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• Perth Design Week 2026 program launches

  11-02-2026 05:29 via architectureau.com
  The 2026 edition of the festival shifts from an open-call format to a curated program of larger-format events.
  
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• Inside the global ethos of NICE PROJECTS

  11-02-2026 05:01 via indesignlive.com
  There’s something more than just nice about NICE PROJECTS. Yes, the practice is led by two highly experienced principals and the work is diverse and beautifully resolved, but it’s the studio’s ethos that truly sets it apart.Established in 2020 by Simone McEwan and Sacha Leong, NICE PROJECTS is a small, highly organised architecture and design studio with a global presence. Between them, McEwan and Leong bring more than 35 years of experience across large and small commercial pr
  
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• Hannah Street Hotel by Flack Studio

  11-02-2026 04:05 via architectureau.com
  Given carte blanche in Southbank, Flack Studio distils Melbourne’s effortless eclecticism into Hannah Street Hotel – a layered, atmospheric world where modern nostalgia, surprise and soul collide.
  
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• Wellness architecture serving up residential-level craftsmanship

  11-02-2026 03:52 via indesignlive.com
  The brief for Positive Energy was based on a mission to positively impact people’s lives through a wellness facility offering multiple movement modes encouraging flexibility/mobility, meditation, breathwork and nutrition. The client also had a strong creative vision (as well as being a movement devotee and business owner, she is also a DJ), bringing Woodward Architects references of New York warehouse conversions and Miami art deco aesthetics. For her, it was important that the enviro
  
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• Bunnings’ backyard pods won’t fix the housing crisis, but they signal a shift

  11-02-2026 03:36 via architectureau.com
  Australia’s biggest hardware retailer has begun selling tiny homes, riding the shift toward factory-built housing, but the real shift is bigger: Australia needs to build high-quality homes at scale, not just sell small pods.
  
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• Sydney Fish Market: Roundtable podcast with 3XN, BVN and ASPECT Studios

  11-02-2026 03:35 via indesignlive.com
  LISTEN HERE!It’s been one of the city’s most prestigious projects in recent years: the new Sydney Fish Market, designed by 3XN, BVN and ASPECT Studios. Having opened to the public in January 2026, we are delighted to host representatives from each design practice for an in-person conversation hosted by The Commons, Surry Hills.Fred Holt (3XN), Catherine Skinner (BVN) and Louise Pearson (ASPECT Studios) – pictured left to right, below – reflect on how the project ties
  
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• Degrees of separation: Exploring the common ground of 31 Degrees Design’s new releases

  11-02-2026 02:53 via indesignlive.com
  At first glance, it’s the distance between DuO Too and CoALL that seems to define the relationship between 31 Degrees Design’s latest releases. However, while the degree of separation between a heavy-set public seating collection and a streamlined, tech-integrated workstation is apparent, this striking juxtaposition is just the surface of a far more singular narrative.Inspired by the assertive gestures of Brutalist architecture and the sincere material expression of béton brut
  
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• The Great Room expands Sydney footprint with design-led flagship

  11-02-2026 02:03 via indesignlive.com
  Coworking provider The Great Room by Industrious has unveiled its second Sydney location, opening a flagship workplace within the One O’Connell Street tower. Spanning Levels 14 and 15 of the WELL-certified building, the new space signals the brand’s continued confidence in Australia’s flex-work market and reinforces a broader shift toward hospitality-driven, design-led workplaces in the CBD.The opening follows CBRE’s acquisition of Industrious in early 2025 and builds on
  
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• Plans lodged to transform prominent St Martins Centre site in Perth

  11-02-2026 00:54 via architectureau.com
  Under the plans, St Martins Tower, once the tallest building in Western Australia, will be converted into a 243-room “lifestyle hotel”.
  
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• Cafe by day, bar by night

  11-02-2026 00:37 via indesignlive.com
  Transforming a rare inner-city bungalow, Spacemen Studio creates an all-day dining and lounge destination defined by natural light, layered materials and a seamless shift from brunch café to evening bar.In the dense fabric of central Kuala Lumpur, where commercial towers increasingly eclipse the city’s earlier domestic scale, Sun & Moon occupies a rare remnant: a standalone bungalow with a layered and somewhat unruly past. Rather than erase that history, Spacemen Studio has care
  
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• Café by day, bar by night

  11-02-2026 00:37 via indesignlive.com
  Transforming a rare inner-city bungalow, Spacemen Studio creates an all-day dining and lounge destination defined by natural light, layered materials and a seamless shift from brunch café to evening bar.In the dense fabric of central Kuala Lumpur, where commercial towers increasingly eclipse the city’s earlier domestic scale, Sun & Moon occupies a rare remnant: a standalone bungalow with a layered and somewhat unruly past. Rather than erase that history, Spacemen Studio has care
  
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• Gelato Messina Glenelg by Sans-Arc Studio

  10-02-2026 22:38 via architectureau.com
  On Glenelg’s bustling Jetty Road, a bold, colour-saturated interior by Sans-Arc Studio channels joy, community and the energy of southern Italy for Gelato Messina’s newest store.
  
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• Behind the Brand with Jasper Sundh

  10-02-2026 06:01 via indesignlive.com
  Behind the Brand is about getting to know the people shaping design-led businesses from within the industry. Jasper Sundh is a senior commercial leader at Hästens, working across wholesale, retail and hospitality markets globally. With a career built on international growth and premium brand development, Sundh brings a measured, performance-led perspective to one of the world’s most established luxury sleep brands.You’re originally from the Netherlands and now based in Sweden. H
  
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• David Sequeira on colour, form and time

  10-02-2026 04:56 via indesignlive.com
  The established, Indian-born Melbourne-based artist and curator is widely known for his emboldened studies of colour and form. His fashion performance pieces extend this passionate language. Form from the Formless, made with gouache and pencil on paper and mounted on collapsible music stands, is a silent tribute to both idioms and is one of four bodies of work installed in Sequeira’s solo exhibition The Shape of Music.The work’s colour applications are reminiscent of modernist Josef
  
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• Melbourne Metro and the design heft of transport infrastructure

  10-02-2026 04:18 via indesignlive.com
  Having opened in late 2025, Melbourne Metro Tunnel gained significant attention even beyond our beloved realm of design media. Likewise, Sydney Metro. These are obviously huge projects, but there seems to be something extra garnering all this attention recently in Australia – a certain dynamic that keys into the wider importance of such large-scale transport infrastructure projects.For Hassell’s Ingrid Bakker in Melbourne, it has something to do with how “the architecture
  
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• Potter Museum of Art / Wood Marsh

  10-02-2026 03:00 via archdaily.com
  © Fergus Floyd architects: Wood MarshLocation: Parkville, AustraliaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Fergus Floyd Read more »
  
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• New vision seeks flexible future for Australia’s oldest Aboriginal cultural institute

  10-02-2026 01:47 via architectureau.com
  Grieve Gillett Architects has developed a conceptual vision reimagining the future of Tandanya, Australia’s oldest First Nations-owned and -run cultural institute, which has been closed for repair since 2023.
  
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• Fujian Wuyi Mountain National Park Moon Bay Observation Deck / CLAB Architects

  10-02-2026 01:00 via archdaily.com
  Courtesy of CLAB Architects architects: CLAB ArchitectsLocation: Nanping, ChinaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Courtesy of CLAB ArchitectsArea: 970.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Keiji Ashizawa Design transforms historic Singapore restaurant

  10-02-2026 00:57 via indesignlive.com
  The view out of the windows at Loca Nicu is spectacular – and it is not because of any kind of panoramic scenery. Rather, the openings – accompanied by timber shutters painted a blood-red colour – frame the chromatic roofscapes of the House of Tan Yeok Nee within which the restaurant is located.One of these details is a band of ceramic horses galloping in frozen motion across the roof’s da ji (or main ridge), among other imagery. It is a fitting representation of the Japa
  
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• Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre by Lyons

  09-02-2026 23:33 via architectureau.com
  In Lyons’ design of a new Melbourne medical facility, the collective endeavour of scientific research and institutional care is folded into an environment that privileges ease, familiarity and individual experience.
  
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• JT Residence / Wahana Architects

  09-02-2026 20:00 via archdaily.com
  © Ernest Theofilus architects: Wahana ArchitectsLocation: Jakarta, IndonesiaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Ernest TheofilusArea: 800.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• A Forest in the House / Equipo de Arquitectura

  09-02-2026 16:00 via archdaily.com
  © Federico Cairoli architects: Equipo de ArquitecturaLocation: San Bernardino, ParaguayProject Year: 2025Photography: Federico CairoliArea: 260.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Connecting Gallery for the Les Verdaines Retirement Home / Agence Vulcano-Gibello

  09-02-2026 13:00 via archdaily.com
  © Charly Broyez architects: Agence Vulcano-GibelloLocation: Santenay, FranceProject Year: 2025Photographs: Charly BroyezArea: 80.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Common Woods / Space&Matter

  09-02-2026 11:00 via archdaily.com
  © Riccardo De Vecchi architects: Space&MatterLocation: Amersfoort, The NetherlandsProject Year: 2026Photographs: Riccardo De VecchiArea: 10850.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• The Kitchen as a Social Space: Everyday Rituals and the Making of Place

  09-02-2026 08:31 via archdaily.com
  Renacer de Chamanga Community House / Actuemos Ecuador © KliwadenkonovasCan architecture be built from food? Between the fire that warms, the smells that spread, and the bodies that gather around the table, the apparent banality of cooking and eating reveals itself as a choreographed dance of spatial appropriation and belonging. These gestures organize routines, produce bonds, and transform the built environment into lived place. The kitchen—domestic, communal, or urban—thus cea
  
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• Van der Vlugt Residence / [STRANG]

  09-02-2026 08:00 via archdaily.com
  © Ryan Lester - Architecture Sarasota architects: [STRANG]Location: , United StatesProject Year: 2026Photographs: Ryan Lester - Architecture SarasotaPhotographs: Kris Tamburello Read more »
  
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• Buildner Announces Winners of Architect’s Chair #4 Competition and Launches #5 Edition

  09-02-2026 07:45 via archdaily.com
  Second Prize Winner + Buildner Student Award: Silent EquilibriumBuildner is pleased to announce the results of its Architect's Chair Competition Edition 4, an annual international competition that invites architects and designers worldwide to submit designs for a signature chair. Following in the footsteps of iconic figures like Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen, participants are tasked with creating custom chairs that reflect their unique design p
  
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• WEISS/MANFREDI Reveals Updated Designs for La Brea Tar Pits Transformation in Los Angeles

  09-02-2026 07:30 via archdaily.com
  Aerial View. Image © WEISS/MANFREDI with Courtesy of NHMLACNew renderings released by WEISS/MANFREDI reveal updated plans for the ongoing transformation of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a comprehensive redesign that integrates the museum, landscape, and active excavation areas into a continuous public and research-oriented campus. Alongside the design update, the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHM) has announced the creation of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice
  
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• Art 1 Office / Neiheiser Argyros

  09-02-2026 07:00 via archdaily.com
  © Lorenzo Zandri architects: Neiheiser ArgyrosLocation: Athens, GreeceProject Year: 2022Photographs: Lorenzo ZandriPhotographs: Area: 2300.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• sauerbruch hutton Exhibition in Paris Explores the Technical and Atmospheric Potential of Wood

  09-02-2026 06:30 via archdaily.com
  Franklin Village / Sauerbruch Hutton. Image © Jan BitterThe recently inaugurated exhibition matière en résonance ("resonant matter") brings together a wide range of models and a curated selection of photographs to present sauerbruch hutton's ongoing exploration of timber. The exhibition starts from the premise that while the age of concrete defined the twentieth century, the early twenty-first century has seen a worldwide resurgence of timber, a much older building material. T
  
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