Australian Design Review

ASPECT Studios, Carr and Plus Architecture all feature in this month’s round up of industry appointments in Australian architecture and interior design. The DIA also revealed its Hall of Fame 2024 this month and Buchan celebrated a studio milestone in Brisbane. View the fresh faces on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gmfp9sMR

Mumbai-born, London-based designer Nipa Doshi has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission, a major series inviting globally renowned designers to create groundbreaking new work for the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection. Find out more about her commission on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gPKvajrJ Portrait of Nipa Doshi. Photographer Rodrigo Carmeuga

ADR is very excited to get to know the dynamic interior and product designers who make up the 30UNDER30 cohort for 2024/2025. We kick off our profile series this year with Samantha Wardle, co-founder of the Sydney-based interior design practice Some Studio. Wardle grew up in a Hong Kong high-rise apartment building, where her love for interiors and architecture began. A difficult three years with chronic illness later opened her eyes to the need for low-toxic spaces. Read the Q&A on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gP4swcBA

For Kate Stokes, one half of Melbourne-based furniture and lighting design studio Coco Flip, the best design objects are those that tell stories. As part of our Designer Selects series, Stokes shares the international and local design pieces she turns to for their colour, playfulness and innate character, including these stunning bookends by NYC sculptor Shane Gabier, and the Dancer lamp designed by Coco Flip. https://lnkd.in/gV8wx-7C

With entries to IDEA 2025 opening next Monday 3 March, we thought we'd check in with last year's winners to see how their trophies look in their new homes. 2024 set off a new era of trophy design for IDEA. In collaboration with Axolotl, acclaimed product designer Adam Goodrum transformed the look and feel of the trophy. Take a look at the finished product in the studios of last year's winners, including Alcami Architecture, Carr, Dr Natalie Wright, Benjamin Jay Shand, ZETR and Splinter Society Architecture on ADR: https://lnkd.in/giXAHVWV

DKO Architecture has designed a sun-soaked steak restaurant at Saltlick, the architecture and interior design studio’s first built project in Bali. “We designed this space to come alive with the sunset,” DKO director Michael Drescher says. Read the project feature on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gjJJPWFR

Perth Design Week has today unveiled its 2025 program, featuring more than 70 events across Boorloo (Perth) and its surrounds. Read more on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gfaxbUKr

Architecture is an expression. It can act as an explanation of its surroundings or contradict and defy them. Whichever the case, it articulates a sense of place – an imprint of identity. The evolution of Australian design identity goes back 60,000 years with First Nations Australian's deep relationship with the land. Learn how those traditional design principles, rooted in sustainability and cultural narratives, continue to inform contemporary architecture on ADR https://lnkd.in/gzfPJpWD #architecture #design #firstnations #indigenous

Baya creative director Hannah Middleton is one of those rare creative individuals who knows how to balance creative design with practical commercialism. Her work for New Zealand soft furnishing company, Baya, gives her the scope to explore innovative design solutions and explore the almost limitless possibilities that arise when tactility, materiality, colour and narratives of place come together. For our Designer Selects series, Middleton shares her personal favourites from Baya’s summer collection, along with pieces that express summer entertaining in the land Down Under. Images supplied. @baya https://lnkd.in/gzvqdqet

John Wardle, architect and founder of Wardle, is parting with his Kew home, a residence that carries decades of architectural evolution and craftsmanship. View the interiors and the hefty price tag on ADR: https://lnkd.in/gk6Ac75h