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Luke Fry squeezes extension behind bungalow in Melbourne

April 19, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Living room interior of Ripponlea House by Luke Fry with window seat and grey couch

At the back of a narrow Edwardian bungalow in Melbourne, the studio of Australian architect Luke Fry has added a contemporary extension with greyscale interiors. The semi-detached bungalow, called Ripponlea House, is set down a tree-lined street in the titular Melbourne suburb and belongs to a young family. The owners initially wanted to turn their home

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Sibling creates pop-up creative hub in Melbourne’s soon-to-be-demolished Hanover House

April 18, 2022 Amy Frearson 0
Hanover House fourth floor

Australian studio Sibling Architecture has used repurposed materials and mobile furniture to revamp Hanover House in Melbourne, allowing creatives to occupy the building before it is demolished. The studio created a variety of spaces within the seven-storey building, which is set to be torn down to make way for STH BNK by Beulah – a 356-metre

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Revival Projects’ Zero Footprint Repurposing hub saves construction waste from landfill

March 24, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Zero Footprint Repurposing hub by Revival Projects

Australian building company Revival Projects has turned a warehouse that is set for redevelopment into a hub for repurposing construction and demolition waste, which is open to the public during Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week describes the Zero Footprint Repurposing hub as one of the world’s first free hubs dedicated to the storage and

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Angelo Candalepas and Associates set to design Australia’s largest art and design gallery

March 18, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of the gallery at night

A design with dramatic arches and a spherical atrium by Australian studio Angelo Candalepas and Associates is the winning proposal for the new National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary in Melbourne. The art and design gallery, which is intended to become a landmark for Victoria, will total 30,000 square metres and measure over 40 metres tall.

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Theatrical curtains drape around Dame bar by Bergman & Co

March 17, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
Pink interior of Dame bar and restaurant

A “rather fabulous” fictitious muse influenced the design of this richly decorated bar and restaurant in Melbourne by local interiors studio Bergman & Co. Dame recently opened in the IM Pei-designed Collins Place, a mixed-use complex in the East End of the city. The concrete development was completed in 1981, so Bergman & Co looked

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Danielle Brustman creates yellow highlights in sunny Melbourne hair salon

February 14, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Mitch Studio hair salon by Danielle Brustman

Yellow-tinted glass partitions and droplet-shaped mirrors give a unique personality to Australian hair salon Mitch Studio, renovated by interior designer Danielle Brustman. Mitch Studio is located in a double-storey 1950s building in the Melbourne suburb of Ashburton, in a shopfront that had already operated as a hairdressers for a number of years. Brustman’s client wanted

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Conrad Architects completes marble-clad home overlooking Melbourne skyline

January 31, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Marble-clad house

A roof terrace and pool with views over Melbourne’s skyline feature at the Grange Residence, a marble-clad house by Australian studio Conrad Architects. Located in the suburb of Toorak, the four-bedroom dwelling was commissioned by interior designer Lauren Tarrant, who also created the home’s interiors. Melbourne-based Conrad Architects described the Grange Residence as a “split

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Studio Goss exposes concrete shell of converted Melbourne apartment

November 23, 2021 Natasha Levy 0
White Togo sofa and armchair in living room of Roseneath Street apartment by Studio Goss

Hidden off-form concrete walls have come to the fore in this minimalist Melbourne apartment conversion, with interiors designed by local firm Studio Goss. Located in the city’s Clifton Hill suburb, Roseneath Street apartment is set on the ground level of a 1970s commercial building that has recently been adapted for residential use. As the client

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Akin Atelier designs Camilla and Marc store in Melbourne as “homage to the sense of touch”

November 17, 2021 Natasha Levy 0
Plaster interiors of Camilla and Marc store in Melbourne by Akin Atelier

Plaster, travertine and pearly onyx are some of the materials that design studio Akin Atelier has used to form the tactile interiors of this womenswear store in Melbourne, Australia. Camilla and Marc takes over the ground floor of a 19th-century terrace in Armadale, an affluent suburb of Melbourne that’s home to a number of luxurious

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Wowowa uses colourful accents to update 60s home in Melbourne

October 31, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
The roof of the home is scalloped

A scalloped metal roof and brightly coloured accents feature in a renovation and extension of a 1960s home in Melbourne by local architecture studio Wowowa, which has been shortlisted in the residential rebirth category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Designed to express the client’s own personal aesthetic the renovation, called Pony, adds four new bedrooms and

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