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Alba Apartment by Scott Weston Architecture and Design
Scott Weston Architecture and Design (SWAD) explored assertive colour and rich materiality in an inner-city apartment for nightclub owner Susannah Page. Faced with an uninspiring shell, Alba Apartment answers with a dramatic sense of wonder. As Scott says, “I’m not one to shy away from weaving colour, pattern and decoration into my architecture.”
Tanner Architects Tolpuddle Vineyard Tasting Pavilion | habitusliving
Tolpuddle Vineyard Tasting Pavilion by Tanner Architects responds to the vineyard, the Tolpuddle lineage, and its rural location in Coal Valley outside of Hobart, Tasmania. Using the topography of a pavilion, it takes cues from agricultural sheds echoed in the surrounding landscape.
Art for Takayna is the country's wildest artist residency
Takayna, also known as the Tarkine, is a vast, ecologically and culturally significant wilderness in northwest Lutruwita/Tasmania. Home to ancient forests that are rich with Aboriginal significance to the palawa pakana people, and providing critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, it faces threats from the logging and mining industries. One of the last wild places on earth, the Bob Brown Foundation is calling for World Heritage Status and returning Takayna to the traditional owner...
Mona - Phrontisterion | indesignlive
Occupying the space beneath the mammoth artwork Elektra by Anselm Kiefer, Phrontisterion is the new library within the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart.
Marlon - Those Architects | Habitus Living
A bespoke home crafted for the owners, Marlon by Those Architects reflects its sleepy street location in Byron’s quiet sister suburb, Suffolk Park. Just south of the hustle and bustle, this little coastal town is wrapped by National Park and the ocean, and the local vernacular is still mostly dominated by single-storey homes.
Bower Street Apartment by Christine Rose Design
Along a winding path, the coastal walk to Shelly Beach from Manly seeks changing views that capture the marine-protected Cabbage Tree Bay, the headland meeting the Pacific Ocean, and the iconic Fairy Bower Rockpool. Following the path, Bower Street is home to houses and apartments that relish its sea-sprayed location.
Brunswick Heads House by Tanev Muir Architects
Sensitive to retaining the eclectic Brunswick Heads coastal architectural vernacular, this alteration and addition to an old worker’s cottage respects the character of a fast-changing surf town. The clients are architects, based between Brisbane and Bruns, who had owned the 1960s beach shack for over a decade before deciding it needed to be updated for modern living. They approached Byron Bay architects Tanev Muir to design an extension that lightly touches on the landscape.
Tony Garifalakis × Hari Koutlakis @ Hugo Michell Gallery: Pattern, design, impact - Art Almanac
In the concurrent exhibitions at Adelaide’s Hugo Michell Gallery this August, two Greek-heritage artists use a process-based practice to explore pattern, design, and impact that carry through the two gallery spaces. In the larger room, Tony Garifalakis’s Endism (doom sessions) features a mass of works on paper, while in the smaller space, Hari Koutlakis continues the structured approach with a striking black-and-white installation.
Hadley’s Art Prize reveals the love of landscape painting in Australia
Full of colour, expressive depictions and emotive interpretations, landscape artworks take many different forms – profoundly full of variation, even within one city. No place represents this variety as much as Tasmania, and the same can also be said of the Hadley’s Art Prize, which is currently on show in Hobart.
Beaker Street Festival's Margo Adler: 'You can buy some Emergency Antarctic Underwear'
A wedding, a slime mould exhibition, dates with scientists, and stargazing in the crisp Tasmanian Winter sky – this August’s Beaker Street Festival is a chance to explore the things you didn’t know you wanted to explore.
Yeo Yo by Archaea
Confident and joyful in expression, this addition takes cues from a humble childhood toy, reimagining a 1925 Adelaide bungalow through curved forms and crafted detail.
How this couple saved a rundown 1970s beach shack
Built in the 1970s, The Sailor Shack preserves all of its mid-century charm, yet has sensitive modern upgrades that will ensure this unique home lasts another 50 years.
Wayne Eager × Ayako Saito @ Australian Galleries: Movement in form - Art Almanac
Colour, movement, and geometries play out in alternative methodologies at the two Australian Galleries spaces this July.
The Bonobo by Rae's hotel by Richards and Spence with Studio Manifold in collaboration with Birdy Catalano
From the team behind the iconic Raes at Wategos, The Bonobo is envisioned as the “fun, younger sister” deeply connected to its locality, Byron’s buzz and bustle just outside. With architecture by Richards and Spence, the utilitarian building is designed to accommodate a lot of people — 74 rooms and an all-day lobby bar.
Ben Walker Architects - Duffy Street | Habitus Living
Enclosed in charcoal-hued timber batons, the traditional wrap-around verandah is reconceptualised into a modern typology for a nature-loving family.
Oval House - Topology Studio | Habitus Living
Located on Wurundjeri Country in Coburg, Melbourne, Oval House by Topology Studio is the sustainable upgrade of a well-loved, block-board Victorian home immersed in the local vernacular.
Leesthorpe Mosman by Mim Design and Stafford Architecture
Leesthorpe Mosman is a beautiful, robust home for a family of five and their two dogs, where contemporary and heritage effortlessly meet, honouring light as the conceptual foundation.
TRACE Publication | Lander — Se
In a gallery designed to dissolve the parameters of landscape artworks, created on or near the Mornington Peninsula, TRACE represents fleeting moments while musing on the changing Autumn season. A shifting experience holding trace of process and memory.
Breathe - Harvest House | Habitus Living
Inspired by eco-designer Joost Bakker’s Future Food House, Harvest House’s clients set out to turn their workers’ cottage in Port Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, into their own slice of self-sustaining life.
Melitta Perry × Beth Kennedy @ Anthea Polson Art: Immersion in nature - Art Almanac
The two exhibitions at Anthea Polson Art, Queensland this June both capture the sense of immersion in nature. From Melitta Perry’s Traces In The Landscape, which combines the landscape with art iconography, to Beth Kennedy’s Afterglow, which allows the botanical to take an emotional form on the canvas.
Culture in Motion
In the heart of Murwillumbah, NSW, the Tweed Regional Museum showcases the diversity of the surrounding landscape. Through to 18 July, it also houses an exhibition that reveals and unites the area’s culture and its connection to Aboriginal stories that are still strong today.
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection - Art Almanac
From the trenches of motherhood, MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection creates critical discussion about a relatable subject. An exhibition to engage and connect. Curated by Katharina Prugger and Sophie Gerhard, MOTHER removes the rose-tinted glasses; it’s raw, honest, and at times, terrifying.
Owston Hotel by Rezen Studio
Enveloped within a dreamy state of nostalgia, the rooms of Owston Hotel are a perfect place to rest a weary head after travel and a bowl of pasta from the restaurant downstairs. Inspired by an Italian locanda, Fremantle-based interior design practice Rezen Studio was invited to transform a federation building, and its 1950s Italian migrant cultural overlay, into a contemporary guest house.
Located on High Street in Fremantle’s West End, the nod to the building’s multi-heritage creates an informa...
Located on High Street in Fremantle’s West End, the nod to the building’s multi-heritage creates an informa...
Olaver - Barnard House | Habitus Living
Located on a quiet, leafy street in Kew on Wurundjeri Country, Barnard House by Olaver quietly respects its origins while creating a contemporary, light-filled sanctuary — surrounded by a lush, textural garden by Peachy Green.
Purchasing the home with the intent to make some minor changes for their growing family of three, the client initially tried to renovate it themselves before turning to Melbourne-based Olaver to provide a seamless and effortless renovation and extension.
“They realised t...
Purchasing the home with the intent to make some minor changes for their growing family of three, the client initially tried to renovate it themselves before turning to Melbourne-based Olaver to provide a seamless and effortless renovation and extension.
“They realised t...
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