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,...

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...

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...

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...

Once upon a time, the office borrowed its warmth from hospitality and home. Now the favour's being returned. With Lève Office Bar in central Turin, architect Fabio Fantolino raids the 1960s workplace for its chrome, stainless steel,...

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...

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...

Punk romance meets grandma chic in Jesús del Valle, an 80sqm Madrid apartment reworked by London and Mallorca-based Archive for Space. The palette pivots on a discovery—original terracotta flooring found beneath carpet—while a bespoke...

Above Zero returns to Camberwell with Camberwell House, a design-led collection rising above Camberwell Junction. Architecture by Cera Stribley, interiors by Golden, landscape by Florian Wild and feature lighting by artist Nicole Lawrence...

In Coogee, Sydney architect Hannah Tribe and interior designer Genevieve Hromas shaped a family home around a distinctly female presence, expressed through strength rather than ornament. Brick detailing reads like stitches in a tapestry;...

This 130-square-metre apartment is, frankly, immaculate—Patagonia quartzite, satin stainless steel, microcement underfoot, every sample sweated over to the point of five paint tests deep. Which raises the honest question this kind of...

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...

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...