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...
No Botox: Raúl Sánchez Lets a Mataró Heritage Home Wear Its Age at La Casa del Pirata.Raúl Sánchez's La Casa del Pirata refuses to over-restore. Cracks stay put, wallpaper imperfections are left alone, and the channels carved for the wall lights remain raw—no Botox here. The tension between centuries-old pattern and...
Madeleine Castaing Meets Manhattan: Inside Child Studio’s New York Debut.Behind the terracotta façade of a Gilded Age Manhattan landmark, Child Studio has completed their first hotel and first US project: The Twenty Two New York. Seventy-eight rooms, a private members' club and a tented rooftop bar all draw on...
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...
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...
Two Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around.This Warsaw home is built around a split-level concept: a light, easy daytime zone upstairs, and a moody, glamorous evening world below. The standout is the basement bar, a patinated, backlit showpiece inspired by The Great Gatsby, paired...
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...
Strength, Not Ornament: The Distinctly Female Presence Behind Coogee House III.In Coogee, Sydney architect Hannah Tribe and interior designer Genevieve Hromas shaped a family home around a distinctly female presence, expressed through strength rather than ornament. Brick detailing reads like stitches in a tapestry;...
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...
