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From tired office to luxury aged care: Adaptive reuse with Fender Katsalidis

From tired office to luxury aged care: Adaptive reuse with Fender Katsalidis

The Alba is a transformative adaptive reuse project in Melbourne, transforming a dilapidated office building into a refined aged care residence.

Kristen Whittle and the quest for soulful density

Kristen Whittle and the quest for soulful density

Building on a profound depth of experience, Kristen Whittle is orchestrating his very own studio with a humanistic design philosophy based on care.

Comment: Susanne Pini on build-to-rent, the new place activator

Comment: Susanne Pini on build-to-rent, the new place activator

In this comment piece, Rothelowman principal, Susanne Pini, argues that the build-to-rent model makes for a much richer mix of spaces in our cities.

CapitaSpring is vertical urbanism done right

CapitaSpring is vertical urbanism done right

Designed by Bjark-Ingels Group in collaboration with Carlo Ratti Associati, CapitaSpring is a perfect case study for a biophilic skyscraper in the city.

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.

10 Design completes Haisco Plaza – A green mixed-used development in Chengdu’s new high-tech zone

10 Design completes Haisco Plaza – A green mixed-used development in Chengdu’s new high-tech zone

Designed by international architecture practice 10 Design (part of Egis Group), Haisco Plaza is officially open, welcoming leading tech-firm tenants in Chengdu, China.

The upcoming Lentor Modern caters to nature lovers with hybrid lifestyles

The upcoming Lentor Modern caters to nature lovers with hybrid lifestyles

The project by GuocoLand is the first and only integrated mixed-use development in the Lentor neighbourhood.

Corporate amenities are something else in ANZ Open House

Corporate amenities are something else in ANZ Open House

Together with ANZ, Foolscap Studio has reinvented corporate amenities through the highly detailed, bespoke and materiality rich fit-out of ANZ Open House.

Brisbane’s olde ‘Shop Row’ has a neighbourly new vibe

Brisbane’s olde ‘Shop Row’ has a neighbourly new vibe

What happens when an architect and a businessman, with neighbouring offices in a dated urban strip, join forces to redevelop their heritage-listed locale?

INDE.Awards inaugural Editors’ Gold Mark goes to Koichi Takada for Arc

INDE.Awards inaugural Editors’ Gold Mark goes to Koichi Takada for Arc

Koichi Takada Architects is best known for pushing people’s perception of architecture. Case in point: the Crown Group’s Arc, which has won the inaugural Editors’ Gold Mark award at the INDE.Awards 2019.

Woods Bagot Completes Sunshine Insurance Finance Plaza In Sanya

Woods Bagot Completes Sunshine Insurance Finance Plaza In Sanya

The design for this new mixed-use development responds to the tropical climate, ocean-side location and surrounding architecture, as well as to changing retail behaviour in China.

Gateway One by SPARK:  Mixed-Use 2.0

Gateway One by SPARK: Mixed-Use 2.0

What sorts of experiences will we want from the city when online retail diminishes the scope of shopping even more than it already has? A mixed-use development puts the emphasis on F&B, porosity and shared spaces.