Room by Room Through Bonaldo’s 26 Collection.A philosophy of furniture-as-architecture is easy to write and considerably harder to detail. Bonaldo's 26 Collection holds up under inspection: sofas that organise sightlines, tables built on asymmetry, beds where the headboard is the...
This Sarajevo Apartment is Teaching its Children What Architecture Is For.For most of the last century, architecture in Bosnia was something that happened to public buildings—admired from the footpath, and separate from how people lived at home. Which is what makes this Sarajevo apartment feel all the more...
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...
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...
One Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali.Jia Curated is hard to describe, which is the first good sign. Not a fair, not a festival—250-odd brands, five days, a talks programme and a beach in Sanur. Dana Tomić Hughes went to Bali for the fifth edition, and came home convinced...
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,...
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...
Three Generations, One Nervy Brief: Hannes Peer Reimagines Merano’s Aurora Hotel.Aurora has anchored Merano's Passer Promenade for almost sixty years. Now the third generation of the Aukenthaler family has handed the 59-room hotel to Hannes Peer Architecture and Feld72, with a brief of unusual nerve: don't erase,...
