Ahead of the upcoming Melbourne Design Week panel discussion ‘Emerging Bio-based and Upcycled Materials for Everyday Use,’ industry experts Suzette Jackson (KFive Furniture), Riley Aickin (UPPAREL) and interior designer Jade Whittaker (Breathe Architecture) join Collectivity Talks moderator Genevieve Brannigan to discuss the role of bio-based and upcycled materials in a sustainable circular future for the retail sector and beyond.
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Material matters: striving for circularity in the retail sector
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Mirador School La Jalquilla / Semillas
via archdaily.com© Eleazar Cuadros architects: SemillasLocation: Cajamarca, PerúProject Year: 2024Photographs: Eleazar CuadrosArea: 1259.0 m2 Read more »
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Cabin Fever 2025 Installations / Hello Wood
via archdaily.com© BoysPlayNice architects: Hello WoodLocation: Česká Kamenice, CzechiaProject Year: 2025Photographs: BoysPlayNicePhotographs: Harvey CooperPhotographs: Filip BeranekPhotographs: Martin Tuma Read more »
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From the Shore Residence / MAJ - Mise à Jour
via archdaily.com© Félix Michaud architects: MAJ - Mise à JourLocation: Montreal, CanadaPhotographs: Félix Michaud Read more »
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9 m³ of Survival: Inside the Orion Spacecraft and the Architecture of Space Travel
via archdaily.comArtist representation of Orion's lunar flyby. Image via NASA under license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0It was July 1969, and people on planet Earth were about to witness a historical moment for humanity: the first time a human being stepped on the surface of the Moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission. After this event, NASA landed five more times on the lunar surface, with the last one being Apollo 17 in 1972. Since then, humans have not attempted to return to the Moon until this year, 2026, when they will launch
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House with Crane and Fan / Alex Lehnerer Architekten
via archdaily.comCourtesy of Alex Lehnerer Architekten architects: Alex Lehnerer ArchitektenLocation: Schwabach, GermanyProject Year: 2024Photographs: Courtesy of Alex Lehnerer ArchitektenArea: 230.0 m2 Read more »
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Qingjiang Furong Pavilions / FLIP studio
via archdaily.com© Runzi Zhu architects: FLIP studioLocation: Qingjiang Town, Yueqing City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, ChinaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Runzi ZhuArea: 2630.0 m2 Read more »
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Reimei Kobashi Pedestrian Bridge / Hoshino Architects
via archdaily.com© ebi_times architects: Hoshino ArchitectsLocation: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JapanProject Year: 2024Photographs: ebi_timesPhotographs: Mitsui Fudosan ResidentialArea: 425.0 m2 Read more »
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House in the Woods / Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos
via archdaily.com© Silueta Amarilla+SAJAESCA architects: Espinoza Carvajal ArquitectosLocation: Quito, EcuadorProject Year: 2025Photographs: Silueta Amarilla+SAJAESCAArea: 760.0 m2 Read more »
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Garage Encounters / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)
via archdaily.com© Dylan Perrenoud architects: BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)Location: Lisboa, PortugalProject Year: 2025Photographs: Dylan PerrenoudArea: 2200.0 m2 Read more »
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Bosrijk Houses / Marcel Lok_Architect
via archdaily.com© Max Hart Nibbrig architects: Marcel Lok_ArchitectLocation: Eindhoven, The NetherlandsProject Year: 2023Photographs: Max Hart NibbrigPhotographs: Mitchell van EijkArea: 1080.0 m2 Read more »
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Hobart's Forest dome reopens as UTAS campus
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Deep Tones and Natural Roots: 22 Shou Sugi Ban Homes Across the US and Canada
via archdaily.com© Scott NorsworthyShou Sugi Ban is a traditional Japanese technique for wood preservation that involves charring the surface of timber to create a protective layer. While its origins are rooted in practical durability, the method has been widely adapted into the modern built environment and shapes a unique and distinctive aesthetic. It is a material of contradiction: it remains bold in its visual language due to its dark tones, yet it simultaneously borrows from and complements its natural
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Art Basel Qatar - In the Assembly of Lovers / Counterspace
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Seeding the Future and Reframing Architectural Impact
via archdaily.comBeyond The Prize. © Enrico Fiorese
What matters more: looking to the past or to the future? Recognizing established trajectories or fostering paths still under construction? Perhaps this is not a question with a single answer. Traditionally, architecture awards have operated as devices of consecration, recognizing completed works, established careers, and already tested solutions, most often through a retrospective lens. But what would happen if recognition ceased to be an end in itself and
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Moving Capitals Across Global Contexts: From Strategic Planning to Environmental Necessity
via archdaily.comCairo, Egypt. Image © Sergey via ShutterstockAcross history, the relocation of capital cities has often been associated with moments of political rupture, regime change, or symbolic nation-building. From Brasília to Islamabad, new capitals were frequently conceived as instruments of centralized power, territorial control, or ideological projection. In recent decades, however, a different set of drivers has begun to shape these decisions. Rather than security or representation alone,
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Corten House / HPA Arquitetura e Investimentos
via archdaily.com© Ivo Tavares Studio architects: HPA Arquitetura e InvestimentosLocation: Celorico de Basto, PortugalProject Year: 2025Photographs: Ivo Tavares StudioArea: 495.0 m2 Read more »
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Setting the blueprint for Bradfield City’s first precinct
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Zaha Hadid Architects Designs Cultural District Along the Qiantang Bay Central Water Axis in Hangzhou, China
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Disaster after disaster: do we have enough raw materials to ‘build back better’?
As an integral part of the “build back better” approach, authorities must include strategies for the environmentally and socially responsible management of building materials, including the specification of sustainable materials for reconstruction projects.
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Five years on: What Pacifica taught us about vertical living
via indesignlive.comFive years after its completion, Pacifica continues to shape conversations about density, liveability and tall residential design in Aotearoa New Zealand. Designed by Plus Studio for developer Hengyi, the 178-metre tower remains the country’s tallest building, but its significance lies less in its height than in what it has revealed about how vertical living can work in an Auckland context.From the outset, Pacifica was conceived as a test case rather than a trophy project. Located one bloc
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Rooms as Heritage: How Interior Typologies Carry Cultural Memory
via archdaily.comHouse of the Circular Terraces / Denis Joelsons. Image © Pedro KokFor decades, heritage has been easiest to recognize from the street. We protect facades, skylines, and monuments because they are visible, stable, and legible as cultural assets. Yet most of what we remember about living is how we eat together, withdraw, argue, care, and rest, which happen far from view. It happens inside rooms. As open plans quietly give way to thresholds, corridors, and enclosures, a deeper question emerges
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Rodd & Gunn reimagined
via indesignlive.comIn creating the new global flagship for Rodd & Gunn, Studio Y has expertly merged hospitality and retail design to present the next iteration of the experiential for clients. Not simply a beautiful space to buy men’s clothing, the Rodd & Gunn store is also a member’s club with dining and hospitality central to its offering.The store is located in one of Melbourne’s premier heritage addresses at 280 Little Collins Street and the building was once the home of the renowned
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The Stable and the Orange Barn / Nobuyasu Hattori + Shota Koga
via archdaily.com© Benjamin Hosking architects: Nobuyasu Hattori + Shota KogaLocation: Toyohashi, Aichi, JapanProject Year: 2024Photographs: Benjamin HoskingArea: 134.0 m2 Read more »
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New amenities pavilion approved at Coogee Beach
Sam Crawford Architects’ design for a new public amenities and cafe building inspired by the Coogee coastline and First Nations Songlines has been greenlit for development.
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Patrick Keane on Scaling Sustainability
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Swing House / lb+mr
via archdaily.com© Favaro Jr. architects: lb+mrLocation: Parque Residencial Damha, BrasilProject Year: 2025Photographs: Favaro Jr.Area: 600.0 m2 Read more »
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Brown and Crouppen King’s Hill Headquarters / HOK
via archdaily.comarchitects: HOKLocation: St. Louis, United StatesProject Year: 2024Photographs: Photographs: Sam FentressArea: 48000.0 ft2 Read more »
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Winkelhaus / estudio kmmk
via archdaily.com© Archibatch architects: estudio kmmkLocation: Winkel, SwitzerlandProject Year: 2026Photographs: ArchibatchPhotographs: Frederico MontanhaPhotographs: Area: 643.0 m2 Read more »
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Building at the Edge: New York and Hong Kong’s Competing Waterfront Logics
via archdaily.comLittle Island Park / Heatherwick Studio + MNLA. Image © Timothy SchenckCoastal development in major cities has long been a terrain of opportunity and contention—shaped at once by the pursuit of capital (premium views, scarce land, and the promise of reclamation), by civic demands for public access and collective waterfront life, and by contemporary aspirations for sustainability and place-defining urban identity. Precisely because these agendas rarely align, extracting the full potent
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