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...

Roar's design for the new Jaipur Rugs store in Mumbai takes its cue from the rug itself. The studio built a spatial system around fractal geometry, echoing the steady repetition of weaving. Because the brain reads such patterns as calming...

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,...

Kennedy Nolan's flagship for Up There Melbourne turns menswear shopping into theatre. For the brand's first Sydney store, the practice trades spectacle for sensation. A rubber soft-fall floor gives with every step, a dull olive green...

Is it beautiful? Is it ugly? Jonojé refuses to settle the question — and that's what makes it so compelling. Studio Loho's new Bruges B&B runs on a push-pull between the simple and the sculptural: moments of quiet respite, then a hard...

Six years into its Paddington home, Australian fragrance brand Black Blaze asked Strutt Studios to deepen its flagship rather than reinvent it. The 36-square-metre store trades spectacle for restraint: warm timber joinery, cork-clad walls,...

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...

Some hotels are designed to be photographed. The Whale has been designed for the slower business of sitting still. Opened this June in Narooma on the NSW far South Coast, the boutique hotel pulls the spirit of 1970s Ibiza up against the...

Melbourne's most-watched restaurant opening in years landed this month, and the most compelling thing about its design is everything Acme decided not to touch. Twenty-five Crossley Street has housed just three businesses in seven...

Aurora has anchored Merano's Passer Promenade for almost sixty years. Now the third generation of the Aukenthaler family has handed the 59-room hotel to Hannes Peer Architecture and Feld72, with a brief of unusual nerve: don't erase,...

Occupying the ground floor of a Montreal's downtown high-rise, Minnibar by Ivy Studio is a restaurant and café that pairs a contemporary Italian menu with the atmospheric principles of Japanese minimalism. Concrete floor, columns and...

Golden hour never ends at MYO. In Madrid's Chamberí, Plutarco have engineered a permanent sunset—a warm, backlit glow that crowns the bar and refuses to fade. Raised on an oak platform and finished in nori-green stained wood, the bar is...

Perched above Port Phillip Bay at Mount Martha, Mori House marks Portuguese practice Aires Mateus's first Australian project, realised with Melbourne firm MA+Co for Neometro's Jeff Provan. A loose cluster of off-form concrete pavilions...

The story usually goes that living beautifully requires a blank site, a serious budget and a willingness to wait until life settles down. Borrowed Light dismantles all three. In Melbourne's Preston, Shelby Ann Studio has renovated a plain...

Burr knows how to have fun with colour, material and shape without ever tipping into excess. AZ06, a Madrid apartment reworked for a family of five, rotates around the building core and operates as a loop rather than a sequence of closed...

Punto Zero treats colour as architecture in Casa Alkymia, a 230-square-metre Roman apartment in leafy Monteverde Vecchio. Working with Blu di Prussia, the studio tuned each room to its own register: powder pink wraps the kitchen, saturated...

This Warsaw home is built around a split-level concept: a light, easy daytime zone upstairs, and a moody, glamorous evening world below. The standout is the basement bar, a patinated, backlit showpiece inspired by The Great Gatsby, paired...

When your client is a working sculptor, why not build the house like one? Madeleine Blanchfield Architects' latest project distils a Sydney home to its essential expression, carving raw brick, concrete and oak into a hillside site above...

Most workplaces are built to perform—a client to impress, talent to attract, a brand to broadcast behind reception. A family office carries none of those obligations. Studio May's East Melbourne project sits closer to a private members'...

Named after a nineteenth-century goldmine and grounded in the philosophy of Ubuntu, Cinderella Deep is Geller Studio's material-led workspace in Redfern. Off-form concrete, oxidising clay render and reclaimed heritage brick set an...

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...