As the nation embraces life after lockdown, the hospitality scene is flexing to address a collective appetite for connection, stimulation and memory-making. This shifting landscape presents challenges
Designed by Studio Bright, WPI Older Women’s Housing Project delivers four modest yet high-quality dwellings for women over 55 at risk of ageing into poverty – offering residents security of tenure.
Founded in 1985 as an integrated architecture and interior design practice, Neometro has delivered compelling property developments in Melbourne for over three decades.
Copycat Bar & Restaurant is brought to life through a sophisticated and dark material palette and dimmed romantic lighting, speaking to quality and a sense of unmatched opulence.
Revitalising a prominent Victorian building in Melbourne’s Abbotsford, La Fantaisie by Bergman & Co. skilfully entwines florist, café and function spaces into a welcoming proposition.
Instead of rebuilding a home for themselves following its destruction in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, philanthropists Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield built a museum for the people of Christchurch.
Mass timber’s structural properties and low carbon footprint are making it a viable contender in offsetting and, in some cases, substituting concrete and steel.
There’s an increasing stable of hotels proving there’s merit in crafting unique encounters that connect visitors to places through architecture and design.
Flooring is an important part of any project, and Melbourne-based engineered timber flooring supplier Made by Block will oversee every element, from design and supply to installation and maintenance.
Penrith’s Log Cabin Hotel has been proudly resurrected by Team 2 Architects. Utilising materials from CSR, the new building nods towards the hotel’s significant past whilst promising a fire-safe futur
Adeptly designed by Tamsin Johnson, SIR. Bondi Flagship Store houses an array of products from the renowned resort wear label, joining sister boutiques in Perth and Manly.
Revival Projects is an organisation like no other. Recognising a disastrous waste problem within the building industry, the company has positioned itself between the materials themselves and the tip.
Sympathetically woven into a historic Sydney thoroughfare, 8 Loftus Street by Studio Bright delivers a sophisticated multi-residential experience within the iconic Quay Quarter Lanes precinct.
Pandolfini Architects ignites a character driven build with Cubitt Street Tower where gestures to the industrial past and professional present of Cremorne are highlighted.
Fisher & Paykel’s appliances are deeply informed by human experience, and respond to changing cultural, social and economic trends through a thoughtful design approach.
Superbly transformed by Ewert Leaf, Torquay’s Sou’West Brewery centres around the zest for creating craft beverages and celebrates feasting with friends.
Featuring contemporary interpretations of catenary arches, the Southland store of luxury skincare brand Aesop pays homage to the significant architectural era of the mid-to-late 20th century.
A humble public secondary school in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne has seen an existing Gymnasium intended for demolition transformed into a state-of-the-art senior learning centre.
Gosford will soon be home to Central Coast Quarter – the area’s first residential and retail precinct, designed by DKO Architecture and developed by St Hilliers.
With Buff Nail Studios, GOLDEN has made a deliberate choice to pare back from the excessive detail usually associated with nail salons and instead focus on creating cool.
John Wardle Architects designs 424 Malvern Road, a mixed-use apartment and retail building whose otherwise muted façade is in constant flux in response to its occupants.
Lee Mathews clothing is at once stylish, timeless and functional. It is this ethos that also underlies Fiona Lynch’s interpretation of the brand’s Brisbane retail store in Fortitude Valley.
Echoing the convivial, laid-back nature of the Mexican seaside, Calita by Frankly Interior Design entices Bondi’s beachgoers with its spritely character.
Matthew Woodward Architecture and Urban Logistics Co. rise to the challenge of fitting out and scaling offices with office pods fabricated from cross-laminated timber (CLT).
Addressing the shortage of affordable and appropriate housing for Australia’s First Nations people, AHV has engaged Breathe to deliver a multi-residential social housing project.
Melbourne-based industrial designer Paul Grummisch of Please Please Please specialises in the design and manufacture of bespoke lighting, furniture and objects, designed to last a lifetime.
At once a celebration of heritage and an optimistic vision of what’s to come, Richards Stanisich’s 15 Young Street brings a new way of living to Sydney’s CBD.
Supplied exclusively by ownworld on the east coast, premier brand laCividina champions the Italian culture of craftmanship through upholstered and sculptural furniture.
Celebrating the smoky, darkened charring of food cooked over fire, arkhé is a bold new offering. Creating a truly immersive experience, studio gram worked closely with partners.
Utilising its soft tonal palette to evoke a relaxing and ambient space, Brellah & Movement HQ by Tom Mark Henry invites one inward for a holistic healthcare experience.
A rare combination of the monumental and the approachable, engagement with the public is at the heart of the design of the Ian Potter Southbank Centre by John Wardle Architects.
Nestled in the leafy suburb of Hawthorn, No. 58 Wattle by Ewert Leaf is a collection of seven townhouses that thoughtfully rework their established site’s history.
At Script Skincare in South Yarra, you’re encouraged to take a slow, intuitive journey through the retail store, beginning with insight and intrigue, through to education.
Concrete is polarising. It is the most resilient, robust and cost-effective material known to us however its sizeable contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide is problematic.
Queen and Collins Tower by Studio 103, albeit in the Melbourne CBD, draws on the period detailing of the Renaissance-style architecture it sits within.
Multi-residential housing is shaking off its bad reputation thanks to forward-thinking architects, designers and developers driven by aspirations for compelling, design-led dwellings.
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