Artichoke, March 2021

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Preview | Cassie Hansen | 10 Mar 2021

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Elliot Bastianon in his Canberra studio.

People | Leanne Amodeo | 8 Sep 2021

Thrill and intrigue: Elliot Bastianon

Canberra-based designer and artist Elliot Bastianon applies a conceptual approach to the production of his experimental furniture and objects.

At the Melbourne workplace of law firm Maddocks, a triple-height void is dedicated to staff, encouraging work and meetings away from desks in a more relaxed environment. Photography: Peter Clarke.

Discussion | Rachael McCarthy | 30 Mar 2021

The post-COVID workplace

Looking ahead, how will the world of work be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? And how will this change the way we design workplaces and commercial buildings?

Classrooms have folding, highly acoustic screens and doors, allowing them to join into adjacent collaboration areas.

Projects | Genevieve Lilley | 12 Jan 2022

Lessons in colour: Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre

Designed by BVN, this new addition to Ravenswood School for Girls complements and reflects the site’s history and features a striking patina copper facade that is both classic and contemporary.

The gallery of Phoenix Central Park, designed by John Wardle Architects.

Projects | Andrew Scott and Anita Panov | 17 Nov 2021

Stately pleasure dome: The interiors of Phoenix Central Park

In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.

Set within an expansive volume, the contemporary dining area complements the rustic form of the heritage wharf building.

Projects | Georgia Birks | 8 Sep 2021

Day dreams of Japan: Yoko Dining

George Livissianis Interior Architecture has given this Brisbane restaurant a precise and perfect Japanese spirit in an imperfect but historically important wharf building.

The site constraints have informed unforeseen spatial qualities that offer liminal shelter within the cavernous volume.

Projects | Ying-Lan Dann | 5 May 2021

Hidden treasure: Liminal

Presented with a cavernous, uninviting hospitality space, Melbourne studio The Stella Collective set about turning it into an open, voluminous and comforting dining interior for Melbourne’s city workers.

The centrepiece of the main bar is a neon sculpture suspended above the dancefloor that cycles through rich colour gradations.

Projects | Peter Davies | 15 Dec 2021

A magical night out: Wink Wink

Inspired by surrealism, Studio 54 and the hedonistic gatherings of Salvador Dali, Ha Arc has designed a new nightclub in inner Melbourne that engulfs, disorients, surprises and delights – then sends you back out into the night.

Within the lounge area, two semi-enclosed work pods surrounded by circular three-quarter-height walls provide quiet and private study spaces.

Projects | Marcus Baumgart | 1 Dec 2021

‘Ugly ducking’ no more: Monash University Building 28

Tasked with adapting an “ugly duckling” university facility in Melbourne into a new complex for a mathematics, earth atmospheres and environments department, Kennedy Nolan has created a design expression that responds to the existing building’s austere, functional modernism.

Hair is coloured, cut and styled in the 20 chairs through the centre of the heritage building.

Projects | Rebecca Gross | 5 May 2021

Cut and colour: Headcase Hair

Studio Snoop has given this longstanding hair salon in Sydney’s Paddington a fresh new look – one that reflects the owners’ journeys to fashion shows and photo shoots all over the world.