Can Living with Less Result in More: Adam Haddow’s Home in Sydney’s Surry Hills.Buried amongst the urban chaos of warehouses and terraces that once served Sydney’s rag trade sits a unique home neatly packaged within a 29-square-metre site. Designed by SJB director Adam Haddow, for himself and his husband Michael and...
Putting the Power in the Hands of the Designer: VOLA’s Modular Design System.With products from 1960s still being specified today, VOLA is a testament to the Danish design legacy. With roots steeped in modernism, every product is based on a modular design system, offering infinite possibilities customisable for...
Wabi-Sabi meets Mojave Desert: Más o Menos by Studio Plow.Venture along Route 62 on the way to Joshua Tree National Park, and you’ll discover Más o Menos, a wine bar and café. Designed by Studio Plow with Grain Construction, the venue pays homage to desert architecture and its untamed beauty....
Work, Play, Experiment: Modest Family Home in Rotterdam by PLNLstudio.This modest home in Rotterdam is a house and a personal sandbox. Designed by Magda Sakowicz of PLNLstudio, the project unfolds as a series of work-in-progress spaces for her young family to work, play and experiment...
Celebration of Subtleties: Zacharitsa Live-Work Apartment in Athens by Molonglo & Royffe Flynn.Zacharista is one in a series of Athens apartments designed by the Greek-Australian development company Molonglo. Small and flexible, the home-work-shop hybrid, housed within a typical post-war polykatoikia, was developed in collaboration...
A Shared Vision: IDEAL Restaurant by Lorenzo Botero & Martin Mendoza.Lorenzo Botero and Martín Mendoza have collaborated on IDEAL, a warm and textural restaurant in Bogota. Inspired by the desert geography of the southern United States and from Baja California to the north of Mexico, Lorenzo and...
VOLA. For Life: A New Perspective on a Time-honoured Classic.The modern VOLA tap was created in 1968 for the National Bank of Denmark by legendary architect and furniture designer Arne Jacobsen. In keeping with Danish legacy brand’s ethos of timelessness, VOLA. for Life is a new perspective on a...
Beachside Beauty: A Holiday Home in Sydney’s Northern Beaches by YSG Studio.By and large, the end of summer heralds three things: cooler weather, better behaved flies and permanently flung-open doors. And yet, there’s one house, nestled amidst Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where the summer lingers on: gently,...
Humble & Wholesome: City Beach House by Design Theory.Designed for a lifetime and beyond, Design Theory focused on quality, repairable finishes that would improve with age and use in this humble and wholesome renovation of an early 1960s Western Australian home, originally designed by Duncan,...