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• National environmental art gallery to be established in Victoria's Hall Gap

  20-03-2024 23:39 via architectureau.com
  
  Plans for an art and environment precinct featuring a national centre for environmental art in Halls Gap, Victoria, have been revealed.
  
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• Restored and bursting with colour: MECCA by Studio Tate

  20-03-2024 04:55 via indesignlive.com
  
  This story originally appeared in INDESIGN #90, the ‘City Futures’ issue – get your copy here.Beauty is big business and there’s perhaps no more successful Australian beauty enterprise than MECCA. It was founded by Jo Horgan and recently marked a quarter-century, all off the back of a ridiculously simple yet totally genius idea to bring an edit of global beauty brands to consumers all in the one place.
  For anyone who has ever shopped in a MECCA store, you’re mo
  
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• The 2024 galang residents are ready to jet off to Paris

  20-03-2024 04:06 via indesignlive.com
  
  The collaboration between Powerhouse Parramatta and Cité Internationale des Arts has unveiled the names of the recipients of the 2024 galang residency program. The initiative will bolster Australian First Nations creative practitioners through a 12-week residency in Paris, in turn offering the Indigenous artists a unique platform to showcase their designs and craftsmanship on an international stage. The recipients are Jack Gillmer, an architect of Worimi and Biripi heritage from Sydney, a
  
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• Parliament unites to champion urban design excellence in Australia

  20-03-2024 03:44 via indesignlive.com
  
  Australian urban design marked a significant development at the 2024 Australian Urban Design Awards ceremony, which saw the launch of the Parliamentary Friends of Australian Urban Design. Led by a cross-party trio — Greens Minister for Ryan (and qualified architect!), MP Elizabeth Watson Brown, Labor Minister for Moreton Graham Perrett and Liberal Minister for Fadden Cameron Caldwell — this collaborative effort will champion innovation and excellence in urban design and influence gov
  
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• Tilt’s Tim Phillips on technology and the essence of industrial design

  20-03-2024 01:23 via indesignlive.com
  
  Timothy Alouani-Roby: A lot of your work, and industrial design in general, seems to come back to this distinction between aesthetics and functionality. How important is this balance?One of the underlying premises of industrial design is that it’s human-centred design. It’s looking at factors that improve the usability of a product or improve engagement with it, as opposed to an architectural or construction discipline which may have different priorities.Industrial design is a proces
  
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