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Marazzi: Pioneering excellence in ceramic innovations and sustainability

Marazzi: Pioneering excellence in ceramic innovations and sustainability

From humble origins to global recognition, discover Marazzi’s illustrious journey of innovation, sustainability, and design excellence that has shaped the ceramic industry for decades.

Mapping concrete and Brutalist architecture across Australia, Asia and beyond

Mapping concrete and Brutalist architecture across Australia, Asia and beyond

From concrete Tokyo to Brutalist Sydney, Blue Crow Media provides a way into new cities — or perhaps a closer look at familiar ones — for the architectural connoisseur, especially those with a keen interest in the twentieth century history.

Pixie by Flack Studio joins the Byron Bay design scene

Pixie by Flack Studio joins the Byron Bay design scene

Byron Bay: just the name conjures so much. Everyone has a Byron memory fuelling a rose-tinted ideal of chucking it all in and moving to the coast. Enter Pixie, the new restaurant designed by Flack Studio.

Sustainable edification: India’s first net-positive building

Sustainable edification: India’s first net-positive building

Leading the way in design, Edifice Consultants has conceived and realised India’s first net-positive building and, in doing so, has created a template for the here and now.

Moving between tradition and modernity at Chennai’s Boat Club Apartments

Moving between tradition and modernity at Chennai’s Boat Club Apartments

SJK Architects is an award-winning practice based in Mumbai. For this project, however, the focus is in Chennai, where Boat Club Apartments combine a sense of communal living with privacy and independence.

Christoph Hefti rug designs: worn by all the fashionable floors

Christoph Hefti rug designs: worn by all the fashionable floors

Stepping out of Dries Van Noten’s Antwerp atelier and onto our radar, we love the expressive use of fibre and colour of Christoph Hefti’s hand-knotted rugs.

New Colourways for EchoPanel Frequency

New Colourways for EchoPanel Frequency

The EchoPanel Frequency range from Woven Image gets a colourful boost with the addition of five new colourways to the existing neutral palette.

Designing Police Stations can Actually be Cool

Designing Police Stations can Actually be Cool

Find out how Greenway Architects play with materials and colours to design a number of police stations with a strong civic presence, regional context and to reflect the SAPOL brand to shift public perceptions.

The Complete Häfele

The Complete Häfele

The ever-popular furniture fittings catalogue is released in new edition, including for iPad