Issue 74 March 2021

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
Our education spaces have experienced enormous disruption in the past decade, from changing student behaviour, technology and teaching methods to, more recently, empty classrooms while students (and parents) homeschooled during the pandemic. The envi
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Editor — Cassie Hansen MDIA Editorial enquiries — Cassie Hansen +61 3 8699 1000 artichoke@archmedia.com.au Editorial director — Katelin Butler MDIA Editorial team — Nicci Dodanwela, Jude Ellison, Josh Harris, Jacqueline Smith Production — Simone
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Contributors
Leanne Amodeo is an editor, writer and media consultant. A former editor of Monument and Inside magazines, she currently consults on communications, strategy and content, and contributes to architecture, design and visual arts publications internatio
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The Edit
The Dulux 2021 Colour Forecast palettes focus on nostalgia, comfort, security, sustainability and conscious living. The Retreat palette embodies tranquillity and sentimentality with warm whites, brown-based neutrals and dusty blues. The Nourish palet
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Yoko Dining
Brisbane’s iconic Howard Smith Wharves precinct is one of the city’s most competitive strips for hospitality. Set amongst the riverside, offering killer views and a vibrant energy fuelled by a continuous flow of patrons, the precinct offers a prime l
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Liminal
Caves are thought by some to have been the first designed interiors, representing sites of liminal shelter and material transformation. When Hana Hakim, director of interior design practice The Stella Collective, made her first site visit to Liminal,
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Wink Wink
“Melbourne’s largest dance palais” this building’s exterior once declared, and it was, by all accounts, the place to be in 1920s Melbourne. For almost six decades, the site in Greville Street, Prahran was the home of Leggett’s Ballroom, where people
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The Edit
Heads Up is Blu Dot’s modern interpretation of the classic wingback chair. The designers’ goal was to create a quiet space to get away. Two petal-like structures come together to form the chair’s sheltering back and ample seat, which rest atop a soli
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The Post-COVID Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of more than a million lives globally, shifted the white-collar world to remote working and students to remote learning, and triggered the worst peacetime recession in 100 years.1 History reveals that so
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Monash University Building 28
Kennedy Nolan has created a “silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” to quote Patrick Kennedy, in its creation of a new student haven at the Clayton Campus of Monash University. Primarily a space for students of the mathematics, earth atmospheres and environ
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Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre
Ravenswood is a girls’ school on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, in a leafy, tree-lined suburb of grand old homes. It was always recognizable from the adjacent Pacific Highway (a progressively widened residential main street) by its large, lush oval, bey
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In Brief
◥ At Bookshop by Uro, it’s all about architecture and design, so it was important that the shop reflected that ethos. Like many of the shopfronts at the newly minted Collingwood Yards in Melbourne, elegant steel windows set the scene. Taking that cue
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Headcase Hair
Hairdressers are often at the cutting edge of hair styles and trends, yet the design of their salons is often not. Studio Snoop’s makeover of Headcase Hair in Paddington, Sydney, has transformed it from stock standard to fashion forward. With earthy,
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Elliot Bastianon
By the time furniture designer Elliot Bastianon graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2012, it was already apparent he was a name to watch. His rigorous conceptual framing had a level of sophistication rare in the work of a new g
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In Brief
Australian hospitality group Three Blue Ducks has opened its latest venue in a somewhat unexpected location – a surf park in the Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine. Sydney-based Pattern Studio, who designed spaces elsewhere throughout the Urbnsurf preci
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Phoenix Central Park
When receiving the 2020 Australian Institute of Architects Emil Sodersten Award, the highest accolade for interior architecture in any given year, the two architecture practices that authored this project – Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Archi
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Artichoke Magazine Prize
The Artichoke Magazine Prize for design communication is awarded to one graduating student from each institution in Australia and New Zealand that offers interior design/ interior architecture degree courses, and that is a member of the Interior Desi
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Bauhaus Now
From the rooftop galleries of Brisbane’s City Hall, the Museum of Brisbane (MoB) proudly celebrates the art, culture and history of the city. Led by director Renai Grace, the museum galleries, while modest in scale, consistently deliver an impressive

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