AUSTRALIA

Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA

August 21, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. Architecture and engineering firm NIKA proposes building rows of single-storey houses, as well as a linear public park, above the existing streets of the Australian city. Led by NIKA’s vice president

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The Toorak Residence by Architecton

August 15, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Jack Lovel   Architecton have designed a new and modern house in Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, that features open interiors with plenty of room for entertaining.   Upon arrival at the house, a path surrounded by greenery guides guests to the front door. Photography by Jack Lovel Inside the front door, there’s […]

UNStudio to design Australia’s tallest building

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. Called Green Spine, the tallest of the projects’s twinned towers will reach 356.2 metres high making it the tallest building in Australia. The skyscraper will be topped by a publicly accessible botanic garden and greenery

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UNStudio to design Australia’s tallest building

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. Called Green Spine, the tallest of the projects’s twinned towers will reach 356.2 metres high making it the tallest building in Australia. The skyscraper will be topped by a publicly accessible botanic garden and greenery

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Collins and Turner’s Barangaroo House is surrounded by curving timber-clad balconies

August 13, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Tiered balconies clad in charred timber dowels enclose restaurants designed “in the round” to provide views across Sydney’s redeveloped Barangaroo South precinct. The Barangoo House building is situated at the southern entry point to the large urban regeneration project, which was masterplanned by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and includes a trio of skyscrapers designed

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Pink marble and patchy concrete emulate ancient Rome in Melbourne’s Pentolina pasta bar

August 5, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Australian studio Biasol paired worn concrete walls with pink marble and rich red accents for the interiors of this Italian restaurant in Melbourne, which takes visual cues from Ancient Rome. Pentolina is set inside a 100-year-old building on Little Collins street, surrounded by a host of other eateries and shops. Its owner had been a

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The Doorzien House by Bijl Architecture

July 30, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Katherine Lu   Bijl Architecture have designed a modern extension and interior renovation for a house that’s located in Sydney, Australia. The brief from the clients was to create a home where “in crossing the threshold, the past was to be left behind”, and where interconnected yet separate living spaces should be experienced […]

STAR Architecture Have Designed A Home With A Wood Screen Facade

July 27, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Peter Bennetts   STAR Architecture have recently completed a new house in Melbourne, Australia, that has a timber screen on the facade.   Photography by Peter Bennetts A sculptural entry canopy meets the timber screen and guides visitors to the front door. Photography by Peter Bennetts Inside, polished concrete flooring has been used […]

BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia’s tallest building

July 27, 2018 India Block 0

Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia’s tallest building. The competition, run by developer Beulah International, to design a £1.1 billion mixed use development in the Australian city of Melbourne has drawn entries from

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All-white house by Studio Four blends indoor and outdoor spaces

July 26, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Melbourne-based architecture collective Studio Four placed a garden at the centre of this all-white family home located in the city’s suburb of Glen Iris. The clients – a professional couple with two young children – asked the architects to create a home that could meet the needs of their busy lives while also functioning as

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