Apartments
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HOME Parramatta and the question of renting well
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.
Events
Apartments on show during Milan Design Week
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.
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Designing density with character in our inner suburbs
Kerstin Thompson of KTA and Neometro Director Lochlan Sinclair discuss density, character and the inner city during a recent gathering in St Kilda East.
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Mim Design’s modernist interiors echo the coast
At Loller Street Apartments on Bunurong country, Mim Design’s interiors fuse with Telha Clarke’s modernist architecture, all while taking coastal cues from the bayside setting.
Ideas
The making of Melbourne’s apartment culture
From six-pack flats to design-led city living, Neometro’s four-decade trajectory offers a lens on how Melbourne learned to see apartment living as a cultural and architectural aspiration rather than a temporary compromise.
Workplace
Long life, loose fit: The ‘chameleon architecture’ of 151 Toorak Road will evolve and adapt
Making a statement in South Yarra, 151 Toorak Road by Bird de la Coeur Architects is both sustainable and adaptable as a design for today and the future.
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Bates Smart-designed luxury retirement living apartments deliver hotel experience
Leading Australian retirement company Keyton announces the completion of their first high-end Ardency retirement living project in Victoria.
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Ribbon-cutting marks official opening of Woods Bagot-designed tower
Designed by Woods Bagot with interior design by Richards Stanisich, AURA is a mixed-use precinct in North Sydney that has just been officially opened.
Ideas
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.
Events
Bespoke Habitat launches co-living apartments in Johor Bahru for cross-border employees
The co-living haven is close to the CIQ checkpoint with prices starting from RM800.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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PMDL Adapts 1960s Tong Lau To Today’s Sensibilities
To demolish or to reuse? Considerations of yield, sustainability and neighbourhood character came into play when PMDL renovated a walk-up in Sheng Wan.
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Eling Residences: A Hillside Silhouette In China By Safdie Architects
Safdie Architects’ latest multi-residential project brings a human scale to a grand hillside silhouette in Chongqing.
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Safdie Architects Humanise Scale At Eling Residences
The Eling Residences project, Safdie Architects’ latest in China, is still colossal in scale and distinct in silhouette, but it is also a delightful demonstration of the firm’s commitment to humanising scale.
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Make Architects Redefine The Block With The Luna
Printing blocks inspired Make Architects’ redesign for a proposed serviced apartment tower in Wan Chai. The Luna offers living spaces with abundant natural light, ventilation and views.
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Shorefront Penang by RT+Q Brings A New Language To George Town
Sea views sell. RT+Q Architects maximised them on a rare site in George Town with a sea-oriented apartment complex that’s also sensitive to its neighbours.