Tag: Interiors | Architecture Now

Creative chemistry: DDB Group

Projects | A long-established advertising agency has taken a fresh new approach to collaborative space.

Fresh palette: The Rabbit Patch

Projects | Most childcare centres feature a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical necessities. Not in this one.

Studio Modijefsky Amsterdam

People | An all-female design firm right next door to Amsterdam’s Red Light District is proving to be a game-changer in the region’s hospitality sector.

Refreshing the Inn: Auckland Airport hotel

Projects | The newly renovated Holiday Inn near Auckland Airport presents a bright and welcoming front with a contemporary, Pacific-inspired aesthetic.

In focus: Superette

Projects | Mark Simpson, joint creative director at Melbourne’s DesignOffice, talks about the firm’s new Auckland fit-out for retailer Superette.

Nature mirrored: Mercury

Projects | Sustainability, staff comfort and a few wow moments are at the core of Mercury’s new headquarters in Newmarket.

On a good buzz: B:Hive Smales Farm

Projects | This co-working space on Auckland’s North Shore is, by all accounts, a success story for its owners and its tenants.

SO/ Playful: Inside SO/ Auckland

Projects | A hotel in Auckland takes on a volcanic theme and a celebrity fashion designer to inject personality and a lot of oomph.

Projects | Rocket Lab’s new Auckland headquarters boasts a good dollop of theatre, science fiction and the very serious business of sending satellites into space. We set out to discover how its interior design copes with the very unique brief.

At home with Sabine Marcelis

Projects | Step inside the converted-warehouse Rotterdam home of this Dutch-New Zealand rising industrial design star.

The third place: Tūranga

Projects | Christchurch’s new central library welcomes all and inspires the pursuit of knowledge.

In the public domain: Paul Baragwanath

People | Arttform’s Paul Baragwanath is an expert in commissioning large-scale artworks for commercial, public spaces.

Feminine perspectives: part two

People | We speak to two more female-led interior design firms in New Zealand.

‘Anti-style’: El Equipo Creativo

People | This Barcelona-based troupe’s self-baptised ‘anti-style’ ethos has given it a serious edge in the hospitality design world.

Culinary theatre: Kitchen Things

Projects | A new showroom for eight, high-end appliance brands uses design detail to create a truly immersive retail experience.

A curated consciousness

News | In Dulux’s 2019 colour forecast, explore the influences of technology and social consciousness on ourselves and interiors.

Kaleidoscope in motion: LA house

Projects | In this bombastic Los Angeles home, US designer Kelly Wearstler lets colour and pattern fall, shift and splatter with gusto.

A fine collection: Parisian apartment

Projects | A conversation between artworks and interior design results in a stunning, high-end eclecticism in this Parisian apartment.

Golden age of travel: Online Republic

Projects | Seeking to reflect their corporate culture, this new workplace takes staff on a vacation to the heyday of travel.

The Waterdog

Projects | This heritage-listed chapel has transformed into a new work and event space with a striking new stacked-box composition.