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Melbourne Design Week celebrates "humor and brashness" of Australian design...
This year's Melbourne Design Week has focused on bringing together diverse perspectives, festival curator Timothy Moore tells Dezeen in this interview. Australia's largest annual international design...
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Capella hotel takes over former government building in Sydney
Architecture firm Make and interior design practice BAR Studio have converted Sydney's heritage-listed Department of Education building into the latest outpost from Capella Hotels. The adaptive reuse...
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India Mahdavi creates colourful scenography for Pierre Bonnard exhibition in...
Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi has designed an exhibition to present works by French painter Pierre Bonnard at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India...
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YSG draws on beach clubs of Ibiza and Cancun for redesign of Sydney coastal home
Australian interiors studio YSG has updated a holiday home in Sydney's Palm Beach suburb, layering it with a maximalist mix of colours, patterns and textures. The 400-square-metre house belongs to a...
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Neil Architecture shelters rural "sanctuary" in Australia with rammed-earth wall
Local studio Neil Architecture has wrapped a courtyard home named Casa di Campo in Australia in a four-metre-high, rammed-earth wall. Located near Melbourne in the city of Werribee South, the house is...
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Wabi-sabi philosophy guides design of accessible coastal home in Australia
Australian studio Dane Taylor Design has completed Butterfly House, an accessible coastal home in New South Wales that is informed by Japanese aesthetics. Designed to support its owner who lives with...
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Hassell creates six metre-high Design Wall to showcase innovative products at...
Architecture firm Hassell has collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria to create Design Wall 2023, a floor-to-ceiling installation partly made from reused materials from a previous...
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NGV curator picks seven highlights from 2023 Melbourne Now's Design Wall
Curator Simone LeAmon has chosen seven key product designs from the Design Wall installation at the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Now 2023 exhibition. The Design Wall 2023 features 35...
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Design Theory updates mid-century coastal home in Perth
In the City Beach suburb of Perth in Western Australia, interiors studio Design Theory has updated a tired house from the 1960s while remaining true to the rich palette of natural materials in the...
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Chipboard and recycled denim define spaces inside Microloft in Melbourne
Australian architecture practice Studio Edwards has completed an exercise in contemporary small-space living with this 24-square-metre micro apartment in Melbourne's Fitzroy district. The clients, a...
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Grotto Studio references shadows with charred-timber cottage extension in Perth
Australian practice Grotto Studio has added a charred-timber extension named Shadow House to a bright cottage in Perth. Informed by shadows, the extension was designed to contrast the existing cottage,...
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Luchetti Krelle brings laid-back luxury to social spaces of Manly Pacific hotel
Spicy shades of turmeric, cinnamon and ginger feature alongside mosaic tiles and hand-painted murals in the public spaces of this hotel in Sydney, following a makeover from local studio Luchetti...
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Edition Office uses concrete and copper to finish Australian apartment block
Exposed concrete and perforated copper screens define this apartment block overlooking a valley in Victoria, Australia, which was designed by local architecture studio Edition Office. Located on a...
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PW Architecture Office brings "a little excitement" back into mid-century...
Australian firm PW Architecture Office has revived the fortunes of this mid-century house with a sensitive renovation that respects the original building while taking design cues from its material...
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Arent & Pyke designs Sydney hair salon to be "best appreciated from seated...
Triangular slabs of terrazzo and a vintage chandelier frame Sydney's Koda hair salon, which local studio Arent & Pyke has conceived as an eclectic mishmash of old and new. Located on the upper...
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Industrial warehouses inform Melbourne office block by Carr
Australian architecture studio Carr drew on 20th-century industrial warehouses for this office building in Melbourne, which features a stepped frontage of perforated red-brick columns. The office on...
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Low-slung roof shelters blockwork home on Mornington Peninsula
A low-slung roof with deep eaves shelters Merricks Farmhouse, a concrete-block home in Australia designed by South African studio Michael Lumby Architecture with Brisbane practice Nielsen Jenkins....
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Sydney Design Week has a "clear-eyed view of the work ahead of us" says...
This year's Sydney Design Week is informed by the work of a late French philosopher, creative director Keinton Butler tells Dezeen in this interview. Butler, who is also a senior curator of design and...
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Ochre-tinted precast concrete forms Nightingale housing by Kennedy Nolan
Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has completed Leftfield, an affordable housing block with a "playful" form of pigmented precast concrete panels in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne. Part of the...
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Plant-filled courtyard connects steel and stone houses in Sydney
Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family...
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