Inside IF Architecture’s Compact Collingwood Studio Where Every Detail Does Double Duty.In Collingwood, IF Architecture has transformed a compact 100 square metre space into their studio that doubles as a design incubator. Bold colour, galvanised steel, and inventive spatial strategies define a workplace where nothing is...
Architect’s London Apartment is Part Home, Part Material Experiment.EBBA director Benni Allan has turned his London apartment into a design lab wrapped in douglas fir. Living with Timber tests how affordable materials can be finished to last, while functioning as a gallery for collected objects and...
Nostalgia, Materiality, and Melbourne Collide Inside Hannah St Hotel.Designed by Flack Studio, the 188-room Southbank property draws on French and Italian modernism, 1950s curves, and Deco-era Tokyo—layered with bespoke joinery, deep navy bathrooms, blush carpets, and corridors painted red. The exterior,...
Madrid Exhibition Transforms Museo de San Isidro Into a Living Room for Design.What will the archaeologists of the future make of the objects we surround ourselves with today? That was the premise behind Domus Nova at Madrid Design Festival 2026, where 44 pieces by 33 designers occupied the Renaissance patio of the...
Obery: A New Trade Atelier for Designers Focused on Craft, Material and Detail.Obery is making its Australian debut with a new trade showroom in Melbourne's Cremorne. Representing The Rug Company, Artemest and an exclusive sculptural ceramic tiles collection by Studio Lucy McMillan, the space promises an...
Form Follows Feelings: Devon Turnbull and Karimoku Craft Wooden Speakers That Stir the Soul.Karimoku Research's third Survey exhibition brings Devon Turnbull—the designer behind OJAS, whose speaker systems live in Supreme stores, Public Records, and the Cooper Hewitt—together with Karimoku Furniture's decades of woodcraft...
A Vertical Village Rising from the Tulum Jungle.At Tulum's urban edge, V Taller has completed Babel—a mixed-use development with architecture that’s strong and purposeful. The project packs 59 residential and hotel units into an eye-shaped plan while returning nearly 40% of the site...
A Compact Seoul Café That Borrows the Language of the Office.Tucked into Gangnam's Seocho-dong, QDC by Indiesalon is a compact café that takes its cues from the office. The name—Quick Daily Coffee—borrows from the medical abbreviation qd (once a day), framing coffee as a ritual of productive...
David Pastor Liberates a Madrid Home From Nostalgia With Colour and Light.When David Pastor first encountered this Puerta de Hierro home, its modest architecture and mature garden stirred deep nostalgia. But inside, overly divided spaces and disappointing darkness told a different story. The owner's devotion to...
This Milan Beauty Studio Proves the Clinical Wellness Space Is Officially Over.Wellness spaces are finally catching up with hospitality and residential design, and RedDuo's beauty studio in Milan is a sharp example. Custom furnishings, Alpi wood, a vanilla-and-chocolate colour story, and collaborations with Kerakoll,...
Sightline 2026: What Happened When We Asked the Design Industry to Be Honest With Itself.Across two sold-out sessions in Sydney and Melbourne, Sightline delivered a clear-eyed diagnosis of the forces flattening design culture—and mapped six territories where the most compelling work is pushing back. The response was unlike...
A Compact Seoul Café That Borrows the Language of the Office.Tucked into Gangnam's Seocho-dong, QDC by Indiesalon is a compact café that takes its cues from the office. The name—Quick Daily Coffee—borrows from the medical abbreviation qd (once a day), framing coffee as a ritual of productive...
A Retail Interior of Quiet Authority in Melbourne’s Armadale.Working with the building's existing industrial bones—original brickwork, timber roof trusses, and restored skylights—AP Design House has delivered a retail interior grounded in material honesty. Aged leather sofas, vintage lighting,...
Gentle Monster’s Haus Nowhere Seoul is Unlike Any Retail Experience You’ve Seen.If you feel like you've arrived at the future, that’s because you have. Haus Nowhere Seoul unlocks a new level of retail experience that makes all other stores feel prehistoric. Gentle Monster’s experimental retail universe represents...
When Design Hits All the Senses: Nike x Jacquemus Pop-Up at Paris Fashion Week.Random Studio's Nike x Jacquemus pop-up at Le Marais proves that the details matter. The installation celebrated the Moon Shoe revival by merging 70s gym culture with ballet studio elegance. Pommel horses, kettlebells, and ballet bars sat...
Vyrao and AMO Transform Scent Into Space at New York Pop-Up.Architecture meets fragrance at Vyrao and AMO's collaborative Soho pop-up, where spatial design explores emotional wellbeing through scent. The installation features totemic sculptures representing energetic frequencies, flowing curtains...
Foolscap Channels Record Player Energy for Song for the Mute Melbourne Boutique.Within a tight 68-square-metre footprint, Foolscap’s design for Song for the Mute Melbourne debut channels record player energy through curved forms and rhythmic layout. The design partially closes off the storefront to create mystique,...
Studio Gypsandconcrete Wraps Lopota Lake Resort’s Reception in Memory and Materiality.At Lopota Lake Resort & Spa in Kakheti, Georgia, Studio Gypsandconcrete has designed a glass-wrapped reception space shaped by the memory of a former rose plantation. Rosewood veneer and softly blushed copper carry the site's history...
Barcelona Meets Japanese Jazz Listening Culture at Jaç Hifi Café by Isern Serra Studio.Jaç Hifi Café in Barcelona takes its cues from Japan's jazz kissa — intimate bars where the music wasn't background noise, it was the whole point. Designed by Isern Serra Studio, the interior features a walnut bar that doubles as a...
MA Studio’s Timber-Clad Bistro Blends Nostalgia with Saudi Hospitality.Juno Riyadh’s interior is anchored by an elongated timber volume that houses waiter stations, art nooks, and a glowing pizza oven. Poured terrazzo flows through the main dining space, while dark cement tiles signal a shift to cosier...
The Norm Opens as Bangkok’s Most Design-Led Rooftop Bar.Fritz Hansen continues its quiet repositioning from furniture manufacturer to cultural host with The Norm—a rooftop bar in Bangkok's Silom district designed by EKAR Architects and furnished entirely with Danish design classics. Set...
Helsinki’s Boreal Restaurant Channels Finnish Forests Through Timber, Art and Kombucha.Boreal restaurant lands in Helsinki's Design District with interiors by Treivas Architecture Bureau that channel Finland's northern forests. The space wraps an open kitchen in timber framing, fills walls with Scandinavian art, and features...
A Restrained Interior With Plenty to Say: Homer Rogue Taverna by AP Design House.There's nothing more satisfying than a space that’s not overdesigned and generally doesn't try too hard. Homer Rogue Taverna gets this. Conceived by AP Design House for brothers Harry and Mario Kapoulas, this 100-seat Greek restaurant on...
David Pastor Liberates a Madrid Home From Nostalgia With Colour and Light.When David Pastor first encountered this Puerta de Hierro home, its modest architecture and mature garden stirred deep nostalgia. But inside, overly divided spaces and disappointing darkness told a different story. The owner's devotion to...
A Bold, Youthful Apartment in Kazakhstan Designed for a Son on the Brink of Independence.Almaty-based studio Sdelaemremont was to design an apartment a mother would eventually hand over to her teenage son. The result is bold, warm and loaded with personality—think unexpected veneers, a mirrored cube concealing a laundry...
A Victorian Terrace Recalibrated for a Slower Way of Living by Manifold.Manifold's considered reworking of a late-Victorian South Yarra terrace is stripped back to its essentials and rebuilt around daily life. Previous renovations had fragmented the interior; here, cohesion is restored through subtle...
Architect’s London Apartment is Part Home, Part Material Experiment.EBBA director Benni Allan has turned his London apartment into a design lab wrapped in douglas fir. Living with Timber tests how affordable materials can be finished to last, while functioning as a gallery for collected objects and...
A Garden in the Sky Becomes the Soul of This Ningbo Apartment.In Ningbo, China, a designer couple reimagined their top-floor apartment around an unlikely starting point: a three-metre-square garden open to the sky. The Inner Garden by OUTIN Design places two Japanese maples and wild ferns at the...
An Architectural Experiment on Dunghutti Country: Greybox by Welsh + Major.Welsh + Major's Greybox reimagines coastal living through an experimental lens, turning the traditional verandah homestead inside out. The design draws from unexpected sources—beachside motels, tractor sheds, cloistered abbeys—creating...
Inside IF Architecture’s Compact Collingwood Studio Where Every Detail Does Double Duty.In Collingwood, IF Architecture has transformed a compact 100 square metre space into their studio that doubles as a design incubator. Bold colour, galvanised steel, and inventive spatial strategies define a workplace where nothing is...
Ippolito Fleitz Group Designs a Next-Gen Workplace in China’s E-Commerce Capital.Ippolito Fleitz Group has turned a five-storey building in Hangzhou into a next-generation workplaces tailored to China's thriving e-commerce industry. The 2,200 square metre show office is designed to prove that work environments can be...
A Refined Sydney Office That Blurs the Line Between Workspace and Retreat.Located within a historic Art Deco building, this private Sydney office by Coffeyhallett trades corporate convention for something more interesting. The design team stripped a generic tenancy back to its shell, reimagining spatial planning...
What do Family Restaurants and Workplace Design Have in Common? More Than You’d Think.When Kokuyo commissioned DDAA to design a workplace centred on learning, the Tokyo studio faced a key insight: you can't manufacture curiosity. Their solution drew from Japanese family restaurants—those 24-hour establishments where...
Kennedy Nolan Trades Corporate Posturing for Human-Centred Design in Melbourne’s Law Chambers.This isn't your typical legal fitout. At 181 William Street Chambers, Kennedy Nolan created a seductive work environment where bold colour sets the scene and clever design details follow through. The 1,560-square-metre space accommodates...
Design Hotels’ Berlin HQ by RHO Balances Community, Creativity and Sustainability.Design Hotels has moved to a striking new Berlin headquarters designed by local studio RHO. The top-floor space makes the most of five-metre ceilings and wraparound windows that flood the interior with light and city views. RHO split the...
