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The shortlists for the IDEA 2020 Colour and Retail categories have been revealed today. The shortlisted projects for each category are listed below in a dedicated video and featured on the IDEA website where you can find more images and information about each project. Shortlisted interiors projects were selected by our editorial team. A further round of judging by […]
Artists, designers and architects are being invited to pitch their projects and ideas for Melbourne Design Week 2021. The Victoria-wide 11-day program of talks, tours, workshops, launches and exhibitions will explore the theme ‘Design the world you want’ in 2021. Expressions of interest are now open for ideas that consider “how the design community can […]
Curious to see if your project made the IDEA 2020 shortlist? Well, you only have to wait a little longer. We’ll be revealing all this year’s shortlisted projects starting from 21 September! Thanks again to everyone who entered IDEA 2020. As shortlisting, the first stage of the judging process, comes to an end, here’s what […]
GOLDEN has transformed a “hole in the wall” on a busy shopping strip in Melbourne into a boutique nail salon. Buff Nail Studios in the inner city suburb of Brighton sits behind a pale blue door on Church Street, down a “discreet hallway” that leads to a “subterranean sanctuary”. Inside, the exisiting vaulted ceiling has […]
Paint brand Dulux Australia has chosen three tonal palettes that “prioritises natural colours and textures” as its forecast for 2021. Combining softer tones “for comfort and security” with moments of stronger colour to “brighten our outlook and wellbeing”, the palettes are dominated by greys, creams and browns. Dulux Australia says its 2021 Colour Forecast stems […]
The work of Adam Cornish, Alex Gilmour, Adam Goodrum, Charles Wilson and some other well known Australian designers who got their start at WORKSHOPPED are at the centre of its latest exhibition at the Australian Design Centre. WORKSHOPPED20 looks back at 20 years of Australian design by emerging and established designers and celebrates the annual program, […]
There is nothing cold or calculating about the minimalist interior Paul Conrad chose for his Melbourne family home, infusing the space with the pared-back natural palette and calming aesthetic that defines his eponymous practice. ADR: How long have you lived here and what drew you to the property? Paul Conrad: This project was a completely […]
Studio Tate will be hosting a webinar to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted workplace design on Wednesday 19 August 2020. Titled The Future of Workplace Design – Challenges and Opportunities, it will be held at 1pm AEST and will be moderated by Australian Design Review editor Elisa Scarton. Panelists will be discussing changes they anticipate […]
We sit down with Sydney interior design doyenne Meryl Hare’s newest book Hare + Klein Interior to while away a few carefree hours immersed in homes that perfectly encapsulate their inhabitants. Hare + Klein is synonymous with uncompromisingly comfortable, liveable interiors made exceptional by deceptively effortless styling. Whether it’s for a stark inner city warehouse […]
Architects have designed these five houses for themselves, applying their exacting design standards to their own home sweet homes, whether that be a converted warehouse in Melbourne or a weatherboard cottage from the 1920s. Bondi Beach apartment by Adele McNab Caught up in a Miami Vice fantasy, Adele McNab couldn’t resist this apartment, stripping the space back […]
Arched booths and a feature Venetian plaster wall complement the warm timbers in this Melbourne restaurant by Peter Ryan Architects. San Lorenzo is a fine-dining Italian restaurant located in the Caribbean Business Park in the Melbourne suburb of Scoresby. Peter Ryan Architects took cues from Venice, channeling the menu and aesthetic of the clients’ other […]
Two UK designers have come together to launch United in Design, an organisation that aims to increase racial diversity in the interior design industry. Founded by Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley, United in Design seeks to provide an “actionable road map” for design studios, magazines and suppliers to address the lack of representation and make […]
Studio Bright has restored and enlarged a prominent corner-sited Edwardian home in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote to include a nod to Ancient Rome. Ruckers Hills house won last week’s 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards – Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) prize and was featured in this year’s Open House Speaker Series, earlier in […]
The July issue of inside, now on newsstands, features incredible projects and profiles from all over the country. “This issue is a celebration of the trailblazers and industry shakers. The up-and-comers and the underestimated,” writes Elisa Scarton in this month’s Editor’s Letter. In this issue our gaze is firmly placed on the future of Australian interior […]
In a nod to his and his clients’ Italian heritage, Jean-Pierre Biasol designed this Melbourne home with stone at the centre of every room. Owners, the Bartucca family, are a successive generation of Italian stonemasons and run Bartucca Tiling and Construction. “The clients wanted a family home that encapsulates modern living and celebrates their family […]
Taking subtle cues from Japanese Machiya townhouse, Studio Haptic’s Mathew Mariani designed his family home to test “the efficiency of smaller housing models”. Applied to a narrow, long site typical of inner west Sydney, Leichhardt Machiya offers a variant to the typical ‘gun barrel’ terrace houses of the area. “The house draws on the Kyo-Machiya in […]
Virginia Kerridge Architects has used recycled materials to create a “durable, sustainable and beautiful” redesign of a Robin Boyd-winning home in Sydney. Grant Pirrie House was originally built in the 1890s as a timber warehouse. More than 100 years later, the property was refurbished by Sydney architect Graham Jahn, earning him the 1999 Robin Boyd […]
Alexander Pollock gutted and renovated a boutique apartment in Melbourne to feel like a hotel suite with stone detailing and a “masculine palette”. The one-bedroom apartment close to Spring Spring was for a recently single client looking to create a weekend bachelor pad. Alexander Pollock took the apartment in a “luxe and masculine direction. “The […]
The National Gallery of Victoria has launched a live in-studio series with Australian artists and designers, giving viewers an insight into their life and practice while in isolation. Artist and designers including Sydney artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, musician and artist Jon Campbell, iconic furniture designer Mary Featherston AM, and contemporary artist Yhonnie Scarce will invite viewers […]
The extended entry deadline for IDEA 2020 ends on 12 June at midnight AEST. This is your last chance to enter your projects and your studio this year! Enter IDEA 2020 now Sign into your account and choose one of our 14 project categories that best fits your project. You can also nominate yourself for the special […]
Luchetti Krelle embraced 1920s Spanish mission style in its overhaul of a much beloved Sydney icon. What makes the Bathers’, as it is locally known, so very special is the whole kit and caboodle – the view, the incredible food (French Canadian chef Serge Dansereau), the interior, the grown-up coastal sophistication and, yes, the series […]
Australian architects and designers joined more than a million people around the world yesterday by posting a black square to Instagram to support those protesting for racial equality in light of the death of George Floyd. Gray Puksand, Woods Bagot, Bates Smart, Kate Challis, Ben Callery, Fender Katsalidis, Cumulus Studio, Matt Gibson Architecture + Design, […]
IDEA 2020 entries were due to close this Friday, but we’ve spoken to a bunch of architects and interior designers whose projects have been delayed by recent events or who just need a little extra time to get everything together. So we’ve decided to extend the entry period to Friday 12 June (to save you from an all-nighter). Here […]
In this week’s A+D + coronavirus update, we share news of “coronagrifting” designers and architects and sanitising bubbles and seaweed capsules. COVID-19 will further separate the talented from the “cookie cutter” says Jackie Johnston Creativity will “go through the roof” when the coronavirus pandemic passes, forcing designers to be even more “individual, unique and distinctive” […]
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