Studio Y. Have Designed The Mock Turtle Cafe In Melbourne

August 28, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Guy Evans   Australian-based Studio Y. have designed the branding and interiors of ‘Mock Turtle‘, a café on Melbourne’s iconic Degraves street. The designers mention, “The name was derived from the idea of Mock turtle soup, which was created in the mid-18th century as an affordable imitation of green turtle soup, long considered a […]

The Toorak Residence by Architecton

August 15, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Jack Lovel   Architecton have designed a new and modern house in Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, that features open interiors with plenty of room for entertaining.   Upon arrival at the house, a path surrounded by greenery guides guests to the front door. Photography by Jack Lovel Inside the front door, there’s […]

UNStudio to design Australia’s tallest building

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. Called Green Spine, the tallest of the projects’s twinned towers will reach 356.2 metres high making it the tallest building in Australia. The skyscraper will be topped by a publicly accessible botanic garden and greenery

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UNStudio to design Australia’s tallest building

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio and Cox Architecture have won a competition to design a supertall skyscraper for Melbourne, with a pair of twisting green towers. Called Green Spine, the tallest of the projects’s twinned towers will reach 356.2 metres high making it the tallest building in Australia. The skyscraper will be topped by a publicly accessible botanic garden and greenery

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Pink marble and patchy concrete emulate ancient Rome in Melbourne’s Pentolina pasta bar

August 5, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Australian studio Biasol paired worn concrete walls with pink marble and rich red accents for the interiors of this Italian restaurant in Melbourne, which takes visual cues from Ancient Rome. Pentolina is set inside a 100-year-old building on Little Collins street, surrounded by a host of other eateries and shops. Its owner had been a

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STAR Architecture Have Designed A Home With A Wood Screen Facade

July 27, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Peter Bennetts   STAR Architecture have recently completed a new house in Melbourne, Australia, that has a timber screen on the facade.   Photography by Peter Bennetts A sculptural entry canopy meets the timber screen and guides visitors to the front door. Photography by Peter Bennetts Inside, polished concrete flooring has been used […]

BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia’s tallest building

July 27, 2018 India Block 0

Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia’s tallest building. The competition, run by developer Beulah International, to design a £1.1 billion mixed use development in the Australian city of Melbourne has drawn entries from

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All-white house by Studio Four blends indoor and outdoor spaces

July 26, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Melbourne-based architecture collective Studio Four placed a garden at the centre of this all-white family home located in the city’s suburb of Glen Iris. The clients – a professional couple with two young children – asked the architects to create a home that could meet the needs of their busy lives while also functioning as

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Foster + Partners plans new Federation Square Apple Store to replace “Pizza Hut pagoda” design

July 25, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Foster + Partners has completely overhauled its plans for an Apple Store in Melbourne’s Federation Square, but critics claim it has “simply swapped a Pizza Hut pagoda for an oversized iPad”. The London-based firm has developed a more streamlined form for the shop, which Apple wants to build on the south side of the publicly owned city plaza.

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Wowowa adds fluted-brick extension to refurbished Melbourne house

July 7, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local architecture studio Wowowa has renovated a Victorian house in Melbourne and added an extension with a scalloped brick facade that contains an open-plan living space. The practice was invited to oversee the modernisation of a property in the city’s Fitzroy North neighbourhood by a client who had watched one of a series of YouTube

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