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Gray Puksand partner Heidi Smith possesses almost 30 years of experience conceptualising award-winning workspaces. Throughout her career, she has created many unique and innovative environments with a passion to understand new methods and advancements in workspace design, culture and management styles. As part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, Gray Puksand brought together a panel of […]
A novel approach to rubber recycling could see end-of-life tyres repurposed into concrete for residential constructions.
The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) has acknowledged the Australian Government’s proposed $2 billion in funding to drive affordable housing but expressed dismay at a lack of ambitious measures for social housing and climate change Announced last night by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, the Federal Budget outlines the government’s economic plan for Australia. AIA national president […]
Kerstin Thompson Architects’ redevelopment of Broadmeadows Town Hall has taken out the top spot for Architectural Design. Established by the Victorian Government in 1996, the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are an opportunity to highlight and celebrate local design capability. Showcasing the depths of design talent in the state and the capability and capacity of the […]
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Interior design practice Masquespacio has designed a colourful space based on time travel for Rubio, one of Spain’s biggest scholastic children’s publishers. Located in Valencia, the playful concept store is the first physical presence for the publisher and aims to appeal to older generations that have grown up with it and also engage a younger audience through digital […]
Underwritten by an elegant cohesion, the sprawling expanse that is the Snaidero Sydney showroom, exemplifies the design acumen of Greg Natale, as inside co-editor Gillian Serisier discovers. Launched in late 2018, the Snaidero showroom is very much about the sense of arrival: the sense that the customer has arrived at something extraordinary, and the sense […]
Brisbane-based interior design studio Design Poets has created the interiors for Japanese-inspired bar and restaurant Eddy + Wolff. The story behind Eddy + Wolff is an interesting one. Husband and wife duo Thao and Vien Nguyen, the owners of the bar, grew up on Canberra’s Eddy Crescent and Wolff Crescent respectively and it was also where they met as […]
An old toy shop in Melbourne’s Brunswick has been given a new lease of life by Technē Architecture + Interior Design. From the use of colour akin to Brunswick Green on the exterior, a community noticeboard at the front and local personalities’ portraits gracing the walls, the new Lobbs café is a destination made for […]
Set with the task of redefining bridal retail, Adam Kane Architects has created a new, contemporary boutique for Mariana Hardwick in South Melbourne, Victoria. The new showroom was required to be both elegant and refined, and the concept also sought to reimagine the luxury shopping experience. It was imperative the design of the new store […]
HUT has designed a luxury boutique in London’s Soho for Mr NICE, a cannabis lifestyle brand that sells accessories from around the world. The aim was to create a design that showcases the product whilst uplifting the public’s perception of cannabis and CBD Oil. In keeping with the organic nature of CBD oil, products are displayed on natural […]
For shoe brand Camper’s Rockefeller Center location, just across the street from Radio City Music Hall, interior designer Jonathan Olivares takes inspiration from the store’s historic surroundings. In a nod to the iconic signs of Radio City Music Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, the store’s interior is painted with an aluminium-based […]
Conceptually framed around the idea of a campfire, the new Melbourne office for k20 Architecture is very much about the collective intelligence. Ostensibly at its design end, the building was cold in winter, hot in summer and while “cool with really good bones” as k20 principal Theodore Kerlidis states, generally feeling its age. That said, […]
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What does it take to bring Australian design to the world stage? What embodies the Australian aesthetic? How do you get a furniture brand off the ground? These are the kinds of questions the guys behind SP01 ponder. Sitting comfortably in the brand’s new outdoor range (designed by Tom Fereday) in Milan, Italy, Aleesha Callahan chats to SP01’s product development manager Matt Lorrain.
Every now and then an exhibition comes along that invites the viewer to delve deep into past experience in order to see the possibilities of the future. A visit to Future Eaters, the latest exhibition to grace the floors of Monash University’s MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), is just such an occasion.
The VIVID 2017 Award winners were announced last week, at an award ceremony held at Decor + Design and AIFF exhibition in Melbourne. Selected from a shortlisted 44 products, the winners include James Walsh and Ash Allen's Igneous light, an elegant bike rack by Adrian Olassau and a task light which pays homage to ancient boat building techniques.
As the VIVID design competition is days away from being announced, ADR chats with last year’s furniture design winner, Bryan Cush.
Nest and its products became known to the world around six years ago, and its security and safety product range, which includes the Nest Cam Indoor, Nest Cam Outdoor and Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm, will now be available on Australian shores.
Danish design brand HAY pops-up in Melbourne for a limited time only with a HAY Accessories Market at the northern end of the city, which will be open from 15 July – 15 September. The HAY Accessories Market is a concept installation first launched at Milan Design Week in 2014. Since then, it has popped-up […]
As second-generation, family-run business, Planex is a company that has continued to evolve and keep up with what designers need in steel lockers.
Movement through Australia’s expansive interior provided the inspiration behind Elliat Rich’s winning entry into this year’s Australian Furniture Design Awards. The Alice Springs-based designer took top honours with her piece titled Place. The highly original work can be described as a sculptural vanity – a kind of old-fashioned object evoking feminine ritual. The unit, which […]
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