Laminex Launches a Cutting-Edge Fingerprint Resistant Matte Finish.The velvet appearance and the stunning colour palette of Laminex AbsoluteMatte allow it to compliment beautiful architectural spaces in both a vertical and horizontal application. The high-pressure laminate is light absorbing and silk to...
Highbury Grove House in Prahran by RITZ&GHOUGASSIAN.Heritage renovations in densely populated urban contexts are a dime a dozen these days. Maximising the yield and opportunity of the existing block through a smart extension is more often than not a primary objective while maintaining the...
The Taranaki Rift in Brunswick by Architecture Architecture.Architecture Architecture have radically transformed this inner city Melbourne house into a family home with four bedrooms, and a generous open plan living/ dining/ kitchen area that opens up onto the outside deck....
Loft Panzerhalle in Salzburg, Austria by Smartvoll Architects.There is no question Smartvoll Architects’ loft in the Salzburg's historic Panzerhalle, is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s the sort of space you’d give your right arm to live in. Or your left arm. Or frankly any limb capable of...
Solid Gold: Danish Fashion Designer Stine Goya’s Studio Kitchen.When Danish fashion designer Stine Goya was choosing a new kitchen for her showroom and HQ, she picked a design by Christina Meyer Bengtsson for Danish design outfit Reform—but chose to clad the cabinets entirely in golden...
Workstead House in Charleston, South Carolina.There is something delicious about the prospect of taking a dilapidated building and restoring it to its former grandeur. Every architect and designer worth their salt has a moment of salivation at the mere thought of taking a tumbledown...
Essastone Unique Calacatta by Laminex.Engineered versions of marble have overcome its maintenance issues, but never quite cut it as a real replacement for the real deal. Now though, there may be a surface that’s equal in look to marble – minus the...
Belmont House in Kew, VIC by Kennedy Nolan.Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to...
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...
