interiors
Project
Student housing with room to settle in
AJC Architects’ EPIISOD Macquarie Park brings a more residential approach to student accommodation, pairing warm interiors with shared amenity and a strong connection to campus life.
Events
Q&A: When Mim met Tim at Royal Oak Floors
A recent Design Talk Series event presented by Royal Oak Floors saw Melbourne-based interior designer, and founder and principal of Mim Design, Miriam Fanning in live conversation with our editor.
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.
Ideas
A journey of renewal: Integrating Japanese bathing rituals into bathroom design
Jason Gibney, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award in 2025 Habitus House of the Year, reflects on how bathroom rituals might just be reshaping Australian design.
Ideas
NSW parliamentary report recommends interior design licensing
In what the DIA describes as a “major boost for the profession,” a NSW Parliamentary Commission has released a report on the Review of the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020.
News
DKO announces new senior promotions across Australia
Continually making its presence felt on the architecture and design scene, DKO has seen a plethora of promotions across its studios in mid-year.
Ideas
A milestone conversation with David Hicks
The Melbourne-based interior designer is celebrating his eponymous practice’s quarter-century. He joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons during a flying visit to Sydney to discuss this milestone and much more.
Events
Smac! Shona McElroy’s story in design
From a Paddington studio to the streets of Paris, with the odd Irish rural pub in between, the founder of Smac Studio shares her inspiration in design.
Events
Interview with Jaime Hayon from Milan Design Week
International design superstar Jaime Hayon met us at the Wittmann showroom during Milan Design Week 2025 to talk us through his new KOLINAS sofa collection.
People
Celebrating fifteen years of Russell and George
Timeless design defines Russell & George, a practice that always breaks new ground and leads the pack in design.
Project
Spatial alchemy: Smac Studio’s stylish real estate office
The brief for the Ray White boutique in Rose Bay required the esteemed studio to think outside the intimately sized box, creating a design where every detail counts.
Ideas
High achievers: The PhD route for interior design
Investigating the process of a Reflective Industry Practice Model PhD Architecture and Design at RMIT University, we discover just what is involved and how the course influences those who participate.
Workplace
“Creative, approachable and ambitious”: Q&A with RIZEN Atelier
Bradhly Le and his team talk us through the foundations of the newly launched practice, RIZEN Atelier.
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.
Ideas
Comment: The fight against mould
In this comment piece, Ashburner Francis Mechanical Engineer & ESD expert, Lara Bailey, reflects on her work with Australian architecture practices and the challenges facing design teams in the wake of soaring summers.
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.
Project
Mediterranean Cronulla: Luchetti Krelle’s curvaceous coastal offering
Chalky cream curves, amorphous shapes, bulging bulkheads and sun-bleached shades of leather and timber define this Cronulla project.
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.
Project
Play and respite in Fender Katsalidis’ Art Deco executive suites at The Darling
Overcoming pandemic hurdles to redefine guest experiences amidst Sydney’s bustling entertainment precinct, The Darling has undergone a two-year restoration that melds Art Deco interiors with the necessities of hotel living.
Ideas
W Hotels Vice President on the convergence of hotel, hospitality and luxury design trends
We spoke with George Fleck, Vice President and Global Brand Leader of W Hotels, about the intermingling of hotel and hospitality design trends.
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
Some serious sculptural curves in Esoteriko’s office interiors
Award-winning interior practice Esoteriko has designed the headquarters of a luxury real estate operator, creating a flexible and efficient space despite challenges posed by its amorphous footprint.
Project
Studio Barbara in vivacious holiday mood at The Lodge
Mixing time and place, Studio Barbara’s design for Lulu’s at the Lodge is gorgeously insouciant, fresh and a whole lot of fun.
Project
“A home away from home and an office away from the office”: Sydney’s $20m hotel refurbishment
Accor and Salter Brothers have collaborated with Dezign to orchestrate a substantial refurbishment of the Novotel Sydney City Centre on York Street.
Events
“Design is in my blood”: Q&A with designer Kathy Arnold
Sydney-based Kathy Arnold is a lover of all things design and has close to 30 years of industry experience. We caught up with her about the latest pursuits.
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.
Articles
Beyond the surface: Functional materials unleashing new architectural forms
Explore Axolotl’s Ripple, an innovative architectural surface where stainless steel transcends functionality in a unique fusion of form and reflection.
Events
China and Sydney provide global standouts in the WAF winners list
After three days of crits, talks and presentations, the full winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced.
Events
Winners at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore
The 2023 World Architecture Festival (WAF) features no less than 44 category prizes – find out about the winners and commendations from days one and two here.
Project
Meadowbank Tafe poised to become central hub of skills-based learning
Australia’s first tertiary campus with the facilities to host both trade and digital skills-based education under one roof is now complete. Designed and delivered by Gray Puksand, the campus is ready to address Australia’s skills shortages.
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.
Events
Revelatory read: Arent & Pyke’s ‘Interiors Beyond the Primary Palette’
Launched last week at Cult, Arent & Pyke’s book, ‘Interiors Beyond the Primary’, reveals just how diverse its output has been. And, as Gillian Serisier reports, how little of the signatured elements are actually repeated.
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.
Project
One giant leap for retail design
Are you ready for the brave new future of retail design? Here’s how SKP, SYBARITE and Gentle Monster imagine it.
Articles
The Dezeen Awards Shortlist returns for its second edition
Dezeen announces the shortlist for the Dezeen Awards 2019 celebrating international architecture, interiors, design and studios to showcase the best of the best within the architecture and design industry.
Project
The Silo By Heatherwick Studio
Elana Castle wakes up to a sweeping views of Cape Town’s verdant mountain-scape and Waterfront precinct from the innards of an historic grain silo, thanks to an ingenious architectural transformation by Heatherwick Studio.
Project
Can A Good Interior Take A Brand From Good To Great?
Elana Castle interviews Maebe Tetlow-Stuart about Studio Tate’s sophisticated interior for Toby’s Estate Coffee Roasters in Darling Square. As expected, their interior is as elevated as the Toby’s Estate coffee-drinking experience itself.
People
5 Minutes With… Furnished Forever
Furnished Forever is a commercial furniture studio founded in 2017 by Canberra-based designers René Linssen and Elliot Bastianon. We talk to the partnership to find out how Furnished Forever started and what makes it special…
Project
Retrofit For The Future: Macquarie Uni’s Mitchell Building – IDL
NBRS Architecture have transformed one of the oldest structures on Macquarie University’s campus – the Faculty of Science & Engineering’s Mitchell building – to create an energy and space efficient contemporary workspace that encourages collaboration whilst respecting the historical, social and aesthetic significance of the building.
Project
Get A Sneak-Peek Into RMIT’s New Academic Street Led By Lyons Architecture
The newly refurbished campus connects Melbourne’s CBD to the university, transforms the student experience and is arguably one of the most majorly epic projects we’ve seen this year.
Project
“That Epic Project Everyone’s Talking About”: Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa)
How a decommissioned grain silo became Africa’s largest museum of contemporary art. Elana Castle interviews project architect Stepan Martinovsky from Heatherwick Studio about the radical transformation.
Ideas
The Agile Insight Handbook: Technology, Trends And Choice For 2018
Vice President of Haworth International, Glen Foster, shares his insights into the changing face of the contemporary professional landscape.
Project
The WeWork ‘Money Box’ Branch In Sydney’s Martin Place By TomMarkHenry
Designed by TomMarkHenry, NYC co-working phenomenon WeWork sprouts a new location in Martin Place’s former Commonwealth Bank building, fondly nicknamed the ‘Money Box’.
Ideas
Dulux Colour Forecasts “A Touch of Empathy” For 2018
Vintage design, the Hygge movement, Palm Springs and… empathetic design? Dulux’s Colour Planning and Communications Manager, Andrea Lucena-Orr, shares the big ideas behind this year’s trending palettes.
Products
EDITION by Living Edge Is Officially Here, And We’re Obsessed!
Launched recently at this year’s Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDITION by Living Edge flies in the face of design convention to celebrate the blurred lines between art and furniture. It’s rebellious, cheeky and we can’t get enough!
Project
Making ‘The Library’ Cool, Again: North Fitzroy Community Hub by GroupGSA
GroupGSA creates a multimodal and creative space—North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub project—for the inner city Melbourne.
Project
Is Hightail By Technē The Pub Of The Future?
Nick Travers of Technē gives an insight into next-gen pub design and orientation –shaking up Melbourne’s sleepy Docklands.
News
Indesign #70 – On Sale Now
Indesign #70 – the ‘consume’ issue – is on the loose! Grab your copy today
Ideas
5 Mins With… DesignOffice On “Retail 3.0”
Is new-gen Australian retail taking a cue from our Asian neighbours? Mark Simpson and Damien Mulvihill of Melbourne-based studio DesignOffice talk branded environment design across cultures.
Project
Tough Peninsula
Unapologetic and bold, this new project by SJB responds to the natural drama and sophistication of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
News
6 ways design is reviving physical retail
As much as we love trawling Asos and eBay, there are occasions where the physical retail experience outdoes the digital. Discover how these six retail spaces have created a shopping experience that excels offline.