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Like a beautiful flower hiding the deadliest of poisons, Nike Savvas’ work lures her audience with insouciant colours, childhood memories and a startling aesthetic of architectural harmony. Yet, it is always a snare to chase out the deeper meaning. Her work for Superposition of Three Types continues her innately subversive exploration of disillusionment, with a site-specific work Police and Thieves. Realised as a series of brightly coloured ribbons suspended from floor to ceiling, the seeming structure is of walls suggesting containment and delineation. Yet there is nothing solid or permanent here. Instead it is the concept of separation and the difference between imagined boundaries and their permeable nature that is at play. Moreover, the glittering wall transmits a moiré effect that is wholly seductive. “The work comprises two parallel screens…

MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK MELBOURNE, 16 – 26 MARCH In a joint initiative, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Victorian Government have announced a four-year Victorian Design Program to commence in 2017. Ostensibly, existing design programs such as the NGV Architecture Commission, with this year’s project by M@ STUDIO Architects, will be absorbed into the new program under the broader banner of Victorian Design. The aim, however, is to have a year-round program of design events with Melbourne Design Week as the culminating jewel in the crown. Curated by industry luminaries including Claire Beale, national director, Design Institute of Australia; Alison Cleary, Victorian Chapter manager, Australian Institute of Architects; and Susan Tait, co-founder and creative director, TAIT. TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA: SPECTRUM GINZA, TOKYO, SHISEIDO GALLERY, UNTIL 26 MARCH More an installation…

Part of a worldwide repositioning of QIC, Eastland is intended to be an authentic and engaging cosmopolitan hub, designed and built to synchronise and evolve with the community it serves. The hidden arcade of the Beauty Garden is the jewel of Eastland. Universal explored the intersection of nature, fragrance and the fresh and raw materials used in beauty products to develop the concept of walking under a covered canopy of weeping flowers. Universal collaborated with UK artist Rebecca Louise Law, to create a dramatic floral installation across the full extent of the vaulted ceiling, utilising 150,000 natural dried flowers sourced in Australia. As an extensive refurbishment of an existing space, Universal made use of the existing skylight so that dappled natural light reaches through the canopy. The crisp white interior…

Revolutionary, award-winning and always beautiful, MAXIMUM pressed porcelain panels are the future of architectural surfaces. This uniquely large (3000 by 1500 millimetres), all natural product has a profile of just six millimetres. Developed and made in Italy by Graniti Fiandre, using leading technology, this outstanding range is beautiful, environmentally responsible, durable and versatile. This innovative pressed porcelain technology has changed the face of architectural surfaces. It not only allows the development of unparalleled panel size with a fine profile, but also delivers superior performance –including heightened strength, high resistance to scratching, etching and heat, plus low-maintenance requirements. The reduced thickness allows much larger sizes, while cutting, drilling and grouting solutions remain commensurate with much smaller slabs. From a weight perspective, the reduced profile exponentially increases use from floors and table…

“...we needed to design in a way that provided for recreation and lots of personal interaction, as well as long hours of operation.” Ben Mitchell practice - Those Architects project - Ansarada Office, Chicago location - Chicago, US With the company’s expansion into Chicago, the interior has taken on a decidedly cool flavour. In fact, it is possibly the coolest M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) financial data services office in the world. But that’s not as surprising as it sounds. With Ansarada the first to develop an M&A game app, this is a company clearly thinking outside the box. The architecture/client pairing then is equally impressive with Those Architects’ design for Ansarada taking out Gold in the American Architecture Prize for 2016 (Architectural Design/ Commercial Architecture). As a work environment…

The 13th annual inside Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) was celebrated on 18 November in Sydney at the Dockside Pavilion, Darling Harbour. The weather was suitably balmy as more than 600 of Australia’s leading designers, architects and object makers crowded the venue to celebrate the event with Pommery champagne, Balvenie whisky and delicious canapés. The proceedings began with a visual roll call of all shortlisted entries to the accompaniment of classical music from Accent Strings, while guests took their seats. Melissa Bright from MAKE Architecture was first to speak, representing this year’s jury, and she commented on the high calibre of entries and the difficulties of choosing winners in such an illustrious field of projects and objects. Master of Ceremonies Peter Colquhoun commenced the official proceedings and during the next…

Writer’s house is an alteration to an existing orange brick veneer residence that was designed in the late 1960s by Michael R E Feldhagen. The house was originally built for the grandparents of the current owners who were Jewish Holocaust survivors and immigrated to Australia a few years prior to building the house. The home’s existing fabric has been carefully set in contrast to the contemporary furniture, joinery and materials, and highlights the existing while simultaneously celebrating the new. A new large ‘party’ deck bounded on either side by two black aluminium perforated screens solves a practical issue of privacy but, more importantly, extends the internal areas to create a more flexible internal/external cohesion of space. The existing dark corridor and foyer areas have been reimagined as a light-filled, plywood-lined…

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Gillian Serisier: You’re working on a lot of projects at any given moment, but what are you working on now? Barbara Flynn: At the moment, I’m focused on the City of Sydney projects for the city centre as their curator, with Hany Armanious, Junya Ishigami and Tracey Emin. The City of Sydney (via Claire Morgan and Jennifer Faddy) is doing a splendid job of delivering them and I’m involved in those meetings with a strong emphasis on the relationship with the artists. If there are any problems that arise I am the person asked to speak with the artists and to try to come up with a solution. Sydney has become known as the place for art-in-architecture projects. I know this is the case from the high percentage of uptake…

Nothing has been left to chance; everything is designed for the balance of aesthetic pleasure and function. practice - Sara Folch Interior Design Studio project - Agora location - Barcelona, Spain When the sun shines in Barcelona it’s a wonderful place to be. Throngs of people walk the streets and sit at cafés sipping wine and Aperol Spritz, while tourists crowd the sights, enjoying Antoni Gaudí’s fantastical architecture. As the capital of Catalonia, in Spain’s north, Barcelona is a city that perfectly blends the old and the new, for as much as heritage is revered, modernism is embraced. This is the city to view the works of Picasso and Miró as much as it is to visit Roman ruins and walk centuries-old cobbled streets. It’s obvious that design really…

COEN YOUNG: GENERAL IMAGES FOX/JENSEN GALLERY, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND 17 NOVEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2016 GROUP EXHIBITION KRONENBERG WRIGHT ARTISTS PROJECTS, SYDNEY 25 NOVEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2016 A surface so like a mirror that its silvery presence reflects the room and viewer in a distorted and eerie fashion, Coen Young’s paintings are more daguerreotype than paintbrush presence. Yet, it is this fine line between photography and painting that Young explores that makes this current body of work so compelling. Exhibiting concurrently in Sydney and Auckland, the work utilises a methodology that has evolved over the past two years from First Mirrors, 2014 (William Wright Artists Projects), through Studies for a Mirror (three solo exhibitions: Wright Artists Projects; Jensen Gallery; and MOP). The mirror works have also been included in…

01 | IRON CHAIN (MOSCOW), CUSTOM SPORTSTER (HARLEY DAVIDSON) It’s apparent we’re living in a time of unprecedented waste. From fashion to electronics to interiors to vehicles, it seems like very few things are built to last. It’s one of the reasons I love custom motorbike culture. It’s a unique skill to take an often ‘obsolete’ machine and repurpose it into a mobile and usable work of art. Image Leonid Sorokin. 02 | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ANIMAL CRACK BOX (CATSUP PLATE RECORDS) My workdays are ‘soundtracked’ by a fairly eclectic musical mix, yet one of the bands I’m most inspired by is Animal Collective. Animal Crack Box is a three-LP collection of weird, experimental noise tracks, which had a release of only 1000 copies. My own copy sat unopened for quite…

Designed to intrigue the senses and invite touch, the latest carpet tile collection from Shaw Contract exaggerates texture and natural elements to create opulent sensory variation. With a visual aesthetic akin to the Nordic landscape, Shaw Contract’s Extraordinary Collection is as beautifully varied as that vast wilderness of bluest ice and deepest forest. Delivering an exceedingly beautiful, richly textured and constantly shifting scape of nuance and subtlety, it is as sumptuous underfoot as it is to the eye. Pursuing a micro to macro rugged feel, the designers wanted to create something that invited touch. With the optimisation of a natural palette, where tonal variation enhances the relief and variability of each tile within the three surface finishes, there is also room for play, formality or single tile implementation. Boasting a…

These windows are actually three pivoting glass doors that open to provide ventilation in summer and privacy for diners when open. practice - Architects EAT project - The Crux & Co. location - Albert Park, Australia Close to Melbourne city and across the road from Albert Park Lake is a small precinct of commercial buildings and multi-residential apartments in Albert Road. Pedestrians jostle with cars to traverse the intersection and, through its close proximity to the thoroughfares of St Kilda Road and Queens Road, it’s always a busy spot. However, this hub of industry is fast becoming a destination of choice for Melbourne’s foodie elite with the establishment of chic cafés that cater to a discerning clientele. The latest café to open its bespoke doors is The Crux & Co.,…