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The idea of prefabricated building conjures a pretty bad picture. For me, I think of the demountable classrooms that comprised much of my primary school but the prefab building process has come a long way since then. Not only does contemporary prefabricated building offer much speedier build times but it’s often cheaper than a traditional build and …
In the race to create Australia's most dazzling hotel interior, the baton was passed recently to a new boutique establishment in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the Little Albion Guest House. Formerly a convent and boarding house, the three level space was dark, dilapidated and fronted onto one of Sydney’s dodgier streets but all that is a distant memory …
With no room left on the mantelpiece, 2018 is proving quite the year for the multi-award-winning Sydney-based design firm Alexander & Co. “We kicked off in January with The Frame awards in Amsterdam where we took out the award for Best New Restaurant on foreign shores – that win was exhilarating. We were then honoured to win Best Hospitality …
Recently renovated by the team at SJB, who removed all traces of a previous 1980’s-era renovation, this heritage Melbourne home ‘Villa D’Arte’ is full of drama and strong paint choices – the latter of which saw it nominated in this year’s Dulux Colour Awards. “Working with clients that were well known to us, the project was essentially a …
Impeccably dressed for those who appreciate the finer things, QT Perth is set to open its doors to guests this August and we can't stop swooning over the sneak peeks of the interiors! Merging industrial glamour with a contemporary, urban-cool aesthetic - to say the hotel has been meticulously designed is an understatement. Longstanding QT …
“If you value the joy good design brings to life and want your home to be beautifully considered, intelligent and essential, you need an architect.” So says Robert Harwood who with his partner, Cate Rayson, founded Melbourne company, My Architect. Robert saw an opportunity to rethink residential architectural services and offer Australian …
“My first job out of high school was as a receptionist for SJB. I was 17 and I moved on to become a design assistant there,” says Decus Interiors managing director Alexandra Donohoe Church. It was a fitting beginning for the talented interior architect who went on to do a stint at Bates Smart and worked for Paul Kelly and Luigi Rosselli before …
By Joe Schutzer-Weissmann Set in a north-facing cove in Sydney's Double Bay, the site of this stunning new-build borders a park and a public pier which juts out into the water. If that wasn't dreamy enough, there's a pristine beach directly in front of it. The building appears as a collection of planes; a play on space, privacy and …
Palm Springs. It’s been on my bucket list for longer than I can remember. A heady cocktail of stunning modernist architecture set against stark desert landscapes with punchy colour thrown in, it’s not hard to see the appeal. But, if like me, you haven’t managed to set foot on that hallowed desert soil (and you’re Slim Aarons sated) Richard …
'Small but perfectly formed' and 'less is more.' They’re phrases that I keep returning to and particularly when it comes to design. It sounds counter-intuitive (and it’s certainly antithetical to the McMansion narrative that most of us were raised on) but just because a home is large doesn’t necessarily make it highly livable. While ten bedrooms …
