Tabla de contenidos para Issue 83 June 2023 en Artichoke

Issue 83 June – August 2023 We are celebrating an incredible milestone: the twentieth year of the Australian Interior Design Awards, which is a partnership event of Artichoke and the Design Institute of Australia. The awards applaud innovation and excellence in our industry, and this year, we received a record-setting number of entries – nearly 670 – from across our country and around the world. The program has yielded an amazingly rich archive that covers two decades of interior design in Australia. Reflecting on the winners from years past – as well as the thousands of shortlisted projects – gives us insight into our architecture and interior design benchmarks and what they have represented at various times. It also reminds us who we are, where we've been and where we're…

Rafi by Luchetti Krelle Sydney bar and restaurant Rafi features a playful design by Luchetti Krelle that complements its bold Mediterranean menu. Outside, aperol-toned umbrellas invite diners to indulge in spontaneous aperitivo hours; inside, spirited dining arrangements prioritize innovation and comfort with a maximalist mash-up of materials and pigment pairings. Because Rafi inherited an existing shell-part of a tenancy upgrade that remained vacant over lockdown – Luchetti Krelle included structural changes like aluminium box-frame windows to admit light and visually extend the footprint towards the courtyard. A semi-alfresco glasshouse now wraps around the tree-lined entry terrace, while a row of additional tables flanks the main dining room along the terrace at the rear. Inside, the open kitchen forms a nucleic hub with the bar directly opposite. Between them, varied seating…

Zucci Salon by Breathe Working to a brief inspired by wellness spaces like spas, saunas and yoga studios, Breathe designed Zucci Salon in South Melbourne as a space where customers can relax. The pointof-sale zone is centred around a lush tree, which has been integrated into the custom cutting bench, A long pill-shaped piece in blackened steel, cement and timber composite panels, it forms the salon's grounding centrepiece and also embodies the material palette. To align with the sustainability-minded approach of both client and designer, Breathe chose natural materials that are simple, durable and non-toxic, like floating timber shelves to display the salon's stock of Aveda products. One unusual design feature is the colour bar. Typically, this space is located back-of-house – but Breathe moved it to the front to…

Premier Award for Australian Interior Design supported by: Award for Workplace Design supported by: Award for Sustainability Advancement supported by: Award Premier Award for Australian Interior Design / Sustainability Advancement / Workplace Design Designer Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Design statement — Campbell House, in Sydney, is the adaptive reuse of an 1890s early Federation house set within a Heritage Conservation area. The integrated design approach of architecture-heritage-interior stitched together unifies the contemporary office use and the original building. This project is an exemplar environmental design that is based on natural light, passive ventilation, material selection and electricity generation all facilitated by the new contemporary intervention. A glazed roof spans across the two existing roof ridges on the north of the site. Solar blades overhead absorb the northern sun via the use…

Award Retail Design Designer Trower Falvo Architects with Alessio Fini Design statement — The Postal Hall is the grand space at the heart of Perth's State Buildings complex. Informed by “kite” componentry, the design comprises a centralized, demountable bookshop. Its construction and expression suggest both permanence and temporality: a bookshop conceived as a central hub, grounded in the public realm. The ambition of the project was to challenge the conventional thinking of a commercial bookshop. As part of the ongoing and ever-changing public realm in the post-pandemic era, it is no longer enough for an interior design solution to be solely a static visual artefact or simply a “flexible” solution. It must be agile, adaptable, and intrinsically linked to its context to form part of an ongoing sustainable civic agenda.…

Award Residential Design Designer Madeleine Blanchfield Architects Award for Residential Design supported by: Design statement — Nine-Square Bondi is a breakaway project curating space, memory, place, experience and objects. A challenging brief results in a series of uplifting, light-filled volumes that engage in a playful way with the vibrant local community and the client's evocations of recent years in Hong Kong. This unique project is a curation of space, memory, place, experience and objects. It expands on typical interior design practice through its holistic approach to the detailed physical and philosophical brief. It is a dynamic and complex series of interior volumes and gardens with an external presentation. Passive solar design is fundamental to all Madeleine Blanchfield Architects’ work. Orientation, sun-shading, cross ventilation, thermal mass and all available applied technologies…

Award Emerging Interior Design Practice Award for Emerging Interior Design Practice supported by: Practice profile — Jared Webb established J.AR Office in 2021 at age 33, with the ambition to positively contribute to Brisbane's built and social environments, one memorable and contextual space at a time. He conceived the practice on the back of Oxlade Apartment, which presented a valuable opportunity to revitalize apartment living in Brisbane, and to set a precedent for this often-undervalued era of building – a late-1960s apartment block. Jared has a master's degree in architectural design from Queensland University of Technology. He honed his craft with Richards and Spence for nearly 10 years and was instrumental in the design and delivery of several acclaimed interior and architectural projects. J.AR Office has completed three projects. Three…

Last year, the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) advocacy work in support of the interior design profession, uncovered a fundamental problem with the skill level listed in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). Since then, the DIA has raised its concern with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which oversees ANZSCO together with Statistics New Zealand and the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. ANZSCO is an integrated framework for storing, organizing and reporting occupation-related information in both statistical and client-oriented applications, such as matching job seekers to job vacancies and providing career information. ANZSCO codes are referenced in courses and used in ABS censuses and surveys. Ever wondered why a design occupation is not visible in drop down boxes? It needs an…

For many people, domestic architecture fades into the background – but for artist Esther Stewart, the field is a treasure trove of inspiration and inquiry. With a practice that comprises diverse materials, scales and typologies, Esther has developed a distinctive visual language that abstracts elements of domestic architecture. Her vibrant compositions reference building elements like awnings and balustrades in bold geometries, forms and colours. Esther has always been interested in making things. She struggled to decide between pursuing art or architecture at university, ultimately studying sculpture at the Victorian College of Arts and earning a bachelor with first-class honours. But architecture still plays a vital role in her career: “That freedom to explore a second field of reference is where I started getting a sense of the work I would…

Award for Hospitality Design supported by: Award Hospitality Design Designer Dion Hall Design statement Her is a restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by French boulevard bistros that serves modern European fare and aperitivos on the ground floor of the newly reimagined venue – a wonderland of four distinct venues celebrating food, drink, art, design and music in a Melbourne heritage federation warehouse. The space is stabilized by a delicately balanced material and lighting palette, which effortlessly evokes the “modern French” concept while the use of design and art nods to the urban culture of its Melbourne laneway location. Commissioned for Her, a 10-metre abstract painting by Eleanor Louise Butt in which form and colour intertwine and bounce off one another sits above the bar. On the opposite wall, there is…

Award Public Design Designer SANAA (Design Architect) & Architectus (Executive Architect) Award for Public Design supported by: Design statement — The extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales building designed by SANAA is the centrepiece of the once-in-a-generation transformation of the Art Gallery of NSW on Gadigal Country overlooking Sydney Harbour. By integrating art, architecture and landscape, the design has delivered an art museum experience distinctive to Sydney. The gallery pavilions, roof terraces, and rammed earth walls straddle the interior and exterior to create a unique visitor experience. The two rammed earth walls, 250 linear metres in total, are a prominent feature emerging from the ground at the southeast extremity of the site and continuing across the landscape through the interior and out to the northwest where they…

AIDA 2023 Piccolo Palazzo Award Residential Decoration Designer JC HQ Design statement — Piccolo Palazzo is an inner-city sanctuary for a stylish client going through some life-changing personal events. Enhancing the wonderful natural light, a combination of considered materiality and an adventurous colour palette transports you to a summer holiday in Venice. The Piccolo Palazzo is a genuine example of using what you have to maximum effect – proving that highvolume projects don't have to be bland, but that through good design, they can be remarkable, bespoke, and affordable. The client trusted us to provide her with a truly individual space that reflected her style and allowed flexibility for her growing collections. The space serves as an informal photography studio where the client can work, rest, enjoy cups of tea, and…

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AIDA 2023 Sydney Modern Gallery Shop Award Retail Design Designer Akin Atelier Design statement — The Gallery Shop by Akin Atelier is an immersive resin installation of fluid contours developed with surfboard designer Hayden Cox. Located in the entrance pavilion of the Art Gallery of NSW's Sydney Modern building designed by Japanese architects SANAA with Architectus, the Gallery Shop is a luminous interior of shifting perspectives and refractions of light. Akin Atelier conceived the space as a volume, which draws the intimate touchpoints of the gallery and incidental structures of The Domain into its reflection. The design responds in counterpoise to the large and open volumes of the new gallery, which cascade down the landscape, creating focal points of four key precincts: Woolloomooloo, Potts Point, Central Sydney, and The Domain and…