House with a Guest Room in Taree NSW by Andrew Power.For Melbourne-based architect Andrew Power, proportion and arrangement are paramount—simple, uncomplicated proportions can be powerful forces of design, creating serene environments out of even the most common of spaces. For this...
Built with Brickworks: Ivanhoe House by Kavellaris Urban Design.Set back from the street on a slightly sloped block, the single storey home's grand double-height entryway creates a dramatic sense of arrival. Clad almost entirely in gridded milky white La Paloma bricks from Australbricks and...
Knitted Camouflage by Joseph Ford.London-based photographer Joseph Ford seems to have a fondness for slightly surreal, offbeat sort of image-making. In the same vein as the great Salvador Dali maybe—he has set a crocodile on a pair of Lacoste sneakers, merged a railway...
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Portraits of Indian Flower Men by Danish Photographer Ken Hermann.To most of us, fresh flowers are a short-lived pleasure—a simple luxury that tends to fade away a little too quickly. In India, flowers are loaded with meaning, tradition, substance, and spirituality. From the symbolic lotus to ribbons...
Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
1979 G-Class Mercedes Cast in 40,000 Kilograms of Resin.We’re now assured all cars will be driving themselves very soon, but all that amazing tech aside, design will hopefully be the lasting creative, human element in the automobile world. And it’s maybe that idea that’s inspired...
The Gift Hotel: Cooltown Animated Video Campaign by Six N. Five for Massimo Dutti.Spanish fashion house Massimo Dutti asked Six N. Five to come up with a new, non-conventional ad concept to introduce five new products and communicate their more emotive, sensory elements. Six N. Five's The Gift Hotel is a set of five...
The MaoHaus in Beijing, China by AntiStatics Architecture.AntiStatics Architecture seem to have made concrete billow and wave in the breeze of central Beijing. The material-defying feat is an experimental façade—one that looks a lot more like the rolling fabric of a featherweight tent than...
