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Bar 100
In most circles, the mention of reincarnation causes eyebrows to rise skywards. While unbelief may be the norm when it comes to the spiritual meaning of the word, in the realm of interior refurbishment...
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The Darling Hotel
Can a leopard change its spots? This question hung over the announcement that Sydney’s Star City Casino would undergo an $870 million redevelopment. Together with a major rebranding, which saw the...
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Goodman Unit B4
The industrial landscape of Sydney may not immediately spring to mind when we think of innovative interiors. If it does, the imagery conjured up is probably that of turn-of-the-century Manhattan-style...
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Jackson Teece Sydney studio
It would seem that designers never wear their credentials as strongly on their sleeves as when they design the spaces in which they realize their work. For small-scale design operations with...
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Clemenger BBDO
One of the things I love most about interiors is their ability to express their autonomy from the architecture that encloses them. In some circumstances this is an essential tactic for success. Located...
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Herbert Smith Freehills
Stacked over thirteen floors of the recently completed ANZ Tower in the Sydney CBD, the offices of the legal monolith Herbert Smith Freehills are afforded spectacular vistas of the city and the...
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Imagination at play: Camperdown Childcare
It is generally accepted that children learn through play. This is not an approach typically followed in architectural design. However, in an attempt to tackle a challenging brief, CO-AP has bucked...
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The total package: Australia Post
When Sydneysiders saw the scaffolding go up around the Cleveland Street headquarters of Australia Post in Redfern, many thought it would be the last time they’d see the salmon-pink pomo pile. It was...
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Poetry in motion: Charles Perkins Centre
Approaching the new Charles Perkins Centre at The University of Sydney, I thought that I had this article already formulated: institutional building, university, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT)....
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Dialogue with Seidler: Horizon Apartment
Iconic architecture and spectacular views do not necessarily guarantee a great interior. All too often clients and designers are content to plonk a sofa in front of a window and stare out at the...
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Nip and tuck: Orama
For an architect or designer, the opportunity to work on a great residential project with supportive clients is a dream. If they get this chance twice, they might have to pinch themselves to believe it...
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Raising eyebrows: House in Double Bay
Nowhere better epitomizes Sydney’s harbour-side living than Double Bay. With its network of leafy European-scale streets and cosmopolitan mixture of retail, hospitality and residential development, it...
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Doubly light: Fairlight houses
Although you might think it should be more common, it is a rare occasion when the architect of a residential project is fortunate enough to also be the developer and client. This scenario allows for a...
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Workplace drama: Novartis Head Office
One of the toughest design challenges that an architectural practice can undertake is to be found dotted throughout the sprawling mass of most metropolises. Commercial buildings in business parks and...
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Urbane palazzo: Deepwater
I try my hardest not to break the commandment “do not covet your neighbour’s house,” but I fail miserably when it comes to Tobias Partners’ Deepwater house in North Bondi. To be truthful, it was not so...
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Paramount by The Office Space
For people outside the design profession, it is often the finished product that most represents what designers do. Yet for those within the professions of architecture and interiors, the reality of...
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Moth to a flame: Little National Hotel
What do a multistorey carpark and a critically endangered moth have to do with innovative hotel design? Stumped for an answer? No, this is not a trick question from an architectural practice...
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Slender splendour: Upsilon House
When I visit houses and apartments for review, I usually ask myself, the designers and the clients, “What was the key factor in the success of the project?” You might assume that the first response...
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Stroke of luck: So 9
Luck isn’t normally something that designers would count on to achieve a successful interior. Careful research, detailing and project management perhaps – but luck? For a new Vietnamese restaurant in...
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Space graft: Dolls House
Good design does not have to equate to grand design. Sometimes, it is the subtle changes to the way people inhabit a space and the effects this has on their daily lives that are the real rewards of...
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