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Powell and Glenn creates concrete Canopy House in Australia

June 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Australian studio Powell and Glenn has completed a sculptural concrete dwelling in Melbourne’s suburbs, which is designed to create the feeling of “floating amongst the tree canopies”. Named Canopy House, the home is informed by the client’s interest in mindfulness and tropical modernism in South America and is intended to foster a close relationship with

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Mim Design conceives Melbourne’s Au79 cafe as “greenhouse sanctuary”

May 24, 2022 Ali Morris 0

White framework around Au79 cafe Melbourne by Mim Design

Australian studio Mim Design has demarcated the Au79 cafe and bar in Melbourne’s Chadstone shopping centre from the surrounding stores using an arched framework instead of solid walls. Set in a corridor between shopfronts, Au79 was designed as a “greenhouse sanctuary” that could offer shoppers a slice of serenity and respite within the bustling retail

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All(zone) chosen to design MPavilion 2022 in Melbourne

May 19, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Bangkok architecture studio All(zone) has been revealed as the next practice to design Melbourne’s MPavilion, an annual architecture commission similar to London’s Serpentine Pavilion. All(zone) will become the ninth designer to create a pavilion for the prestigious annual commission, following designs by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Spanish architect Carme Pinós. The pavilion will be

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Timmins + Whyte renovates “considered and crafted” Melbourne house with folded roof

April 26, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Ribbed wooden cabinetry and peach-hued corner seating feature in this Melbourne home, which Australian studio Timmins + Whyte renovated with an extension that has a chunky folded roof. The project, called 10 Fold House, updates a single-fronted Edwardian property in Abbotsford – an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. Timmins + Whyte’s renovation introduces a two-storey extension

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Luke Fry squeezes extension behind bungalow in Melbourne

April 19, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Living room interior of Ripponlea House by Luke Fry with window seat and grey couch

At the back of a narrow Edwardian bungalow in Melbourne, the studio of Australian architect Luke Fry has added a contemporary extension with greyscale interiors. The semi-detached bungalow, called Ripponlea House, is set down a tree-lined street in the titular Melbourne suburb and belongs to a young family. The owners initially wanted to turn their home

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Sibling creates pop-up creative hub in Melbourne’s soon-to-be-demolished Hanover House

April 18, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Australian studio Sibling Architecture has used repurposed materials and mobile furniture to revamp Hanover House in Melbourne, allowing creatives to occupy the building before it is demolished. The studio created a variety of spaces within the seven-storey building, which is set to be torn down to make way for STH BNK by Beulah – a 356-metre

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Revival Projects’ Zero Footprint Repurposing hub saves construction waste from landfill

March 24, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Zero Footprint Repurposing hub by Revival Projects

Australian building company Revival Projects has turned a warehouse that is set for redevelopment into a hub for repurposing construction and demolition waste, which is open to the public during Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week describes the Zero Footprint Repurposing hub as one of the world’s first free hubs dedicated to the storage and

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Angelo Candalepas and Associates set to design Australia’s largest art and design gallery

March 18, 2022 James Parkes 0

A design with dramatic arches and a spherical atrium by Australian studio Angelo Candalepas and Associates is the winning proposal for the new National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary in Melbourne. The art and design gallery, which is intended to become a landmark for Victoria, will total 30,000 square metres and measure over 40 metres tall.

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Theatrical curtains drape around Dame bar by Bergman & Co

March 17, 2022 Dan Howarth 0

Pink interior of Dame bar and restaurant

A “rather fabulous” fictitious muse influenced the design of this richly decorated bar and restaurant in Melbourne by local interiors studio Bergman & Co. Dame recently opened in the IM Pei-designed Collins Place, a mixed-use complex in the East End of the city. The concrete development was completed in 1981, so Bergman & Co looked

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Danielle Brustman creates yellow highlights in sunny Melbourne hair salon

February 14, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Mitch Studio hair salon by Danielle Brustman

Yellow-tinted glass partitions and droplet-shaped mirrors give a unique personality to Australian hair salon Mitch Studio, renovated by interior designer Danielle Brustman. Mitch Studio is located in a double-storey 1950s building in the Melbourne suburb of Ashburton, in a shopfront that had already operated as a hairdressers for a number of years. Brustman’s client wanted

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