From sculptural basins and wellness-led bathrooms to kitchens and professional-grade appliances, these Milan Design Week releases reframed the home’s most functional spaces as places of ritual and care.
Joyce Wang Studio transforms Sha Tin Racecourse into Genso, a retrofuturist dining and entertainment world with a cinematic atmosphere.
From indoor-outdoor furniture systems and archival reissues to experimental lighting, circular materials and collectible surfaces, these launches captured Milan Design Week’s broader conversation around comfort, craft, longevity and atmosphere.
At Materia, Maurie Novak tests Passivhaus against an expressive architectural brief, using his own St Kilda home to question what high-performance housing can look like.
As build-to-rent gains ground in Australia, HOME Parramatta asks what architecture can offer beyond supply: stability, shared amenity and a less provisional model of rental living.
Now reimagined as Taj Cidade de Goa Heritage Resort, the 1982 landmark has been carefully restored by Studio IV Designs, which builds on Correa’s original Indo-Portuguese vision while updating the interiors for contemporary hospitality.
From Aesop’s light-filled installation by Australian architect Rodney Eggleston to Molteni&C’s immersive garden worlds, these are the exhibitions, launches and interventions shaping Milan Design Week so far — with more to come.
From Muuto’s softly lived-in Brera apartment to Artemest’s palazzo-scale grandeur and Studiopepe’s introspective project apartment, these Milan Design Week interiors use the home as a stage for design, feeling and identity.
Designed by FK alongside One Design Office, 1 Hotel & Homes Melbourne at Seafarers is part of Riverlee’s long-game regeneration of North Wharf and finds its footing in reuse, restraint and a refusal to start from scratch.
From a beachfront transformation in Bali to a cross-cultural prelude in Tokyo, Southeast Asia’s leading design platform returns with renewed urgency and regional ambition.
With projects such as Scape Kensington by Plus Studio, student accommodation in Sydney is shifting from isolated housing towards integrated urban infrastructure.
With design by SORA and LiFE, the opening of Mercure Melbourne La Trobe Street introduces a 195-room hotel to the CBD, alongside Foundry Bar and Kitchen — a rooftop-adjacent venue designed to draw both guests and locals.
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