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;...
Kennedy Nolan Brings a Haptic New Energy to Up There Athletics’ First Sydney Store.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...
Strutt Studios Reworks Black Blaze’s Paddington Flagship as a Study in Restraint.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,...
You Can’t Fake Energy: Dana’s Notes from 3 Days of Design Copenhagen 2026.At 3 Days of Design, Dana Tomić Hughes went looking for the thing no budget or brand history can buy—the feeling that a space is actually alive. Across several shows and installations, including one chance encounter, she traces the gap...
A Surry Hills Terrace Where Friendship, Colour & Japanese Restraint Collide.Nearly ten years after meeting at another practice, Christine Rose Design and Studio Liu have finally built something together. Fitzroy, a transformed terrace in Sydney's Surry Hills, is the first collaboration between the two emerging...
Design By Them Returned to Copenhagen With Five New Australian Collections.Twelve months after their Copenhagen debut, Design By Them was back at 3daysofdesign—and the encore was anything but a victory lap. The Sydney studio took over Dronningens Tværgade 19 with five new releases from a stellar cohort: Adam...
Ross Didier Returns to Fine Art Roots with Gallium.Named after one of the world's most strategically critical minerals—essential to electronics, renewable energy and AI infrastructure—Ross Didier’s Gallium explores the tension between permanence and transformation, translating that...
Arent&Pyke Soften a Federation Home in Mosman with Curves, Colour and Slow-Crafted Stone.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...
A Sydney RSL Institution Reimagined Without Losing Its Soul.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...
