Brimming with elegant flair, four new venues, designed by Cox Architecture with H&E Architects, cultivate a culinary neighbourhood for North Sydney. Quoting British designer and restaurateur, Sir Terence Conran, Brooke Lloyd shared, “design is 98% common sense and 2% something really special. The 2% is what makes a design demonstrably better. We worked really hard on the 2% for these venues to create that magical feeling.”
Photography: Alec Bruce Mason
Read MoreIs the compact mirror a tool for keeping what we see in check, or checking in on how we see ourselves?
Read MoreSubtle ceremony…Recurrent in Abernethy’s design is an inventive use of volume and double-height scales that deliver a unique rhythm. Oscillating between compression and expansion – through rich historical detailing and uplifting layers that build from cabinetry to window heights – the home eventually peaks where the rafters meet.
A Project Profile: March 2024
Architect: Karen Abernethy
Photography: Tom Ross
Traditional custodians: Wurundjeri People
Read MoreAtong Atem considers photographers cyborgs. “The camera becomes an extension of their body, movements, height, choice of angle.” The invitation and joy of her work, she surmises, comes from recognising the photographer’s intervention between what is captured and the truth of things.
Artist Profile: March 2022
Image: Atong Atem ‘A yellow dress, a bouquet 4‘, 2022, Art Gallery of New South Wales, La Prairie Art Award 2022 © Atong Atem
Read MoreThe design of a new extension at McPhail House doesn’t harshly define a beginning and end to the home’s chapters; rather it runs on its own harmonious continuum, along the connected interior views and sweeping curves of bespoke finishes.
A Project Profile: October 2023
Photography: Tatjana Plitt
Read MoreCan a smile be faked?
Read MoreAesthetically beautiful, Konini Kitchen has also been crafted with a humility that takes kindly to a little mess, a dish left on a bench, evidence of the movement and life that will see it wear authentically, bettered by every use.
A Project Profile: August 2023
Photography: Greta Van Der Star
Read MoreUndisrupted views pass through Warr Ferrington, folding into one another.
A Project Profile: June 2023
Photography: Victor Vieaux
Read MoreA psychological thriller that shows ‘just leave’ is hardly that simple. This book digs in under the skin and lodges itself in the gut – tying knots and clawing at the lungs, zapping the breath out of you.
Read MoreCypreś exemplifies that creating quality space doesn’t rely on an expansive floorplan — far more important is an ability to rethink the structure of home in a way that makes use of spaces that would otherwise be lost.
A Project Profile: April 2023
Photography: Brock Beazley Photography
Read MoreSome artists leave the womb with a compulsion to create, driven by necessity. It’s all they can do, and nothing else will do. For others the need to create isn’t as obvious but it emerges more gradually from a restlessness.
An interview with maker and artist Trevor Neal.
Read MoreI take your hand.
Read MoreA woman changes her name, dons a uniform of exquisitely tailored suits and, with genuine talent, sheds her old skin in order to become a world-class conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic – to become Lydia Tár.
Read MoreHe knew her before I did.
Read MoreDon’t wait for me.
Read MoreHad Picasso painted a bird.
Read MoreAt Tropical Townhouse in southern Vietnam, the layering of simple materials has coalesced in an exquisite home.
A Project Profile: February 2022
Read MoreI borrowed a bundle of books from a former colleague, the kind of sunny person who leaves David Sedaris’ ‘Naked’ on your desk. Her taste in other books was also very much to my liking. Yet, I returned them all…except one—a collection of works by Joan Didion. On the spine are the words ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live.’
Read MoreNavigating the realms of public and private, indoor and outdoor and past and present, Drill Hall House delivers a peaceful oasis where the best of all worlds coalesce.
A Project Profile: January 2022
Photography: Justin Alexander
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