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Products
Paola Lenti makes a case for colour confidence
At dedece Sydney, Anna Lenti introduced the Chromatic Alphabet, a new design tool intended to make architects and designers less hesitant about working with colour.
Products
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.
Project
Surround sound of colour and movement
Discover Doreme’s Kolkata workplace and showroom — a neon wonderland celebrating children’s joy with bespoke design.
People
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.
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.
Events
“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.
Project
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.
Project
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.
Project
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.
Ideas
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.
Products
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.
Project
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.
Project
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.
Events
Dulux Colour Awards – 2025 entries open!
The 39th Dulux Colour Awards are officially open for entries, inviting architects, interior designers, specifiers and students to submit their most innovative projects.
Workplace
Blending domesticity and commerce
Led by Kart Projects and brought to life within an existing warehouse space, the new HQ for Studio Mass needed creativity, flexibility and a nuanced interplay between both digital and physical places of connection.
Workplace
French Blue, steel and stone: Functional office beauty by Those Architects
Resonant colour, rich materiality and thoughtful spatial planning create a highly functional and beautiful office for BresicWhitney in Mosman, Sydney.
Ideas
Stories Indesign: Sarah-Jane Pyke on colour, books, art and more
In this episode of Stories Indesign podcast, Timothy Alouani-Roby speaks to former Habitus Guest Editor and Winnings x Habitus House of the Year juror, Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke.
Project
Mim Design’s sumptuous slice of Italian hospitality
Tucked away, Enoteca Boccaccio is a destination worth seeking – a hospitality venue where the best of Italian culture and cuisine is revered and celebrated.
Events
Light and materiality in outdoor spaces: Sally Evans reflects on Saturday Indesign panel
Sally Evans, Director at Nexus Designs, discusses outdoor lighting following her appearance as a panellist at Saturday Indesign.
Project
A play on curves
A playground in Ahmedabad has been expertly crafted by Hsc Designs, promoting interaction and connection for the children who call it their own.
Events
Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating
Ash Keating is a treasure in the landscape of Australian art. His works are powerful and dynamic and, while they can grace a home and provide beauty, large-scale they are masterpieces of awe and wonder.
Workplace
From rags to riches: A colourful, heroic workplace
The collaboration between Jost Architects and Brahman Perera, shortlisted at this year’s INDE.Awards, creates a convivial workspace reflecting the outlandish character and devilment of creative agency, HERO.
News
The Dulux Colour Awards celebrate a paradigm-shifting approach to colour usage
At the 28th Dulux Colour Awards, designers were celebrated for their unwavering efforts to use colour to elevate architecture and design.
Ideas
Curiosity and colour: Behind the Brand with Nexus Designs’ Sally Evans
Next up in our series, we hear from Sally Evans MDIA, Design and Colour Consultant, and Director at Nexus Designs.
Workplace
Precision in practice: Adventist Medical Centre – CWB by Napp Studio & Architects
Adventist Medical Centre – CWB is a pilot project in which a curated medical interior enriches user experience while addressing operational imperatives with precision.
Project
Jeffrey Wilkes on refreshing the iconic Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
We spoke with Jeffrey Wilkes of WILKESDESIGN about the John Portman-designed building, which has been infused with touches of local culture and colour.
Workplace
Restored and bursting with colour: MECCA by Studio Tate
MECCA’s Customer Support Centre stays put, but Studio Tate’s interior design has added totally new layers of colour and energy to the space.
Events
Anna Lenti on Paola Lenti’s new Australian collections
Paola Lenti recently unveiled its latest indoor and outdoor collections with dedece in Melbourne and in Sydney, where we sat down with Anna Lenti.
Project
Design as a vehicle for reconciliation: Balarinji completes latest Qantas design
The Indigenous design and strategy agency is launching its latest aircraft design with Qantas, the sixth iteration of a longstanding partnership.
News
Coming home to the creative incubator: ACMI by Warren and Mahoney
In Melbourne’s Fed Square, the ACMI team is now working under one roof in a colourful new space home to co-working residents and museum staff.
Project
Loose luxury, layered textures and tonal triggers with Luchetti Krelle
Achieving both ‘now’ and ‘wow’, Luchetti Krelle has reinvigorated 55 North, the bar at Manly Pacific Hotel.
Project
Technē touches up a rich history RACV City Club
At Melbourne’s RACV City Club, Technē has pulled off a significant refurbishment of the ground floor and Gallery Lounge without losing a sense of history.
Project
Whimsy, theatre, fire and water: Poetica by Cox Architecture
Cox Architecture has brought back to life a Sydney hospitality venue brimming with ghosts of the past – including some notable locals.
Project
W Osaka: Tadao Ando’s hometown hotel is a monolith of hidden delights
Ando’s sleek, stark, black box rises above Osaka’s skyline and hides a treasure trove of interiors designed by Concrete.
Workplace
Working inside the cloud with HDR
It’s time to take a peek inside NEXTDC M2 designed by HDR, an altogether different approach for workplace interiors.
News
“A new landmark for the city”: Bowler James Brindley on W Sydney
As the prominent and highly anticipated Darling Harbour hotel opens, we bring you the in-depth design insights from the UK interiors practice.
Events
Finding beauty in browns and blues! Dulux Colour Forecast 2024
In its 25th year of colour forecasting Dulux presents the 2024 Dulux Colour Forecast with three palettes that lean into the beauty of browns and blues. Enjoy!
Project
Carving out a small corner of Chandigarh in the Delhi suburbs
Transplanting the essence of one Indian capital city into another, RSDA has retrofitted a family home with a finely tuned focus on colour, material and furniture.
Workplace
Working for good, designing for better with lyth Design in Delhi
As a practitioner, INDE.Awards juror Apoorva Shroff of lyth Design is pushing the design boundaries and doing it with aplomb. The latest project from the studio is beautiful in its aesthetic and appropriate in both function and form, truly supporting those who work to better the community.
VIC
“Instantly welcoming and culturally agnostic”: Darebin Intercultural Centre by Sibling Architecture
Darebin Intercultural Centre is a project bursting with colour and texture. At the core of this public work, however, Sibling Architecture has confronted questions of cultural inclusion and the colonial heritage of the built environment in ways that run much deeper than surface level.
Project
Colourful co-working at NUX Studio by Sibling Architecture
Sibling lends its characteristically exciting signature to a new fit out for Nux, a design studio and co-working space in Collingwood.
Events
India Mahdavi and Daniel Emma soak the NGV International with sumptuous colour
NGV has done it once again, securing the internationally renowned India Mahdavi to design its latest major exhibition. Meanwhile, Daniel Emma studio takes over the NGV Kids gallery. All in all, it makes for an outstanding exhibition visit at NGV International.
Products
Playful, versatile, accessible: Jardan’s commercial Colourscapes range
Jardan unveils the Colourscapes collection. This expansive offering of commercial furniture captures the brand’s signature aesthetic through dynamic forms, unique textures, and a mouth-watering colour palette.
Project
Colouring outside the lines: This year’s Dulux Colour Awards winners
The Dulux Colour Awards 2023 has once again celebrated the audacious and sublime use of colour in architecture and design. We bring you the debrief on this year’s winners.
VIC
Rooftop revelations where Hollywood glamour meets the Melbourne skyline
A new rooftop bar and restaurant designed by Mitchell & Eades has opened in Melbourne and is set to change the hospitality scene of South Yarra. High in the sky, Beverly is beautifully designed and the place to go for fine cuisine and divine cocktails, not to mention the best bird’s eye view of Melbourne.
Events
“I am questioning the boundaries of art and where it belongs”: Emma Coulter
You may recognise Emma Coulter’s space- and surface-bending artworks at a glance. As one of Melbourne’s most dynamic artists, her work lives at the intersection of painting and site-specific art in a chromo-spatial manner.
Workplace
Gathering around the campfire at Westpac’s new office hub
Group GSA has delivered Westpac’s new office hub in Parramatta. Taking inspiration from a different type of gathering, the new workplace prioritises connection without compromising productivity.
Workplace
Renovated for remote work: Inside Newmont’s new Perth office
Interiors and architecture studio Rezen has designed a sleek, modern office in Western Australia for the American company. Colour, light and versatile spaces come together to create a contemporary working environment.
Project
Bold new business: Biasol’s latest wellness project
Insight Body and Mind, a new multidisciplinary studio focused on holistic wellbeing in Melbourne, offers a sensory design experience. It is the place to go to review, revitalise, regenerate and refresh – all in the most beautiful surroundings.
Products
Shift the energy! Haymes’ Colour Library revealed
Time to get inspired with some fresh colour combinations: Haymes Paint has released its 16th Colour Library, titled Energy Shifts.
News
The Dulux Colour Forecast 2023 has been revealed
Strip back the superfluous, and focus in on the meaningful: the Dulux Colour Forecast 2023 has been born from the desire to live simply and authentically.
Events
12 colourful projects that may just win an award
This year, the 36th Dulux Colour Awards has announced its pool of finalists – all 103 of them. And we’ve picked 12 projects that bring colour to the fore.
Articles
Express your true colours with these Caroma basins
These Liano II Colour Basins entice you to flex your creativity through combinations of colour finishes and refined shapes and forms. The true path to personality and individuality in the bathroom.
Articles
Design on Tap: Caroma’s Colour Kitchen Sink Mixers Collection
Caroma’s first extensive range of kitchen mixers is the perfect balance of Australian design and modern functionality.
News
9 commercial spaces that celebrate colour in design
Representing the most creative, bold and colour-filled projects of the past year, the 2021 Dulux Colour Awards have been announced.
Project
Camille Walala and the amazing technicolour dream hotel
Capitalising on the power of Instagram, SALT of Palmar is injecting more youthful energy into a traditionally older tourism market.
Articles
Bika: A Colourful Solution to Workplace Monotony
With more and more workplaces embracing open-plan seating and hot-desk culture, the Bika chair, offers a versatile solution to flexible work spaces.
Articles
Making colour matter: Beyond Chroma by Milliken
Launching just in time for Spring, the Beyond Chroma carpet collection embraces colour in all its glory. Lend versatility to your commercial spaces; choose from a palette of 60 colourways.
Articles
The Colourist Manifesto: Three lessons I learned from Giulio Ridolfo
With ColourLab, both Schiavello and Ridolfo salute a new wave of recognition for colour’s central position as a driver of good in the world.
Project
Sensorial overload: Wagaya by Span Design
Inspired by the hanami season in Japan, Wagaya is an immersive space designed to capture the sensory experience of sitting beneath the cherry blossom trees.
Furniture
The ‘Geo’ Table from Catapult Design
The ‘Geo’ table can be customised to a range of sizes and with over half a dozen materials, making it a versatile addition to any domestic interior.