On Thursday 6th March held at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne, Xchange in conjunction with Baseline Commercial Furniture (Xchange manufacturing partner and premium distributor for VIC, QLD, SA and ACT) launched their new XE system to the Melbourne A&D community
March 18th, 2014
XE is based on the Xchange principle ‘Think Global, Act Local’, designed by Daniel Korb, but locally manufactured to reduce the product carbon footprint and having the ability to cater to specific Australian market needs. XE is a platform designed to address ergonomics in the broader sense of its original meaning, providing variable solutions around tables, meeting haus, storage and seating integrating the need for privacy, acoustics and colour in the working environment.
XE is focusing on a better understanding of space and human needs using architectural design thinking to solve these problems…”
Xchange Design
xchange-design.ch
BASELINE
baselinecf.com.au
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
Australia’s leading producer of solid-engineered oak flooring has recently launched a new suite of innovative resources to support creativity and ambition in the architecture and design community.
Bidding farewell to mundane and uninspired office spaces, colour has transformed our workplaces into layered and engaging environments. So we sit down with Karina Simpson, Hot Black’s Workplace Lead, to talk about the influence colour has on the workspace landscape through the prism of Herman Miller’s progressive colour philosophy.
The workplace has changed – and it will continue to evolve. With dynamism at the heart of clients’ requirements, architects and designers at leading practices such as Elenberg Fraser are using and recommending Herman Miller’s OE1 products for the future workplace.
With five new drainage systems, Aquabocci are at the forefront of drainage technology – presenting a world first in their newest model, ‘The Bläde’.
Australian furniture designer and manufacturer Planex has created a unique storage solution suited to activity-based-working environments.
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)* and Australia’s leading organisation working towards building sustainable communities – the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) – have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to take a global step towards defining ‘low’ to ‘no’ carbon cities in our world.
The Walter Read Reserve in Paddington is undergoing landscaping and redesign, to provide a new public park. The project is expected to be complete in May 2009. Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects have designed a three-storey office building on the Black Theatre Site. Featuring Aboriginal artwork on the external façade. Completed August 2008.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
“My worry is that when we talk about ESG, we’re often referring to the need to better care for the planet, for outdoor environments. But what about the indoors?” In this exclusive Q&A with UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel, he puts a new lens on ESG, and talks about designing STH BNK By Beulah with Cox.
Besotted with the rare and unusual, Imogen Reed has created a tapas restaurant in Sydney’s Potts Point, that feels at once ghostly and opulent.