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Ritz & Ghougassian uses bricks and Australian wood inside Melbourne’s Prior cafe

October 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Prior cafe in Melbourne features brick-lined interiors

The rustic materiality of this Melbourne cafe designed by architecture studio Ritz & Ghougassian is meant to reflect the fuss-free dishes on the menu. Prior is situated along the lively high street of Melbourne’s Thornbury suburb, taking over a building that once served as an industrial printing house. When Ritz & Ghougassian were brought on board

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Simon Pole and Annabel Dundas design their own home in Melbourne

August 8, 2020 India Block 0

Design director Simon Pole and graphic designer Annabel Dundas have built their own home, named River House, in Melbourne around their collection of art, sculpture and furniture. Set on the bank of the Yarra River, the house was also designed around outdoor activities for the couple’s children, with a swimming pool, basketball court and boat

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Biasol channels 1980s nostalgia inside Melbourne restaurant Billie Buoy

July 30, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Billie Buoy restaurant in Melbourne designed by Biasol

Design studio Biasol clashed hot pink and midnight blue to form the bold interiors of this 1980s-inspired restaurant in Melbourne, Australia. Billie Buoy occupies a corner plot in Melbourne’s Essendon neighbourhood and has been designed by local studio Biasol as a “1980s character who was radical, hip and a little offbeat”. To capture the mood

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Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne is arranged around a planted courtyard

July 18, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne designed by Studio Four

A courtyard dotted with olive trees sits at the heart of this grey-brick home in Melbourne that Studio Four has created for its own co-director. Ruxton Rise Residence has been built for Studio Four’s co-director, Sarah Henry, and sits on a greenfield site in Beaumaris – an affluent suburb of Melbourne that’s host to a number

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Winter Architecture contrasts black facade of Melbourne townhouse with minimal white interiors

July 10, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
South Yarra Townhouse in Melbourne refurbished by Winter Architecture

Beyond the black facade of this 1990s townhouse in Melbourne’s South Yarra neighbourhood are a series of simple, white-painted living spaces designed by Winter Architecture. The owners of the South Yarra Townhouse had come to dislike its visually busy interiors and instead wanted a minimalist home “where they wouldn’t see the operations of domestic family

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Bates Smart completes skyscraper that’s only 11 and a half metres wide

July 9, 2020 India Block 0

Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has built a skinny skyscraper named Collins House in Melbourne that’s 184 metres tall and just 11 and a half metres wide at its slimmest point. The apartment building has a footprint the size of a single netball court and has a height-to-width ratio of 16:1. According to Bates Smart this makes

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Studio Edwards arranges yellow steel beams to form modular work pods

June 19, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Sackville Studios by Studio Edwards

Studio Edwards has created a series of modular yellow-framed work pods to turn a vacant warehouse space in Melbourne into an office. The pods by Studio Edwards are designed to accommodate groups of up to four members of staff and are constructed from bright-yellow steel beams. These beams can be bolted together and taken apart

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Studio Bright extends Ruckers Hill House to make room for rest and play

June 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Ruckers Hill House by Studio Bright

The two-floor extension that Studio Bright has added to this Edwardian family home in Melbourne includes fun features like a theatre-style sitting room and a pool that resembles a Roman bath. The Edwardian-era home is perched on the peak of Ruckers Hill in Melbourne’s Northcote suburb, looking out over the city. Inside it had a

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Wood Marsh tops curving concrete walls with zinc disc for house in Melbourne

May 24, 2020 India Block 0

Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as “a sculpture to live within”, with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. Set in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak, the house features galleries for the resident’s art collection and a living room with a sunken conversation pit. Wood Marsh took inspiration

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Little Sky ice cream shop in Melbourne aims to capture the “theatre of gelato”

March 28, 2020 Ali Morris 0
Little Sky Gelateria by Ewert Leaf

Customers can get a glimpse of gelato being made inside this ice cream shop in Melbourne, which local studio Ewert Leaf has completed in shades of blue and pink. Located within a late 19th-century building in the coastal suburb of Brighton, the 140-square-metre Little Sky gelateria has been designed by Ewert Leaf to display the

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