Design Anthology AU

Ian Fairweather, one of the most important Australian artists of the 20th century, is exceptional for several reasons. The Scottish-born painter led a remarkably peripatetic life, spending much of it travelling and working across Australia, China, In

And just like that, it seems, another year draws to an end. This is the time of year when we usually reflect on fond memories and all that’s been accomplished over the last twelve months. Given that this entire year has been consumed by concerns abou

When country kids Jade Myers and William Ellyett met while studying at the University of Queensland, they quickly became fierce rivals. However, it didn’t take long before they connected over a shared love of environment-based architecture. ‘We reali

The idea of the bed as a platform for transformation is not new. Noel Gallagher’s lyric ‘So I start a revolution from my bed’ memorialised John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 ‘bed-in for peace’. Others like Madonna and Tracey Emin have toyed with the sub

Sarah K’s mornings start with a workout and then a good coffee and breakfast, usually enjoyed sitting on the verandah in the sun. The CEO and creative director of Sarah K Studio, design initiative supercyclers and circular fashion brand The Sustainab

Between a mountain and the sea, around a nondescript industrial building in Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island, workers toil, loading heavy pallets from trucks into lifts. Upstairs, design studio Batten and Kamp is in a state of humming industry of its

Melbourne’s relentless lockdowns have been a sobering pause for citizens of the usually thriving cultural hub. And although creativity, productivity and sanity may all be tested when we’re confined to our homes, limited parameters may also invite une

Australia’s capital is undergoing a transformation. On the outskirts of Fyshwick, a creative precinct is slowly emerging. Developed by Molonglo, which works in close collaboration with architects, designers and craftspeople, the Dairy Road neighbourh

The Kimberley is Western Australia’s most remote northern region, a natural wonder with a vast geographic spread and subtropical monsoonal climate. Here dusty, arid terrain meets waterfalls and pristine beaches. The Aboriginal history of the Kimberle

As lockdowns continue in most major cities in Australia, the long-term effects are increasingly prevalent in individual practices and businesses throughout the art industry. Online galleries have continued to spring up in a new world of social distan

Art is at the nexus of Alana Kushnir’s weighty resume, but not as you know it. The ultimate polymath, she started her career as a corporate lawyer in Australia before a passion for art history lured her to the prestigious Goldsmiths, University of Lo

Strolling down Barsden Street in Perth’s beachside suburb of Cottesloe, you’ll likely happen upon a quirky, Spanish Mission-style casa known as the Lewis House. Named for its architect,Thorald Travers ‘Peter’Lewis, the 1940s heritage-listed home is a

The rare opportunity to build a series of apartments atop the Yarra Boulevard escarpment — where the cliff falls away to the gully and the river — was not lost on architecture firm Edition Office, interior architects and designers Flack Studio, and E

Located on clifftops at the end of Takapuna Beach in New Zealand, this compact building — which looks northeast across the main shipping channel into Auckland and towards the volcanic island of Rangitoto — shares its site with an earlier home built f

Set among rolling hills and framed by an avocado plantation in Main Ridge on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, this home embraces its rugged natural environment. The work of Melbourne-based Mim Design and local building designers Rod Hannah Design, th

When the owners of this single-storey brick house in Sydney’s Upper North Shore engaged architecture firm Studio Prineas to redesign their home, the brief was as much about form and function as it was about the intangible quality of feeling. The coup

The trust between client and designer is what makes a project successful — in terms of both aesthetics and function. But when the bond goes beyond trust to true understanding, the result is magical. ‘We shared the same views on heritage houses as our

Casa Acton, the home of architect Josh FitzGerald and his wife Millie Ashton, is located on spare land surrounding their family’s rural property in Hobart’s remote Acton Park. The compact 53-square-metre cabin was conceived and built by FitzGerald’s

design anthology: How did the idea for this project come about? Jack Lovel: I’d been working commercially and was looking to do a personal project. I knew it had to have an architectural connection, and I was interested in the isolation and eeriness