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“Furniture design offered a creative freedom that felt quite liberating”: Joanne Odisho on working with Knotte
New Australian modular seating brand, Knotte, has collaborated with Melbourne designer, Joanne Odisho, to develop its latest range, Almas. We asked her to tell us more.
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A sustained approach
Enter Projects Asia is an architecture and design practice that breaks the mould of traditional making and design but also ensures that the environment is front and centre in all that it does.
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Behind the brand with Singapore-based Liz Teh
The Director of Space Design for Haworth International for Asia and Europe tells us all about her global design journey.
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The good, the bad and the pandemic: The future of hospitality design with Technē’s Sam Sempill
Technē Architecture + Interior Design associate director, Sam Sempill, shares insights into hospitality design.
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Vicky Wang of WATG discusses the needs of the hospitality industry
The Managing Director, Asia Pacific of WATG and Wimberly Interiors on contextual design and her convivial leadership approach.
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<strong>Liza Morales: Building better for her children</strong>
Female architect Liza Morales cut her teeth in a male-dominated industry at The Big Apple before returning back home to The Philippines decades later to start Ecotecture Design Studio.
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Simone LeAmon’s and Ewan McEoin’s aspirations for Australian design
Securing and now celebrating Australian design’s place in the world are design curators, Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin.
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Vale Boris Tosic: A life lived to the fullest
It is with immense sadness that we report on the passing of Boris Tosic, founder of Élan. Boris was renowned for his irrepressible spirit, his drive and his big heart.
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Ilse Crawford: From magazine editor to multidisciplinary designer
British design icon Ilse Crawford wants to reshape the world to be a better place – and believes design is our most powerful means to do so.
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Kirsti Simpson’s plan for Woods Bagot Brisbane
Joining Woods Bagot’s Brisbane studio as executive chair, Kirsti Simpson brings an extraordinary breadth of experience. She speaks with Gillian Serisier about the recent move.
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An authentic Māori design voice: Elisapeta Heta
Jasmax principal Elisapeta Heta is bringing an authentically Māori design voice to the architecture and design community in Aotearoa, New Zealand – and it’s reaching Indo-Pacific wide. Jan Henderson reports.
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Cheshire Architects talks of its journey
Cheshire Architects has forged a name for itself across New Zealand, Australia and abroad, with adventurous clientele who are keen to be taken on a journey.
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Cream Pie: From side hustle to a multidisciplinary design studio
Stephanie Er of Cream Pie discusses human-centric design and the purposeful engagement of materials and space.
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Mark Landini and his ‘blindfold test’ design approach
From flying around the clock, to traversing time zones from home. With severe limitations on international travel, Landini Associates has had to adapt its modus operandi. The process has been illuminating, reports Stephen Crafti.
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OBJKT Studio on culture, craft and nurturing its life-long design vision
Launched in 2020, OBJKT Studio is driven by a continuous quest for new perspectives and insights and an undying passion for discovering complex, innovative methods that fuse design traditions of the past, present and future.
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Richard Archer on balance, form and the human endeavour
Behind every great design is a considered philosophy. For Richard Archer, he believes in creating harmonic environments that inspire creativity.
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How four people are making sustainable change
There’s no time like now to celebrate the nation’s best advocates and aficionados of sustainable design. We take a look at the winners of the Sustainability Awards 2021 – and everything they’re doing to champion change in the industry.
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Tan Wei Xiang combats isolation with his creation for Discovered
Designer Tan Wei Xiang shares his creative journey in conceptualising his piece for Discovered, a platform created by Wallpaper* and American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) to support design’s next generation.
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Siren Design’s human-centric approach in workspaces
Siren Design’s progressive and unequivocally cool workspaces are grounded by a belief in designing for community and context. It is all the more relevant in our isolating pandemic circumstances, asserts its Singapore managing director Penny Sloane.
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FARMACY: FARM’s research and experience design arm
With FARMACY, FARM uses deep research, community conversation, and engagement with subject matter experts to chart a way through the complexities of creative projects today.
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SHAU improves social well-being through architecture and urban design
Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann of SHAU are dogged idealists when it comes to the transformative power of architecture and urban design. Projects like their series of microlibraries show how social improvements can come one architectural experiment at a time.
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COLOURS works with people to rethink public realms for positive impact
Design consultancy COLOURS tears down the architecture and public space silos to create meaningful places for people and the environment.
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Patricia Urquiola sheds light on design’s direction
As we teeter on the edge of rapid and volatile change, we look to one of the global industry’s leading lights for insight and direction.
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Remembering Art Gensler: 3 impressive projects to mark his demise
Foremost architect Art Gensler died at the age of 85, leaving a great legacy for his eponymous firm and the industry.
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Serie Architects on creating architecture that’s sensitive to urban and cultural context
Serie Architects’ founding principal Christopher Lee has single-mindedly designed with utmost consideration of the city and the cultural and societal norms that come along with it. The resulting works are thoughtful contributions to the cities they inhabit.
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A New Thirst: Alchemist Anonymous By Bitte Design Studio
A bar culture is taking shape in Jakarta, and this speakeasy designed by young studio Bitte Design offers a 1920s concoction.
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5 Minutes With… Bitte Design Studio
We chatted with founders of Jakarta-based Bitte Design Studio Agatha Carolina and Chrisye Octaviani about starting a design business and creating sustainable spaces.
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Brewin Design Office’s Relearning Experience
Taking its design practice up a notch has led Brewin Design Office to rethink how it works. Founder and Principal Robert Cheng talks about the challenges of maintaining a bespoke, architectural approach in the face of large-scale projects.
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INDE.Awards 2019 Luminary: Budiman Hendropurnomo
“After you make sure that it works, then you try to make it not boring.” Indonesian architect and INDE.Awards 2019 Luminary Budiman Hendropurnomo talks about experimenting at large scale.
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Indesign Luminary: Caroline Casey
A meticulous and intuitive designer, Caroline Casey has a diverse range of outstanding products to her name.
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Light Talk with Melvyn Law
The founder of award-winning lighting design consultancy Limelight Atelier talks about lighting design in Asia and his expectations for architectural lighting into the future.
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Takenouchi Webb: The Care Factor
For Naoko Takenouchi and Marc Webb, it is care – for the experience and details of a space, and for professional responsibility – that defines a designer’s duties. Here we present a glimpse of Yvonne Xu’s Cubes #85 feature on the studio.