Beans Café & Roastery by Figureground Architecture // Melbourne.Amongst over 400 entrants Figureground Architecture has been awarded the 2014 Hospitality Design Award and the 2014 Best of State Commercial Design Award for transforming a concrete shell warehouse in Fitzroy into a busy café and...
‘House for Mother’ by FAF // Linköping, Sweden.This beautiful house-to-be is designed by Malmö-based architecture studio Förstberg Arkitektur (FAF). That's right people - you are looking at extremely realistic and super beautiful 3D renderings of “House for mother”. Insane. In...
Interview // Tom Ferguson.Tom Ferguson is a Sydney born and bread architect with more than 15 years experience in residential projects. Tom established his own architectural practice, TFAD in Surry Hills. Over the course of his career, Tom has photographed his own...
PC Garden House in Japan by Kengo Kuma.Who feels like a cool drink of water? I felt like I’d had one after looking at Mitsumasa Fujitsuka’s photos of this beautiful Kengo Kuma house. It’s a littler, newer, Katsura. Spare Japanese perfection, just enough brush strokes to...
Brazil Week // Amazing Buildings Designed By Oscar Niemeyer.With his incredibly prolific portfolio in architecture, sculpture, furniture and design, the late Oscar Niemeyer truly left his mark on Brazil, and the world. Living a fruitful life until the age of 104, the Brazilian architect is...
Brazil Week // Round-up of Smokin’ Hot Brazilian Architecture, Part I.We know, we know - every freaking design blog and website out there seems to be rounding up Brazilian Architecture because of The FIFA World Cup 2014 currently in it's finals week in Brazil. Ours is a little late because it took just a...
Refurbished Heritage Apartment in Madrid Photographed by Juan Baraja.It’s always a tricky thing, negotiating a contemporary brief with an existing heritage space. While many designers might obsessively refashion a square peg for a round hole, revealing as little evidence of this process as possible,...
Björk // Swedish Brasserie in Aosta, Italy.Björk, a handsome brasserie in Aosta, Italy, opened just over a year ago by a fashion entrepreneur Giuliana Rosset. Combining the food with design, the restaurant claims to be the first authentic Swedish cuisine outlet in Italy. Who...
So Hot Right Now // Living Large in Small Spaces.While Australia and a bunch of other places have firmly embraced the concept of McMansions, people in many other countries around the world have continued to live in small spaces for centuries. From Europe, to Asia and South America, small...
