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Creative People

Simplicity Outshines Decoration In This Year’s Winning MPavilion Chair Commission

Davidov Architects have taken out the MPaviliion 10 Chair Commission with their strikingly simple Circle|Square design.
A Day In The Life

A Day In The Life With Architect + Grand Designs Australia Host, Peter Maddison

After 12 years hosting the beloved series, Peter Maddison is onto his next chapter, and we joined him to hear all about it!
Words From The Wise

Pushing Against The Status Quo As A Creative Professional, With Designer Timothy Moore

Sibling Architecture director and co-founder Timothy Moore shares refreshing advice about embarking on a career in architecture and design.
Architecture

11 Career Lessons From One Of Australia’s Leading Architects, Kerstin Thompson

Prominent Australian architect Kerstin Thompson shares 11 lessons she's learned across her decades long career.
Studio Visit

A Studio Visit With One Of Australia’s Most Exciting Young Architecture + Design Firms

Husband and wife duo Jesse Bennett and Anne-Marie Campagnolo invite us inside their new Melbourne studio.
Studio Visit

The Brisbane Design Duo With A Human-Centred Approach

Introducing Surroundings, Brisbane's specialist consultancy championing human-centred design.
Architecture

Richard Stampton's 'Quiet Architecture'

Richard Stampton Architects signals a refreshing new approach to Australian architecture.
TDF Talks @Mercedes me

TDF Talks @Mercedes me With Comedian Tim Ross

The patron saint of Australian design and architecture chats to Lucy about iconic buildings, and why we should all care.
TDF Talks @Mercedes me

TDF Talks @Mercedes me With Architect Jeremy McLeod

The founding director of Breathe Architecture, and brains behind Nightingale Housing chats to Lucy about a positive future.
Small Business

Building A Team · Foolscap Studio

Adele Winteridge, founder of award-winning Foolscap Studio, talks balancing people, purpose and profit.
Creative People

Introducing Design Stables

A collective of eight Perth design studios come together with a common belief in the power of collaboration. 
Architecture

Patricia Callan and Peter Bakacs of Modernist Australia

We meet the husband-and-wife duo behind the AMAZING local website advocating for mid-century architecture.
Studio Visit

Fender Katsalidis · 'Working Architecture'

After decades of defining ‘how Australia sees its architecture, and how the world sees Australia,’ the firm has just released its first book.
Creative People

The Mid Century Project · Kalowski House

Tim Ross brings his 'Man About the House' series of shows to Sydney's Dover Heights for 'The Mid Century Project'.
Architecture

Among Buildings

'Excited gasbagging about Melbourne buildings' inspires a unique new architecture book.
Studio Visit

John Wardle

Wisdom shared by one of Australia's great architects, John Wardle.
Studio Visit

Emilio Fuscaldo of Nest Architects

An insightful chat with Melbourne architect Emilio Fuscaldo.
Architecture

Middle Girls School, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar

Stuart Harrison reviews the new Middle Girls School at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar, designed by McBride Charles Ryan.
Architecture

Shell House

Our architecture columnist Stuart Harrison visits one of Melbourne's most distinctive towers.
Architecture

Casba

Our architecture columnist Stuart Harrison visits Casba, a new mixed use development in Waterloo, Sydney.
Architecture

Summer Pavilions: 2015 MPavilion and NGV 2015 Summer Architecture Commission

Our architectural columnist Stuart Harrison compares Melbourne's two new 'summer pavilions'.
Extraordinary Routines

Extraordinary Routines · Clare Cousins

The jam-packed daily routine of Clare Cousins, who runs her own architectural practice in North Melbourne.
Architecture

Wilston Garden House

A classic Queenslander is cleverly updated by Brisbane architectural firm Vokes and Peters.
Architecture

Westgarth House

A beautiful family home in Melbourne’s inner North, designed by local architecture firm Kennedy Nolan.
Architecture

The Barn

A very special heritage renovation project in Hobart, belonging to young architects Alex Nielsen and Liz Walsh.
Architecture

The Shrine of Remembrance

Today our architecture columnist Stuart Harrison visits the recently updated Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.
Architecture

Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at UTS

A iconic new building at the University of Technology, Sydney designed by Frank Gehry.
Architecture

Australian Academy of Science, Canberra

Designed by Roy Grounds in 1959, The Australian Academy of Science is another must-see building in re-emergent Canberra.
Architecture

Melbourne School of Design

Architecture

MPavilion

Architecture

Bill and Christine McCorkell and Family

Architecture

Clare Cousins, Ben Pedersen and Family

Architecture

Mark and Christine Baxter and Family

Architecture

Stuart Harrison · New Suburban

Studio Visit

Paul Owen, Stuart Vokes and Aaron Peters of Owen and Vokes and Peters

Studio Visit

Sue Carr of Carr Design Group

Craft

Anchor Ceramics

Studio Visit

Hannah Tribe of Tribe Studio

Architecture

Emma and Damon Rickards

Studio Visit

Rodney Eggleston & Anne-Laure Cavigneaux of March Studio

Architecture

Assemble

Architecture

Rodney Eggleston & Anne-Laure Cavigneaux

Furniture

Interview - Alexander Lotersztain of Derlot

Architecture

Emilio Fuscaldo of NEST Architects

Architecture

Interview - Clare Cousins

Architecture

River Studios

Architecture

Heidi Dokulil and Richard Peters

Architecture

Greenhouse by Joost in Sydney!

Studio Visit

Derek Swalwell

Studio Visit

Stuart Harrison of RRR's 'The Architects'

Interior Design

Interview - Shareen Joel

Studio Visit

Rachel Nolan of Kennedy Nolan

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