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Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

DKO’s Interior Design Director on how to create community and specificity in interior design, and how apartment living is being reconceptualised.

Hassell’s Perth BTR housing gets thumbs up from the Prime Minister

Hassell’s Perth BTR housing gets thumbs up from the Prime Minister

195 Pier Street is a build-to-rent (BTR) housing project in Perth and Hassell’s design just received some approving words from Anthony Albanese, no less!

This Singaporean designer’s home embraces Le Corbusier’s colour theory

This Singaporean designer’s home embraces Le Corbusier’s colour theory

SPARK’s director Wenhui Lim demonstrates how Brutalist building interiors can be successful upgraded into a colourful, light-filled home for creative self-expression and freedom.

Massoneong creates a breathtaking show suite in MeyerHouse

Massoneong creates a breathtaking show suite in MeyerHouse

Massoneong’s design of a show unit in the WOHA-designed MeyerHouse evokes the architecture’s French Chateau influences in a modern idiom.

OMA by the Sea interiors done by Brewin Design Office

OMA by the Sea interiors done by Brewin Design Office

Brewin Design Office has completed the interiors for OMA by the Sea, a luxurious residential development in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.

Boat Club Apartments by SJK Architects combine communal living and privacy in sky villas

Boat Club Apartments by SJK Architects combine communal living and privacy in sky villas

Each duplex apartment has its private entry on different levels, while the common central core promotes socialisation.

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

The homes designed by Tony Owen Partners are always interesting, always unique and are usually likely to spark an aspirational desire to live somewhere better.

Koichi Takada Architects’ sculptural and sympathetic apartment building

Koichi Takada Architects’ sculptural and sympathetic apartment building

Referencing both its pine tree namesake and the local surf culture, Koichi Takada Architect’s Norfolk is a nine level apartment on the Burleigh Heads waterfront in Australia.

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

Referencing both its pine tree namesake and the local surf culture, Koichi Takada Architect’s Norfolk is a 9 level apartment on the Burleigh Heads waterfront.

Y-Loft City by Superimpose counters design convention

Y-Loft City by Superimpose counters design convention

Three Bauhaus shaped multi-residences have brought a hinterland region in China rapidly up to speed with modern urbanity and the lifestyles of the Y generation.

Bean Buro finds resolve for living and working under one roof

Bean Buro finds resolve for living and working under one roof

Bizhouse is the transformation of a mid-century building in Hong Kong into apartments, elegantly designed by Bean Buro to cater for working from home.