Hunter & Co Deli in Elsternwick, Melbourne by Mim Design.The large rose-coloured curved concrete counter at Hunter & Co Deli in Melbourne has been designed to resemble the fleshy pink hue of cured meat—specifically sliced...
Le Morandine: Sonia Pedrazzini’s Homage to Still-Life Master Giorgio Morandi.Sonia Pedrazzini's 'Le Morandine' are not just simple vases but genuine high-design pieces - silent and austere yet resolutely iconic, created with the specific intention of bringing people closer to Giorgio Morandi's œuvre and way of...
Utopia or Oblivion Photography Series by John Tsiavis for Christopher Boots.For Christopher Boots, the concept behind Utopia or Oblivion images was to imagine a refuge from the noise and turbulence of our times—an indoor utopia steeped in beauty, and sheltered from the oblivion outside....
Built with Brickworks: Ivanhoe House by Kavellaris Urban Design.Set back from the street on a slightly sloped block, the single storey home's grand double-height entryway creates a dramatic sense of arrival. Clad almost entirely in gridded milky white La Paloma bricks from Australbricks and...
Kevin Carmody’s Territory of Architecture.The idea that architecture touches and guides all facets and corners of the lives we lead—from the mundane, to the emotional, the commemorative, cerebral, celebratory, sad, thrilling, temporary, indoor, outdoor, urban, and otherwise—is...
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Antoni Gaudi’s Casa Vicens in Barcelona Restored by Martínez Lapeña–Torres Arquitectes & Daw Office.Like most of Gaudí’s work, this famous, first residential commission of the Catalonian architect, it is not subtle. No-one could accuse Antoni Gaudí of being a minimalist. The striking exterior of layered brick patterns, highly...
Lifestyle Academy in Shanghai, China by Mur Mur Lab.Shanghai-based studio Mur Mur Lab seems to have a fondness for futuristic, ultramodern retail spaces. Their work is centred on creating playful shopping destinations, which capture a sense of theatre and escapism – those elements of...
Rural Meets Contemporary at Bejing Cottage Refurbishment by Christian Taeubert + Sun Min.First built in the 1970s, the home was left unoccupied and forgotten when its owners shipped off to the heart of the city. Beijing-based architect, Christian Taeubeut’s idea was to maintain the rustic identity of the house, but to layer...
In Our Image: Fragmented Sculptures of Humankind.We survey our favourite artists who are creating marble portraits and classical spinoffs that show off the human form, but also our fragmented, flawed nature—and the complicated, cracked, and crooked world we live in. Spanish...
Solid Gold: Danish Fashion Designer Stine Goya’s Studio Kitchen.When Danish fashion designer Stine Goya was choosing a new kitchen for her showroom and HQ, she picked a design by Christina Meyer Bengtsson for Danish design outfit Reform—but chose to clad the cabinets entirely in golden...
