From Unique Objects to Thought-provoking Ideas: Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2023.Melbourne Design Week 2023 is over for another year but not without igniting curiosity, discovery and pride in our Australian design community. With the eventâs enduring theme âDesign The World You Wantâ feeling increasingly more...
Harnessing Materiality: Farm House outside of Mumbai by The Vrindavan Project.Located in the rural town Thane, just outside of the bustling Mumbai, Farm House by The Vrindavan Project is not just your ordinary contemporary Indian home. It is a place with strong ambitions towards sustainability. The rural home places...
Ibuju Collection by Fango Tackles Deforestation.Colombian designer Francisco Jaramillo of Fango Studio has designed Ibuji, a furniture collection made from Yaré, a natural fibre vine found in the Amazon jungle. Rather than cutting down more trees and endangering the native timber, the...
The Tallest Mass Timber Office Building in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects & Daytrip.Designed to be recyclable so that it can be taken apart and put back together, thereâs more to this Shoreditch building than its LEGO-ish nature. At 17.8 metres high, itâs the tallest mass timber office building in central London,...
Material Research: RĂcino Lamps by EstĂșdio RAIN.Brazilian design studio EstĂșdio Rain has developed RĂcino, a series of lamps that filter light with plant-based polyurethane made from castor oil. With an almost incorporeal appearance, the collection elevates the natural aesthetic...
Recooked Leftovers: Mo de Movimiento in Madrid by Lucas Muñoz.Mo de Movimiento is no ordinary restaurant. Itâs a phantasmic space brought alive from dead objects, each one resuscitated, repolished and transformed into something new. For most designers, an interior like this would have been a tall...
Marra Marra Shack in Berowra by Leopold Banchini Architects.Marra Marra Shack overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. Located in Berowra, the structure is sensitive to the surrounding site in a thoughtful design underpinned by a strong sense of place. It's a home indebted to its...
SSAP Coffee in Busan, South Korea by Design by 83.In this minimal coffee shop in South Korea, Design by 83 weaves the heritage of the existing spatial elements throughout this contemporary interior. With sustainability at the forefront of the design, the studio sought to add to the...
Zero Waste Installation at MCA Inspired by a Painting by Youssofzay + Hart.Sydney-based architecture studio Youssofzay + Hart have completed an installation design for the MCAâs first retrospective on Australian artist Vivian Binns. Taking inspiration from Binnsâ 1993 painting âSurfacing in the Pacificâ,...
