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Patricia Arcilla
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Meet Melinda Huuk, founder The Studio* Collaborative
For Melinda Huuk of The Studio* Collaborative, good design is about more than just talent, it’s about strategy. Both a designer and entrepreneur, Huuk shares her insights into surviving past start-up phase.
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Homegrown heroes: ACME & Co are reshaping Sydney’s hospitality scene
Two years after winning the 2017 Prodigy People’s Choice Award, 2019 INDE Awards Ambassador and co-founder of ACME & Co Vince Alafaci discusses the business of commercial design.
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Bangkok-based practice NITAPROW is a class act
2019 INDE.Awards The Prodigy nominees NITAPROW chart the their progress from students at prestigious US architecture schools to one of the Indo-Pacific’s key practices to watch.
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Exploring new design narratives with Studio Adjective
Hong-Kong based practice Studio Adjective sees design as a vehicle for storytelling. We look at the duo’s trajectory as they’re nominated as a Prodigy in the 2019 INDE.Awards.
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Studio Esteta celebrates the beauty in difference
In just three years, Melbourne practice Studio Esteta has established itself as a presence to watch on the Australian design stage. We go behind the scenes to learn what makes these 2019 INDE.Awards’ The Prodigy nominees tick.
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Building a more connected, efficient construction industry with SiteSupervisor
How one platform is streamlining the construction process and giving architects more time to do what they love most: design.
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NAWIC’s 2018 Great Debate reaffirms the value of human-centric design
Should technology-based systems replace humans as the central driver of design? The winning team at NAWIC’s 2018 Great Debate didn’t think so.
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Hear from Climate Changemakers at The Office Space
The latest instalment of The Office Space’s popular Insight talk series brings together Australia’s best and brightest champions of sustainability.
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If it ain’t broke… 5 ways to work with existing buildings, as told at FRONT
In the face of mounting pressure on designers to balance environmental and financial considerations, Todd Hammond of Hammond Studio chaired a session at the inaugural FRONT event on the true value of adaptive reuse.
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Class disrupted: RMIT reimagines agility in the education sector
The new generation of students might be throwing out the rulebook when it comes to old learning nodes, but RMIT’s New Academic Street is writing a new one.
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Habitus House of the Year: A new celebration of regional excellence
We celebrate ten years of Habitus and sustained design excellence in the Indo-Pacific region with a new program.
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Habitus House of the Year: A new celebration of regional excellence
We celebrate ten years of Habitus and design excellence in the Indo-Pacific region with a new program for recognising outstanding residential design.
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The Wild, Wild West: Zenith celebrates Western Australia’s design community
With its showroom in West Perth, Zenith demonstrates a firm grasp of Western Australia’s emerging commercial sector and characteristic quirkiness.
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“We’ve turned the model on its head”: Indesign CEO and Founder Raj Nandan on the boutique commercial design event you can’t afford to miss
Hear what makes FRONT the unmissable boutique commercial design event of the season from the man behind it all, Indesign CEO and Founder Raj Nandan.
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“It is a mystery to me. It is a wonder”: In Conversation with Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind discusses identity, design competitions and why architecture is truly ‘the art of memory’ in the lead up to his keynote address for the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning’s Centenary Gala.
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FRONT Featured Speaker Max Thomson on commercial project management and delivery
With FRONT less than two weeks away, we caught up with Featured Speaker and Spitfire Control founder Max Thomson for his thoughts on the design and development process driving today’s commercial projects.
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FRONT Featured Speaker Brent Harman on technology as a driver of change
Brent Harman of thinkMESH talks commercial real estate, challenging the status quo, and building stronger business communities with tech.
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FRONT Featured Speaker Peter Tonkin on the importance of preserving our built heritage
We catch up with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Director and FRONT Featured Speaker Peter Tonkin to discuss the evolution of Australian architecture, adaptive reuse, and why preserving our built environment is more critical than ever.
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FRONT Featured Speaker Kylie Javier Ashton on Australia’s evolving hospitality scene
With FRONT on the horizon, we caught up with Kylie Javier Ashton of Momofuku Seiōbo for the lowdown on Australia’s evolving bar and restaurant scene.
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FRONT Featured Speaker Peter Marix-Evans on the future of Australian workspaces
As the inaugural FRONT event approaches, we join SHAPE Australia CEO Peter-Marix Evans for a discussion about the changing face of Australian workspaces.