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(1) One Hot Yoga and Pilates Sydney Robert Mills Architects and Interior Designers has created a new studio for One Hot Yoga and Pilates across two levels of a 1930s Art Deco building in Potts Point, Sydney. As a dedicated space for movement and mindfulness, the studio is heated to core body temperature, and has finishings in soft greys, pastels and washed oak to promote calmness. There are hints of the building’s rich past in elements such as the pitched roof with steel frame windows, set against contemporary materials. photography MARK ROPER — Robert Mills Architects and Interior Designers robmills.com.au (2) Percalle range by Bella Casa Linen Based in Melbourne, Bella Casa Linen creates bed and table linen, with a focus on quality chemical-free fabrics. The Percalle 250 range is…

(1) Canberra Vibe Hotel by Bates Smart The new Canberra Vibe Hotel by Bates Smart is located adjacent to the Canberra airport. The design is based on circular geometries inspired by Walter Burley Griffen’s plan for Canberra and responds to the site’s multiple approach and vantage points. The circular theme is manifested throughout the architecture and is picked up again in the furnishings and fittings. A centrepiece of the design is the full-height circular atrium, with alternating black and white bands creating a dramatic point of focus in the entertaining bar and restaurant area on the ground floor. Bates Smart batessmart.com (2) Saccharomyces Beer Cafe by May Tree Studios In a semi-enclosed food court in Brisbane by Stephen Cameron Architects, May Tree Studios has adapted a space alongside other food…

When travelling through Tokyo, the two faces of the city fascinated me. Some streets were a cacophony of visual and audible noise; the sound of pachinko machines competing with J-pop on loudspeaker, complex networks of overcrowded footpaths with a collage of advertising signage clouding the streetscape. Yet interspersed within these outpourings of stimulation were intimate pockets of quiet restraint, where humility and simplicity were deeply revered. Tetsujin, a restaurant designed by Architects EAT that is half sushi train and half Japanese barbecue grill, draws from these opposing characters, creating two distinctly different dining experiences. Although pinned together by a central shared kitchen, the quiet, minimal sushi train restaurant is a markedly different experience to the dark and theatrical barbecue grill. Given the sounds and smells generated by the barbecue grill,…

Winner Premier Award for Australian Interior Design Designer Chenchow Little project Darling Point Apartment Darling Point NSW 2027 design practice Chenchow Little Studio 3, 151 Foveaux Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 +61 2 9357 4333 chenchowlittle.com project team Tony Chenchow, Stephanie Little, Kate McCowage, Joshua Mulford photography Peter Bennetts Design statement This apartment fitout seeks to capture the faceting geometry of the original 1970s apartment building to give it a renewed life. The client’s extensive artwork collection is innovatively displayed with flexible joinery, allowing the client a curatorial role with its display. The apartment is designed for “empty nesters” downsizing from a large, formal family home to a small apartment. The client requested a degree of formality but also sought something novel and surprising to the interior. As a significant…

Winner Interior Design Impact Designer Cox Rayner Architects project Queensland Museum Refurbishment Corner Grey & Melbourne Streets South Brisbane Qld 4101 design practice Cox Rayner Architects Level 2, 2 Edward Street Brisbane Qld 4000 +61 7 3210 0844 cox.com.au project team Richard Coulson, Ali Farmer, Brett Miles, Arlyn Mangabat, Jessie Oliver, Ricky Hill, Zile Zolte, James McIntyre, Kate Pottinger, Belinda Williamson, Stephen Gunn, Andrew Nash, Megan Mackenzie, Julian Farrell photography Christopher Frederick Jones Design statement This refurbishment encompassed a dramatic transformation of the spatial, functional and wayfinding experience of the Queensland Museum, while simultaneously respecting the integrity of the original brutalist architecture. Cox Rayner Architects achieved all objectives using one material – blackbutt – crafted into a continuous installation of multiple elements, wended from one end to the other. The…

Winner Public Design Designer BVN project Our Lady of the Assumption 1a Hamilton Street East North Strathfield NSW 2137 +61 2 9764 1842 olanorthstrathfield.catholic.edu.au design practice BVN Level 11, 255 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 +61 2 8297 7200 bvn.com.au project team Fiona Young, Bill Dowzer, Knut Menden, Jamie Yoo photography John Gollings Design statement This is a twenty-first-century teaching space where the traditional classroom is replaced by light-filled spaces for teachers and children to move around as they engage in learning. By responding to the environmental imperative to creatively reuse old buildings, this new primary school is a model and leader in pedagogical design. A challenge was turning the unattractive concrete building into an inspirational educational space. The overarching design provides flexible, open learning spaces, using materials that create…

Winner Residential Design Designer Chenchow Little project Darling Point Apartment Darling Point NSW 2027 design practice Chenchow Little Studio 3, 151 Foveaux Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 +61 2 9357 4333 chenchowlittle.com project team Tony Chenchow, Stephanie Little, Kate McCowage, Joshua Mulford photography Peter Bennetts Design statement This apartment fitout seeks to capture the faceting geometry of the original 1970s apartment building to give it a renewed life. The client’s extensive artwork collection is innovatively displayed with flexible joinery, allowing the client a curatorial role with its display. The apartment is designed for “empty nesters” downsizing from a large, formal family home to a small apartment. The client requested a degree of formality but also sought something novel and surprising to the interior. As a significant benefactor to the Australian…

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The world of retail is evolving and reaching new heights. As our desire to be fulfilled as consumers grows alongside our increasing demand for purchaser satisfaction, retailers are exploring new ways of enticing clientele. Understanding customer psychology is one element to maintaining success in a competitive market, and retailers are increasingly looking to architects and retail and brand designers to design engaging spaces that cater to a specific target market. The twentieth edition of Artichoke Night School, titled “Talking Shop: Retail design that works,” was held in February at Space Furniture’s Melbourne showroom, where three guest speakers discussed their experience working within retail design. Travis Walton of Travis Walton Architecture, Mark Landini of Landini Associates and Annie Abbott of shoe brand Habbot each discussed retail design in the context of…

The story of sheepskin and lifestyle product company Yellow Earth is an unconventional one, and as such the creation of this new prototype store is the first chapter in the maturing of a brand that has been building its reputation internationally since 1991. Started in Victoria, Yellow Earth has over the past couple of decades exported its product successfully to China, with a broad network of stores on the mainland. In an atypical move, this highly successful Australian export business is now leveraging its international gains to create a more heavily branded, premium and refined retail experience back here in Australia, as a precursor to renewing its international properties. This was the task taken on by Tandem Design Studio: not just designing another store, but the creation of an expressive…

Sonda Banney — Architectus [ Qld ] Sonda Banney has practiced interior design for more than twenty years, gaining experience on a diverse portfolio of project types. Sonda was a practice director at BVN and headed up the Queensland interiors team. In 2004 she established Design Nest with Paul Jones, working for clients such as Accor and Hamilton Island. In 2014 Sonda joined Architectus Brisbane, where she has established a growing interiors team. Mardi Doherty — Doherty Design Studio [ Vic ] Doherty Design Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice based in Melbourne. The studio creates tailored residential and commercial environments from concept through to completion. Mardi Doherty’s local and international portfolio includes concepts and fitouts for fashion brands Flower, Paul & Joe and Diesel, and an interior for Madonna’s…

Winner Installation Design Designer Stukel Stone project My Zinc Bed/Blood Bank Ensemble Theatre 78 McDougall Street Kirribilli NSW 2061 +61 2 9929 0644 ensemble.com.au design practice Stukel Stone Suite 202 59 Great Buckingham Street Redfern NSW 2016 +61 2 9698 2591 stukelstone.com project team Tobhiyah Stone Feller, Daniel Stukel Beasly, Jeff Taplin Tighe, Nicholas Higgins, Tim Hope Ensemble Theatre Company: Simon Boyd, Anthony Skuse, Mark Kilmurry photography Clare Hawley and Tobhiyah Feller Design statement My Zinc Bed/Blood Bank is a set design for the Ensemble Theatre’s 2015 season. Minimal in style, the set is finely calibrated to suit two separate productions. A seemingly simple composition of levels and ramps allowed complex scenes to play out, graced by planes of coloured light. Theatre budgets demand resourceful choices and clever design thinking…

Winner Residential Decoration Designer Studiobird project Theodore Treehouse Toorak Vic 3142 design practice Studiobird PO Box 8120 Armadale Vic 3143 +61 411 274 517 studiobird.com.au project team Matthew Bird photography Peter Bennetts Design statement Theodore Treehouse is an inner-city modernist apartment transformed into an exaggerated and beguiling residence fit for its eccentric Bunnings-venerating and pleasure-seeking bachelor. Architect Ernest Fooks would be distressed. His 1962 modernist apartment block, in affluent Toorak, Melbourne has been secretively transmuted into a bedazzled paradox of layered and aggrandized interventions. Orchestrated by its tenant bachelor, this one-hundred-square-metre treetop retreat fashions a “do-it-yourself” enterprise of bespoke toolbox installations and incongruous material reconfigurations. This project throws caution and perceived spatial fashions to the wind. By meshing the eclectic desires, lifestyle and dreamworlds of the client-practitioner into a spatial…

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“The traditional office has been changing. People are coming and going, plugging in who knows how many devices into a preset workstation and expecting everything to work seamlessly. That’s the requirement.” – Robert Volek, designer for Humanscale. The Humanscale design team re-imagined the impractical, standalone USB docking station with a sleek, efficient and more accessible docking solution that eliminates cable clutter. M/Connect, like all Humanscale products, was designed with a focus on purpose, function and ergonomics. The result is a unique, all-in-one monitor arm base and USB 3.0 dual-video docking station designed to support workers in an active, adaptive workspace. M/Connect improves staff comfort, health and productivity, while offering instant use of all devices through DisplayLink’s universal Plug and Display connection. M/Connect is at the heart of the effortlessly connected,…

(1) Maison&Objet Asia 2016 The Maison&Objet Asia fair in Singapore in March was an opportunity to experience the best of current design in a broader Asian and global context. Hamish Guthrie and Paul Hecker (pictured) from Melbourne-based design firm Hecker Guthrie discussed “The Considered Space, the Considered Experience” on day one of the fair’s Interior Design & Lifestyle Summit. Here, they choose their top six products from this year’s fair. Maison&Objet Asia maison-objet.com/en (2) Cigar lounge chair An ideal lounge chair, Cigar is characterized by a solid-oak frame with sensual curved lines that reflect the mastery of Akar de Nissim’s artisans. Tone-on-tone leather upholstery gives the chair a strong presence, while brass feet add detail and elegance. The majority of Akar de Nissim’s production takes place north of Ho Chi…