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,...
CĂ´te Basque: A Melbourne Restaurant Defined by Everything Left Untouched.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...
A Concrete Coastal Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula Where Three Cultures Meet.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...
Grandmother in Latex: Archive for Space Reworks a Madrid Apartment.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...
Strength, Not Ornament: The Distinctly Female Presence Behind Coogee House III.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;...
Yugoslav Modernism Meets Japanese Listening Bars at Esthetic Joys Embassy Belgrade.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...
On the Edge of the Possible: Bokey Grant Architects’ EA House in NSW Southern Highlands.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 NSW's Southern Highlands, falls squarely in the second...
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...
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...
