Showcasing the best of Australian and Global Interior Design
Located on a lush, previously undeveloped site in Playa Grande in the Dominican Republic, The Retreat House, designed by New York-based architecture studio Young Projects, sits at the cusp of a dense jungle on one side, and a pristine beach on the other. Known as “Casa Las Olas,” the 20,000-square-foot holiday home is designed to take advantage...
E Pool House located in Istanbul, is filled with calming & cosy living spaces taking advantage of the elevated outlook. Designed by Habif Architects, the pool house is built from steel which nestles into the volume. Whist the facade is covered with greenery and blended with nature. The poll house consists of an open plan living area,...
On an ocean front mountain top between tall grasses and acacia forests, rugged curvaceous walls blur the boundaries between architecture and landscape to define public and private spaces of an 8 room Taiwan retreat. The retreat, thus named Wandering Walls, is a building where the walls “wander” throughout like flowing ribbons. The remote location is susceptible to gale-force winter winds, sea salt and...
Integrity is at the heart of Ripponlea House, designed as a place that embodies a sense of connection, presence and calm by Luke Fry Architecture. While the initial brief for the residence was two storeys, Luke Fry, founder and director of his eponymous practice, recommended focusing on quality over quantity via a single level instead, culminating in...
Designer Rugs and Design Addicts Platform are thrilled to share the debut rug collection from Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist Tamika Grant-Iramu. This striking collection incorporates Tamika’s signature organic patterns and imagery, and aims to include all communities of people through a universal connection to nature.
Inspired by her immediate environment of Meanjin/Brisbane and using relief print carving techniques, Tamika’s practice focuses on native and introduced flora,...
The residential home Monolith House, consists of two stone houses, is organised around two towers, placed in the plot so as to also allow a dynamic arrangement of the outdoor spaces and the entrances to the houses, and to define additional outdoor spaces. The modern tower-houses are designed to be in close connection with the natural landscape – just as is the case...
MJA house is the stunning result from an extension of an existing house crated by Pereira Miguel Archiects. The project is made up of four distinctive volumes that are perpendicular to the main house, a set of access paths, and a pool which is the central piece of all these elements.
The new volumes are...
Developing a project for a house uniquely for vacations challenged Estúdio AMATAM to create a concept that responded to the qualities of a vacation home and the characteristics that seemed essential to the studio. An inner spatial organisation allowed a strong coexistence among its users, a very close relation between the social area and its...
Neri & Hu’s proposal draws upon the notion of the duality of natural elements, a tenet of ancient Chinese philosophy which holds that two opposite forces or elements can actually complement each other in the natural world, as embodied by the site’s mountain-water duality – the property is surrounded on three sides by a winding creek,...
Designed for a young couple, Fortunata House is located in the extreme south of Brazil, and is a project that highlights responsive architecture: the careful reading of the environmental conditions; the precise determination of the construction processes; the correct resolution of the program of demands; and the harmony of the built forms.
Built in a traditional, open neighbourhood, the house was implanted around a...