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Australian Furniture Design Award 2026 registrations open
Stylecraft and NGV call for furniture and lighting designs addressing small-space living, with $20,000 prize and commercial development opportunity.
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Winner of The Project at Saturday Indesign is revealed!
Responding to the theme of ‘Resonance – Evoking emotion through physical design,’ V-ZUG and the Whitehouse Institute of Design are the 2025 Saturday Indesign Project winners.
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Expression of Interest now open for Sydney Open 2025
Don’t miss your chance to be part of Sydney Open 2025! Submit your Expression of Interest for this year’s city-wide event by Friday, 9 May.
Events
2023 Architecture Drawing Prize winners revealed: A fusion of tradition and innovation
This year’s winning drawings in three categories – hand-drawn, digital and hybrid, will be showcased at World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 29 November to 1 December 2023.
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Competition news: Opportunity to design Sydney Harbour Park with Infrastructure NSW
Plans for Sydney’s next great public space are underway, opening a rare opportunity for design teams to answer the call to design a 1.85-hectare Harbour Park that will sit at the heart of Barangaroo, right on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour.
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Exemplars of science and design: Your Sustainability Awards 2022 shortlist is here
We introduce you to the 65 Sustainability Awards finalists who are revolutionising Australia’s built environment.
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5 charming benches designed by the public in celebration of Holland Village
The One Holland Village MILL Public Art Bench Design Competition has concluded with five winning benches that will be built for public use in 2023.
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American Standard Design Award 2023 is open for entry
Calling for the next generation’s innovative and practical designers, the American Standard Design Award 2023 has opened submissions across the Asia Pacific.
Articles
These bathroom designs address real-world challenges
Winners of The American Standard Design Award have integrated functionality and aesthetics to respond to users’ needs and emerging lifestyle trends.
Events
INDE.Awards cap off the year with a party!
The crème de la crème of the architecture and design community came together in-person to celebrate the INDE.Awards. Relive all the best moments here.
Events
One Holland Village embraces a long-term art programme
Far East Organization-led consortium unveils the next phase of One Holland Village with the launch of a multimillion-dollar art programme. The programme kick-starts with an open call for participation in the public art furniture design competition.
Ideas
Building conservation: Its necessity in Singapore’s changing urban landscape
WY-TO Group’s winning C40 Reinventing Cities Global Competition proposal puts a new lease on life to the Bukit Timah Fire Station and sets precedents for historic conservation and adaptive reuse in Singapore.
Articles
Who’s next in line for the Australian Furniture Design Award?
The competition, presented by Stylecraft and the NGV, aims to support Australian design, with a number of prizes to supplement income and boost the profile of the winner.
Events
Objects of Desire
Objects shape our lives as they bring beauty and function to our existence. Every year, through the INDE.Awards, we are privileged to showcase new iterations of objects that vie for the title of icons of the future. Great design is timeless and within The Object category there is the opportunity to present object design at its very best.
Articles
Gaggenau are searching for the Kitchen of the Year
Gaggenau is a brand that has long served to feed ambition – in design as well as in the kitchen. This year, however, it’s raising the stakes.
Events
Reflecting on 2020 with the JAC Chair
Design firms from across Asia present their take on 2020 in a design competition by Zenith Interiors.
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Reflecting on 2020 with the JAC Chair
Design firms from Asia present their take on 2020 in a design competition by Zenith Interiors.
Articles
An appetite for ambition, announcing Gaggenau’s Kitchen of the Year
Gaggenau is a brand that has long served to feed ambition – in design as well as in the kitchen. This year, however, it’s raising the stakes.
Ideas
Dowel Jones introduces the Design From Home competition
With most of Australia in social isolation Dowel Jones introduces a new design competition to help keep our brains from atrophying
Events
Sitia And D’doubles Announce Winner Of Design Competition
A transformable, multifunctional acoustic room divider concept has won Italian furniture brand Sitia’s design competition held during the Singapore Design Week 2019.
Events
Calling All Designers! The Designer Rugs Evolve Awards Are Here!
With 30,000AUD-worth of prizes up for grabs, Designer Rugs wants to see your very best rug designs for its Evolve Awards and for the first time it includes Asia! Entries open now!
Articles
Announcing the Staron Design Awards 2018 winners!
The 2018 Staron Design Awards are done! After countless entries and hours poured over the details, these are your 2018 winners…
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Designer Rugs Evolve Awards Are Here!
Calling all designers! With 30,000AUD worth of prizes up for grabs, Designer Rugs wants to see your very best rug designs for its Evolve Awards and for the first time it includes Asia! Entries open now!
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Designer Rugs Evolve Awards is here
Calling all designers! With $30,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, Designer Rugs wants to see your very best rug designs for its Evolve Awards. Entries open Thursday 14 March and workshops are kicking off across the region now.
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Second MAAS Architecture Commission calling for entries
After a successful inaugural competition in 2018, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) has launched a follow up which will be showcased as part of Sydney Design Festival.
Ideas
The designs are out for Adelaide Contemporary
The highly coveted, international design competition called for a landmark cultural destination for the city of Adelaide – Adelaide Contemporary.
Articles
Announcing the winners of Herman Miller Asia’s Liveable Office Award 2017-2018
After over one hundred entries and fierce deliberation, the latest Herman Miller Liveable Office Award winners have now been crowned, with the winning designers setting new benchmarks in workplace design
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The Good Design Awards turns 60 (and there’s still time to enter)
Australia’s Good Design Awards has announced the jury of renowned international and Australian design experts who will decide the winners of the 60th annual Awards, which will be held on 17 May 2018 at Sydney Opera House.
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The Shortlist Is Out. Who Made the Cut For Adelaide Contemporary?
A shortlist of six world-class teams has been revealed for the highly anticipated global architecture competition for the Adelaide Contemporary Gallery.
Events
The Winners of A’ Design Award and Competition 2016-2017 are…
One of the world’s most comprehensive design awards, the A’ Design Award and Competition has bestowed recognitions to a total of 1,958 designs from 98 countries in 97 different design disciplines in its 2016-2017 edition.
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Where Are They Now? Launch Pad Asia 2015 Winner Kenny Hong
Kenny Hong was winner of Launch Pad Asia 2015 with Sheep, a mirror with smart and functional accessories. The designer tells us what he’s been busy with since then.
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Designing Resilience in Asia
A total of 19 teams from 10 universities around the world have put forth a diverse range of speculative urban and architectural design proposals to address river flooding.
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Patricia Urquiola Discusses Design Collaboration
The winner of Haworth’s Celebrating Great Design Contest will workshop their design at Studio Urquiola. We find out more from Patricia Urquiola about what the judges will be looking for.