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A journey of renewal: Integrating Japanese bathing rituals into bathroom design

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A journey of renewal: Integrating Japanese bathing rituals into bathroom design

Jason Gibney, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award in 2025 Habitus House of the Year, reflects on how bathroom rituals might just be reshaping Australian design.

Norte rejects coastal cliché to win Best Restaurant Design

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Norte rejects coastal cliché to win Best Restaurant Design

J.AR OFFICE’s Norté in Mermaid Beach wins Best Restaurant Design 2025 for its moody, modernist take on coastal dining.

Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025

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Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025

From city-making to craft, design heritage to material innovation, these standout interviews offered rare insight into the people steering architecture and design forward.

CBRE Sydney workplace by Bates Smart reimagines the office experience

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CBRE Sydney workplace by Bates Smart reimagines the office experience

CBRE’s new Sydney workplace elevates the working life and celebrates design that is all style and sophistication.

RADS mediates street and lobby at Reno’s Bistro

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RADS mediates street and lobby at Reno’s Bistro

Designed by RADS, the space redefines the lobby not as a point of passage, but as a destination in itself: a lobby bar, a café, and a small urban hinge-point that shapes and enhances the daily rituals of those who move through it.

Five projects embracing the next wave of circular design

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Five projects embracing the next wave of circular design

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Chef Wu Si Han Finds New Culinary Expression at Home With Gaggenau

Chef Wu Si Han Finds New Culinary Expression at Home With Gaggenau

Now cooking and entertaining from his minimalist home kitchen designed around Gaggenau’s refined performance, Chef Wu brings professional craft into a calm and well-composed setting.

Translating design intent with Klaro’s manufacturing-led approach

Translating design intent with Klaro’s manufacturing-led approach

In an industry where design intent is often diluted by value management and procurement pressures, Klaro Industrial Design positions manufacturing as a creative ally – allowing commercial interior designers to deliver unique pieces aligned to the project’s original vision.

From Country to Carpet: Milliken’s PrintWorks™ technology brings First Nations stories to the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence

From Country to Carpet: Milliken’s PrintWorks™ technology brings First Nations stories to the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence

At the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence on Yorta Yorta Country in Victoria, ARM Architecture and Milliken use PrintWorks™ technology to translate First Nations narratives into a layered, community-led floorscape.

When Worlds Collide: HOW WE LIVE opens in Sydney

When Worlds Collide: HOW WE LIVE opens in Sydney

Sydney’s newest design concept store, HOW WE LIVE, explores the overlap between home and workplace – with a Surry Hills pop-up from Friday 28th November.

Design tricks for using carpets to create balance and depth

Design tricks for using carpets to create balance and depth

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Back in full thread: VIATT to return after standout debut

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Embossed acoustic panels mix trendsetting colours with sustainability and commercial performance

Embossed acoustic panels mix trendsetting colours with sustainability and commercial performance

Woven Image refreshes its popular, multi-award winning Embossed Acoustic Panel collection with a new range of colours that bring warmth and comfort to commercial interiors.

It’s all in the details: how to create maximum impact with just one product

It’s all in the details: how to create maximum impact with just one product

Hansgrohe’s new faucet line has the performance and aesthetics to elevate any wetroom.

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Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025

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Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025

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Five projects embracing the next wave of circular design

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Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel marks major transport expansion

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Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel marks major transport expansion

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Landscape as a blueprint: a workplace anchored in Western Australia’s terrain

Landscape as a blueprint: a workplace anchored in Western Australia’s terrain

Designed by Woods Bagot, the new fit-out of a major resources company transforms 40,000-square-metres across 19 levels into interconnected villages that celebrate Western Australia’s diverse terrain.

Light and shadow (baking)

Light and shadow (baking)

Working within a narrow, linear tenancy, Sans Arc has reconfigured the traditional circulation pathway, giving customers a front row seat to the theatre of Shadow Baking.

Simple Living Passage completes HAS design and research’s Simple World series in Hefei

The Simple Living Passage marks the final project in the Simple World series by Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS design and research, transforming a retail walkway in Hefei into a reflective public space shaped by timber and movement.

AIR emerges: Eid Goh launches a new chapter in practice

After more than two decades at Architects EAT, Eid Goh launches AIR, a new Melbourne-based studio focused on adaptive reuse, hospitality and human-centred design across commercial and civic projects.

Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel marks major transport expansion

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Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel marks major transport expansion

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Forested Future documentary explores forestry, stewardship and material culture

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Forested Future documentary explores forestry, stewardship and material culture

AHEC has produced a documentary exploring forestry and stewardship through long-term forest management and human responsibility.

Designing for longevity: the product-led practice of Dirk du Toit

From furniture and homewares to lighting, Dirk du Toit’s Melbourne-based studio Dutoit is built on local manufacturing, material restraint and the belief that longevity is central to sustainable design.

Boronia Apartments delivers affordable housing in Waterloo by TURNER

Boronia Apartments delivers affordable housing in Waterloo by TURNER

Boronia Apartments in Waterloo, designed by TURNER for City West Housing, delivers 74 affordable rental homes that combine sustainable design with long-term community-focused living.

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“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.

Disuko channels 1980s Tokyo nostalgia atop a Melbourne rooftop

Disuko channels 1980s Tokyo nostalgia atop a Melbourne rooftop

Located in the former Madam Brussels rooftop, Disuko reimagines 1980s Tokyo nightlife through layered interiors, bespoke detailing and a flexible dining and bar experience designed by MAMAS Dining Group.

Design Mumbai wraps up its second edition

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Design Mumbai wraps up its second edition

Design Mumbai has concluded its second edition, reinforcing its position as India’s leading international showcase for contemporary design.

Designing infrastructure and care at Kampung Mrican

Designing infrastructure and care at Kampung Mrican

SHAU’s Kampung Mrican revitalisation transforms community life through social architecture, local collaboration and sustainable design.

Ra:tio blends interior and landscape design in a Jubilee Hills café

Ra:tio blends interior and landscape design in a Jubilee Hills café

Ra:tio café blends calm interiors and lush outdoor spaces through VAL Atelier and The Pinewood Studio’s refined, contemporary design.

HDR predicts seven megatrends to shape Australian architecture and design in 2026

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HDR predicts seven megatrends to shape Australian architecture and design in 2026

In the New Year, architecture will be defined by its ability to orchestrate relationships between inside and outside, public and private, humans and ecology, and data and intuition.

Omnicom’s Melbourne headquarters revitalises a heritage icon on Bourke Street

Omnicom’s Melbourne headquarters revitalises a heritage icon on Bourke Street

The new headquarters for Omnicom in Melbourne’s CBD sees heritage re-invigorated with style and finesse.

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Connecting people and place

A research exhibition reimagines St Kilda’s civic spaces through soft infrastructures that enhance wellbeing and urban experience.