Showcasing the best of Australian and Global Interior Design
The site is located in a protected natural habitat in Canada; Working with environmental and conservation authorities on the project was a challenge but also an inspiration for Partisans architects.
Building such a structure with a hidden beam 27 meters long and a cantilevered roof was one design challenge. The second was the cradle and stair in a...
Situated on seven hectares in Red Hill, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Sybil is a place for gatherings, which consists of several separate buildings placed across the expansive site. The old ‘chook’ house has be re-imagined by Templeton Architecture and is now home to guest rooms, rumpus room, and workshop, to the former cottage with the main bedroom...
Kyneton House is an addition to a seventies brick home located on an elevated acre site with established gardens and mature exotic trees. Simply described the addition is a main bedroom suite with associated deck for entertaining with a cover carport and workshop under. The ambition for the design however was more complex than merely the usable spaces created.
The owners were looking to...
Studio Ben Allen architects were keen to consider how the extension of a house in London Borough of Haringey, UK could demonstrate exemplary the use of pigmented patterned concrete as both structure and architectural finish. Green patterned columns and beams create a framework for the salmon colour structural wall panels of the first-floor bathroom. Internally the use of pigmented concrete continues...
Located on a former farmland site in Balwyn, the Kenny Street House is a unique project in that the site is a relatively large, flat site surrounded by much smaller houses in the middle of suburban Melbourne. Designed by Chan Architecture, the new house makes reference to its agricultural origins via its’ barn-like external form and its’ location towards the centre...
Inspired by a journey to Palm Springs and the spirit of mid-century modernism, this project was a pilgrimage in design. An exercise in restraint, the floor plan seeks not to maximise built area, but create generous indoor-outdoor spaces throughout the site for any occasion or time of day and carefully curate a sequence of framed views. Designed by Noosa based No Comments Read more
The Osten reflects through the poetics of the temporarily of the scaffolding the breaking point in the evolution from art deco to the new aesthetic order, the modernism. The idea by Hitzig Militello Architects inspired by the exact moment of the economic crash of 29, inspired by the novel The Crack up by Scott Fitzgerald.
Osten is a...
The Neighbourhood Wine Bar in London UK is a brutalist inspired space designed for tastings and learning about local sourced wines. Design notes echo the buildings past as a working garage, with blackened steel, exposed beams, painted brickwork and iron lighting.
The huge bar was inspired by an antique brutalist credenza that design studio Fare Inc fell in love with years ago, and bespoke...
Conceived as a shared meeting place, There Cafe is an uplifting and authentic hospitality proposition harnessed by the strength of its architectural setting. Designed by studio Ewert Leaf, the project is housed in a 19th-century wool store, the pared-back interior celebrates the site’s industrial character while softly layering new interventions; an evolution of its historic identity.
The site’s...
The clients gave Loader Monteith architects a powerful line of aspiration for their cottage: The house should feel warm and comfortable – a light-filled family space that allows the outdoors to be in harmony with the indoors.
The idea was to turn the cottage, a very small property that was disconnected from its surroundings, into a comfortable and...