‘Essentially two houses in one’ is how Rosa Coy, architect and director at Coy Yiontis Architects, describes this Mornington Peninsula project. Titled ‘Seawind’, the house was designed for a couple of over 50 years, looking to live...

PTW Architects has designed a 17-storey tower for Sydney’s Haymarket, by Chinatown, that will house 336 student rooms along with a range of retail spaces. The $52 million project for developer Elegant Dixon will see the demolition...

How rumours almost became architectural history Early 20th century Melbourne architect Howard Ratcliff Lawson was larger than life—a prolific designer with more than 200 buildings to his name who held court with judges and ministers, discussing his...

Beets are tasty from top to bottom, and the same is true of their microgreens. While there won’t be a bulbous and sweet root to eat, beet microgreens provide the same flavor as grown leaves, but in...

Ficus lyrata You’ve seen it in stylish hotel lobbies and on the Instagram accounts of the trendiest designers. It’s the hard-to-miss, oh-so-dramatic fiddle-leaf fig, also known as the banjo fig, or the lyre leaf tree. These marvelous...

While older homes often boast solid construction, sometimes they’re lacking in other key areas. After all, what you need from your home today is a lot different than what people needed from their homes in, say, the...

Contemporary Houses HOME INTERIORSJanuary 18, 2021 NICOLEHOLLIS conceives timeless interiors that elevate the human spirit. This award-winning collective of interior designers, interior architects, and furniture designers is led by creative director and principal Nicole Hollis in partnership...

The design of today’s public schools tends toward the underwhelming. Their formal and material solutions tell a story of frugality of means as well as of imagination. Even in those instances where the architecture does excel, where...

Byron Bay might just be the low key Hollywood of Australia. There seems no end to the creative energy in this increasingly dynamic coastal town… everywhere you look there is an amazing new artist or designer to...

A century ago, my grandfather left his home and family in Italy to come to America. It took a decade before my grandmother and their children could join him. As we look at our highly connected world...