Farrell Wray Architects Build a Concrete Gallery Around a Tree They Refused to Touch.Some sites come with a non-negotiable client, and at Marcellin College that client was a gum tree. Farrell Wray Architects' new flyover, connecting the school's junior and senior buildings in Bulleen, was designed and built without...
The Bonobo Trades Coastal Cliché for Brazilian Modernism Inside a Brutalist Byron Bay Shell.Raes' first proper step into the centre of Byron Bay comes with architecture by Richards & Spence and interiors from Manifold that skip the coastal clichés entirely, pulling from Brazilian modernism instead. Lachlan Cooper and Morgan Novy...
Jardan’s Collection Built Around Australian Summers, Long Lunches and Evenings That Linger.Jardan has turned its attention outdoors with Shoreline, a new collection built around Australian summers, long lunches and evenings that linger. The modular Cosmo Sofa handles scale, while the Cecil Sunlounger brings colour and...
Kit of Parts: Bassike Byron Bay by Akin Atelier.Akin Atelier has been shaping Bassike's retail identity for over a decade. The brand's new Byron Bay store shows what that kind of continuity actually buys...
A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.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...
Motel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.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...
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...
Inside Sculpted, a Sydney Home Built Like a Macro Sculpture.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...
