Tag Archives: minimal

Fingal … Coastal Victoria

Located just around the corner from me on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula in Fingal is a house that pays homage to the farms that once occupied the land in Fingal. Once a farming district most of Fingal is now zoned for residential and is popular with holiday makers playing a round of golf or soaking in the local hot springs. This project by Melbourne studio JAM Architects...

Uma Casa by Andre Luque Architects

Uma Casa located in Camacari Brazil designed by Andre Luque Architects was created with a commitment to build around the natural terrain removing only one small tree from the plot preserving the natural vegetation. When excepting house guests the owner did not want her personal privacy compromised so the house is distributed in two separate blocks which is something I can relate too as an...

The Woods… Little glass trees

The Woods is the second collaboration between the Norwegian design studios StokkeAustad and Andreas Engesvik, Oslo. These divine tree inspired creations were based  on forests and the lights of the North. A tree changing colour and transparency through the seasons which is captured in these stunning jewel like glass sculptures. The unique, free standing glass sculpture The Woods, are made from hand blown glass. Each...

Behind a discreet grey wall

Behind a discreet grey wall, an imposing concrete and glass building juts out onto the street in Belo Horizonte Brazil. A modest front garden with palms greets visitors as the home opens to the guests via a series of pivoting doors drawing you in and over the petite manicured lawn and garden. Designed by studio Anastasia Architects the home is split over 2 levels, bathed...

Kennedy Nolan’s Laver House

Kennedy Nolan’s Laver House in Kew echos a pared back aesthetic, of skillful design embodying natural materials typical of mid-century architecture.The house is a white canvas which in itself is a form of art with its external cutouts and sculptural detailing. The house although white maintains a strong connection with the landscape with the house opening up to the courtyard and the external fireplace perfect...

TODAY’S SPECIAL it’s where design, shopping + food lovers meet.

I cannot deny that I love food, shopping and design. So when the three come together in the form of a design store made to look like a grocery store I get very excited. Japan’s Schemata Architects is responsible for this melding of wonderfulness, named TODAY’S SPECIAL Jiyugoaka. Just glancing at the pictures shows what I can only imagine is a design-lovers dream. Using a...

1938 clinker-brick home in Hampton

Rather than knocking down the original 1938 clinker-brick home located in Hampton which was one proposition floated by the client. The architects Kennedy Nolan architects dextrously reconfigured the flow and function of the old rooms and tied the whole project together with Victorian ash paneling, cupboards, beams and flooring of a grey-stained travertine . The project aim was to avoid the very common scenario of...

Tokyo house

Tokyo based studio Hiroyuki Thinozaki Architects have taken open plan minimal living to a level we will never see in Australia. This beautiful box like structure serves as a residence and design workshop for a couple in the center of Tokyo. Encompassing open plan living spaces, living room, dining room, kitchen and bedrooms which are distinguished only by their furnishings. The utilities are well ......

Port Arthur Tasmania

This small pavilion is a prototype suite for a proposed resort at Port Arthur designed by Circa Morris Nunn architects which was built prior to the construction of the main project to evaluate the design ideas. The project aims were to create a resort that was highly sustainable and paid homage to the convicts that settled at  Port Arthur. The prototype pavilion is a translucent...

Minimal Envy 1930’s apartment

I always find something quite admirable about stark interiors, mainly because I am such a terrible minimalist. This project by Slovenian studio Sadar + Vuga embodies all that minimalism should, but builds upon it to create subtle layers, which as they put it “…inspires discovery [and] stimulates curiosity …” With a material palate of epoxy, concrete panels, steel, Plexiglas and leather, the team at Sadar...