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• Australian projects take out top prizes in 2025 Dezeen Awards

  26-11-2025 23:29 via architectureau.com
  Three Australian projects have claimed accolades in this year’s Dezeen Awards, including a new home in Melbourne, a Sydney bathroom design and a Melbourne-designed-and-made surface finish.
  
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• Dreaming in the Ruins: How a Sleeping Ritual in Logroño Proposes a New Civic Architecture

  02-07-2026 09:30 via archdaily.com
  
  One Third of Life by Suomi/Koivisto & IC-98, Concéntrico 2026. Image Courtesy of ConcéntricoCities are increasingly designed to mitigate risk, and by doing so, need to collect data on climate, infrastructure, biodiversity, and social fragmentation so that the language of resilience becomes a fixture of planning. Yet the underlying conditions that produce polarization, civic disengagement, and ecological breakdown often remain unquestioned. The tools that dominate urban practice
  
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• Dymak HQ / BIG

  02-07-2026 09:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST architects: Bjarke Ingels GroupLocation: Odense, DenmarkProject Year: 2026Photographs: Rasmus Hjortshøj - COASTArea: 2800.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Cottesloe House by Vokes and Peters with Sam Carter

  02-07-2026 08:59 via architectureau.com
  
  In North Cottesloe, a family house by Vokes and Peters with Sam Carter threads a public arcade from street to laneway, trading suburban privacy for an unusually civic generosity.
  
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• UIA World Congress 2026 and Henning Larsen's New Environmental Analysis Platform: This Week's Review

  02-07-2026 08:30 via archdaily.com
  
  Havnebryggen / Henning Larsen. Image © Sam Sandvig HosmanRecent events highlighted the many ways architecture responds to changing environmental, social, and cultural conditions. Major earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan, and Northern California renewed attention to the role of planning, infrastructure, and building practices in shaping resilience to natural hazards. As these questions continue to inform the built environment, the opening of the 2026 UIA World Congress of Architects in Barcelon
  
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• School Maria Assumpta Instituut / LOW Architecten

  02-07-2026 08:00 via archdaily.com
  
  architects: LOW ArchitectenLocation: Opwijk, BelgiumProject Year: 2025Photographs: Area: 3500.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• 15th São Paulo Architecture Biennial Names Gabriela de Matos and Pedro Rossi as Chief Curators for 2027

  02-07-2026 07:30 via archdaily.com
  
  São Paulo Architecture Biennial curators, Gabriela de Matos and Pedro Rossi. Image © João Bertholini/IABspThe 15th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial (BIAsp), scheduled to take place in September and October 2027, announced architects Gabriela de Matos and Pedro Rossi as the event's chief curators. Following the previous edition on the theme Extremes: Architectures for a Hot World, the duo is expected to bring critical perspectives on architecture, culture, a
  
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• Truth Telling at Wybalenna: Ablutions Pavilion and Homestead Renewal by Taylor and Hinds Architects

  02-07-2026 07:02 via architectureau.com
  
  At Wybalenna, a deeply sacred place for Palawa, a community-directed project carefully creates space and amenity to support gathering, and honours a powerful story of resistance and resilience.
  
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• Design Speaks Weekly: First Nations knowledge in focus

  02-07-2026 06:57 via architectureau.com
  
  To mark NAIDOC Week’s fiftieth anniversary, we’ve selected standoutDesign Speaks Weeklypodcast episodes exploring First Nations knowledge in the built environment.
  
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• Concrete Memory: 12 Postwar Monuments Across Eastern Europe

  02-07-2026 06:00 via archdaily.com
  
  Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of the Kosmaj Detachment. Image © MarkoDekic, via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0A monument is usually the most conservative building a state will commission. It is expected to stabilize memory, to make history legible, and to give public form to a shared narrative. Eastern Europe's twentieth century produced an entire body of work from the Baltic to the Balkans that resisted precisely those expectations, challenging the conventional relationship between monumen
  
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• Enkime HQ / RHO

  02-07-2026 05:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Clemens Poloczek architects: RHOLocation: Berlin, GermanyProject Year: 2026Photographs: Clemens PoloczekArea: 1000.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Your 2026 INDE.Awards shortlist is here

  02-07-2026 04:03 via indesignlive.com
  
  The moment we have all waited for has finally arrived, the 2026 INDE.Awards shortlist is now unveiled!Our expert jury has deliberated and the top entries in each category have now been decided. With only 12 entries in each project category, this really is a shortlist and congratulations to everyone named below. To be included on the shortlist is an honour and we celebrate your incredible work.In this, our 10th anniversary year of the INDE.Awards, the program is stronger and larger than ever befo
  
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• Primus Office Building / Sanjay Puri Architects

  02-07-2026 04:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Vinay Panjwani architects: Sanjay Puri ArchitectsLocation: Jaipur, IndiaProject Year: 2026Photographs: Vinay PanjwaniArea: 9475.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Alexander Symes Architect: A practice shaped by curiosity

  02-07-2026 03:59 via architectureau.com
  
  Fusing a commitment to sustainable design with lessons learnt in construction and engineering, this Sydney studio produces well-crafted houses that benefit people and planet.
  
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• Caring for Country means First Nations are at the heart of decision making

  02-07-2026 03:45 via architectureau.com
  
  Despite long-awaited reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the role of Indigenous peoples in matters that relate to the health of Country remain advisory at best. We cannot continue with a system that pays lip service to reconciliation while approving the destruction of sacred sites and ecosystems.
  
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• Beyond Movable Walls: Acoustic Flexibility for Multi-Purpose Spaces

  02-07-2026 03:30 via archdaily.com
  
  Courtesy of SkyfoldOne of the defining qualities of contemporary interiors is flexibility. Offices, education facilities, hotels, and cultural venues need to be adaptable. They require spaces that can expand, divide, open, and close according to different activities, without sacrificing comfort, or accoustics. How a space is subdivided, then, is no longer a secondary decision, but a central component of architectural performance.Read more »
  
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• Pages Afloat / f-a-n architects

  02-07-2026 02:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Fangfang Tian architects: f-a-n architectsLocation: Huizhou,Guangdong, ChinaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Fangfang TianPhotographs: Jinquan KongArea: 61.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• More than 45,000 Indigenous households lack adequate housing – here’s what must change

  02-07-2026 01:14 via architectureau.com
  
  New national research shows unmet housing need among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households is double the rate of other Australians. Without fundamental change, current housing reforms will not close the gap.
  
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• By 2050, many Sydney apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for weeks at a time

  01-07-2026 23:54 via architectureau.com
  
  Sydney is rapidly rezoning, leads the nation in apartment living, and is still racing to build more homes. Many of the developments approved today will still be standing in 2050. But while we are building for the future, we are designing for the past.
  
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• Casa Continuum / Inverse Project

  01-07-2026 21:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Alvaro Fonseca – Depth Lens architects: Inverse ProjectLocation: Peninsula Papagayo, Costa RicaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Alvaro Fonseca – Depth LensArea: 1600.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Iporanga Beach House / DB Arquitetos

  01-07-2026 19:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Fran Parente architects: DB ArquitetosLocation: , BrazilProject Year: 2025Photographs: Fran ParenteArea: 690.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Creative directors for Australia’s 2027 Venice Biennale exhibition announced

  01-07-2026 19:00 via architectureau.com
  
  The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the team and project that will represent Australia at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale.
  
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• Rural Guesthouse La Reunión / IR arquitectura + Menhir Arquitectura

  01-07-2026 17:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Javier Agustin Rojas architects: IR arquitecturaarchitects: Menhir ArquitecturaLocation: Rawson, ArgentinaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Javier Agustin RojasArea: 157.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Country House / Teresa Borsoi Arquitetura

  01-07-2026 15:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Daniel Santo architects: Teresa Borsoi ArquiteturaLocation: Chacara de Recreio Jardim Alvorada, BrazilProject Year: 2024Photographs: Daniel SantoArea: 242.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Le Diamant / in situ atelier d'architecture + Coarchitecture + Jacques Plante

  01-07-2026 14:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Stéphane Groleau architects: Coarchitecturearchitects: Jacques Plantearchitects: in situ atelier d'architectureLocation: Québec, CanadaProject Year: 2019Photographs: Stéphane GroleauPhotographs: Area: 8500.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Fantastic Frank Stockholm Showroom / ASKA

  01-07-2026 12:00 via archdaily.com
  
  © Mikael Lundblad architects: ASKALocation: SwedenProject Year: 2026Photographs: Mikael LundbladArea: 160.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Architectures of Movement: ArchDaily's July Editorial Focus

  01-07-2026 10:00 via archdaily.com
  
  When the Earth Began to Look at Itself - Desert X Installation / Syn Architects. Image © Lance GerberEvery twelve years, the banks of the Ganges at Prayagraj become one of the largest cities on Earth — and then disappear. The Maha Kumbh Mela draws over 400 million pilgrims across six weeks, requiring the construction of a full urban infrastructure: pontoon bridges, field hospitals, kilometers of temporary roads, a grid of tent cities visible from space. When the festival ends, it is d
  
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• Agricultural Afterlives: When Waste Becomes Architecture

  01-07-2026 09:30 via archdaily.com
  
  School built in India with Sugarcrete. Image © Husain AkbarA building material rarely begins where architecture encounters it. By the time concrete reaches a construction site, its limestone has already been quarried, processed, and transformed. Timber arrives long after the forest. Glass appears detached from the sand from which it was made. By the time materials enter construction, much of the landscape and industry that produced them has already disappeared from view.Across India and the
  
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• Ergonomic solutions

  01-07-2026 07:29 via indesignlive.com
  
  The modern workplace is changing, with workstations becoming increasingly complex. Screens are larger, technology is denser and the boundaries between focused work, collaboration and mobility continue to blur. Yet within many workplaces, the tools intended to support this evolution remain visually intrusive and mechanically over-engineered — objects that occupy space without effectively responding to the human body.With the launch of Humanscale M/Class Monitor Arms, Humanscale propose
  
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• Why luxury homes deserve better light

  01-07-2026 06:39 via indesignlive.com
  
  Somewhere in the rush toward efficiency, we lost something beautiful. For generations, the warm glow of incandescent light made timber feel richer, stone feel deeper, and people look like themselves. Then LED arrived — and while the gains were real, light quality became an afterthought. Quietly, the world started to look a little duller. Walk into a beautifully designed home after dark and you can see it: marble reads as grey, timber loses its warmth, artwork falls flat, skin tones turn sa
  
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