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Designing for Country: Reconciliation Through Design
Milliken’s ‘Reconciliation Through Design’ initiative is amplifying the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, showcasing how cultural collaboration can reshape the design narrative in commercial interiors.
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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.
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Waves of change: PMG Group elevates a Sydney workplace from ordinary to exceptional
A thoughtful, low-waste redesign by PMG Group in collaboration with Goodman has transformed a dated office into a calm, contemporary workspace featuring a coastal-inspired palette and Milliken flooring for a refined finish.
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Albion Bathhouse wins The Health & Wellbeing Space at the INDE.Awards 2025
Hogg & Lamb’s Albion Bathhouse has been awarded The Health & Wellbeing Space at the INDE.Awards 2025. The project reimagines the contemporary bathhouse as an immersive architectural journey – one that restores balance through atmosphere, materiality and mindful design.
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Product Aware x Milliken: shaping a transparent future together
In a landscape clouded by data and greenwash, Product Aware offers architects and designers a common language for sustainability. Embraced by suppliers – including Milliken – it is setting a new benchmark for trust and bringing clarity and accountability to material specification.
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Born Again: How Milliken is Revolutionising Product Stewardship with Renasci™
Developed by Milliken in partnership with saveBOARD, Renasci™ is a breakthrough circular flooring product made from carpet and soft plastics waste – designed to be repeatedly recycled.
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What a night at the 2025 INDE.Awards Gala! Connection, community and celebration!
The 2025 INDE.Awards winners were celebrated at the annual Gala in Sydney on 31st July.
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INDE.Awards Gala 2025: A night of outstanding design and glamorous celebration
At Saltbox in Sydney, this year’s INDE winners – including a Best of the Best from Asia – were announced at an extravagant, fun Gala awards night.
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The INDE.Award Winners are Revealed – Celebrating the best of Regional Design in the Indo-Pacific for 2025
On the evening of Thursday 31st July the winners of the 2025 INDE.Awards were announced at a spectacular VIP gala at Saltbox in Sydney, Australia. The night was a celebration of the outstanding people and exemplary projects and products from across our region and showcased the incredible talent that resides within the Indo-Pacific.
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A speculative edge: Studio P3 reimagines the workplace at 255 George Street
In a market saturated with sameness, Studio P3 set out to raise the bar, creating four refined speculative suites for Mirvac in Sydney, with Milliken flooring playing an essential role in realising a space with broad appeal – all underpinned by a commitment to sustainability.
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The 2025 INDE.Awards Shortlist has been announced!
The 2025 INDE.Awards Shortlist showcases the very best architecture and design in our Indo-Pacific region.
People
Rebecca Moore: Designing with Heart
Rebecca Moore brings a deeply human-centred and collaborative approach to healthcare design, sharing insights into the landmark Victorian Heart Hospital, her design philosophy, and the evolving role of wellness in the built environment.
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Weaving well-being: How Arnya Karaitiana’s Pā Harakeke Collection for Milliken connects culture and design
Informed by Māori traditions and inspired by the symbolism of the Harakeke plant, Arnya Karaitiana’s new collection for Milliken weaves together heritage, well-being, and modern craftsmanship.
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Wellness by design: floor coverings creating healthier indoor environments
Designing people-first buildings with flooring that contributes to achieving WELL features in the WELL Building Standard. Works with WELL is a new trademark created by the International WELL Building Institute for use by manufacturers to show when their products align with features in the WELL Building Standard.
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Vibrant visions: How Hnry and Designgroup Stapleton Elliott transformed a Wellington office into a playground of creativity
Tech-accounting firm Hnry partnered with DGSE to transform their Wellington office into a bold, creative hub, brought to life with Milliken carpet flooring.
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Saturday Indesign is less than one week away – here’s what you need to know
Make sure you’re there for the year’s best day of design.
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Recapping the glorious Gala of the 2024 INDE.Awards
It was a night to remember as the 2024 INDE.Awards gala delivered an amazing evening of architecture and design, and also provided the opportunity to renew connections, make new friends and just have fun!
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Navigating a better workplace
The new Deloitte HQ in Auckland by Custance embraces the surrounding landscape and the history of its people to create a welcoming space – one that is largely defined by the thoughtful use of custom Milliken carpets.
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Celebrating the best of Regional Design in the Indo-Pacific for 2024 – INDE.Awards Winners are Revealed!
The winners of the 2024 INDE.Awards were announced at a spectacular gala hosted by The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne, Australia. Discover the exemplary projects, people and products that reflect the diversity of the Indo-Pacific.
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Some of Australia’s best showrooms are opening for Saturday Indesign
Start planning your Saturday Indesign experience for 2024.
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Saturday Indesign is back and registrations are officially open!
Confirm your attendance with your free ticket today
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Milliken Works with WELL: Global leaders, Local facilitators
The Works with WELL Directory’s launch is an industry-gamechanger, exclusively featuring products proven to meet International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) eligibility requirements, like those from Milliken.
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A smorgasbord of CPD Live in June
Our June round of CPD Live is over but, with sessions available on demand, let us take you through a quick summary of the topics covered.
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Queensland’s Suncorp Stadium hospitality spaces get a vibrant – and sustainable – update.
The reimagined hospitality spaces at Suncorp Stadium by Populous use Milliken carpet tiles to meet ambitious aesthetic, performance, and sustainability goals.
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This regenerated Melbourne office building celebrates the transformative power of good design
An existing space is revitalised thanks to clever spatial design and a beautiful fitout
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Flying high: How The Mill Architecture + Design partnered with Milliken to reimagine a government agency HQ in Canberra
The brief for the new Government Agency office in Canberra was a challenging combination of high performance and high concept. The Mill Architecture + Design turned to Milliken to bring the ambitious project to life.
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Coming home to the creative incubator: ACMI by Warren and Mahoney
In Melbourne’s Fed Square, the ACMI team is now working under one roof in a colourful new space home to co-working residents and museum staff.
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Designing with Integrity: A look inside Milliken’s collaboration with Gumbaynggirr Artist, Brentyn Lugnan
This collection of six carpets shows how authenticity and integrity can create a positive impact.
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A glamorous night of celebration – relive the highlights of the INDE.Awards Gala
Relive the best moments and catch up on the awards and winners celebrated at the 2023 INDE.Awards’ night of nights.
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Milliken releases the world’s first self-sanitising carpet, MGUARD+
Milliken Flooring Covering (ANZ) has recently launched the world’s first carpet tile that is effective against the COVID virus and various bacteria. It’s a self-sanitising carpet that is set to revolutionise how we manage and maintain hygiene in our everyday environments.
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Determined to bring sustainability to the fore: Made In Earth
Leading the crusade for sustainable architecture and design, Made In Earth Collective makes architecture in a geographical and cultural context that is closer to people with the ability to sustain ecosystems.
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Made In Earth Collective wins The Prodigy at 2023 INDE.Awards
Leading the crusade for sustainable architecture and design, the winner of The Prodigy this year is making its presence felt across the region and the globe.
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Here’s what you missed at the INDE.Summit (and how to relive the action)
The 2023 INDE.Summit was a success – relive all the action and deepen your regional focus by catching up on what you missed.
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Taking interiors to the next level: 4 Bearspace Design projects that are big on impact
In these four impactful commercial projects, Bearspace Design works with Milliken Flooring to execute its design vision and bring real results to its clients.
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It’s almost here! INDE.Summit and Awards are on this week!
Your final chance to register to experience regional greatness.
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Just one week to go until the 2023 INDE.Summit & Awards!
Confirm your free ticket now and get ready to be inspired.
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Why you absolutely can’t miss the 2023 INDE.Summit
If you haven’t secured your free ticket yet, here’s what you’re missing out on.
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Shortlist revealed – The Prodigy
Leading the way across the Indo-Pacific are the Prodigies, the architects and designers that are making a name for themselves as new exemplars of design.
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<strong>Archimedia Waikato Architects and Milliken collaborate to transform Hamilton Kirikiriroa Airport in New Zealand</strong>
The new terminal interiors at the Hamilton Kirikiriroa Airport celebrate the beauty to be found in transition and a connection to the local identity of New Zealand.
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Studio Collective reimagines a retirement village with Milliken
Palm Lake Resort is a resort-inspired retirement village that emphasises quality of space as much as aesthetics – with Milliken carpet tiles at the heart of the scheme .
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Hot Black uses Milliken to express a vibrant vision of Australia
The Hydro Tasmania workplace in Melbourne is a celebration of sustainability, agility, and togetherness.
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Milliken and The Prodigy at the 2023 INDE.Awards
Rising stars of design are celebrated in The Prodigy at the 2023 INDE.Awards and with Milliken as the partner of this category, there is double the support for the next generation of talented architects and designers across our Indo-Pacific region.
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A powerful palette: Inspired Spaces and Milliken bring vibrant colour to the new HQ for Ultimate Security
A Milliken carpet sample provided inspiration for the colourful fit-out of the Ultimate Security head office in Sydney – and Inspired Spaces and Milliken closely collaborated to bring the vision to life.
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Carpet that helps to solve humanity’s most pressing problems
How is the horizontal plane rising up to meet complex needs within health, wellbeing and sustainability? We discuss colour, texture, environmental credentials and the influence of materiality on the wellbeing with four globally leading carpet manufacturers.
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Indesign’s 10 best workplaces of 2022
In 2022 it was all about coming to the office, and feeling good while you were there. No surprises – 2022 marked a year of new workplaces that were bold, beautiful and not at all your typical office.
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Something old, something new: fjmtstudio and Built reimagine two historic buildings in Sydney’s CBD
Sub Station No. 164 marries original industrial elements with a strikingly sculptural glass architectural statement. This new vision of the workplace celebrates wellbeing and sustainability – from Milliken’s high-performance carpet to circadian rhythm lighting.
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Watch this beautiful collaboration between Helena Geiger and Milliken
In this video, we explore the collaboration between Indigenous Australian artist Helena Geiger and Milliken. Their new commercial carpet collection, Sandhills, is a collection that transports you straight into the Australian landscape, and it’s a story you won’t soon forget.
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ZJJZ wins The Prodigy at 2022 INDE.Awards
Comprising a trio of architects based in China, the practice of ZJJZ leads the way with its particular ideas of architecture that places people and the natural environment at the centre of its design. Meet The Prodigy for 2022.
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Strong character, clear destiny: ZJJZ
This trio of architects based in China, is making international waves with its particular ideas of architecture that puts people and the natural environment front and centre. No wonder they were named The Prodigy in 2022.
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Beauty and science: 6 learning spaces that put flooring first
We select 6 inspiring education projects that showcase how science-backed carpet tiles can be used to elevate education environments.
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INDE.Awards 2022 winners announced!
The auditorium was full, the vibe electric and the winners truly outstanding last night at the INDE.Awards Gala. Scroll the Indo Pacific’s most outstanding projects and people, here.
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Discover 2022’s Best: The INDE.Awards Winners are here!
2022 INDE.Awards showcased exception innovation and creativity with sustainability initiatives integral to all design.
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Meet The Prodigies: Rising stars of our industry
The INDE.Awards – The Prodigy shortlist recognises the outstanding new creatives in the Indo-pacific region with seven nominations in this category.
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Rising stars: The Prodigy shortlist for the 2022 INDE.Awards
The INDE.Awards – The Prodigy shortlist recognises the outstanding new creatives in the Indo-pacific region with seven nominations in this category.
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Plug and Play: STACK’s agile workspace for Tower
STACK’s intuitive agile working model for Tower provides flexible spaces for collaboration, defined by carpeting in custom colourways
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Feed your knowledge, become the expert: INDE.Summit line-up announced
The program and speaker line-up for INDE.Summit has been announced. Block out Wednesday August 3rd and book your tickets. Find the full program is here.
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This Adelaide junior school celebrates connection to Country
Totalspace Design have used Milliken’s Water Yuludarla collection at Star of the Sea School to create a bold landscape that defines the interior and creates a powerful space for learning.
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Stronger together: The new Cyber CX headquarters in Sydney uses Australian design to bring people together
The fit-out for Cyber CX is a celebration of the company’s Australian heritage, with a palette of furniture and finishes that supports local design and manufacture – including Milliken’s elegant Ripple and Unearthed collections which were printed utilising the Millitron Digital Dye Injection technology in Sydney.
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The wait is over! Presenting the INDE.Awards Shortlist 2022
After much deliberation among INDE.Awards’ jurors, we are incredibly excited to present The Official Shortlist for the INDE.Awards 2022.
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Back to nature: the new Student Hub at UNSW celebrates all things green
The Paddington Library and Nucleus: Student Hub at UNSW draws inspiration from nature to create an inspiring space for learning – and features a suitably green material palette, including Milliken carpet tiles and LVT.
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Inside Catalyst’s design for the Department of Corrections
This New Zealand Department of Corrections skills-up offenders in the community and prison. Every detail of the design, including its colourful Milliken carpet tiles, comes back to its ‘pathway of excellent’ mission.
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Red Cross office by Liquid Design
A clever use of green initiatives and finishes – including sustainable Milliken carpet to define zones – ensures more funding for important Red Cross programmes in the coming years.
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INDE.Awards entry deadline extended
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending the entry period for the INDE.Awards by three whole weeks – giving you until 31 March.
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Biophilia comes to the fore in this Gray Puksand fit-out
For this Melbourne-based workplace, Gray Puksand has created an environment that exudes calm and balance. Soft, gentle Milliken flooring helps to craft the ambience and flow of the spaces.
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Xi Chen on Future-Made Spaces
INDE.Awards and Milliken catch up with Xi Chen to chat progressive design, creating originality and what 2022 has in store for our INDE Prodigies.
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Milliken launches the M/PACT™ carbon neutral program to help fight climate change
Milliken’s new sustainability initiative is helping to design a better future by offsetting the raw materials and manufacturing carbon footprint of its flooring products.
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Stylecraft and TAFE NSW launch First Nations design scholarship
Stylecraft, with its demonstrated commitment to social justice, and TAFE NSW have announced a new First Nations Interior Design Scholarship.
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Slaying the building dragons with Perth studio State of Kin
Champions of women in design and creators of bold and adventurous spaces, Ara Salomone and Alessandra French take Perth by storm.
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COMUNiTI distils the Davidson brand to perfection
For an organisation that champions making positive change, it made perfect sense for Davidson to change their workspace to reflect their philosophy. COMUNiTI’s inspired approach to flooring using Milliken-Ontera saw the Davidson brand flawlessly translated into its new working environment.
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Modular carpeting laying pathways to excellence at QUT College
Included in the newly refurbished QUT College, modular carpeting from Milliken-Ontera has helped create a place where new relationships are formed, excellence is achieved, and life-long memories are made.
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8 of the Best Commercial Carpet Tiles
Carpet tiles are increasingly popular for commercial spaces, thanks to new manufacturing technologies and the benefits they offer when compared to broadloom carpets.
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Milliken helps Growth Australia showcase its expertise at new headquarters
When the time came for Growth Australia to redesign its own new headquarters, Milliken, and its modular carpeting, were there to lend a hand.
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Leader of the Pack
After a glittering digital gala, the INDE.Awards winners have now been announced and receiving the accolade of The Prodigy this year is Xi Chen from China.
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The best thing to happen to hospitality interiors since… ever
In this edition of the Indesign Edit, Milliken creates a new generation of contemporary commercial flooring solutions with their new collection, Hospitality: Modular Landscapes.
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Whale Song modular carpeting hits a sustainable note for Southern Cross
Specified in a health care organisation’s new office space in Auckland, Milliken-Ontera’s whale song-inspired carpet tile designs help create an environment in which employees are comfortable and productive.
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Catch every INDE.Summit insight you missed, now on demand
Did you miss out on the industry’s most anticipated regional architecture and design conference? Fear not – the full programme is now live on demand!
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And the well deserved 2021 INDE.Awards wins go to…
The 2021 INDE.Awards winners have been announced, and each is a testament to the design excellence of the Indo-Pacific!
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Discover architecture’s best for 2021 at this year’s INDE.Awards
You’re invited to our annual celebration of Indo-Pacific architecture and design! Find out more about this year’s INDE.Awards here.
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Modular carpeting helps usher in new era for Kimberly Clark
The addition of modular carpeting from Milliken-Ontera’s Beyond Chroma collection has not only delivered Kimberly Clark a bright, appealing new office space, but also helped set the business up for cultural change and continued success.
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The natural carpeting choice for Indigenous employment hub
Milliken-Ontera’s Water Yuludarla – a carpet collection based on the work of Gumbaynggirr artist, Brentyn Lugnan – has helped transform the Yarpa Hub into a welcoming place of connection and cultural strength.
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The future for hospitality carpeting is modular
Milliken Modular Landscapes – a new generation of modular carpeting products that cut costs by up to 25% compared to broadloom carpet and raise the bar in terms of aesthetic possibility, installation, maintenance, and sustainability – represent a changing of the guard for applications in the hospitality sector.
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Meet the prodigal leaders of the pack
Making a name for yourself in the world of architecture and design is a daunting prospect to many but not for the four candidates in this year’s The Prodigy category.
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The INDE.Awards 2021 shortlist has delivered the goods
Granting a moment of sweet relief from the months’ of anticipation building around this year’s INDE.Awards, the 2021 INDE.Awards shortlist has been announced.
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Say goodbye to long lead times on customised commercial carpet tiles
Milliken-Ontera, a leading supplier of commercial carpet tiles and flooring, introduces Milliken Couture – a streamlined, client-focussed customisation process that delivers design concepts in just four days, and full production in three weeks from the date of order.
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Fighting youth homelessness one bedroom at a time
Property Industry Foundation CEO, Kate Mills outlines the work her organisation is doing to resolve the ‘wicked social problem’ of youth homelessness; explores the innovative ways Milliken-Ontera has helped with this work; and offers hope for the future.
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Introducing the INDE.Awards Prodigies for 2021
They are young and talented and leading the pack! The INDE.Awards Prodigy stands out from the crowd and makes a unique contribution to the world of architecture and design.
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Celebrating the INDE.Awards 2020, better late than never
Rainy Sydney played host to the INDE.Awards mixer event: an opportunity for the industry to come together and celebrate a 2020 programme unlike any other.
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Everyone is a flooring designer with Milliken Couture
Milliken-Ontera has been bringing a uniquely customisable brand of creativity to Australian and New Zealand flooring design for over three decades. Having always designed and supplied from their manufacturing facility in Sydney, it has also been renowned for its impressive speed to market. This year, however, the brand boosts its already advanced personalisation capabilities by introducing a mass customisation concept that makes it even easier to create distinct flooring solutions in just three weeks.
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Milliken Couture: Bespoke Carpet Design at Your Feet
Milliken Ontera has been at the forefront of flooring design in Australia for over 30 years now. This year, their pioneering spirit and unique creative ability are crowned with a new range which opens up the floor to anyone wanting to transform their concept into one of a kind flooring solution in just three weeks.
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Get creative with The Bold Collective
On Wednesday 29 July, The Bold Collective and {small} bytes of happiness will host a digital arts and crafts workshop online, presented by Haworth and Milliken-Ontera.
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Cheers to Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020, and many more industry events to come!
The eve of Thursday 20 February 2020 was one of conviviality, celebration, and friendly competition, courtesy of Polytec and friends.
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More Than Just A Party
Inspired by Valentines Day just passed, Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020 is a chance for the architecture and design community to come together while the weather is still warm and reconnect before the year takes off.
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Place making and Indigenous Design Narratives in Civic Spaces
Having long been leaders in the commercial carpet and flooring sector, Milliken-Ontera are now paving the way with design-led collaborations that are driven by individual expression in ‘place making’.
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Reconciliation through design: Introducing Water Yuludarla by Milliken
Pushing inclusive design and co-creation into new territory, Milliken-Ontera’s new Water Yuludara collection has been designed in collaboration with Gumbaynggirr artist, Brentyn Lugnan.
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Making colour matter: Beyond Chroma by Milliken
Launching just in time for Spring, the Beyond Chroma carpet collection embraces colour in all its glory. Lend versatility to your commercial spaces; choose from a palette of 60 colourways.
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Creating revitalising healthcare spaces
At Te Omanga Hospice New Zealand, design takes a more human-centric approach with harmonising carpet designs by Milliken-Ontera.
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Design for a cause: Free Flow by Milliken
The flooring brand’s new design collection helps elevate interior spaces, while also supporting the Property Industry Foundation’s initiatives.
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Design leadership through flooring: Milliken
Find out what makes the carpet tile manufacturer an industry force to reckon with.
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Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot
Integrated technology might be commonplace in the workplace, but in education spaces it’s still a fairly new phenomenon. At Western Sydney University, Woods Bagot’s vertical campus design raises the bar in more ways than one.