Architect as Client: Inside Casa Piva, Andrew Piva’s Inward-Looking Melbourne Home.Casa Piva takes its time. A modest laneway door opens onto a cobblestone forecourt with two trees growing through the roof, then a single arch leads into compressed, low-lit rooms. The kitchen offers the first hint of warmth before a...
A Window Built for Orchids: The Swiss Watchmaker Behind Vitrocsa.Read enough of what Australian architects have said about Vitrocsa and two ideas keep coming back: elegance, and how little of the window is left once the building is finished. With minimalism now a box to tick on a spec sheet, it seemed...
No Design Week? No Worries. Hōlus-bōlus Blurs Art and Design in a Sydney Loft.Sydney still has no dedicated citywide design week, so during Sydney Contemporary, curators Emma Elizabeth and Cassandra Bird took design somewhere else entirely. Hōlus-bōlus brought contemporary art, collectible design, furniture,...
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...
Ellison Studios Gives The Least Public Room In The House Its Best Furniture Yet.The bedroom is usually the last room in the house to get the good furniture, which is exactly the premise Ellison Studios has set out to overturn. The New Bedroom gathers sculptural beds, storage, seating and occasional pieces under one...
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...
Wildcoast by Studio Kennon Builds for Bass Strait’s Wind, Rain and Salt.Positioned at the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land meets Bass Strait, Wildcoast sits in a landscape with real intensity—unbroken wind off the Southern Ocean, driving rain, salt-thick air. Studio Kennon has let...
Billy Maynard Architects Balance Precision & Romance in a 1930s Elizabeth Bay Apartment.Billy Maynard Architects have reworked a compromised plan of a top floor 1930s Elizabeth Bay apartment with sanded stainless steel, spotted gum plywood, sand-cast brass and restored tallowwood floors, drawing northern light through a new...
