Lastest work from the Vibe Design Group and high-spec builders Icon Synergy is this beautiful Mt Martha home on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula. An elemental palette of materials and finishes that will weather well provides a stylish and hardy skin to the luxury within. This building is a machine for wringing every last drop of enjoyment from the ever changing view, and not shy in creating a few stunning aspects of its own.
Cantilever Interiors is a Melbourne-based designer, manufacturer and installer of quality kitchens that are intelligently designed, exquisitely hand-crafted, sustainable, ergonomic and functional.
Cantilever Interiors was founded in 2006 by furniture and cabinet-makers Travis Dean, Peter Tragardh-Daly and Charlie Wilde after working side by side since the early 2000s from creative hub, 3 Phase Design Studio in Brunswick. The company now focuses on designing and building kitchens under the one roof at their East Brunswick showroom and workshop.
For further information visit the Cantilever Interiors showroom:
128 Barkly Street Brunswick East
www.cantileverinteriors.com
Munich has come to Melbourne with Techne Architecture + Interior Design bringing new life to the traditional Bavarian bierhaus. The project, from the Urban Purveyor Group, is Munich Brauhaus – where Oktoberfest happens 365 days of the year.
After a string of successful beer-halls in Sydney, Urban Purveyor Group’s brief for Techne Architecture + Interior Design was to turn the existing heritage goods shed in South Wharf into the home of Melbourne’s first-ever bustling bierhaus.
“The area is extensively used by joggers, tourists and cyclists as well as those coming for the neighbouring South Wharf DFO and those who work in the nearby Docklands.” says Giles Freeman from Techne.
The challenge was to turn the waterfront venue into an accommodating location that would pay homage to the traditional Brauhaus but add a clean modern twist, while at the same time, catering to 900 patrons.
“The project turnaround timetable was very tight, for all involved & working within a heritage covenant added substantial complications. The scale of works and the level of detail required a very capable build team, which we luckily had,” explains Freeman.
The solution was to turn the shed itself into 3 distinct zones. The Jager Bar makes up the first zone of the bierhaus and creates a relaxed, comfortable environment. A towering log wall, patterned to resemble the forest floor and the horizontally placed fully-grown deer walking across it, create the focal point in the front bar and add a rustic, woodland feel.
Directly above is the Mezzanine floor with an open kitchen and dining area. Diners have a 180-degree view of the bars below, enabling them to take in the log wall feature from a sophisticated private bar setting. Custom joinery on the bar itself features a traditional Bavarian hunting scene.
The second zone houses the bustling dining hall, which follows the traditional model of long tables ready to accommodate festival groups and their hardy appetites and drinking habits. Custom furniture and bespoke lighting have been created to enhance the woodland atmosphere and ornamental, oversized timber antler chandeliers hang throughout.
The aptly named Wunder Bar lets diners observe the proceedings below from the Mezzanine floor. Large glass steins hang from the joists above the bar, shining brightly and sparking above patrons placing drink orders.
Set in the quietest corner of the Brauhaus is the Private Function Room, surrounded by decorative timber and tapestry paneling, sitting below the Mezzanine level.
The waterfront border of the Brauhaus has been designed to encourage casual interaction with passers by and detract from any obvious beer-hall references from the outside with its small, intimate seating arrangement.
“We thoroughly enjoyed designing a playful & festive space for a contemporary venue, which in itself seeks to be an interesting update to a revered tradition,” says Freeman.
Melbourne will no longer need to jetset to Europe for a taste of festival mayhem, now Oktoberfest will be in full swing every day of the week. Get ready to enjoy plenty of festival fun, Bavarian bier, oom pah pah bands and of course, the uber wieners.
For further information visit techne.com.au
The Slight Pendants are a set of 3 unique ceramic lights, whose form developed with subtle changes during their creation. Slight Pendants are slip cast in ceramic, and come standard with a white gloss glaze.
Slight Pendants are $380 each, POA for sets of 3, and are currently available directly from Ryan Pennings Design.
Recently launched by the young architects at Archier, the Hex Pendant is designed for areas that require direct or focused light. Proudly designed and manufactured in Melbourne, it is available in brass, and a range of colours. The Hex will sit subtly over tables, reading chairs and bedside tables.
Archier is a design studio based in Preston, Melbourne, creating furniture and lighting which adheres to a minimal and elegant aesthetic. Composed of three architects with Victorian and Tasmanian roots, Archier grew from a common desire for subtle interior objects which complement their surrounding space.
Single $320
Triple $620
Visit archier.com.au for more info
Contact hello@archier.com.au for sales.
Stunning architectural and interior design for the Infinity Centre, a new senior school for the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School in Keilor East.
Designed by McBride Charles Ryan, the Infinity Centre is a fluid form with a sense of grander and sophisticated style. The use of materials, colour and spatial configurations create unique spaces for learning and social gatherings. Its not hard to see why the building is the recipient of the Architecture Award for Public Architecture, Victoria Architecture Awards 2013 and received a high commendation in the Australian Interior Design Awards 2013.
For further information visit mcbridecharlesryan.com.au
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A beautiful fit-out for this Fitzroy apartment by Melbourne architect and designer Clare Cousins. Spread over three mezzanine levels the space oozes character with smart spatial configurations and custom designed features.
Shortlisted as part of the 2013 Australian Interior Design Awards for residential design. For further information visit clarecousins.com.au
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Stunning interior design by design practice Elenberg Fraser for Slattery Australia. The blonde timber floors flow up onto the walls creating a dynamic sense of movement around this minimalistic interior. We love the small detail that has gone into this design, including the New york loft style black steel frames, lighting strips in the floor, linea textured walls and beautiful latex reception desk.
Winner of the 2013 Workplace Design Award for the Australian Interior Design Awards.
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Maintaining its humble yellow brick 1960’s exterior, The Wattle Avenue House by Melbourne architects Minifie van Schaik hints of an exciting redesign, a sympathetic juxtaposition of the old and new creating a beautiful family home.
Developed for celebrity chief Stefano de Pieri and his family of Mildura, the house, which unsurprisingly has been planned around its kitchen, has been completely reconfigured internally to meet the clients needs.
The original home was a small two bedroom house but has since been transformed into three bedrooms, three bathrooms, walk in laundry, two kitchens, a walk in pantry, wine cellar, laundry, a media room, adjacent but contiguous kitchen/living/dining spaces, and an internal courtyard joined by large sliding doors to the living area.
We especially love the strong geographic exterior with its hexagon patterns and the shared courtyard comprising of a beautiful glazed brick wall.
Wattle Avenue House was awarded an Australian Institute of Architects award for Residential Alterations and Extensions in June 2012.
For further information visit mvsarchitects.com.au
Architect Rob Mills has created a beautiful beach house that is visually striking, exists as one with its wilderness surrounds and will survive the marine environment for years to come. Rising from a steep slope overlooking the Great Ocean Road, Ocean House is a beach retreat that challenges convention. Combining a bold interpretation of the traditional timber coastal pavilion with lower floors built from concrete. Architect Rob Mills has created a beach house that is visually striking, exists as one with its wilderness surrounds and will survive the marine environment for years to come.
Ocean House is a bold expression of Mills’ design philosophy, a seven-bedroom property that can operate as one home or be divided into two acoustically separate dwellings. Based around pure architectural forms – the tall cylinder forming its southern end contrasts dramatically with the sharp lines of the pavilion – it generates a series of distinct experiences. Viewed from the ridge above, circular windows and angled balustrades echo a ship’s hull, while the colours of the ocean pouring through the walls of glass enhance the nautical feel.
The raw materials offer excellent thermal mass, helping cool the house in summer and retaining warmth in winter. The raw structure also becomes the finish. Ocean House’s subdued, natural palette blends with the forest that forms its backdrop, placing architecture and landscape in perfect harmony
For more information visit robmills.com.au or oceanhouse.com.au
When the owners of this Canterbury property were briefing the architects at Canny of their requirements for their new home, the wish list included a clean line and functional architectural home. Outdoor enthusiasts, they stipulated that a water feature abut the home and an alfresco area be a component of the outdoor space - viewable from all the main rooms, whilst taking advantage of the northerly aspect.
Whilst the home carries a somewhat modest façade, it’s the interior and rear components that really set the tone of this casually sophisticated property. With 4 bedrooms, 4-car basement garage, 2.5 bathrooms, cellar and 4 living areas, it encapsulates everything the clients could possibly imagine. Everything about this home is state-of-the-art, from the Jetmaster fireplace and integrated barbecue in the pool house, to the dumb waiter and $15,000 custom built glass pane from the study outlook to pool, no expense was spared in creating this perfectly tuned home.
The Canny Design team exceeded the expectations of the clients with a stunning lap pool and water feature combination, with the ‘floating deck’ a focal point of the overall entertaining area. The granite external cladding on feature walls and thoughtful use of timber assist with the seamless integration of the home’s functional and aesthetic components. The fully-tiled pool with granite stepping stones marries in beautifully with the stonework of the adjacent alfresco area; and the spotted gum decking flows from the polished floorboards of the main living area to provide an inviting exterior island oasis. The 15x2 m lap lane adds functionality to the pool, whilst continuing the theme of a wrap-around water feature. The pool is fitted with in-floor cleaning, solar heating and premium filtration to keep it looking perfect year-round with minimum fuss.
Canny, renowned as one of Melbourne’s leading design and construction companies, have an in-house team of architects and interior designers who have the combined capacity to create a truly unique concepts. With all services under one roof, from design, engineering, documentation and construction, Canny provides an integrated solution and coordinated approach to even the most demanding and intricate projects.
For further information visit canny.com.au or call (03) 8532 4444
Melbourne architects Lyons have designed a new building for RMIT University, a unique city campus embedded deeply into the downtown grid of Melbourne with its 5 million people.
This new building, called the Swanston Academic Building, is an idea about building a vertical campus and drawing the diversity of the city deeply in to the design conception. As student space is not available like a green campus, the project proposes a vertical ‘stack’ of informal ‘open’ student spaces, each connected to a central circulation system of escalators and stairs. This creates a three-dimensional armature of student infrastructure within the building, and is also used as a means of providing a sustainable natural ventilation system within this network of spaces. These student spaces are named ‘portals’ as a hybrid of the physical gateway, and the virtual access to knowledge and information. Each is a double height space, and externally they appear as large ‘holes’ in the facade, each with a distinctive profile based on editing the surrounding cityscape.
The building is designed to meet the long-term needs of the University for teaching and learning spaces, with over 80 spaces including large lecture theatres, which are stacked vertically within a long span structure. All of the learning spaces, which vary in capacity from 30 to 360 students, are designed around new models of learning pedagogies, particularly collaborative and project based learning. Through this approach, a gradient of different learning spaces are provided within each level of the building, reflecting the diversity model that is typical within the city condition.
Externally the building form, with its geometry of compression and expansion, was created out of a series of design operations which modeled the ‘force’ of the surrounding city on to the building itself – like a gravitational force, or crumpling an aluminium can. The colours of the facade are also derived from a mapping of the surrounding cityscape, via the operation of a virtual diorama. In doing so the colouration can be perceived as part camouflage.
The distinctive triangular window format (three windows per level) provides for particular views from the interior – up, down and straight out – and also optimizes the environmental performance of the façade system. Lightweight sunshades, varied in dimension to suit the orientation of the building, further extend the super-performative quality of the buildings envelope.
The intended result from these design strategies, is to create a building as a city campus, one which is quite literally the campus as a city in microcosm – an intense vertical diversity for the students who use it – and deeply and specifically connected with the local city the building inhabits.
For further information on Lyons Architecture visit lyonsarch.com.au
The Vibe Design Group have designed this wonderful home in Kew, Melbourne with a 60’s stereo cabinet inspired façade constructed of slatted timber. The house sits lightly balanced on angled steel posts again reminiscent of the stereo cabinet legs, which affords the house the appearance of floating out across the land.
The project sits well in its treed environs, Silvertop Ash was chosen as the cladding because its eventual grey colour will blend completely and afford a sense of belonging in the treed backdrop.
The cut out element of the living area window directs the line of sight down to the pool, BBQ area and backyard space – protecting privacy. Overall a sensitive design and quality build.
Designers: Vibe Design
Builders: Icon Synergy
Photographer: Robert Hammer
Australia’s leading bathroom brand Caroma have partnered with renowned designer Marc Newson, launching and exciting new range of bathroom products.
Marc Newson’s award-winning minimalistic aesthetic shines through in this beautiful range. The collection sets new standards in affordable luxury, innovative design and ingenious manufacturing to deliver stunning bathroom solutions.
For further information visit caromamarcnewson.com. The Caroma Marc Newson range will be on display early December at the Caroma Concepts Centre Showroom, 222 Park Street South Melbourne.
Designed and constructed by Canny, this Hawthorn home creates a workable harmony of clever design and functional family living space.
The initial client brief was to create a home that would allow independent living zones for the needs of the growing family. With three teenage boys the home allows ample breakout spaces for the children to be active and yet still enjoy the togetherness of combined family areas. The clients required a new home with a traditional façade to the compliment the streetscape, yet a more contemporary feel as one moved through to the rear of the home. The front rooms took on a traditional feel, whilst the rear presented more modern attributes.
The rear of the home showcases a distinctive curved pool house with expansive pool outlook. Dual outdoor entertaining areas with canopy skylights and recessed alfresco heaters allow for continuous enjoyment throughout all seasons. All of these elements were carefully integrated and designed with the landscape.
The highly detailed cellar is perhaps the standout feature of this residence. Complete with 2,000 unit wine storage, Vintec wine fridge, tasting bench, sink and luxe wooden joinery, the room carries an understated opulence and serves as a unique entertaining area for intimate dinner parties and tastings.
Canny’s in-house design studio of twelve is comprised of architects, interior designers and experienced draftsmen. For further information visit www.canny.com.au or call (03) 8532 4444.