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• Comment: The design story behind storytelling spaces 

  28-05-2026 07:50 via indesignlive.com
  
  By Erin Shepherd, director at Charcoalblue.As a theatre consultant at Charcoalblue, I’ve collaborated with some of the region’s best architects to deliver incredible projects in Australia and New Zealand.Yet many architects are unfamiliar with what a theatre consultant does. Finding a good consultant to partner with on a performance space project is critical. By the end, most architects value the collaboration so much that they often check in before moving a light switch!So, what exa
  
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• Golden Avenue, brutal Brisbane

  28-05-2026 04:55 via indesignlive.com
  
  Timothy Alouani-Roby: Please tell me a bit about the wider site context. Jared Webb: Golden Avenue is located within a low-rise, heritage-protected pocket on Edward Steet in Brisbane, beside the Coal Board House. The building intentionally recedes among its neighbours. Its form reads as a collection of small towers unified by a perforated concrete shade sail. The Middle Eastern-inspired brutalist interior — composed of green-tinted concrete, pink juparana stone and dense pla
  
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• Powerhouse Parramatta readies itself for late 2026 opening

  28-05-2026 03:04 via indesignlive.com
  
  Powerhouse Parramatta is due to open its doors in late 2026 and is being positioned as one of the most significant public cultural projects delivered in Australia since the completion of the Sydney Opera House. Set on the banks of the Parramatta River, the 30,000-square-metre museum represents a major shift in the geography of Sydney’s cultural infrastructure, establishing the first state cultural institution in Western Sydney — one of the country’s fastest-growing and most div
  
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• Winners revealed: 2026 City of Port Phillip Design and Development Awards

  28-05-2026 02:09 via architectureau.com
  The redeveloped St Kilda Pier, a 700-home apartment complex, Australia’s oldest kindergarten and the environmentally ambitious Port Phillip EcoCentre are among the winners of this year's awards.
  
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• Inala Infill Apartments by Baber Studio

  28-05-2026 01:39 via architectureau.com
  
  In outer Brisbane, three suburban lots have been transformed into 14 new social dwellings, offering a demonstration of what housing can achieve when it is considered as infrastructure, where its outcomes are measured against health and wellbeing, innovation in construction and long-term sustainability, rather than cost alone.
  
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