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• Alex Bain on finding his anchor in Herman Miller’s Aeron Chair

  14-05-2026 21:21 via indesignlive.com
  While the landscape of the modern workplace becomes increasingly more fluid, the task chair remains its one constant. And for good reason. As our work habits become more flexible, everybody still sits – often for hours. So, the question isn’t whether we sit, but how we can sit our best.For Alex Bain, Graduate Interior Designer at Architectus, the answer lies in feeling like the very act of sitting disappears into the work it facilitates – a high bar in an industry that often de
  
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• University of Sydney announces new building for Camperdown architecture and design precinct

  14-05-2026 07:07 via architectureau.com
  A $40 million donation will support a $74 million upgrade of the architecture, design and planning precinct at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus.
  
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• An architecture of Australian cultural expression: AIA Gold Medal 2026 announced

  14-05-2026 06:35 via indesignlive.com
  The Gold Medal – the AIA’s highest honour – recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, producing work of great distinction that has advanced architecture or endowed the profession in a distinguished manner. For nearly thirty years, Durbach Block Jaggers (DBJ) has been a leading force in Australian architecture under the leadership of this year’s joint recipients: Neil Durbach, Camilla Block and David Jaggers.
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• Vale Daryl Jackson 1937–2026

  14-05-2026 04:39 via architectureau.com
  Philip Goad remembers Daryl Jackson as a “titan of Australian architecture” whose portfolio included a vast range of building types, many of which leave an enduring mark on Melbourne and Canberra.
  
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• WA government launches housing pattern book initiative

  14-05-2026 04:19 via architectureau.com
  Led by Government Architect Western Australia, the architect-designed pattern book will target medium-density infill opportunities.
  
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• Birdwood by Peter Besley

  14-05-2026 03:50 via architectureau.com
  A home in the heart of Magandjin/Brisbane speaks to a new era of Queensland residential architecture, where multi-layered experiential design mingles with responsive climatic innovations.
  
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• La Marzocco finds its Sydney rhythm

  14-05-2026 02:25 via indesignlive.com
  At La Marzocco Sydney, my flat white arrived from something that looked, at first, like a very elegant beer tap. The espresso machine itself was nowhere to be seen, hidden below the counter as part of Modbar, La Marzocco’s under-bench coffee system. It is a neat trick: the theatre of coffee reduced to a few precise gestures, with the bulky machinery doing its work out of sight.That ethos of performance with restraint runs through the whole space. Walking around the new Botany headquarters,
  
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• AA May 2026 preview: New chapters

  14-05-2026 01:08 via architectureau.com
  Architecture Australia honours the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2026 Gold Medallists and other National Prize winners.
  
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• AA May 2026 preview

  14-05-2026 01:08 via architectureau.com
  Architecture Australia honours the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2026 Gold Medallists and other National Prize winners.
  
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