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Designing colour with intent: Inside the Breathe palette

Designing colour with intent: Inside the Breathe palette

Tamara Veltre, director at Breathe, reflects on the studio’s collaboration with Haymes Paint — a deliberately reduced, architect-designed palette that reframes colour as part of architecture, not an afterthought.

Surround sound of colour and movement

Surround sound of colour and movement

Discover Doreme’s Kolkata workplace and showroom — a neon wonderland celebrating children’s joy with bespoke design.

25 years of Greg Natale: Beyond the decorative

25 years of Greg Natale: Beyond the decorative

This November marks 25 years since Greg Natale opened his Sydney studio. In the decades since, he has built one of Australia’s most recognisable design practices, defined by pattern and decorative conviction.

A COX carnival of colour in the workplace

A COX carnival of colour in the workplace

A bold approach to colour aims to balance flexible workspace functionality with convivial areas of connection in this Sydney office by COX Architecture.

“Doing things differently demands an incredible sense of responsibility”

“Doing things differently demands an incredible sense of responsibility”

Chus Martínez and Nguyen Le reflect on the importance of exhibition design as their own show – ‘A velvet ant, a flower and a bird’ – runs at the Potter Museum of Art.

Blurring the line between konbini and café

Blurring the line between konbini and café

Suupaa in Cremorne reimagines the Japanese konbini as a fast-casual café, blending retail, dining and precise design by IF Architecture.

AIM Architecture elevates HARMAY’s signature style at Hongqiao Airport

AIM Architecture elevates HARMAY’s signature style at Hongqiao Airport

With its latest outpost inside Shanghai’s bustling Hongqiao International Airport, HARMAY once again partners with AIM Architecture to reimagine retail through colour, movement and cultural expression.

Inside Precinct 75’s build-to-rent transformation

Inside Precinct 75’s build-to-rent transformation

COX Architecture uses saturated colour and hotel-style amenity across the historic St Peters location, designed for Coronation Property.

The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art

The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art

The Melbourne-based artist works at the intersection of art and architecture. In a new exhibition at MAGMA Galleries, he turns his focus on urban space and agency to a smaller scale.

Colour and creativity combine with the launch of Creative Spark

Colour and creativity combine with the launch of Creative Spark

GH Commercial presents Creative Spark, a range that adds colour and durability – and all manufactured in Australia.

Sibling Architecture responds to context and pedagogy

Sibling Architecture responds to context and pedagogy

The Junior Learning Hub at Box Hill North Primary School is an adaptable and environmentally responsive addition that supports pedagogical needs while fortifying a strong sense of place.

Sibling’s education design engages with the landscape

Sibling’s education design engages with the landscape

Aireys Inlet Primary School Art & Music Hub by Sibling Architecture is contingent on an interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, engineers and landscape specialists, all working within defined budgetary constraints.