Written by
Felicity Borthwick
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Here’s The Lowdown On Engineered Timber Flooring
We catch up with the team at Tongue n Groove to find out how engineered timber might just save your next project.
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Is This Australia’s Most ‘Fashion-Forward’ Hotel?
A former cinema in the old fashion district of Melbourne has been given a new lease of life as a luxurious, boutique hotel where the old and elegant fuses with industrial-chic to stunning effect.
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What Can We Do For Our Industry’s Next Generation?
With so many talented individuals and practices crowding our country’s A+D sector, how does one break through and gain global recognition? Well, it’s a matter of getting a helping hand!
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The Workplace Just Became A Whole Lot More Flexible
CAON’s new Bloc system of modular furniture is the ultimate answer to today’s workplace where agility and versatility are fundamental
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Cafe Culture + Insitu At SID17
Cafe Culture + Insitu will be back at this year’s event (Fri August 11 – Sat August 12) with a spectacular line-up of designer furniture and several must-see seminars!
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Workplace Design Looks To The Residential World
Wisdom Homes’ new headquarters takes it cues from the residential sector, swapping whites for a more inviting and stylish palette of black and timber peppered with greenery.
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5 Mins With… Chang Yong Ter, CHANG Architects
Meet the winners of The Living Space award: Chang Architects
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5 Mins With… Acme & Co
Meet the winners of our Prodigy Award: Caroline Choker and Vince Alafaci
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Bravo Tacchini! One of Italy’s Oldest Brands Reinvents Itself at #Salone17
The Italian brand paraded several new collections for us to swoon over and introduced us to some fresh design talent!
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The New Kid On The Block: Mazda Macarthur
Mazda has opened an enormous showroom in Campbelltown NSW and no expense has been spared in creating a beautiful, comfortable experience for its customers.
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Turning Japanese … ‘Wood’-Turning Japanese, That Is!
Japan’s biggest wood furniture manufacturer certainly didn’t disappoint in Milan this year with an exciting line-up of new designs!
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Hey, Is It Time To Mix Things Up? Let’s Collaborate!
There’s a lot to be gained from having multiple perspectives on your A+D project, from enhanced creativity and innovation to improved problem solving so why aren’t more of us collaborating across sectors?
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The Sticky Campus: Why Education Is Getting ‘Social’
At a time when nearly everything is online – including lecture notes and research material that could previously only be found at the library – it’s more important than ever to create campuses at which students actually want to spend time. Such is the importance of this issue that a term has even been coined to define it: The Sticky Campus – a place where students choose to be rather than have to be.
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Furniture to Collaborate: Your Guide to Breakout Zone Specification
One of the best ways to improve productivity and collaboration is to create spaces that allow creative collisions. And with the trend towards breakout zones in today’s offices, more of us are collaborating than ever before.
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Want To Get ‘Together’ With Arper? We’ve Got You Sorted!
Psssssssst … here are some secrets straight from Europe about a new model of collaboration.
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How Does Architecture Affect our Psychological Wellbeing?
What is A+D’s role in our emotional wellbeing? To create buildings that lift and inspire us on a daily basis through colour, light and form.
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How Can Nature Influence Human Nature?
The rise of biophilic design is seeing A+D reconnect the ‘designed world’ with the ‘non-designed world’.
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How To Design A Space Where One Size Fits All
Designing a space that hundreds of individuals can enjoy simultaneously is no easy feat. Especially when today’s social spaces have come so far in creating heightened immersive experiences.
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Why We Need To Invest In Tomorrow’s A+D Leaders
We all know the benefits of investing – whether that be in office space or R+D – but don’t underestimate the power of investing in today’s young prodigies
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Strike a Pose: A Supermodel Turns to A+D
Just like the brands nominated for our 2017 INDE Prodigy Award, she’s been a superstar since the infancy of her career. She is also the new face of Silestone by Cosentino.