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• Urban verticality in India

  24-02-2026 06:50 via indesignlive.com
  Rising 301 metres above South Mumbai and overlooking the Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the Arabian Sea, Minerva Tower is India’s tallest completed and fully operational residential tower, completed in November 2025. With 91 floors, the project delivers expansive living and performance-driven design at a height previously unseen in Indian high-rise architecture. Situated along the city’s coastal edge and in close proximity to metro corridors, Mahalaxmi railway station and the Coastal Road,
  
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• Steelcase opens hybrid showroom and workplace in Hangzhou

  24-02-2026 07:29 via indesignlive.com
  Global workplace solutions company Steelcase has expanded its presence in China with the opening of a new 1,200-square-metre showroom in Hangzhou. Designed in partnership with M Moser, the project rethinks the showroom model by combining workspace, hospitality and display in an immersive environment that evolves with changing work practices.“The new space builds stronger client connections and a strategic presence, while advancing innovative work practices locally and regionally,” sa
  
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• Light, space and amenity at the ‘People’s Hospital’

  24-02-2026 07:18 via indesignlive.com
  With the opening of the new Footscray Hospital in Victoria, the community has gained not just a superb facility to enhance health and wellbeing, but a singular precinct that supports people.The project, delivered as a public private partnership by Plenary Health consortium, in partnership with the Victorian Government and Western Health provides outstanding amenities for Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne and its community.Designed by COX Architecture and Billard Leece Partnership (
  
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• A straw odyssey: Australian architect heads to Europe for waste materials research

  24-02-2026 07:01 via indesignlive.com
  “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”I’m not Frodo and thank goodness I don’t have a cursed ring. But I am weighted, as we all are, by the knowledge that the critical window for a serious response to catastrophic climate change is now and within the next few
  
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• A whole lot more than a transport system

  24-02-2026 06:00 via architectureau.com
  A tram network holds a city together, conferring a conceptual cohesion that is itself welcoming, which makes the mid-century rush to rip them out across cities worldwide all the more baffling.
  
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• Adelaide Festival Centre reopens with refurbished theatres

  24-02-2026 05:55 via architectureau.com
  Adelaide Festival Centre reopens with refurbished theatres
  
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• Distinguished architect Daryl Jackson dies aged 89

  24-02-2026 05:15 via architectureau.com
  The Victorian architect, writer and educator leaves a profound legacy, including award-winning built works ranging from sporting venues, through to schools, health buildings and commercial towers.
  
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• “Doing things differently demands an incredible sense of responsibility”

  24-02-2026 05:07 via indesignlive.com
  Objects in exhibitions have typically been displayed in white rooms, on white plinths, accompanied by simple captions with black text on a white background. However, Spanish curator Chus Martínez and Sydney-based architect Nguyen Le believe this white-cube mode of display no longer makes sense for our times.
  “Exhibition design should not be neutral,” Martínez says. She is passionate about the important role exhibition design and exhibition architecture can have in helpi
  
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• Art, design and momentum at Melbourne Art Fair 2026

  24-02-2026 05:05 via indesignlive.com
  We all know that including art in a project adds something special — an individual layer that elevates any environment. A visit to the Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) this year was the perfect place to see, experience and acquire that distinction.The 19th edition of MAF this year welcomed 20,987 visitors, up 22.3 per cent from 2025, with Champagne Bollinger VIP Preview and Vernissage attendance increasing by more than 50 per cent. Total artwork sales reached a record $16.4 million, underscoring t
  
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• Point Lonsdale House by Field Office Architecture

  24-02-2026 01:05 via architectureau.com
  Inspired by coastal modernism, this new residence on the Bellarine Peninsula capitalises on borrowed views to create a calming home that caters for seclusion and sociability.
  
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• 2025 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship recipients announced

  24-02-2026 00:12 via architectureau.com
  In 2025, the New South Wales Architects Registration Board awarded four scholarships with a total value of $105,000.
  
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• How chameleon materials adjust to climate extremes in real time

  23-02-2026 21:51 via architectureau.com
  Adaptive materials can play a central role in net-zero building, offering a solution that's not only smart but sustainable from production to end-of-life.
  
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• Colin Seah on Creative Amnesia and Designing Social Universes

  23-02-2026 17:51 via indesignlive.com
  As part of the SpeakingOut! series for the 2026 INDE.Awards, host Jan Henderson sat down with Colin Seah from Ministry of Design to unpack the thinking behind some of the region’s most distinctive hospitality and social environments. This episode is proudly supported by Maxton Fox, partner of The Social Space category.At the core of Colin Seah’s approach is a simple but often overlooked question: How should a space make someone feel? From this starting point, design becomes less abou
  
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• Layering time: A Contemporary farmstead in Kyoto

  23-02-2026 05:53 via indesignlive.com
  Completed in 2023, this residence in Kyoto Prefecture reconsiders the traditional farmstead typology through a contemporary lens. Surrounded by farmland and bamboo forests, the project responds to a landscape shaped by centuries of agricultural settlement and, more recently, rapid urban change. We spoke with Tomohiro Hata Architect & Associates about history, hierarchy and redefining domestic space.Tell us about the site context.Farmland and bamboo forests spread across the site and its surr
  
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• “Simplicity is complexity solved,” Roberto Palomba on the evolution of object design

  23-02-2026 05:46 via architectureau.com
  Architect and designer Roberto Palomba reflects on the evolution of object design – from embracing simplicity to identifying the furniture piece central to the modern home – and explains how he determines whether a design is worth producing.
  
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• Designing With, Not For: CatalyticAction’s Participatory Practice

  23-02-2026 05:00 via archdaily.com
  Mauj Public Space 2022, CatalyticAction. Image © Ahmad ShinderArchitecture is often evaluated through finished forms, yet some practices operate in a different register, one where design unfolds through relationships, time, and use rather than through a single outcome. For CatalyticAction, participation is not a parallel social activity, but the means through which spaces are conceived, constructed, and sustained over time.Based between Beirut and London, the practice has worked across the
  
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• The Catcher: a rural guesthouse framed by rice fields

  23-02-2026 04:13 via indesignlive.com
  Set among the rice fields near Shanghai’s ancient town of Xinchang, The Catcher is a guesthouse shaped as much by restraint as it is by its landscape. Designed by TEAM_BLDG, the project reworks two self-built rural houses into a contemporary retreat that watches quietly over its surroundings rather than dominating them.From the outset, the client gave the designers unusual freedom. Beyond meeting room numbers and basic public functions, the brief focused on making full use of outdoor space
  
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• Wall-Less Gallery / Sepide Elmi

  23-02-2026 04:00 via archdaily.com
  © Parham Taghioff architects: Sepide ElmiLocation: Kermanshah, IranProject Year: 2024Photographs: Parham TaghioffArea: 280.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Designs revealed for arts hub within Adelaide CBD Tapangka precinct

  23-02-2026 03:41 via architectureau.com
  A collection of galleries, studios and rehearsal spaces proposed within the development are intended to foster collaboration between the city’s arts and media institutions.
  
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• The Light and Black Workplace / MODO Designs

  23-02-2026 03:00 via archdaily.com
  © Umang Shah architects: MODO DesignsLocation: Ahmedabad, IndiaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Umang ShahArea: 49500.0 ft2 Read more »
  
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• 2026 Queensland Honours

  23-02-2026 02:49 via architectureau.com
  The Australian Institute of Architects’ Queensland chapter has awarded prizes in recognition of outstanding contributions supporting the architectural profession.
  
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• Queens Walk Housing by Cumulus Studio

  23-02-2026 01:20 via architectureau.com
  The redevelopment of a near-70-year-old modernist social housing complex in Hobart strengthens the overall site density while providing a level of amenity through good design that far exceeds the expectations of social housing.
  
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• Tie-Ma Cycling Station at Dapo Pond / Studio APL + Lin Ko-Fang Architects

  23-02-2026 01:00 via archdaily.com
  © YuChen Chao Photography architects: Lin Ko-Fang Architectsarchitects: Studio APLLocation: Chishang Township, Taitung County, TaiwanProject Year: 2024Photographs: YuChen Chao Photography Read more »
  
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• Tokyo Toy Museum Seoul / maumstudio

  22-02-2026 22:00 via archdaily.com
  © Ju Yeon Lee architects: maumstudioLocation: Gangdong-gu, Seoul, South KoreaProject Year: 2025Photographs: Ju Yeon LeeArea: 413.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Send Location Flagship Store / MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network)

  22-02-2026 18:00 via archdaily.com
  © Aylul Studio architects: MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network)Location: Dubai, United Arab EmiratesProject Year: 2026Photographs: Aylul StudioArea: 340.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• House in Santiago / S-AR

  22-02-2026 16:00 via archdaily.com
  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal architects: S-ARLocation: Santiago, MexicoProject Year: 2021Photograph: Ana Cecilia Garza VillarrealArea: 470.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Engineering Collaborative Research & Education Building at Penn State University / Payette

  22-02-2026 12:00 via archdaily.com
  © Robert Benson Photography architects: PayetteLocation: State College, United StatesProject Year: 2024Photographs: Robert Benson PhotographyPhotographs: Warren JaggerArea: 280000.0 ft2 Read more »
  
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• Šestajovice House / mackovič architecture

  22-02-2026 09:55 via archdaily.com
  © Alexandra Timpau architects: mackovič architectureLocation: , CzechiaProject Year: 2024Photographs: Alexandra TimpauArea: 154.0 m2 Read more »
  
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• Three Schools - One Process / gmp Architects

  22-02-2026 07:00 via archdaily.com
  © Marcus Bredt architects: gmp ArchitectsLocation: Bremerhaven, GermanyProject Year: 2025Photographs: Marcus Bredt Read more »
  
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• ASHIYA OPTICAL STORE / RID Co., Ltd.

  22-02-2026 03:00 via archdaily.com
  © Yoshiro Masuda architects: RID Co., Ltd.Location: Ashiya, JapanProject Year: 2025Photographs: Yoshiro MasudaArea: 57.0 m2 Read more »
  
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