"Our design approach is very much driven by the emotional sensibility and function of spaces - these are the qualities which stay with you, make the place work and keep customers returning." Mark Simpson and Damien Mulvihill of DesignOffice discuss their work on Higher Ground, the new CBD cafƩ from the team behind Kettle Black and Top Paddock.
Drawing on their diverse experience in building workplace culture, Gavin Harris (senior associate and design director at futurespace), Bradford Gorman (director of Gorman/Birrell), and Keti Malkoski (principle of people and consulting at Schiavello) give their insights on the many factors shaping our offices, the increasing integration of work and life, and how this will affect us in years to come.
"There are places where you go and you know that the owner gave this place a piece of him or herself." Anka Boychev is a photographer who has been working on Google Virtual Tours for two years – taking photographs which are then stitched together to create a virtual tour of a store, hotel, bar, or showroom, displaying interiors in a new dimension.
The latest residential project from Emma Mitchell Architects is a masterful design of detail and materiality. The house, located in Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, is a perfect interpretation of the personality and lifestyle of those who live there, as inside finds out.