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• Per atria ad astra

  20-08-2026 05:50 via indesignlive.com
  
  This article originally appeared in Indesign Magazine — find out more and subscribe!A financial services HQ in the centre of Sydney isn’t exactly the first place one might look to see the benefits of central planning. Soviet-era master-planning it is not; nevertheless, 1 Elizabeth is an almost dizzyingly large and multilayered project with one secret ingredient – a single client. This is a whole city block in the very centre of the city’s CBD, so let’s be clear
  
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• “A journey into a whole new material world”: Plant Life at the NGV

  20-08-2026 04:30 via indesignlive.com
  
  “We’re observing a shift”: Ewan McEoin’s is a stark turn of phrase, one that hints at a sense of occasion in this high-stakes moment of climate crisis and the generalised feeling that design (and society more broadly) is moving out of one dying paradigm and into another still struggling to be born. “The shift is interesting and, as a design curator, I want to accelerate that shift. I want more people to understand what materials are available to them if they&rs
  
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• Yitpi Yartapuultiku Aboriginal Cultural Centre by Ashley Halliday Architects and Wax Design

  20-08-2026 01:43 via architectureau.com
  
  A new Living Cultural Centre on the banks of the Yerta Bulti/Port River is a testament to deep listening, regenerative design, and the story of a long fight for cultural restoration.
  
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• Beyond the panel: What makes a design event worth attending?

  20-08-2026 01:40 via indesignlive.com
  
  The architecture and design calendar is rarely quiet. There are launches, talks, panel discussions, showroom openings, awards nights and dinners, often several competing for attention in the same week. Yet the events that stay with people are not necessarily the biggest or the most polished.In the lead-up to Saturday Indesign, we asked members of the architecture and design community what would make industry events more engaging, memorable or valuable. Their answers returned repeatedly to the sa
  
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