Elegance and materiality: The work of Amy Vidler

Through meditative diffusions and organic forms, Amy Vidler’s sculptural lights reveal the softer side of typically tough, structural materials.

Photography: Shannon Rose

Culinary delights nestled within Australia’s renowned hotels need not be reserved only for travellers. House Made Hospitality’s four new venues at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, designed by FK, provide elegant dining, bars and gathering spaces that invite the locals to linger too.

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

Subtle 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

The 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

Aesthetically 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

Undisrupted views pass through Warr Ferrington, folding into one another.

A Project Profile: June 2023

Photography: Victor Vieaux 

Cypreś 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

At Tropical Townhouse in southern Vietnam, the layering of simple materials has coalesced in an exquisite home.

A Project Profile: February 2022

Navigating 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

The paradox of House Under Shadows is that in creating sporadic darkness, the building in fact also does the opposite – it shapes light.

A Project Profile: January 2022

Photography: Andre J. Fanthome

Throughout the entire home, artworks act as the cornerstone to the colour palette, establishing a sense of cohesion.

A Project Profile: December 2021

Photography: Anson Smart

Some dwellers seek the kind of privacy that requires high fences, demarcating their property from their neighbours. The vision for Dover Townhouses was to do just the opposite.

A Project Profile: September 2021

Photography: Tatjana Plitt

The Third delivers a unique sense of home through versatile spaces that act both as an invitation to entertain, or to find peaceful solitude in a nook of one’s own – where a design of visual connection means solitude is never isolating, simply a tranquil means of enjoying company.

A Project Profile: August 2021

Photography: Dion Robeson

House James can be safely taken at face value. It is elegant in its simplicity and environmentally conscious in its modesty, with a character that manifests itself in light and movement. House James is a fitting example of the honest aesthetic that Berresford Architecture observes.

A Project Profile: July 2021

Photography: Andy Macpherson Studio

The kitchen of Bona Vista is an intimate centre stage for home life. Robust redbrick flooring directs the utility of the backstage preparation spaces, and supports the energy of the vibrant family life of its residents. 

A Project Profile: June 2021

Aptly named the Yin and Yang apartment, the project balances work/life spaces by linking rather than demarcating them.

A Project Profile: March 2021