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Eight Australian homes that show the best interior design down under

September 29, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Australia is leading the way when it comes to imaginative interior design for the home. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy reveals eight of the best recent examples, from a pared-back home in Tasmania to a pink-tinted apartment in Melbourne. Footscray apartment, Melbourne, by BoardGrove Architects BoardGrove Architects made this apartment look similar to a gallery by tucking away

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This Bubble Tea Store Draws Customers In With A Brightly Colored Accent Ceiling

September 27, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Nicole Cleary   Benjamin Frétard of FRETARD Design, has recently completed Australia’s first Tealive store, introducing the Malaysian bubble tea company to Melbourne’s CBD. Located within Melbourne’s largest transit hub, Southern Cross Station, Benjamin Frétard aimed to create a visually stimulating space that attracts customers walking by.   Photography by Nicole Cleary A […]

Steel-framed “winter gardens” form the facade of Nightingale 1 housing development

September 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Breathe Architecture has completed an apartment building in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, with metal-framed winter gardens arranged along its street facing facade. Nightingale 1 was developed by Breathe Architecture on a site located alongside another building it designed called The Commons, where the studio is now based. The building represents the first completed example of a

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Monochromatic living spaces feature inside Palm Beach House in Sydney

September 20, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Australian studio Alexander & Co kept to a restrained palette of black, white, and grey for the renovation of this waterfront holiday home in Sydney, so as not to distract from the view out to sea. A monochromatic colour scheme features throughout the interior of the 310-square metre property, called Palm Beach House, while large windows

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Bates Smart plans to suspend a stadium above Sydney’s Central Station

September 18, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has revealed a concept for a 45,000-seat stadium, which would be built above Central Station in Sydney. Bates Smart designed the concept stadium as a city-centre alternative to the New South Wales State Government’s plan to rebuild the city’s existing Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park. According to the firm, placing the stadium above the station would tie

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Pattern Studio creates rose-tinted interior for The Daily Edited boutique in Melbourne

September 14, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Blush-tone walls and rose-hued marble feature in this Melbourne accessories shop, designed by Pattern Studio to suggest a “new kind of femininity”. Pattern Studio – which is headed up by Australian designers Lily Goodwin and Josh Cain – were given free reign on this branch of The Daily Edited (TDE), which is located in the southeast Merbourne suburb

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This Apartment Features A Climbing Wall, A Chalky Blue Kitchen, And A Home Office With Polycarbonate Walls

September 6, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Tatjana Plitt   Australian architectural practice de.arch (pronounced ‘de arc’), have recently completed the design of a two-bedroom apartment in Melbourne.   Upon entering the apartment, there’s a plywood wall with rock climbing grips that lines the hallway. Photography by Tatjana Plitt At the end of the hallway, there’s a small home office with polycarbonate […]

Warrior One yoga studio uses textured surfaces to reference the nearby sea

September 5, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Design studio Golden has incorporated a textured sisal ceiling and a muted palette of colours to create a connection to the sea, for Warrior One’s second yoga studio in Melbourne. The ocean and the coastline informed the materials and colour palette in the interior of the yoga studio in the coastal suburb of Mordialloc. Golden aimed to create

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Grimshaw designs tiny homes for Australian charity

September 4, 2018 India Block 0

Grimshaw has designed a 35-metre-square micro home to raise money for Kids Under Cover, which supports homeless youth in Australia. Designed to accommodate IKEA furniture, with a double-height ceiling and enough space for a queen-sized bed, The Peak was created to provide an affordable option for young people priced out of the housing market in Australia’s cities.

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Kerry Hill “architect of exceptional sensibility and expertise” dies aged 75

August 28, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal-winning architect Kerry Hill, designer of the City of Perth Library as well as numerous award-winning hotels, has passed away. Based in Singapore, Australian architect Hill was renowned as an expert in resort hotel design across Asia, thanks to projects including The Datai Langkawi in Malaysia and Amankora in Bhutan. He

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