility in domestic spaces.
Handcrafted by Melbourne artisans, Honey is the next step in the studio’s design journey that sees Coco Flip exploring the potential of materials and organic forms, enlivened by playfulness.
Designer Rugs’ Evolve Awards 2019 are now open. Design professionals are invited to enter the design competition and encouraged to attend the accompanying professional workshop events.
We speak with founding director, Tom Robertson from Tom Robertson Architects about Armadale House, its references to its neighbouring adjacencies and their firms approach to the beautifully simple.
For Melbourne Design Week, New Volumes™ ℅ Artedomus is the subject of a collaboration between Fiona Lynch and Thomas Coward, exploring the ancient history of Artedomus’ Elba™ .
The Challis Avenue Apartment by Retallack Thompson brings the 1930s one-bedroom apartment into its own, revealing the pied-à-terre’s potential, both Art Deco and contemporary.
We speak with co-founding director, Sean Radford of Nobbs Radford Architects about Woollahra House and reinforcing of the existing expansive volumes of the 1860s semi-attached terrace home.
We speak with co-founding director, Steve Koolloos of MCK Architecture and Interiors about Extruded House and its bold and simple formal response to its original federation frontage.
Resident Dog creator, architectural photographer Nicole England reflects on the “overwhelming” response to book, what she learned about photography, and the future of the project.
The Cooggee House II by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects finds creative solutions to the constraints of its narrow, sloping site to create a many-layered family home filled with beautiful details.
We speak with founding directors, Jean-Paul Ghougassian and Gilad Ritz from Ritz and Gougassian about Edsall Street and their firm’s approach to materiality and space.
Born from a desire to support local Australian design, Dessein Furniture is passionate about facilitating new opportunities for established and emerging Australian designers.
The architectural embodiment of a relaxed, elegant coastal lifestyle, the Sorrento home carefully balances luxury and simplicity to create a tranquil retreat.
Innovation, functionality and a touch of class – award-winning designer Carole Whiting uses every ounce of her skill set to bring out the true architectural beauty of an inner-city Melbourne home.
The jewel in the crown of Harry Seidler’s iconic Horizon Tower, the level 40 Penthouse, has hit the market, providing prospective buyers with the chance to own a piece of architectural history.
While modern extensions to heritage homes have become the norm yet, the Pavilion House by Robson Rak is set apart by the design integrity of each volume.
When a home is abandoned, what memories linger in the dusty halls? How do the lives of the family who once lived there and the history of a time now past permeate the architecture?
We speak with founding director, Andrew Benn from Benn and Penna about Twin Peaks and their refreshing and contemporary addition to a modest Sydney cottage.
We explore Modscape’s Sydney Project; a light-filled family home that embraces passive and active design elements and a timeless palette, to sit unobtrusively amongst its Tamarama coastal setting.
Designer Rugs rose to challenge, creating a new collection of hand-tufted rugs that captures the exquisite layers and hidden dioramas of Lara Scolari’s work.
We speak with co-founding director, Catherine Downie from Downie North Architects about Skylit House, their firm’s inquisitive approach to domesticity and the opportunist journey.
Lune de Sang Pavilion is the latest of five structures designed by CHROFI Architects as part of a remarkable ongoing project whose vision stretches beyond this lifetime.
The Matraville House by Tzannes Architects is a home designed to comfortably accommodate the many generations of one family, while connecting them to the outdoors and each other.
The Light Vault House uses the initial brief for a “concrete bunker” as a launching point from which to explore the vast potential of concrete, challenging the connotations associated with concrete.
We explore Pleysier Perkins’ ‘Eagle’s Nest’ Armadale 4 extension, where the penthouse to an already established industrial residence is created as a timeless and resting recluse.
We speak with co-founding director Yasmine Ghoniem from Amber Road about their latest project, A Gentleman’s Residence in the Sky, and the journey with their adventurous client.
Designing their own family home gave Robson Rak the chance to explore the concept of ‘home’ and to challenge assumptions of minimalist design as cold and clinical.
Highlighting the value of honest communication and a deliberative design process, House MT successfully balances the needs of the client, the rugged coastal environment and a challenging site.
Led by Directors Andrew Parr, Ljiljana Gazevic & Leo Terrando, SJB continues to explore and experiment with creating relevant and resonating design outcomes.
We speak with Wolveridge Architects about their mission for high-performance non-permanent living, and how nostalgia to place and a want to embrace contemporary luxury were infused into the project.
Andrew Beveridge and Gabrielle Beswick combine their collective knowledge to design beautifully minimalist pieces of furniture for their design studio Fomu.
Those Architects transform a 1980s brown brick bungalow into an airy yet grounded home that highlights why they see their work as “like caves, rather than nests”.
The Cable House by Tom Robertson Architects is a testament to finding elegant solutions to the challenges posed by a dense urban environment and heritage context.
Rakumba, in collaboration with Dutch design agency Studio Truly Truly, presents the Typography Floor Lamp – an elegant customisable portable luminaire.
No ordinary heritage renovation, the project is a testament to the designers’ ability to work with old and new, finding a new design language while respecting the building’s history.
MRTN Architects’ restoration of the 1963 Frankston House reimagines the home through the lens of Julius Shulman’s iconic images that most likely inspired the original.
Fellows Mobiles is a creative collaboration between husband and wife Lydia Sumner and Paul Vizzari, who hand-craft delicately balanced mobiles from Australian timbers and brass.
Designing their family home was an opportunity for Rosa Coy and George Yiontis to put into practice their belief in a denser inner-city residential built environment.
We speak with director of Tsai Design, Jack Chen about his approach to compact apartment living and his jigsaw-esque approach to joinery in his Richmond Apartment project.
Mikala James, of Loom Towels, draws on the past to create beautiful textiles for the present. Explore the Loom Towels range and discover the tradition behind the brand.
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