One Bold Oval Does All the Work in This Precision-Tuned Apartment by Antwe.This 130-square-metre apartment is, frankly, immaculate—Patagonia quartzite, satin stainless steel, microcement underfoot, every sample sweated over to the point of five paint tests deep. Which raises the honest question this kind of...
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,...
The 2026 NSW Architecture Awards House Winners We Can’t Stop Looking At.Narrow terraces, unbuildable escarpments, bushfire-prone bushland—none of it slowed the field down. The residential winners of the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards prove how much delight a difficult site can hold, with material honesty,...
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...
Inside This Paris Apartment, Oak, Walnut, Marble and Collectible Design Meet With Ease.Hauvette & Madani's Saint-Georges apartment is conceived as a home of dual nature — generous enough to entertain, intimate enough to live in. Spread across four levels, the interior moves from a theatrical salon on the ground floor to...
Intimate, Exacting, Subversive: Studio Plenty Reimagines Fine Jewellery Retail for Lindelli.Studio Plenty's debut interior for Sydney fine jewellery brand Lindelli strips retail convention bare. Compressed into just 17 square metres, the design replaces the traditional glass vitrine with something closer to a private salon. A...
Build Less, Build Better: Modernist Restraint and Japanese Design in North London.Not every renovation needs to get bigger to get better. Studio Hagen Hall's Heion House in Islington proves that the most considered move is sometimes the one you don't make. By working entirely within the original footprint of a Grade-II...
Dion Hall Strips the Coffee Ritual Back to Its Purest Form at Standing Room Coffee Carlton.Standing Room Coffee strips the ritual back to its purest form—no seats, no distractions, just coffee. The compact fitout by Dion Hall is anchored by sculptural timber poles, rotational shelves and a warm material palette drawn from...
A Lounge-like Jewellery Concept Store Where Fine Pieces are Served Like Drinks.For this concept jewellery store in Manly, Coffeyhallett looked to the neighbourhood bar as a spatial model. It's retail that doesn't feel like retail. A central bar, rich two-tone joinery, vintage lighting, and jewellery presented through...
