Refract furniture collection by SP01
Australian designer Hayden Cox plays with materiality, transparency, and light for SP01’s ‘Refract’ furniture collection.
3XN stacks shifted volumes to compose the Quay Quarter Tower in Sidney
Conceived as a vertical village, the Quay Quarter Tower won the World Building of the Year Award 2022 at the 15th World Architecture Festival.
Sidney Modern Project by SANAA Architects features a landscape of interlocked pavilions and public gardens on Sydney Harbour
Sidney Modern Project will almost double the Gallery’s exhibition space, both contrasting and dialoguing with its much-loved late-19th-century neo-classical building, while creating a new public art garden and civic space.
IKEA launches the ‘Hund Couture’ fashion collection for dogs
Furniture giant IKEA has announced a departure into a rough new area: designer dogwear. The Hund Couture features a new range of designer couture outfits for dogs, made from the iconic blue FRAKTA bags.
6 conscious Australian designs debuting at Melbourne Design Week 2021
A cornucopia for times of scarcity, glass forms shaped by the Tasman Sea tides and Algae-bioplastic tableware. 6 conscious Australian designs at Melbourne Design Week 2021.
Melbourne Design Week 2021 invites to ‘design the world you want’
The legacy of objects across generations, urban innovation for entirely self-sufficient future cities and collaborative crafts are among the highlights of Melbourne Design Week 2021.
Lilypad solar powered floating villa offers the perfect escape
Located just metres off shore in exclusive Sidney Palm Beach, Lilypad floating villa brings resort style comforts to one of the most tranquil of settings.
New Museum for Western Australia by Hassell + OMA in Perth
Conceived as a gateway to explore the region, New Museum for Western Australia narrates the heritage, nature and culture of the region through a composition of volumetric spaces embracing heritage-listed buildings.
Studio Edwards’ VISION STUDIO eyewear boutique in Melbourne balances raw and refined materials
An aluminium perforated facade reveals the minimalist interior design of VISION STUDIO eyewear boutique by Studio Edward.
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: Nendo dialogues with Escher’s iconic graphic artwork at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria
The ESCHER x NENDO | BETWEEN TWO WORLDS exhibition brings together the intriguing and deceiving genius of MC. Escher with site-specific designs created by nendo.
London Design Biennale 2018 goes emotional
Themed ‘Emotional States’, London Design Biennale 2018 focuses on the power of design to create, trigger and shape emotions. We selected 12 of the best installations on show including a kinetic architecture adapting to body movement, a rainbow structure celebrating LGBT right to equal love, nostalgia-infused wallpapers and a temporary shelter and objects designed by refugees.
Ore Streams: Formafantasma explores design solutions tackling the electronic waste global issue
Gold and silver are some of the most unsustainably recycled materials in the global electronic waste emergency. With the Ore Streams exhibition FormaFantasma looks into this challenge starting from an imaginary office design collection.
10.000 plants flourishing in the Australian Pavilion in Venice remind the need to repair the land occupied by architecture
How can we repair the ground’s public and social relevance? A field of endangered plants thrives in the Australian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018 to remind architects to build sustainably by taking care of the ground they use.
Holy, holistic, resilient, rebellious and on-the-border: 5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018
5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018. National pavilions respond to to the FREESPACE main theme with visionary masterplans for Jerusalem Western Wall, a Trump defying US-Mexico border, the millennials’ occupation of Budapest’s Liberty bridge and more…
Articolo injects a glamorous feel with plush lighting designs
Australian lighting design brand Articolo expands its collection with a set of wall, table and hanging lamps with an both opulent yet minimal feel.
The Pool exhibition: how Australia national conscience took shape by the poolside
The Pool exhibition at Venice Architecture Biennale explores the bond between Australians and water, and narrates how public pools contributed to front racial and social divisions.
Aura desk lamp by Ross Gardam directs light with a rotating a golden disk
Aura desk lamp by Ross Gardam allows to interact with its luminous halo by directing a floating golden disk that rotates thanks to a clever magnetic joint.
100 Endangered Forests
Taylor Cullity Lethlean won the Landscape of the year Award at the World Architecture Festival with a garden that puzzles 100 forests of the world’s most endangered tree species.
Augmented Australia 1914-2014
Curatored by felix._Giles_Anderson + Goad, the Australian pavilion at Venice Biennale features real-world scale virtual models of unrealized projects in the last 100 years.
The Australian Garden celebrates the country’s Nature
Taylor Cullity Lethlean designed the Australian Garden, a natural park and a botanic path that shows how water shapes the country’s landscape.