Artichoke

Artichoke, Australia’s most respected interior architecture and design magazine, presents inspiring examples of design excellence and engaging discussion of design issues to industry professionals and a broader audience of design-savvy consumers. It reviews significant new projects, profiles designers, showcases new products and explores creative design collaborations. It is the national magazine of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

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The Edit • A round-up of the latest and greatest furniture, lighting and objects.

Yoko Dining • George Livissianis Interior Architecture has given this Brisbane restaurant a precise and perfect Japanese spirit in an imperfect but historically important wharf building.

Liminal • Presented with a cavernous, uninviting hospitality space, Melbourne studio The Stella Collective set about turning it into an open, voluminous and comforting dining interior for Melbourne’s city workers.

Wink Wink • Inspired by surrealism, Studio 54 and the hedonistic gatherings of Salvador Dali, Ha Arc has designed a new nightclub in inner Melbourne that engulfs, disorients, surprises and delights – then sends you back out into the night.

The Edit • A round-up of the latest and greatest furniture, lighting and objects for the office.

The post-COVID workplace • Looking ahead, how will the world of work be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? And how will this change the way we design workplaces and commercial buildings?

Monash University Building 28 • Tasked with adapting an “ugly duckling” university facility in Melbourne into a new complex for a mathematics, earth atmospheres and environments department, Kennedy Nolan has created a design expression that responds to the existing building’s austere, functional modernism.

Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre • Designed by BVN, this new addition to Ravenswood School for Girls complements and reflects the site’s history and features a striking patina copper facade that is both classic and contemporary.

In Brief • A collection of the latest interiors recently completed by Australian designers, from an architecture bookshop in Melbourne to an art gallery in Brisbane.

Headcase Hair • Studio Snoop has given this longstanding hair salon in Sydney’s Paddington a fresh new look – one that reflects the owners’ journeys to fashion shows and photo shoots all over the world.

Elliot Bastianon • Canberra-based designer and artist Elliot Bastianon applies a conceptual approach to the production of his experimental furniture and objects.

In Brief • More of the latest interiors recently completed by Australian designers, from a tech workplace in Tokyo to Australia’s most elevated drinking destination.

Phoenix Central Park • In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.

Artichoke Magazine Prize • The Artichoke Magazine Prize is awarded annually to interior design/interior architecture students who demonstrate excellence in the visual and written communication of an interior design proposition. Here we present the 2020 winners.

Bauhaus Now • On display at the Museum of Brisbane in an exhibition space designed by Speculative Architecture, Bauhaus Now explores how the revolutionary ideas of the German art school influenced modernist art, design and architecture in Brisbane and Australia.