Ideas

What are the big ideas influencing the design and architecture worlds across Asia Pacific? This is where we take a step back to think about what is impacting design today. From experimental installations through to think pieces, these are the ideas that will blow your design mind.

Ideas

Engaging in sustainability in hotel design

Capable of encouraging deep engagement between people and place, sustainable design is an opportunity that ought to be urgently harnessed in hotel design. Leading the way, some architects and designers are doing just that.

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When did placemaking become a private business matter?

For whom and for what reasons do we make ‘places’? Could a more inclusive approach to placemaking improve social connections and opportunities?

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Architectus leads Western Sydney in a sustainable direction

In cahoots with Bligh Tanner and Sydney Water, Architectus has explored urban typologies and stormwater management, with a look to shape a sustainable urban environment in Western Parkland City.

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As designers, what can we bring to the table?

Jeff Copolov, the esteemed interior designer and longstanding director for Bates Smart, confronts the big questions re. hospitality design post Covid-19.

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We need to talk about delivering fit for purpose

The onus is on architects and designers to create places and spaces that are suitably fit for purpose, even if final say over a project’s FF&E schedule is not.

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These guys are designing the renting revolution

As global paradigms shift in the residential market, Australia is also embracing change with CHT Architects at the forefront of the new Build to Rent phenomena.