Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai, China by Linehouse.With an emerging coffee house culture in China showing no signs of slowing down, the traditional teahouses in Asia have had to step up their game to stay relevant in today’s highly competitive hospitality market. Linehouse’s latest...
Edition Roasters in Haymarket, Sydney by Amber Road.The highly textured all-black palette of Edition Roasters sits delicately upon a sculptural, organic interior, creating an instantly familiar space with references to simpler...
Stories On Design // Circles in Architecture.The Circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represents the notions of totality, wholeness, focus, infinity, unity, timelessness, the Sun, the Moon, the entire Universe. I suspect the reason most of us are drawn to it is...
High House in Fitzroy North, Melbourne by Dan Gayfer Design.High House by Dan Gayfer Design is the result of a significant renovation to a 5m wide inner city terrace in Fitzroy for a young...
‘Mills’ The Toy Management House by Austin Maynard Architects.The Mills by Austin Maynard Architects is articulated around two core ideas: the floor is a giant toy box; while the rear elevation softens the...
Tower House by Andrew Maynard Architects // Alphington, Victoria.Andrew Maynard Architects has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small...
Miller House by Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard and Daniel Kiley // Columbus, Indiana.Designed by the rockstar architect Eero Saarinen for industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his family in 1957, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana is a poster-girl for Midcentury Modernism. The reason I love this place so...
Villa Weinberg by Mette and Martin Wienberg // Højbjerg, Denmark.I wish this was my house. It's not - because life is not fair, and also because it belongs to Mette and Martin Wienberg, both architects. Both Danish architects at that, meaning my predisposition to like this place is as strong as Sarah...
Oh Kappetain, My Kappetain // Los Angeles Home of Architect Ray Kappe.I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – LA houses like this are what happens when modernist ideas go to the coast, unwinds by the beach, and unravels in all this louche, approachable brilliance. This is the sort of modern house...
