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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

There's a special kind of thrill in watching design pilgrims swerve away from the usual capitals toward cities with grittier stories to tell. Belgrade has been accumulating exactly this kind of momentum, and Esthetic Joys Embassy...

Quiet Grandeur argues that grandeur and calm aren't opposites—that an enduring idea of contemporary living can be grounded, graceful and quietly self-assured. After Monuments, it's a clever next move from Audo: less spectacle, more...

After more than 75 years of service to veterans and the Rose Bay community, Club Rose Bay has reopened following its first major transformation since 1979. Led by Merivale with architecture and interiors by Akin Atelier, the project...

Pattern Studio sits firmly in my pantheon of favourite Australian practices, and Moby's Whale Beach is exactly why. A 60-seat Italian restaurant and downstairs wedding venue inside the 1937 Whale Beach Surf Life Saving Club, this is design...

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...

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...

Few Australian studios have built a business as quietly assured as Arent&Pyke. At Bradleys Head House in Mosman, that same generosity of spirit fills every room—a Federation Arts and Crafts residence recast for a new generation, where...

Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...

There are houses that solve problems, and then there are houses that re-frame the question. EA House by Bokey Grant Architects, perched on an "unbuildable" cliff-face escarpment in Mittagong, falls squarely in the second camp — a...

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...

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...

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...

For Ciguë co-founder Guillem Renard, the ambition at Rue Pavée was clear: to make the everyday workplace a space of care. That conviction, shared with Caudalie founders, shaped every decision — from the geothermal heating system to the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...