Earthtech/ by Florim aims to build Future Sustainable Cities.Florim's latest collection Earthtech/ is an homage to ancient times with sights firmly set on a responsible future. Through the latest technology, Earthtech/ gives rise to a new expression and unparalleled resistance to one of the oldest...
Flashy Yet Modest, Eccentric but Purposeful: Sir Roy Grounds House in Balmain by Conrad Johnston.Director of Fox Johnston Conrad Johnston’s new home in Balmain, Sydney may have just awakened our love and appreciation for 70s architecture. This is Sir Roy Grounds House, appropriately named given that it was once occupied by Roy...
Lost & Found Hangzhou by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio.Cosy, relaxed and very zen, this retail fit-out for Lost and Found Hangzhou explores the concept of “home” with natural textures and artisan craftsmanship. Designed by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio, the interior comes with a cabin...
PNY Burger Bretonnerie, Paris by Bernard Dubois.PNY burger chain tapped Belgian architect Bernard Dubois for their latest venue in Paris. If this is not the coolest burger joint you've ever seen, then I guess we should no longer be friends. At just 50sqm, the eatery punches well above...
VH Apartment Madrid by Febrero Studio.Febrero Studio made radical changes to the original apartment layout, resulting in a functional reinvention of this Madrid home. Making use of a warm material palette offset by unexpected contrasts, the designers establish a clever balance...
William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner Bring Serious Design Cred to Swop South Melbourne.Forget what you think you know about second-hand shopping. Conceived in collaboration with designer William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner of Studio Gardner, Swop South Melbourne draws on New York warehouse energy and a furniture edit that...
Intimate, Exacting, Subversive: Studio Plenty Reimagines Fine Jewellery Retail for Lindelli.Studio Plenty's debut interior for Sydney fine jewellery brand Lindelli strips retail convention bare. Compressed into just 17 square metres, the design replaces the traditional glass vitrine with something closer to a private salon. A...
Studio Doherty’s VRG GRL Bondi Store Balances Elevated Energy with Accessibility.Studio Doherty's design for VRG GRL Bondi Beach knows exactly when to whisper and when to shout. Mostly, it whispers — and then drops the carpet. Boom! Rather than a typical linear retail layout, the interior is designed as a sequence of...
Order Matter Architects Turn a Tiny Seoul Showroom Into an Urban Archive for Stone.The ST01 flagship in Seoul reframes how architectural stone is experienced in a retail setting. Rather than displaying samples under artificial light, Order Matter Architects drew inspiration from museum storage systems—suspending...
Margesherwood’s Seoul Flagship Is Part Retail Space, Part Sculpture Garden.Margesherwood's first flagship in Seoul's Seongdong-gu district isn't really a shop in any conventional sense. Designed by Studio Uneg, the two-storey space translates the Korean accessories brand's archive-driven sensibility into spatial...
Ice Cream Shop Slash Listening Bar Designed as a Kit of Parts Built to Move.Most retail fit-outs end up in a skip bin when the lease expires. Kori Windsor by Air Design Studio is a deliberate challenge to that norm. The 50sqm Windsor ice cream shop slash listening bar is conceived as a suite of relocatable...
Impertinence as a Design Strategy: Studio KO Brings the Legendary Bus Palladium Back to Life in Paris.Studio KO's Bus Palladium is not a hotel with a club, nor a club that decided to add rooms. It's something more interesting — an attempt to do for Paris what the Chelsea Hotel did for New York: a place where artists, musicians, and...
Alan Prekop Turns a Bratislava Heritage Space Into an Imagined Italian Terrace.This restaurant in Bratislava doesn't try to look Italian—it tries to feel Italian. Alan Prekop's concept inverts the spatial logic of the interior entirely, transforming the dining room into an imagined terrace in the narrow streets of...
Dion Hall Strips the Coffee Ritual Back to Its Purest Form at Standing Room Coffee Carlton.Standing Room Coffee strips the ritual back to its purest form—no seats, no distractions, just coffee. The compact fitout by Dion Hall is anchored by sculptural timber poles, rotational shelves and a warm material palette drawn from...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
A 19th Century Pub Transformed into Seven Layers of Atmosphere.Eleisha Gray's creative direction of The Waterside Hotel is rooted in production design thinking—atmosphere and sequence first, materials second. At Past/Port restaurant, colour became a shared language between Executive Chef Sarah...
Bar Monte Newstead is Studio Plenty’s Moody Ode to Post-War Italian Café Culture.Bar Monte Newstead by Studio Plenty is a moody, laneway-set Italian venue in Brisbane's inner suburb of Newstead. Drawing from post-war Italian café culture and the geometric clarity of Italian Rationalism, the studio has layered spotted...
A Dual-Key Singapore Apartment Unified Into a Multigenerational Family Home.In Singapore's condominium stock, the dual-key apartment was conceived for landlords — a larger residence and a smaller studio sharing one front door, leased or occupied separately. Ascend Design was asked to reverse the logic. A...
Inside This Paris Apartment, Oak, Walnut, Marble and Collectible Design Meet With Ease.Hauvette & Madani's Saint-Georges apartment is conceived as a home of dual nature — generous enough to entertain, intimate enough to live in. Spread across four levels, the interior moves from a theatrical salon on the ground floor to...
Diagonal Thinking: Ba-rro Reinvents a Madrid Apartment.Ba-rro brings a striking conceptual clarity to this Madrid residential renovation. A diagonal move disrupts the original floor plan, redirecting circulation and softening hard boundaries into transitions. Mirrors are deployed to dissolve...
Studio Carson Kelly’s Little James Proves Constraint Can Be the Best Design Brief.Studio Carson Kelly's Little James treats constraint not as a problem to solve but as the condition that sharpens every move. A dog-legged stair integrates the laundry and eliminates redundant corridors. A floating stone slab serves as...
This Barcelona Apartment Proves You Don’t Need Much to Create a Feeling.Some interiors seduce through abundance—layered objects, curated collections, every surface doing something. And then there are spaces like Apt 21, a private residence in Barcelona's Sant Gervasi neighbourhood, that pull you in with...
Structure Meets Spontaneity : Decus Transforms a Dover Heights Kit Home into a Party House.Perched atop the cliffs of Dover Heights in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Dancing on the Ceiling is a project that refuses to take itself too seriously—a former kit home overhauled by interior design studio Decus into a vivacious,...
Jungle’s Madrid HQ by Mil Studios Channels the Cool Restraint of 90s New York.The conceptual starting point for Jungle Madrid headquarters by Mil Studios is sharp: the corporate offices and creative studios of 1990s New York, where control and expression existed in constant productive tension. Translated across...
Perth High-Rise Office Reframed as a Gallery for Living Work.A workplace where art does the heavy lifting, and the design knows when to step back. A corporate high-rise tenancy isn't where most people would expect to find a workplace built around an art collection. State of Kin makes the case for...
This Five-storey Office Features a Suspended Conference Capsule, Prototype Workshop and Raised R&D Lab.Designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group, MAX Zone Ningbo pairs a five-storey show office with a sales centre that draws on the elegance of traditional Chinese courtyards. The show office makes a statement from the start—a suspended conference...
Ceramic Tiles, Izakaya Bars & Onsen Energy: Valencia Workspace Transformed Through the Lens of Tokyo.At 21 Sornells Street in Valencia's Ruzafa neighbourhood, Paloma Bau and T.O.T Studio have transformed a former commercial unit into a 170sqm shared workspace. The collaboration developed organically—T.O.T's speculative creative...
Artful Workplaces: Emily Cunnane Transforms Intercom’s Dublin and London Offices.You don’t have to convince us of the fact corporate interiors don't have to be generic. We’ve featured countless interesting examples over the years, and Emily Cunnane's twin projects for Intercom's Dublin and London offices prove this...
Palm Court Energy Meets East London Grit at Conductor, 3,400 sqm Flexible Hospitality-Inspired Workspace.A workplace that makes you forget it's a workplace—that was the brief, more or less, at Conductor in Stratford, East London. Interior studio Tabitha Isobel collaborated with architect Studio Multi to transform a 3,400 sqm flexible...
