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• Riviere by Bates Smart

  22-01-2025 23:19 via architectureau.com
  
  In responding to the Brisbane riverfront climate, Bates Smart's apartment building offers "a synthesis of both hard and soft sciences."
  
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• Rory Hyde on how to broadcast the value of architecture to a wider audience

  22-01-2025 23:18 via architectureau.com
  
  ArchitectureAu Asks the Melbourne architect, educator and broadcaster, “Architects are good talkers, but who listens matters more – how do we make soundwaves beyond the profession?”
  
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• The complex history of the Australian beach shack

  22-01-2025 23:06 via architectureau.com
  
  Beach shacks have a distinctive identity as Australian emblems of summer holidays and unadorned simplicity. Yet, their history also reflects a more complicated history, intertwined with colonisation and marginalisation.
  
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• Aquifer Recharge Plant / SALT Architects

  22-01-2025 21:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Karl Rogers architects: SALT ArchitectsLocation: Cape Town, South AfricaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Karl RogersArea: 15865.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Carupa House High Mountain Refuge / Bermúdez Arquitectos

  22-01-2025 17:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Bé estudio, Paola Pabón & Santiago Beaumé architects: Bermúdez ArquitectosLocation: Carmen de Carupa, Cundinamarca, ColombiaProject Year: 2023Photographs: Bé estudio, Paola Pabón & Santiago BeauméArea: 818 ft2 Read more »
  
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• House of the Alley / Estúdio Artigas

  22-01-2025 15:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Pedro Kok architects: Estúdio ArtigasLocation: Sao Paulo, BrazilProject Year: 2024Photograph: Pedro KokArea: 180.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Piazza De Nava and Piazza Alvaro Redevelopment and Restoration / MICROSCAPE architecture urban design AA + nuvolaB architetti associati

  22-01-2025 13:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Filippo Poli architects: MICROSCAPE architecture urban design AAarchitects: nuvolaB architetti associatiLocation: Reggio Calabria, ItalyProject Year: 2024Photographs: Filippo PoliArea: 6300.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Akhaldaba Private House / MUA Architecture & Placemaking

  22-01-2025 11:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Giorgi Mamasakhlisi architects: MUA Architecture & PlacemakingLocation: Akhaldaba, GeorgiaProject Year: 2023Photographs: Giorgi MamasakhlisiArea: 400.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Promenade Architecturale: How the Modernist Concept Continues to Inspire Contemporary Architecture

  22-01-2025 08:30 via archdaily.com
  
  Casa Canal / Studio MK27 - Marcio Kogan + Lair Reis © Fran ParenteIn modernist architecture, promenade architecturale emerged as a key design strategy, embodying the principles of functionality, aesthetics, and integration with the urban context. Le Corbusier’s iconic projects, such as Villa La Roche (1925) and Villa Savoye (1929), exemplify this idea by guiding visitors through an ascending journey that culminates in the rooftop garden—a space where the building and nature seam
  
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• Architect and Archigram Founding Member Dennis Crompton Passes Away at 90

  22-01-2025 07:30 via archdaily.com
  
  © Archigram ArchivesDennis Crompton, an influential figure in the field of architecture, passed away on January 21, 2025, at the age of 90. Born in Blackpool in 1935, Crompton's remarkable career spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on modern architecture. As a key member of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram, established in London in 1961, Crompton played a pivotal role in revolutionizing architectural practice, together with Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Ron Herron, D
  
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• Finding Brisbane’s 2032 sweet spot

  22-01-2025 07:11 via indesignlive.com
  
  It all started aboard a plane. More specifically, WilkinsonEyre’s Stuart Dow and Ed Daines were looking out of the window for a bird’s-eye-view of Brisbane during a flight out of the city when they couldn’t help but notice a rather desirable potential site for a new approach to the Brisbane Olympics in just seven years’ time, the Mayne Rail Yards.Located approximately three kilometres to the north-northwest of Brisbane CBD, it’s an undeniably notable spot on a satel
  
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• Two Triangles House / dua studio

  22-01-2025 07:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Tristan Salim architects: dua studioLocation: Jakarta, IndonesiaProject Year: 2016Photographs: Tristan SalimArea: 79.5 m2 Read more »
  
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• Primordial dining: Spacemen goes Caveman in KL

  22-01-2025 06:33 via indesignlive.com
  
  When the client approached Spacemen for their restaurant design, their immediate concern was to introduce Edward Tan, Spacemen Director and project lead, to the modern interpretation of the traditional Malaysian food the chef would be creating. This is, in many ways, normal – design follows menu, if you will – but here, the client insisted on wood-fire cooking being the design driver. “They wanted something that’s very stripped down to a really primordial dining experienc
  
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• Aedeas’ museum is a bridge between Chinese history and modernity

  22-01-2025 05:48 via indesignlive.com
  
  Designed by Aedeas under the leadership of Global Design Principal Ken Wai, this 5356-square-metre structure reflects a deep connection to the historical and urban context of its location. Completed in 2024, the museum anchors the Liangzhu Yohoo Park, a cultural hub that bridges the city’s rich past with its contemporary aspirations.The architectural concept draws inspiration from jade, a material historically revered in Chinese culture for its symbolic significance in rituals and artistry
  
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• Making waves

  22-01-2025 05:42 via indesignlive.com
  
  While the surf might be one of the first images stereotypically summoned to mind when an outside thinks of Sydney, they probably aren’t picturing the city’s Western Suburbs. However, with ClarkeHopkinsClarke’s architecture and OCULUS’ landscape design, a new site in the wider Sydney Olympic Park can now lay claim to a slice of the harbour city’s surf culture.Featuring world-leading Wavegarden technology that generates authentic waves with settings for all abilities,
  
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• Efficiency and patience are the key design ingredients for this delicious bakery

  22-01-2025 05:21 via indesignlive.com
  
  March Studio previously worked with Baker D. Chirico no less than 14 years ago in Carlton, Melbourne. This time around, it’s all about Brisbane – and the full process of realising the design here has itself been a hefty six years, due not only to the Covid pandemic but also some crucial, specialist equipment acquired after long research on the part of the bakers.Rodney Eggleston of March Studio led the design and explains some of the context further: “So, why did it take s
  
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• Elegance and materiality: The work of Amy Vidler

  22-01-2025 00:04 via architectureau.com
  
  Through meditative diffusions and organic forms, Amy Vidler’s sculptural lights reveal the softer side of typically tough, structural materials.
  
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