A Window Built for Orchids: The Swiss Watchmaker Behind Vitrocsa.Read enough of what Australian architects have said about Vitrocsa and two ideas keep coming back: elegance, and how little of the window is left once the building is finished. With minimalism now a box to tick on a spec sheet, it seemed...
Casper Mueller Kneer Design a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier...
Sampling the 80s: The Ken Club in Paris by Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender.Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender pictured the new Ken Club as an ocean liner cut off from the world. The nearly 20-metre pool is lined with porthole windows and round skylights, the changing rooms flip the usual colour code, and a...
From Derelict Bunker to Modern Day Babylon: Moon Gang Ubud by YSG Studio.Bali does not want for design accommodation. What it wants for is design accommodation that belongs to Bali. Moon Gang, the five-suite hotel in Ubud by Sydney's YSG Studio, is the rare one that does...
Interior Designer’s 1930s Madrid Villa Rebuilt as an Exquisite Corpse.Plutarco have never been a studio to whisper. Villa 2030 is co-founder Enrique Ventosa's own Madrid home, stripped back and reorganised around a T-shaped wall of glass blocks. It takes the grand villas of the 1930s—Maison de Verre, Villa...
This Sarajevo Apartment is Teaching its Children What Architecture Is For.For most of the last century, architecture in Bosnia was something that happened to public buildings—admired from the footpath, and separate from how people lived at home. Which is what makes this Sarajevo apartment feel all the more...
A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.Is this outer space or red earth Australia? Familiar or futuristic? At Mecca Coffee Foley Street, Matt Woods has made a room that declines to define itself. Part Coober Pedy dugout, part moon landing, entirely cocooned beneath...
One Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali.Jia Curated is hard to describe, which is the first good sign. Not a fair, not a festival—250-odd brands, five days, a talks programme and a beach in Sanur. Dana Tomić Hughes went to Bali for the fifth edition, and came home convinced...
Oscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age.Oscar Bravo's proposition is disarmingly simple—a tailored shirt should be worn on a Saturday morning as readily as in an office. March Studio's 70-square-metre flagship dismantles almost everything the category has trained us to expect,...