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• The path to net-zero: A new workplace model

  01-04-2025 22:56 via architectureau.com
  
  The traditional office model is ripe for change. By adopting modular, flexible fitouts, developers can create sustainable, adaptable workspaces that reduce waste and support long-term resilience, aligning with net-zero goals and evolving workplace needs.
  
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• Material confidence at Ambit Curator’s Everton Buildings

  16-12-2025 06:36 via indesignlive.com
  At Everton Buildings’ new workplace, creative freedom is treated as a marker of trust. Led by Ambit Curator, the design team was given licence to move beyond convention, crafting an office that feels assured, textural and intentionally bold. It’s a space shaped as much by long-standing partnership as by a curatorial eye.Designed for a respected residential development company, the Everton Buildings office reflects a business in its stride. Having worked together previously, the relat
  
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• Designing infrastructure and care at Kampung Mrican

  16-12-2025 05:30 via indesignlive.com
  When saying design matters, buildings that best serve a community and enhance cultural life are at the top of the list. Located in Yogyakarta’s Sleman Regency, Kampung Mrican Phase 1 is a community-led revitalisation project that demonstrates how architecture and infrastructure can meaningfully improve daily life. Designed by SHAU in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works, the project addresses long-standing issues of sanitation, safety and flood resilience within a den
  
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• First of the Greenline precincts complete

  16-12-2025 04:28 via architectureau.com
  Melbourne’s Greenline along the north bank of the Birrarung/Yarra River will extend from Birrarung Marr to the Bolte Bridge once finished.
  
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• Ra:tio blends interior and landscape design in a Jubilee Hills café

  16-12-2025 04:01 via indesignlive.com
  As much a café to be enjoyed outdoors as within, Ra:tio is carefully crafted to complement and enhance the ritual of drinking coffee. With a contemporary yet restrained aesthetic, the hospitality venue is an experiential space realised through a collaboration between interior designer VAL Atelier and landscape designer The Pinewood Studio.Located in Jubilee Hills, a chic neighbourhood in western Hyderabad, India, the design of Ra:tio reflects the precision and balance inherent in specialt
  
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• Omnicom’s Melbourne headquarters revitalises a heritage icon on Bourke Street

  16-12-2025 03:36 via indesignlive.com
  Located on Bourke Street, Melbourne, within the heritage-listed former Coles Book Arcade building, Omnicom’s new headquarters raises the bar for workspace design in the city.Spanning five levels, the fit-out responds carefully to the historic architecture of the building while supporting the complex, high-paced workplace of a global communications group. Bates Smart undertook the base building works and, over a four-year period, delivered the interior design with sensitivity and restraint.
  
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• Heritage dental hospital and adjacent Brisbane CBD site released for development

  16-12-2025 02:36 via architectureau.com
  A pair of state-owned sites in Brisbane’s CBD – one of which is home to a heritage-listed hospital – have been flagged for private redevelopment into a mixed-use precinct with housing, luxury hotel accommodation or boutique offices.
  
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• Connecting people and place

  16-12-2025 01:36 via indesignlive.com
  Looking to the future of the bayside suburb of St Kilda, architect and artist Matthew Bird, in collaboration with sociologist Brady Robards and urban planner Suzanne Barker from Monash University, has developed a research-based exhibition named Soft Infrastructures: St Kilda Reimagined.The exhibition was recently on show at Linden New Art in St Kilda. The project itself was inspired by the Palais de Danse, a large dance hall built in 1919 and formerly located next to the Palais Theatre until it
  
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• Stylecraft opens new Collins Street showroom in Melbourne

  16-12-2025 01:08 via indesignlive.com
  Stylecraft in Melbourne was abuzz last week. There were talks by Ross Gardam introducing Dwell, his latest furniture collection, alongside the opportunity to wander through Stylecraft’s new showroom, now located on Collins Street.While the chance to hear Gardam speak about design is always a drawcard, the Dwell pieces were equally compelling, beautifully arranged with the various components of the sleek, modular system on display.The new showroom is, in fact, an ideal setting not only for
  
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• A night of design: Greg Natale unveils Cruda and Bosco in Sydney

  16-12-2025 00:29 via indesignlive.com
  Tongue & Groove’s Sydney showroom set the scene for a lively gathering of designers, architects and industry friends this month as two new collections by Greg Natale were unveiled. The event brought together Tongue & Groove, who collaborated with Natale on the new Bosco timber flooring collection, and Designer Rugs, who partnered with him on Cruda, his seventh rug collection for the brand. Showing both ranges side by side created a natural synergy of timber and textile, structure a
  
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• Jumaadi transforms a Barangaroo thoroughfare into a site of wonder

  16-12-2025 00:12 via indesignlive.com
  A new permanent artwork has quietly taken root at Barangaroo South, transforming a busy pedestrian link into an immersive, otherworldly environment. Titled Upside-Down Garden, the installation marks the first public artwork by Indonesian–Australian artist Jumaadi and one of his most ambitious projects to date.Located within the through-site link of International House, the work comprises a constellation of suspended metal forms that appear to float overhead. Drawing on botanical references
  
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• Sirius Redevelopment by BVN

  15-12-2025 23:13 via architectureau.com
  While the saga of retaining Sydney’s Sirius Building exposes contradictions between the architectural merit and social benefit of our cities’ public housing heritage, BVN’s respectful regeneration of Sirius has given it a new life for many years to come.
  
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• Looking back: 2025’s Revisited

  15-12-2025 22:11 via architectureau.com
  From a 1980s home for artists by a young Glenn Murcutt to a 1943 Adelaide apartment that redefined luxury living, these are the homes we featured in our Revisited series in 2025.
  
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• Curated essentials: from rose-tinted mosaics to sculptural tapware

  15-12-2025 22:01 via architectureau.com
  Bring a bold look to kitchens and bathrooms with this curated selection of tiles, hardware, appliances and furniture.
  
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• Revisited: Rivendell by Laurie Virr

  15-12-2025 22:00 via architectureau.com
  Designed in 1975 by Laurie Virr for his own family, Rivendell was intended – like its fictional namesake – to be a personal sanctuary in harmony with its setting. Now, the home’s next custodians are undertaking restoration work to safeguard its future.
  
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• Pujiang Platform / MVRDV

  15-12-2025 08:00 via archdaily.com
  © Arch-Exist architects: MVRDVLocation: Jinhua, ChinaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Arch-ExistArea: 414.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• In the Blink of an Eye: 60 Light Installations Illuminate a Citywide Gallery for Noor Riyadh 2025

  15-12-2025 07:45 via archdaily.com
  Liminal Air Space-Time by Shinji Ohmaki, Noor Riyadh 2025. Image Courtesy of Noor RiyadhNoor Riyadh 2025 brought large-scale light installations to public sites across the Saudi Arabian capital, temporarily transforming transit hubs, historic districts, and significant landmarks into illuminated urban environments. From November 20 to December 6, 2025, Riyadh became a citywide gallery of light, motion, and shifting perception. The festival's fifth edition featured 60 artworks by 59 artists from
  
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• RINA-Led Team With Zaha Hadid Architects Wins Malpensa Hospital Competition in Italy

  15-12-2025 07:30 via archdaily.com
  Grande Ospedale della Malpensa, Italy, Render. Image © X UniverseZaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with RINA as team leader, Studio Plicchi, WSP, STI Engineering, and BC Building Consulting, has won the international competition to design Malpensa Hospital (Grande Ospedale della Malpensa) in Italy. Commissioned by the Lombardy Regional Health Authority, the project will consolidate the existing Gallarate and Busto Arsizio hospitals into a single medical campus serving the area between
  
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• Casa Roca / PPAA

  15-12-2025 07:00 via archdaily.com
  © Rafael Gamo architects: PPAALocation: Yosemite Lakes, United StatesProject Year: 2023Photographs: Rafael Gamo Read more »
  
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• MVRDV Receives Approval for Plum Village Buddhist Monastery Renovations in France

  15-12-2025 06:30 via archdaily.com
  Plum Village Buddhist Monastery renovation project by MVRDV and MoonWalkLocal. Garden House render. Image © REDVERTEXThe Plum Village Buddhist Monastery in southern Dordogne, France, has received construction approval for the first phase of its ongoing collaboration with Dutch architecture studio MVRDV. The approvals cover the Upper Hamlet masterplan phase, including the construction of new guest houses and the renovation and expansion of the monastery's bookshop, as well as a new nunnery b
  
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• From Ecologies to Everyday Life: Reflecting on Architectural Exhibitions in 2025

  15-12-2025 05:00 via archdaily.com
  Milan Design Week TAM TAM. Temple, Action, Movement by Alvisi Kirimoto. Image © Giuseppe Miotto - Marco Cappelletti StudioThis past year marked a period of introspection for architecture. As 2025 unfolded, the discipline, confronted with evolving environmental and social realities, entered a broader turning point in how it understands its role and how users engage with it. Throughout the year, exhibitions shifted focus away from buildings as isolated objects toward a broader understanding o
  
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• Hang Tau Kindergarten and Primary School / 1+1>2 Architects

  15-12-2025 04:00 via archdaily.com
  © Nguyen Gia Phong, Son Vu architects: 1+1>2 ArchitectsLocation: Quai To Commune, Dien Bien Province, VietnamProject Year: 2025Photographs: Nguyen Gia Phong, Son VuArea: 1328.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• CASA DLCA / 0studio Arquitectura

  15-12-2025 03:00 via archdaily.com
  © Rafael Palacios architects: 0studio ArquitecturaLocation: Zapopan, MexicoProject Year: 2024Photographs: Rafael PalaciosArea: 496.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Reading room: Books that interrogate – and speculate on – the lives of cities

  15-12-2025 02:36 via architectureau.com
  This holiday period is a great opportunity to become engrossed in these recently released books, which delve into the historic fabric – real and imagined – of the world’s cities and examine how it shapes social, cultural and environmental outcomes.
  
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• Are you really Designing with Country?

  15-12-2025 02:33 via architectureau.com
  Danièle Hromek unpacks the significance of terminology around Designing with Country and each person’s role to play in honouring this process.
  
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• What if the Smallest Detail Helped Shape the Mood of a Space?

  15-12-2025 02:30 via archdaily.com
  Creating living spaces in a world between on and off. Image Courtesy of GIRAAcross recent architectural discourse, interior design has been centered on how spaces shape psychological and atmospheric experience, and on what gives interior environments their emotional resonance. Attention has shifted toward small details rather than relying primarily on form or structure. Light, for instance, is not only a technical requirement but also an architectural material in its own right. It can structure
  
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• Australian practice to lead workshop at World Architects Congress

  15-12-2025 02:28 via architectureau.com
  The only Australian practice to participate in the 2026 edition of the congress, Simulaa will be presenting in the first plenary session as well as leading an international workshop for emerging practitioners.
  
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• 3+2+1 Villa / K-Thengono Design Studio

  15-12-2025 01:00 via archdaily.com
  © Indra Wiras architects: K-Thengono Design StudioLocation: Bali, IndonesiaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Indra WirasArea: 353.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Diamas Hayama / APOLLO Architects & Associates

  14-12-2025 22:00 via archdaily.com
  © Masao Nishikawa architects: APOLLO Architects & AssociatesLocation: Hayama, Kanagawa, JapanProject Year: 2025Photographs: Masao NishikawaArea: 967.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Zaremba Residence / Reitsma and Associates

  14-12-2025 20:00 via archdaily.com
  © Brock Beazley architects: Reitsma and AssociatesLocation: Buddina QLD 4575, AustraliaProject Year: 2021Photographs: Brock BeazleyArea: 715.0 m2 Read more »
  
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