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...
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...
Box of Colour: Casa Alkymia, a Monteverde Apartment by Punto Zero.Punto Zero treats colour as architecture in Casa Alkymia, a 230-square-metre Roman apartment in leafy Monteverde Vecchio. Working with Blu di Prussia, the studio tuned each room to its own register: powder pink wraps the kitchen, saturated...
Studio Shields Proves the Most Memorable Interiors Are Layered by Many Hands.Synthesis transformed the Bishop's Parlour at Abbotsford Convent into an immersive domestic interior for Melbourne Design Week 2026. Curated by Ruby Shields, the installation united more than 45 Australian artists, designers and...
Grandmother in Latex: Archive for Space Reworks a Madrid Apartment.Punk romance meets grandma chic in Jesús del Valle, an 80sqm Madrid apartment reworked by London and Mallorca-based Archive for Space. The palette pivots on a discovery—original terracotta flooring found beneath carpet—while a bespoke...
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...
Émile Sala’s Organic 1970s Arles Villa Opens as Luca Pronzato’s Casa Ideale.Some houses are built; Villa Bank was practically dreamt into being. Émile Sala's sculptural 1970s villa near Arles banishes the straight line for curving, elliptical rooms that roll into the landscape. Heritage-listed and long the...
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...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
