interior architecture
Events
Saturday Indesign after dark at The Woollahra Hotel
The Official Saturday Indesign Afterparty heads to one of Woollahra’s best-known corner pubs, where a Richards Stanisich refurbishment brings new life to an Art Deco landmark.
Events
The winners of the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards
From landmark transport infrastructure and adaptive reuse to inventive housing and regional projects, the 2026 NSW Architecture Awards recognised the breadth of architecture shaping the state.
Workplace
Designing the daily rituals of work, hospitality and health
The Commons has recently opened two new sites in Melbourne designed by DesignOffice — and this time, they include comprehensive health amenities.
Ideas
The evolution of Queensland’s interior design
As Plus Studio’s newly appointed Principal, Kate Ockwell discusses how the 2032 Olympics, climate-responsive design and a maturing design culture are reshaping Queensland’s interior landscape.
Project
Song for the Mute’s Melbourne boutique brings atmosphere over spectacle
Designed by Foolscap, the debut Melbourne store for Song for the Mute translates sound and rhythm into an immersive retail experience that feels closer to a listening room than a shopfront.
Project
RADS mediates street and lobby at Reno’s Bistro
Designed by RADS, the space redefines the lobby not as a point of passage, but as a destination in itself: a lobby bar, a café, and a small urban hinge-point that shapes and enhances the daily rituals of those who move through it.
Project
Landscape as a blueprint: a workplace anchored in Western Australia’s terrain
Designed by Woods Bagot, the new fit-out of a major resources company transforms 40,000-square-metres across 19 levels into interconnected villages that celebrate Western Australia’s diverse terrain.
Project
Across waters: Anglo-Eastern Singapore by Bean Buro
Bean Buro’s Singapore office for Anglo-Eastern is a poetic continuation of their Hong Kong headquarters — a workplace that balances identity and calm.
Products
Cosentino launches Éclos®: a new generation of mineral surfaces
Cosentino introduces Éclos®, a new mineral surface brand featuring zero crystalline silica, high recycled content and Inlayr® technology that brings 3D layered realism to design.
News
The 2025 Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist is here
The extensive and impressive shortlist has been announced for this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards, with the Awards Night Dinner set to take place on Friday 27th June.
News
Curves and Catalonian modernism in the Crown and the Canopy
An exciting workplace high in the sky designed by Hammond Studio is both functional and experiential – just the place to stay, work and relax.
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.
Workplace
Oroton’s magical new home by Richards Stanisich
Re-establishing Oroton’s place in the highest echelons of Australian fashion, the Richards Stanisich design is poised, sophisticated and richly layered.
Project
Celebrating the design legacy of William Smart
Celebrating 25 years in his indominable style, William Smart invited the glitterati of Australian architecture to an evening of white on white in the Sydney Opera House’s impeccable Utzon Room.
Ideas
Invested in design: Meet SJB’s Charlotte Wilson
From interior architecture to speculative subterranean design, Charlotte Wilson of SJB is one to watch in the Australian design world.
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.
Project
Launching OKO OLO at Melbourne Design Week
With outstanding track records in design, Genevieve Hromas and Juliet Ramsay have been working on the found and the formed with OKO OLO.
Project
The beautiful, functional workplace: Riverlee by Studio Tate
Extrapolating a domestic aesthetic that is both highly functional and exceedingly rich, the new interior fit-out for Riverlee property group by Studio Tate is indicative of a new standard in workplace design.
Project
Step into the sumptuous Sound Garden by Hogg & Lamb
Hospitality experts Hogg and Lamb has done it again. With generous and playful ceiling heights alongside fine materials, the Sound Garden awaits.
NSW
Elegant decadence, relaxed formality, future nostalgia: 66 King Street by Cox Architecture
A grand stage demands a grand performance and the interior architecture at The Charles Grand Brasserie and Bar lives up to its surroundings at 66 King Street. With multiple hospitality functions offset against music venue TIVA down below, these elegant spaces contain more than a hint of Old World decadence.
Project
The hot spot for hot pot in Chengdu
A new hospitality destination in China is taking design to the next level. Not only is there excellent food at this hot pot restaurant but the interior architecture is in a league of its own.
News
Who’s doing what: 9 firms ‘On The Move’
Who’s moving up and joining forces in architecture and design? July saw a fresh wave of skilled professionals promoted, and two major mergers between firms.
People
Woods Bagot’s fabulous four: Eva Sue, Fiona Chong, Melanie Porrins and Ashleigh Lyford
Woods Bagot’s Perth interiors division is led by a stellar team of women. The holistic leadership model has seen the studio’s exceptional portfolio of products flourish.
NSW
How Crown Group is bringing serenity to city living
Paving the way for a new era of slow, biophilic multi-residential design are the two new developments by Crown Group in the inner-Sydney suburb of Waterloo.
Project
“You can take the girl out of Gippsland but…”
There’s no taking the Gippsland out of the Farmer’s Daughters — a new restaurant on Collins St, Melbourne, by Agents of Architecture.
Project
Rooshad Shroff shows us what success can look like
As a talented, multi-award winning architect and designer, Rooshad Shroff has just established a new gallery in Mumbai that celebrates design at its very best.
Project
Here’s to the Insta-worthy: where to eat, play and stay
With venues in popular locations boasting high star-ratings these days a dime-a-dozen, there is a new criteria being coveted in the hospitality scene.
Articles
Shaw Contract’s new waterfront showroom sends ripples through Sydney’s design scene
Since its launch in October, the cutting-edge profile of Shaw Contract’s new showroom has been an excellent addition to Sydney Harbour’s iconic waterfront.
News
Seaside soirée: Shaw Contract launches Sydney harbour-side showroom
Shaw Contract’s new showroom sits on the iconic waterfront shores of Sydney Harbour. The new multi-level facility sets the benchmark for authentic and artful working environments, offering the finest products in an inviting and inclusive space.
Project
Plush-pink opulence meets 80s disco vibe at Peaches
What’s not to love about Peaches? Pierce Widera’s stunning rooftop cocktail bar channels the 70s, 80s and 90s in an electrifying hospitality vibe.
Project
Industrial elegance and Italian heritage in Melbourne’s east: Bicycle Thieves by Pierce Widera
Inspired by the 1984 film masterpiece, Bicycle Thieves is a light-filled eatery that celebrates Italian culture and creates captivating food with a contemporary twist.
Project
An artful balance of wellness and functionality at Chifley Lifestyle
Renowned architecture and design firm Gray Puksand demonstrates the importance of a healthy work-life balance with a sophisticated and elegant end of trip facility – Chifley Lifestyle.
Project
Culture, tradition and history collide at Duck & Rice
Hogg & Lamb provides a contemporary Cantonese experience that celebrates the true meaning of extravagant hospitality and luxury opulence at Sydney’s new rooftop palace.
Project
A Taiwanese House By C.H.I Design Studio Lives Amidst The Rice Fields
Built form without natural form is simply just a structure. Natural form without building is purely landscape. It is this in-between space in which Symbiotic House lies.
VIC
The Heritage of Seed in a Monochromatic Design
Seed’s new store in Melbourne Emporium, by Mim Design, is bold and charming. It captures the heritage of the Australian retailer and celebrates its iconic style in a visually intriguing way.
Project
Rebranding Lloyd’s Inn
Luxury boutique hotel Lloyd’s Inn, in Singapore near the bustling Orchard Road, has had a re-branding. Part of that meant a re-vamp of the entire design. Multidisciplinary practice FARM has taken a no-frills, minimalist approach, capturing the hotel’s holistic mission. Olha Romaniuk has the story.