This House with Plants in Japan by KamakuraStudio Is Not What You’d Expect.Indoor plants have loads of health benefits. As well as looking pretty nice, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide levels, diminish levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and benzene, and even keep air temperatures down on warmer days. The...
VBO Australia Unveils New Showroom in Sydney’s Chippendale.A necessary requirement for any showroom nowadays is a well-stocked bar – and VBO Australia have covered this off in their revamped Chippendale space. Several zones have been elegantly appointed with dining, lounge and occasional pieces...
Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite – but even so, there’s still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
Mitchelton Winery Hotel in Nagambie, Victoria by Hecker Guthrie.The Mitchelton Winery Hotel is one of a number of new, luxury lodgings colouring Victoria’s quiet, sunny wine country. In Central Victoria (apparently Victoria’s best-kept wine secret), it’s also the second historic regional hotel by...
Exclusive Beijing Members Club by Superimpose Architecture Accommodates Tea-House, Wine Cellar & Office Space.Designed by New York-based practice Kohn Pedersen Fox, the new Genisis Beijing building is impressive for a list of reasons. Conceived of and led by academic and social policy expert Dr. Whitney Duan, the building’s greater mission is to...
Kloke’s Brutalist-Inspired Melbourne CBD Store by David Goss.Put simply, Kloke's new Melbourne store has a gentle brutalist sort of feel. The pale grey stucco finish across the walls and ceilings conveys a sense of mass, as if the space had been carved out as a single, sculptural...
House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur.Sam Merwin Jr.’s 1951 science fiction novel The House of Many Worlds is arguably his best work—telling the tale of a creepy West Virginia mansion that’s also a portal between parallel time streams. Whether this classic account of...
Lindenderry Hotel in Mornington Peninsula by Hecker Guthrie.A little village in the hinterland of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula called Red Hill may not squeal design hotspot, but a few recent additions to the region’s accommodation options may be changing that...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chalet’s interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
