ADR speaks to Sarah Smith, who started her career designing prisons and has since moved on to work at Hayball in the education sector. She discusses the transition from designing correctional centres to designing schools, how the layout of schools is changing, and her favourite space in Australia – by Johnson Pilton Walker.
Lassik Laser – a new business venture for D’Cruz’s client – a beauty therapy clinic specialising in advanced technology in cosmetic laser treatments. The client’s brief was for the space to adopt a design language that sets it apart from other similar businesses where a cold and clinical aesthetic presents as the norm. Inspired by […]
"The building has such a fantastic patina of age. Dishevelled layers of paint peel back to expose layers of building and decoration that date back to 1878. It would be wrong to clean all that up." Technē director Justin Northrop speaks to ADR about the studio's reinvigoration of the historic Espy Hotel in Melbourne's St Kilda.