80s Bondi Beach House Transformed into an Eclectic Urban Home by Horizon & Tobias Partners.You know you’ve got a great team on board when your site is hard to access, the existing structure has low ceilings and no room for services, you have excavate the rear for a pool and garden and the drainage on the lower ground floor is...
12 Micron Restaurant in Sydney’s Barangaroo by SJB Interiors.12-Micron Restaurant in Sydney’s Barangaroo is self described as “casual, beautiful and modern, much like Australia itself”. This new 230 seat restaurant by SJB is the embodiment of all things Aussie and an amalgamation of the...
Dion Lee Boutique by Kelvin Ho of Akin Creative.Designed by Kelvin Ho of Akin Creative, Dion Lee’s space-age fashion aesthetic has a new home in Bondi, worthy of its cutting edge...
Au Yeung House in Sydney by Tribe Studio.There’s more than a touch of quirky in the renovation of this 1930’s brick suburban Sydney home. The architects at Tribe Studio have taken what is ostensibly a fairly mundane piece of suburban architecture and breathed life into it....
Interview: Sydney Artist Ben Smith.In his work, Sydney artist Ben Smith seeks to unify a series of complex and opposing qualities - the beautiful and the unsettling, the humorous and the sincere, the banal and the uncanny. Above all, an element of visual wit prevails in his...
Stories On Design // Cunning Cantilevers.The soaring cantilever is a daring thing of beauty. Cantilever speaks of ambition, inspiration, unconventionality and an aversion for doing things the easy way. It’s the extreme sport of architecture as it defies gravity and screams...
Humming Puppy: Multi-Sensory Yoga Studio in Sydney’s Redfern by Karen Abernethy.Karen Abernethy in collaboration with Louisa Macleod are the masterminds behind Humming Puppy Yoga Studio, aptly named after the humming practice used in yoga. The double height, Victorian building has undergone a conversion like no other....
Fictitious Realism by Sydney Artist Jonathan Dalton.Sydney-based artist Jonathan Dalton's works are dominated by dark, tinted scenes that hint at an unfolding and curious story that the viewer has to imagine from the characters and their ambiguous surroundings. Dalton is obsessive about...
Barcom Terrace in Darlinghurst, Sydney by Arent&Pyke.Today we rekindle our love for the talented duo Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke of the highly successful Sydney-based studio Arent&Pyke. Since our last interview with them in 2010 they’ve been busy. Originally built as a single...
