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• Coffee or Tea: Third Places, Kiosks, and the Retail Architecture of Duration

  21-05-2026 06:00 via archdaily.com
  502 Coffee Roasters / stof.. Image © Donggyu Kim"Coffee or tea?" is one of those phrases that follows you across contexts: asked on airplanes, after a meal, in hotel lounges, and in meeting rooms. It sounds like a small question—mere preference, a quick fork in the service script. Yet it also carries a quiet cultural inheritance. Tea arrives with the long history of ritual and domestic pacing, tied to older geographies of trade and everyday etiquette. Coffee arrives with a different l
  
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• Led by designers: Casting a curatorial eye across Melbourne Design Week

  21-05-2026 05:50 via indesignlive.com
  Design festivals and biennales are under constant scrutiny, their purpose and worth called into question. However, they can provide genuine experimental opportunities for designers and reveal to a public audience how designers can shift perception and experience – skills that are essential to address the pressing challenges of our age. This is where curation becomes critical: the art of judicious selection, presented in a way that is compelling and surprising, advancing a position or sugge
  
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• Permanent Camping 3 by Casey Brown Architecture

  21-05-2026 05:17 via architectureau.com
  Corten-clad tents on a cattle property outside Orange continue a decades-long exploration of minimal shelter and maximum engagement with the Australian landscape.
  
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• Jia Art Gallery / Foster + Partners

  21-05-2026 05:00 via archdaily.com
  © Katy Harris architects: Foster + PartnersLocation: Putuo, Shanghai, ChinaPhotographs: Katy HarrisArea: 5000.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Bondi Beach Villa / Common Office

  21-05-2026 04:00 via archdaily.com
  © Tom Ross architects: Common OfficeLocation: Bondi Beach, Sydney, AustraliaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Tom RossPhotographs: Anson SmartArea: 516.8 m2 Read more »
  
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• Making a Characterful Entrance: The Architectural Impact of Wooden Bi-Folding Doors

  21-05-2026 03:30 via archdaily.com
  House of Wine in Berneck. Image Courtesy of Faruk Pinjo + Carlos Martinez ArchitektenBi-folding doors flood a room with light, offering the spatial flexibility to establish a dialogue with the surroundings. The Woodline series by Solarlux integrates manufacturing quality and technical expertise with architectural freedom, providing transparent facade solutions for versatile, sustainable architecture. The natural surfaces further enhance the building envelope with a distinct tactile quality.Read
  
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• Final stage of Newcastle’s 30-year foreshore transformation unveiled

  21-05-2026 03:01 via architectureau.com
  The $1.6 billion project will deliver approximately 1,000 homes and a major mixed-use program including accommodation, and commercial, retail and public space.
  
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• Remembering Lionel Glendenning 1941–2025

  21-05-2026 02:55 via architectureau.com
  Alan Croker pays tribute to Sydney architect Lionel Glendenning, architect of the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, remembering him as passionate architect whose concern for a sustainable future for the built environment and the planet was always front-of-mind in his work.
  concerned for our responsibility, care and stewardship (or lack thereof) of the built environment.
  
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• Michael Leeton on crafting place, protection and poetry in residential design

  21-05-2026 02:08 via indesignlive.com
  As part of the SpeakingOut! series for the 2026 INDE.Awards, this conversation brings together one of Australia’s most compelling residential architects in dialogue with Jan Henderson. Supported by Gaggenau, partner of The Living Space category, the interview offers a considered look into the ideas shaping Michael Leeton’s practice at Leeton Pointon Architects.Leeton’s work is underpinned by a quiet sensitivity to site, climate and the rhythms of everyday life. His architecture
  
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• KAAP - Residential District and Circular Pavilion / Powerhouse Company + Orange Architects + NEXT architects

  21-05-2026 02:00 via archdaily.com
  ©  Jeroen Musch architects: NEXT architectsarchitects: Orange Architectsarchitects: Powerhouse CompanyLocation: Amsterdam, The NetherlandsProject Year: 2025Photographs:  Jeroen MuschPhotographs: Sebastian van DammePhotographs: Emile HoensArea: 16685.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Lyndall Bryant on surviving turbulent construction costs

  21-05-2026 00:00 via architectureau.com
  ArchitectureAu Asks the Brisbane academic, “Construction costs are rising again – will it get worse for architects before it gets better?”
  
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