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• Simone LeAmon appointed CEO of the Design Institute of Australia

  25-11-2025 22:05 via architectureau.com
  Leading design curator Simone LeAmon has been appointed CEO of the Design Institute of Australia after more than a decade at the NGV.
  
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• Germantown Artist Studio and Home / B—KD

  25-11-2025 11:00 via archdaily.com
  © Maksim Akelin architects: B—KDLocation: Germantown, United StatesProject Year: 2024Photographs: Maksim AkelinPhotographs: Chris MottaliniArea: 2500.0 ft2 Read more »
  
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• Rethinking Public Space Through a Skateboarder’s Eyes

  25-11-2025 08:30 via archdaily.com
  Navarcles Skateplaza. Image © José HeviaCreated by California surfers who wanted to bring the lines of surfing onto asphalt, skateboarding soon outgrew its role as a simple alternative for flat days. It established itself as a practice that reads the city through a different logic, reinterpreting steps, handrails, walls, and interstitial spaces as possible lines, challenges, and opportunities. Over time, it evolved into a global urban culture, a way of inhabiting and transformin
  
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• Lisi Garden House / Architects of Invention

  25-11-2025 08:00 via archdaily.com
  © Grogorii Sokolinskii architects: Architects of InventionLocation: Tbilisi, GeorgiaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Grogorii SokolinskiiArea: 11500.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Fisher & Paykel Melbourne Experience Centre Wins The Retail Space at the INDE.Awards 2025

  25-11-2025 08:00 via indesignlive.com
  The INDE.Awards 2025 continue to recognise the most progressive achievements in architecture and design across the Indo Pacific. Among the standout categories is The Retail Space, supported this year by Polyflor. The award celebrates retail projects that move beyond commercial utility to create meaningful experiences and environments that connect with people on emotional and cultural levels.This year’s winner, the Fisher and Paykel Melbourne Experience Centre, showcases the power of though
  
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• Light, Material, Reaction: How Active Surfaces® Transform Cybernet Systems’ Tokyo Headquarters

  25-11-2025 07:45 via archdaily.com
  © Lamberto RubinoThe new headquarters for Cybernet Systems was designed around the Japanese architectural concept of flexibility, promoting well-being, collaboration, and productivity. As a global leader in Computer-Aided Engineering, supporting industrial production through advanced digital solutions, the headquarters, located in the Fuji Soft Akihabara Building in Tokyo, embodies the company's commitment to creating a dynamic, technology-driven community.  Developed by MB-AA (Ma
  
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• The European Cultural Centre Announces the Winners of the ECC Awards 2025 in Venice

  25-11-2025 07:30 via archdaily.com
  TSE Closing 2025, Palazzo Bembo. Image © Celestia StudioThe European Cultural Centre (ECC) has announced the winners of the ECC Awards 2025, selected from participants of the seventh edition of Time Space Existence and unveiled during the exhibition's Closing Day on 23 November 2025 in Venice. Bringing together 207 practices from more than 52 countries, this year's edition highlighted a broad spectrum of architectural and design approaches responding to the themes of Repair, Regenerate, and
  
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• Reception Pavilion / Busch & Takasaki Architekten + gmp Architects

  25-11-2025 07:00 via archdaily.com
  © Bryn Donkersloot architects: Busch & Takasaki Architektenarchitects: gmp ArchitectsLocation: Hamburg, GermanyProject Year: 2025Photographs: Bryn DonkerslootArea: 300.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• COP30 Outcomes for the Built Environment: From Sustainable Cooling to Climate Adaptation Commitments

  25-11-2025 06:30 via archdaily.com
  AquaPraça floating cultural plaza designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Höweler + Yoon at COP30. Image © Leonardo FinottiOn November 21, 2025, the closing day of the 30th edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP) took place, the yearly gathering of United Nations member states to negotiate international climate agreements and assess global progress toward emissions reduction. This year, the event was held in Belém, Brazil, a port city of fewer than 1.5 million pe
  
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• New build-to-rent tower approved in Perth

  25-11-2025 06:12 via architectureau.com
  According to Plus Studio, the project is “conceived as a new generation of development,” with the 21-storey proposal bringing together build-to-rent and serviced apartments with ground-floor retail space.
  
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• Fernando Menis wins World Building of the Year 2025 for The Holy Redeemer Church

  25-11-2025 05:50 via indesignlive.com
  The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas by Fernando Menis in La Laguna, Spain has been declared the World Building of the Year at the 2025 World Architecture Festival (WAF). The announcement was made at a Gala Dinner at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, where architects from around the globe gathered for the eighteenth edition of the festival. Supported by GROHE, the major accolades included World Building of the Year, World Interior of the Year, Future Project of the Yea
  
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• DKO expands into Indonesia with new studio

  25-11-2025 05:43 via architectureau.com
  The practice is currently engaged in a series of projects in hospitality, resort, hotel, housing and ecclesiastical design across the Indonesian archipelago.
  
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• Cities Need Care, Not Perfection: Reflections from Utopian Hours 2025

  25-11-2025 05:00 via archdaily.com
  Sayer Street / Jan Kattein Architects.. Image © Jack HobhouseWhat does optimism feel like in cities that can no longer rely on perfection as their ultimate ambition? Across the world, urban environments bear the weight of overlapping pressures: climate volatility, spatial inequality, political fragmentation, public distrust, and chronic infrastructural disinvestment. These realities render the idea of an ideal city increasingly detached from lived experience. Yet the hope for building bette
  
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• Prohibiting the public interest

  25-11-2025 04:59 via architectureau.com
  The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and little press coverage, is “trust me” legislation of the worst kind.
  
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• Ochre House by My My My Architecture

  25-11-2025 04:40 via architectureau.com
  An aspiration to “touch the site lightly,” juxtaposed with a robust approach to building within a harsh bushland environment, has resulted in a captivating architectural dialogue throughout a new home on the outskirts of Canberra.
  
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• Shilamay House / SferaBlu Architects + Naman Shah Architects

  25-11-2025 04:00 via archdaily.com
  © VINAY PANJWANI architects: Naman Shah Architectsarchitects: SferaBlu ArchitectsLocation: Agol, Gujarat, IndiaProject Year: 2025Photographs: VINAY PANJWANIArea: 550.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• NSW Government releases nine new architect-designed mid-rise housing patterns

  25-11-2025 03:32 via indesignlive.com
  The Minns Labor Government has launched nine new architect-designed mid-rise apartment building patterns as the next phase of the world-leading NSW Housing Pattern Book, helping to accelerate the delivery of new homes across the state.This follows more than a decade of inaction on housing supply under the former Government, which has resulted in Sydney losing twice as many young people as it is gaining, according to a recent NSW Productivity Commission report.Collins and Turner interior.The new
  
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• TRACES Installation - SHIFT: Chicago Architecture Biennial / Balsa Crosetto Piazzi

  25-11-2025 03:00 via archdaily.com
  © Marcos Guiponi architects: Balsa Crosetto Piazziarchitects: Giorgis OrtizLocation: Chicago, Estados UnidosProject Year: 2025Photography: Marcos Guiponi Read more »
  
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• Statement about Derek Swalwell

  25-11-2025 02:30 via architectureau.com
  Architecture Media acknowledges recent concerning information regarding prominent Australian architectural photographer Derek Swalwell.
  
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• Imagining a World Without Limits: Orama Minimal Frames at BAU Munich 2025

  25-11-2025 02:30 via archdaily.com
  Levitation and translucence defined Orama’s booth at Bau 2025. Image © Role–PlayThe prestigious BAU Munich, the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, and systems, served as the stage for Orama Minimal Frames' latest innovations in architectural frame technology. The exhibition offered a platform for industry connections and showcased advancements that challenge conventional boundaries in frame design.Read more »
  
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• NSW government proposes building law reforms to support more prefab homes

  25-11-2025 02:07 via architectureau.com
  Under the reforms, a single statewide approval pathway for prefabricated buildings would replace individual council processes, and clearer regulations governing the manufacture, transport and installation of prefabricated buildings would be established.
  
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• Xuebei Home / Republic Construction Architecture Studio

  25-11-2025 01:00 via archdaily.com
  © Ce Wang architects: Republic Construction Architecture StudioLocation: Huizhou, ChinaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Ce WangArea: 116.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• The Parlour Room Redfern offers luxury through curves and craft  

  25-11-2025 00:03 via indesignlive.com
  The Parlour Room in Redfern avoids the more expected interpretation of luxury, instead focusing on softening the interior with curves and intentional geometries that guide movement through the space. Throughout, light interacts with each textural surface, animating the stone and glass elements across the day, with the aim of creating a space that is transportive. As its own retreat destination, the result feels grounded in both tactility and subtlety, allowing guests to pause and reflect.The col
  
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