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2017 Australian Interior Design Awards: Residential winners

Fresh off the back of multiple wins at the recent Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards, Smart Design Studio’s Indigo Slam project has triumphed at another prestigious ceremony, the 2017 Australian Interior Design Awards.

Smart Design Studio’s ‘Indigo Slam’ residence

Receiving the Residential Design Award and the principal Premier Award for Australian Interior Design, the Sydney residence was described as “standing head and shoulders” above all the other contenders in its category and “unable to fault” by the judges. The heavily lauded project was the only one to collect multiple gongs.

Smart Design Studio’s ‘Indigo Slam’ residence

“This project is a private residence, but also hosts events for the client’s art gallery, celebrating unconventional domesticity through dual functionality. The home is defined as much by a sense of a thoughtful restraint, as it is by immaculate detailing,” said the jury who noted the home’s intimacy despite its grand spaces. They commended the project for its “pockets of intimate domesticity that are a gentle reminder that as impressive as the project appears, it is indeed a home to be lived in.”

SJB’s ‘A Private Residence’

SJB’s ‘A Private Residence’ continued its award-winning run (it too enjoyed success at the 2017 Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards), taking out top honours in the Residential Decoration category.

SJB’s ‘Redfern Terrace’

“SJB impressed us with their thoughtful and sensitive approach in delivering an outcome that responds to the needs of a mature-aged client. The design also eschews trends and instead celebrates the building’s grand heritage while reflecting the client,” said the judges.

Doherty Design Studio’s ‘Fitzroy Residence’

Delivered on Friday June 9 in front of 500 interior design and architecture practitioners and professionals, this year marks the fourteenth year of the awards.

Doherty Design Studio’s ‘Fitzroy Residence’

2017 AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS – Residential

Premier Award for Australian Interior Design
Smart Design Studio for Indigo Slam, NSW

Interior Design Impact Awards
Woods Bagot for Paramount by The Office Space, NSW
Museums Victoria Design Studio for First Peoples, VIC

Emerging Interior Design Practice
Brad Swartz Architects, NSW

Commendations
Amber Road, NSW
BoardGrove Architects , VIC
Adam Kane Architects, VIC

Residential Design Award
Smart Design Studio for Indigo Slam, NSW

Commendations
Brad Swartz Architects for Darling Point Apartment, NSW
Eugene Cheah Architecture for Henry Street House, VIC
Doherty Design Studio in collaboration with Inarc Architects for Fitzroy Residence, VIC
SJB for A Private Residence, NSW
SJB for Redfern Terrace, NSW
John Wardle Architects for Freshwater Apartment, VIC
Architects EAT for Moving House, VIC

Residential Decoration Award
SJB for A Private Residence, NSW

Commendations
Templeton Architecture for Little Parndon, VIC
Doherty Design Studio for Fitzroy Residence, VIC
Carole Whiting and Steven Whiting for Hotham, VIC

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2015 Australian Interior Design Awards winners revealed

Smart Design Studio for Jersey Road

There’s always some seriously gorgeous projects in the Australian Interior Design Awards, and with over 400 entries across the program’s 14 categories, you can be certain the winners don’t disappoint!

SIBLING for DUST
SIBLING for DUST

The big winner this year was young Melbourne practice SIBLING. The eight-person team was the recipient of the Premier Award for Australian Interior Design and the Award for Emerging Interior Design Practice for their dazzling retail fitout DUST, which also received the Retail Design Award and a Best of State Award (Victoria).

Smart Design Studio for Jersey Road
Smart Design Studio for Jersey Rd
Smart Design Studio for Jersey Rd
Smart Design Studio for Jersey Rd

However, we can’t resist having a particular interest in the residential category winners. This year, the Residential Design Award went to Smart Design Studio for their Jersey Rd project. The perfect blend of old and new, the design celebrates the historic Sydney home’s stately characteristics while linking to the new extension through modern elements.

Whiting Architects for Kerferd
Whiting Architects for Kerferd
Whiting Architects for Kerferd
Whiting Architects for Kerferd

For the Residential Decoration Award, Whiting Architects took home the prize for their Kerferd VIC project. Aiming to be a ‘holiday house in the city,’ the design infuses a relaxed weekender feel into an urban family home. The interior plays on primal themes of comfort and nesting, with texture and warmth foremost.

To find out more about this year’s winning projects, visit their website.

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Winners and photos from Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards

Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards 2015, 12th May 2015. Event held at Coco Republic Alexandria. Photo: Caroline McCredie

Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards is quite the impressive event. Styled to perfection and with the who’s who of the design world in attendance, it is one not to be missed. Which is why it was so disappointing neither Jen or I could make Tuesday’s gala event! Well, at least we have the photos to ogle at!

Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards 2015, 12th May 2015. Event held at Coco Republic Alexandria. Photo: Caroline McCredie

Now in its fifth year, the awards – which acknowledge excellence in Australian interior design and decoration – set the benchmark for expertise, creativity and vision in what is a highly competitive, highly progressive industry.

Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards 2015, 12th May 2015. Event held at Coco Republic Alexandria. Photo: Caroline McCredie
Matt Gibson

Matt Gibson of Matt Gibson Architecture + Design took out the major award of the night, Belle Coco Republic Interior Designer of the Year — as well as the Residential Design category. Matt wins return flights to Paris and five nights accommodation to attend the Maison et Objet exhibition in September 2015, a $25,000 package from Multyflex, Parisi bathroom products to the value of $5000, a $2000 Cadrys voucher and a $1000 Coco Republic voucher.

Other winners were: Justine Hugh-Jones Design for Best Kitchen Design, Smart Design Studio for Best Bathroom Design, Genesin Studio for Best Commercial Interior and Hecker Guthrie for Best Hospitality Design.

Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards 2015, 12th May 2015. Event held at Coco Republic Alexandria. Photo: Caroline McCredie

The winners in this year’s awards represent an Australian design landscape that is fast becoming known for its unique, fresh and challenging aesthetic. The rigorous selection process was undertaken by this year’s judging panel of Coco Republic executive director Anthony Spon-Smith, Belle editor Tanya Buchanan and renowned publisher and author, Karen McCartney.

The award winners are profiled in Belle’s June/July 2015 issue, on sale Monday 18 May.

Photography by Caroline McCredie

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Central Sydney apartments that feel like an exclusive oasis

With a dramatic sandstone cliff as their backdrop, the new Maxwell Place apartments designed by Smart Design Studio in collaboration with Mirvac are white, angular and dramatic.

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Sitting low and long, the 49 apartments feature deep triangular balconies, a nod to the saw tooth roofs of the Federation-era Tramsheds that sit close by. Situated in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe, Maxwell Place is the second last precinct in Harold Park by Mirvac and the only one located on the eastern edge of the future park. Designed to create a connection between Harold Park and the distinctive Victorian terrace homes above, vehicle entry to the apartments will come via a new shared laneway off Maxwell Road.

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Smart Design Studio’s inspiration for Maxwell Place owes much to the beauty of the sandstone cliff that forms its eastern boundary, providing a sense of privacy and seclusion for residents. Extensive ground-level landscaping, combined with the building’s unique setting between cliff and park, will add to the sensation that these residences are an exclusive oasis.

“We thought the cliff was beautiful and we took that as our inspiration to create a building that was like an abstracted cliff face,” says William Smart, founder of Smart Design Studio. “But the building also had to talk to the other side of Harold Park and the Glebe terraces above, so we have a quiet, private side facing the cliff and a side with expansive park views.”

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Harold Park is located 2.5km from the Sydney CBD and on completion will include approximately 1,250 apartments and terraces. More than 35 per cent of the site has been dedicated to the City of Sydney for future parkland.

Residents are now living the in the first Harold Park precinct, Locarno, and Precinct 2, Eden, is nearing completion. The third precinct, Maestro, is under construction and Chevalier, which was launched in September, has also recently commenced construction. An exact start date for Maxwell Place is yet to be released.