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Timothy Alouani-Roby

Timothy Alouani-Roby is the Editor of Indesignlive and Habitus Living. Having worked in elite professional sport for over a decade, he retrained in architecture at the University of Sydney, adding to previous degrees in philosophy, politics and English literature. Timothy is based in Gadigal-Sydney, but spends much of his time among the moors of both Northern England and Marrakech.

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Designing your very own studio calls for only the highest standards

Designing your very own studio calls for only the highest standards

Hammond Studio has completed its own workplace in Sydney, placing great emphasis on collaborative technology, light and of course high-quality detailing.

Copper-clad pavilion connects tennis court with Sydney home

Copper-clad pavilion connects tennis court with Sydney home

With interiors by Mathieson and architecture by SJB, Avalon Tennis Pavilion connects the main house with a tennis court at this Sydney property.

Sydney Fish Market: Roundtable podcast with 3XN, BVN and ASPECT Studios

Sydney Fish Market: Roundtable podcast with 3XN, BVN and ASPECT Studios

Fred Holt, Catherine Skinner and Louise Pearson join Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons to discuss Sydney’s new fish market just weeks after its grand opening.

Melbourne Metro and the design heft of transport infrastructure

Melbourne Metro and the design heft of transport infrastructure

Ingrid Bakker, Principal and Joint Project Director at Hassell, discusses the wider importance of the “city-shaping” Metro Tunnel completed alongside WW+P Architects and RSHP.

Architecture, democracy and feeling at home in our cities

Architecture, democracy and feeling at home in our cities

The built environment is all around us; would the average citizen feel less alienated if the education system engaged more explicitly with it?

“A framework for continual transformation”: Studio Edwards creates retail apparatus with LOWF

“A framework for continual transformation”: Studio Edwards creates retail apparatus with LOWF

Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has designed Shift+Space, a modular system under the banner of ‘adaptive retail architecture’. Ben Edwards tells us more.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: A global story dating back to 1977

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: A global story dating back to 1977

Director Farrokh Derakhshani joins STORIESINDESIGN podcast from Geneva to talk about the wide-ranging Aga Khan Award, which in 2025 awarded $1m to a series of winners with projects from China to Palestine.

Anthony Gill and Jason Gibney on urban density and bushfire resilience

Anthony Gill and Jason Gibney on urban density and bushfire resilience

Winners of the 2025 Habitus House of the Year and Editor’s Choice Award respectively, Anthony Gill and Jason Gibney join the podcast to discuss the state of housing in Australia today.

Ed Lippmann celebrates four decades of architecture

Ed Lippmann celebrates four decades of architecture

The eponymous practice founder reflects on four decades of work in a new book launched by Lord Mayor Clover Moore, tracing lessons from New York to Sydney and revisiting seminal works including 8 Chifley Square and the Andrew “Boy” Charlton Pool.

Lights, camera, craft and action

Lights, camera, craft and action

We caught up with Abramo Manfrotto, CEO of Venetian decorative lighting brand LEUCOS, during a visit to Australia with dedece.

The humble brick: Timeless foundations meet contemporary innovation with Brickworks

The humble brick: Timeless foundations meet contemporary innovation with Brickworks

Brett Ward, General Manager of Marketing at Brickworks, tells us how modern approaches to sustainability are intersecting with the long history of the brick.

New book explores the architecture of multigenerational living

New book explores the architecture of multigenerational living

‘Come Together’ takes a global view of multigenerational design, an increasingly popular phenomenon with some especially notable examples in Australia.

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