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• Carrickalinga Shed by Architects Ink

  26-07-2024 02:41 via architectureau.com
  
  With a hard exterior and a soft heart, this house on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula is a place to gather and retreat, while appearing as an agricultural shed and bunker.
  
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• BASAO Teahouse Panji is “a living room for the city”

  26-07-2024 02:18 via indesignlive.com
  
  Burrowed in Xiamen, BASAO Panji marks the third collaboration between BASAO and designers, Building Narrative. The teahouse recharts the dualities between traditional and contemporary tea culture. Like a living room in the heart of the city, BASAO Panji provides residential comfort while staging local tea traditions for patrons today. The design brief borrows the traditional Fujian courtyard architecture that are considered on three differing scales: the urban, interior and furniture scales.Rega
  
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• Walker Street Precinct restaurants by Cox Architecture with H&E Architects

  26-07-2024 02:03 via architectureau.com
  
  Brimming with elegant flair, four new venues, designed by Cox Architecture with H&E Architects, cultivate a culinary neighbourhood for North Sydney.
  
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• Comment: The fight against mould

  26-07-2024 02:03 via indesignlive.com
  
  For many building facility managers and homeowners across Australia’s east coast, soaring summer humidity left a dangerous legacy – mould. Respiratory infections and irritation to the eyes and skin are just some of a long list of potentially serious side effects from exposure to mould.Back in January, Sydney endured record-breaking humidity and other states too rang in the new year with sweltering conditions. Suffice to say, for a prolonged period, we experienced 24/7 humidity.L
  
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• Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating

  26-07-2024 01:49 via indesignlive.com
  
  While art is an essential inclusion in our homes, it becomes a defining feature of a commercial space too. Most residences don’t have the capacity to showcase large-scale works, but in projects such as work spaces, lobbies, institutions and public areas, a painting, sculpture or installation adds gravitas and can speak so much of culture, people and place.For Ash Keating, creating grand works is a passion. He has enshrined entire houses in paint as an artwork, designed enormous paintings t
  
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• Feeding new design expression with net zero impact

  26-07-2024 01:16 via indesignlive.com
  It was in 1963 that Verosol’s founder, Cornelius Verolme, gazed at the glass-clad skyscrapers glimmering across New York City’s skyline. He wondered at how difficult it must be to keep these buildings cool in summer and warm in winter. Cornelius was compelled to return to his home country of Holland and experiment with solutions, conceptualising a metalised fabric that could reduce both heat and glare within those towering glass edifices.Verolme’s invention was a new innovation
  
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• Architects’ own homes – what do they represent?

  26-07-2024 01:09 via architectureau.com
  
  Sarah Lebner attends a tour of architects’ own homes in Melbourne, discovering how the value-based vision of the architect manifests in the houses they design for themselves.
  
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