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• 2025 North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards

  16-05-2025 14:00 via architectureau.com
  
  A benchmark university building, a “monumental” sports precinct and a miners’ memorial have taken out prizes in the 2025 North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards.
  
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• 2025 Far North Queensland Regional Architecture Awards

  16-05-2025 14:00 via architectureau.com
  
  The prize for Building of the Year has been awarded to a restored and repurposed heritage building that completes a cultural precinct in Cairns.
  
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• The material and the maker: How the Indo Pacific’s best designers are using timber

  16-05-2025 09:09 via indesignlive.com
  
  Across the globe, many of the best emerging and established designers specify American hardwoods for their projects and pieces. From the warmer tones of walnut, cherry and alder to the lighter hues of maple, tulipwood and oak, the hardwoods form the perfect material palette for furniture, fitouts, structures, and creative projects.  The US hardwood forest continues to grow faster rate than it is harvested, the range of hardwood species are available, sustainable, and versatile in their use.
  
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• Products in Practice: Ana Ćalić McLean of In Addition Studio discusses what she loves about specifying burl timber in her interior projects

  16-05-2025 07:53 via architectureau.com
  Interior designer Ana Ćalić McLean recommends a timber product for adding warmth to interiors.
  
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• Rooted in return: Sandra Githinji on home, heritage and the power of place

  16-05-2025 07:50 via architectureau.com
  In her first solo exhibition Coka Mũciĩ – Rudi Nyumbani – Home Coming, Sandra Githinji returns to Nairobi, exploring home, memory and identity through design rooted in ancestral knowledge.
  
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• A stroll with Ross Gardam in his Milan exhibition

  16-05-2025 07:38 via indesignlive.com
  
  Timothy Alouani-Roby: How did you choose this historic city site and what are some of its special qualities? Ross Gardam: I came last year to Milan Design Week to find a space and obviously to absorb everything I could. In the off year that we show, it’s great to actually see things. I found this space and I think it was in June we signed off on it, and then one of the team came over to see the space. We started designing the stand to fit within the pieces that we created, but al
  
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• A luxury hotel refitted for contemporary use

  16-05-2025 04:38 via indesignlive.com
  
  “The past is not dead. It is not even past,” William Faulkner once penned. There is a certain poetry in restoration. In cities shaped by time, the act of revisiting a landmark is about recalibration. What do we keep? What do we let go? What does it mean to occupy heritage without romanticising it? The Sofitel Sydney Wentworth has never been a neutral building. From its inception in 1966, this curved monolith of sandstone brick and steel carried the aspirations of an emerging global c
  
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• A new chapter: Buchan’s vision for community-centric design at Biyal-a Library

  16-05-2025 04:19 via indesignlive.com
  
  Buchan designed the Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library as a centrepiece for the Armstrong Creek Town Centre, which stands as a distinctive character of community and cultural significance. Set amid the expanding urban fabric of Greater Geelong, the library is positioned to serve as detitanation knowledge and a place for connection – both metaphorically and literally.For Armstrong Creek, this new library is more than just a place for books — it is a cultural touchstone that will ser
  
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• Powerhouse opens entries for $25,000 sustainable design award

  16-05-2025 02:15 via architectureau.com
  
  The Powerhouse has launched its call for applications for the 2025 Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator, inviting early to mid-career Australian industrial designers to submit their sustainability projects.
  
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• New Sydney city square proposal accelerated for development

  16-05-2025 01:20 via architectureau.com
  
  The $150 million Town Hall Square is envisioned by the City of Sydney as the next step in a broader transformation of the CBD.
  
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• Plans lodged for 35-storey residential tower in Adelaide

  16-05-2025 01:11 via architectureau.com
  
  The proposed student accommodation tower is designed to accommodate 488 residents on a historic site in Adelaide's CBD.
  
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