J.AR Office Transforms Brisbane’s CBD with Naturally Ventilated Paradise.In Brisbane's heritage-protected CBD, J.AR Office has delivered a dining oasis that redefines urban hospitality expectations. Golden Avenue's brutalist structure of green concrete and pink stone creates striking contrast while abundant...
Wheel-Inspired Ceramic Workshop That Doubles as Exhibition Space.In Padova, AACM has created a 50-square-metre ceramic workshop where architecture embodies the pottery process. The ceiling twists like clay on a potter's wheel, focusing energy around a single zenithal light. The diagonal exhibition altar...
Studio Esteta Nails Intimate Dining with Melbourne’s New Bistronomy Concept Harriot.At Melbourne’s Harriot, Studio Esteta has created a space that feels both grounded and elevated. It's the kind of restaurant that gets better each time you visit, where you notice new details and appreciate the thought behind every...
Australian Designer Creates Furniture Collection Inspired by Ancient Seashell Spirals.After 30 years of hands-on furniture design, Ross Didier continues to blur the lines between sculpture and function with his Nautiloid collection. These shell-inspired pieces follow nature's own geometry while offering stackable...
When Your Modernist Toorak Flat Needs to Handle Both Dinner Parties and Drum Solos.A musician's ground-floor flat in Toorak's heritage Caringal Flats receives thoughtful renovation by Ellul Architecture. The 88-square-metre space, originally designed by John William Rivett in 1951, balances contemporary functionality...
Sophie Lou Jacobsen Presents Nature-Inspired Glassware with 1930s Decorative Arts Influence.Sophie Lou Jacobsen's nature-inspired pieces feature flowing forms and subtle transparency that transform everyday dining into moments of quiet poetry. From the curved Bouquet Pitcher, Small Bowls with rippled rims, whimsical Le Verre...
Floating Canvases: Industrial Cool Meets Coffee Culture at Atelier tao+c’s Blue Bottle Coffee at West Bund.Blue Bottle Coffee centres on floating ceiling planes that appear to flutter like canvases caught in river breezes, supported by angled timber columns. Smart integration of air conditioning and lighting within these sculptural elements...
Bucharest’s Communist-Era Apartment Block Becomes Romania’s Coolest Music Venue.Romania's first listening bar occupies a historically significant 1960s apartment block. The design embraces original socialist features through contemporary materials: birch plywood, marble mosaic flooring, and a striking mechanical glass...
Melbourne’s New Furniture Studio Makes Art You Can Sit On.Melbourne's newest furniture studio blurs the line between art and everyday objects. Female-founded Escultura creates sculptural pieces using hemp cores and pigmented microcement—materials chosen for both their environmental credentials...
