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Ideas
A grand architectural tour of India – from a student’s perspective
What insights, impressions and inspirations does a student of architecture gain from travel? Khushi Chevli, based in Sydney, recently travelled around India, so we asked her to share the experience with us.
Project
Designing education on a grand scale
Monash University Malayasia will be making its presence felt with a grand new project in Kuala Lumpur.
News
Vale Frank Gehry: 1929-2025
We republish an article in memory of the late architect by UTS, whose Dr Chau Chak Wing Building was Gehry’s first built project in Australia. The internationally revered architect passed away on 5th December.
Events
A live audience interview with Anthony Burke
Professor of architecture, academic, television presenter and much else besides, Anthony Burke joins Timothy Alouani-Roby in Sydney for a live audience discussion about housing and his globetrotting story in architecture.
Events
Stories Indesign: Piers Taylor and the Glenn Murcutt Symposium
Piers Taylor joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons to discuss overlaps with Glenn Murcutt and Francis Kéré, his renowned ‘Studio in the Woods,’ and the sheer desire to make things with whatever might be at hand.
Events
“We have much to learn from sheds”
A recent exhibition at the Robin Boyd Foundation in Melbourne invited visitors to think deeply about sheds and what this under-appreciated building typology can teach us about construction and living today.
Ideas
A winning appointment
Leading by design, Erik L’Heureux has recently taken the helm of Monash University’s Department of Architecture, and so a new and exciting journey begins for both L’Heureux and the University.
Workplace
The university of TAFE by Gray Puksand
A new $67.6 million facility at Chisholm Institute’s Frankston campus in Victoria marks a shift in how vocational education is delivered in Australia.
Events
Queensland’s finest landscapes recognised
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Queensland Awards have been announced at a gala event held at inner-city Brisbane’s Blackbird on Thursday 12th June.
Events
UNSW housing analytics lab launches in Sydney
A new analytics lab led by UNSW researchers will draw on generative AI in an attempt to tackle Australia’s housing crisis, and has opened with an event attended by the NSW Premier in Eveleigh.
Workplace
Classroom-meets-workplace at DesignInc’s new UNSW CBD campus
This clever conversion of a commercial building to a university campus is setting a new benchmark in rethinking vacant city sites.
Events
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design: The new book aiming to guide sustainable transitions
Geoff Isaac’s book provides industrial designers and manufacturers with the knowledge needed for a transition to sustainable material choices.
Project
Learning on display
Architectus has completed the Health and Community Centre of Excellence for Kangan Institute, an education facility featuring TAFE and more.
Ideas
High achievers: The PhD route for interior design
Investigating the process of a Reflective Industry Practice Model PhD Architecture and Design at RMIT University, we discover just what is involved and how the course influences those who participate.
Events
Monumental Imaginaries: Energy transition and visual culture in the Hunter
This Tin Sheds Gallery exhibition delves into complexity and contradiction in the Hunter Region in the context of coal and climate crisis.
Project
A new era of education at Flinders City Campus by Architectus
Architectus elevates Flinders University’s Adelaide presence with a culturally resonant vertical campus, amalgamating advanced learning environments with industry integration and community engagement.
Project
fjcstudio’s dual INDE.Award-winning school
fjcstudio recently took out two INDE.Awards for Darlington Public School. Managing Principal and incoming AIA NSW Chapter President, Elizabeth Carpenter, tells us more.
Ideas
Hayball on inclusivity in education: A diverse range of spaces for a diverse range of students
Hayball Senior Associate Laura Ulph delves into the diverse needs of contemporary education design, with additional comments from Senior Associate Kerlina Bahari and Principal Harry Nicholas.
Events
“We will drag these systems into the light and we will make them dance”: Exhibition launch at Tin Sheds Gallery
Designed and constructed by Complete Thought Studio, the exhibition kicks off at the University of Sydney’s Tin Sheds Gallery on 1st August.
Ideas
Putting back better: Circularity and regeneration, not sustainability
Following a recent panel discussion during Melbourne Design Week, Collectivity Talks Founder, Genevieve Brannigan sat down with Sally Evans, Director of Graphic Design and Product Development at Nexus Designs, to interrogate the role of biofabrication.
Workplace
A modern beacon of health: Flinders Uni Health and Medical Research Building by Architectus
Atop a steep, sloped site at the base of Adelaide Hills, Architectus’ new Health and Medical Research Building (HMRB) stands as a gateway for Flinders University.
Ideas
Today’s students expect more: Q&A with Architectus
We spoke to Architectus Principals, Marina Carroll and Diana Rosenthal, about meeting the needs of students today and the evolution of tertiary institutions.
News
Winners of the AIA Dulux Study Tour announced
Five early-career architects from across the country have been selected to participate in the prestigious 2024 Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Dulux Study Tour.
Articles
Light, nature and connection – an aesthetic for physics at ANU
With its stunning outlooks over Lake Burley Griffin, the new ANU Research School of Physics building, designed by Hassell, was an opportunity to embed wellbeing features as a primary element of the aesthetic. There is a clear alignment between the building blocks of the discipline – light, energy, matter and the interconnections between objects and […]
Project
The sweeping straight-line geometry of Splinter Society’s Monash pavilion
With contextual care and the odd formal flourish, the Monash University Pharmacy Pavilion has been completed by Splinter Society.
Ideas
Hayball comment: The importance of understanding space in enabling innovative learning experiences
In this comment piece, Hayball Principal, Dr Fiona Young, considers what it means to really understand education spaces and design for deep learning.
News
Adaptive reuse wins the day at BVN’s UQ Brisbane City
BVN’s redesign of this heritage site has created a new city campus in Brisbane featuring a varied range of functional spaces and long-term flexibility.
Project
New schools rule: 7 ground-breaking education designs
In no particular order, we bring you some of the most inspiring, unique and unusual recent projects across education design that have also featured in the INDE.Awards.
Events
Honouring Aboriginal trailblazers and activists at UTS Indigenous College
A stunning concept created by Greenaway Architects, Warren and Mahoney and OCULUS has won the design competition for UTS’ future National First Nations College.
Events
Buildings Breakthrough at COP28: Q&A with David Ness
UniSA Professor David Ness played a key role in a UN report on CO2 emissions relating to buildings, construction and urban growth which underpins the Buildings Breakthrough official launch at COP28 in Dubai.
Events
AIA Gold Medallist Kerstin Thompson at the World Architecture Festival
Timothy Alouani-Roby caught up with the Melbourne-based architect at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) after her AIA Gold Medal speech.
News
First look: Architectus unveils preliminary design concepts for UNE Tamworth Campus
The University of New England (UNE) recently hosted a community reveal of Architectus’ initial vision for the proposed Tamworth campus. We walk you through the update.
Events
From student winners to new directors, dynamism at Nexus Designs
The 2023 Nexus Designs Janne Faulkner Prize for Design Excellence at RMIT has been announced and it follows some exciting leadership changes at the practice.
Events
Madeline Lester Excellence Award leads the list of DIA winners
The full list of winners from the Design Institute of Australia Awards 2023 have been announced, including a standout graduate of the year.
Project
Rooftop renewal of a Sydney modernist gem
Ground-breaking in its day and an icon of Australian campus architecture, the University of Sydney’s Fisher Library is celebrating 60 years with a very special reactivation.
Ideas
2023 Buildner Office Design Winner: A radical rethinking of office spaces
Australian architectural graduate Claudia Takada has taken the top prize in the 2023 Buildner Office Design Competition for her post-pandemic exploration of radical humanism in the workplace.
Events
Sound in space: Story, resistance and radio on show at Tin Sheds Gallery
Amplify: Story, Resistance, Radio is the latest exhibition at Tin Sheds Gallery. With an evolving and interactive programme, it’s about more than just a static display of objects.
Events
“A unique intersection between tertiary education and professional practice”: 10 years of MADE by the Opera House
Arup is celebrating not only the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, but also ten years of MADE by the Opera House, the Multidisciplinary Australian Danish Exchange program for which it was one of eight founding partners.
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“From council car park to vertical campus”: Bankstown City Campus by HDR
HDR, in collaboration with Walker Corporation and Lyons, has designed Western Sydney University’s new 26,500 square metre vertical Bankstown City Campus as part of a $340M investment in the area.
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University neighbours: Solari Architects’ very own Cuba Street office
Solari Architects has recently relocated to 191 Cuba Street, joining the Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture. The two-storey office fit-out blends modern functionality with local heritage.
Events
Testing tradition: Interdisciplinary consultancy Studio P3 is ready to go
Following notable careers at Geyer and GroupGSA, Peter McCamley is striking out with Pablo Albani to form Studio P3, an interdisciplinary studio focused on driving business and interior design solutions.
Ideas
Are these the last days of architecture? Q&A with Gerald Matthews
Gerald Matthews, managing director of Matthews Architects in Adelaide, is an architect willing to engage with the profession’s biggest issues. We asked him about AI, architectural education and more.
SA
“A disco for fish and lizards”: Designing for biodiversity in South Australia
Designed by H2o Architects in association with Phillips/ Pilkington Architects, this biodiversity facility is in the more theatrical scientific realm of fish and lizards.
Events
Pritzker Prize-winning architects Lacaton & Vassal launch Sydney exhibition
Curated by France-based architects Lacaton & Vassal, ‘Living in the City’ runs at the Tin Sheds Gallery within the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning until September 23.
Project
Wurun Senior Campus, the height of education design in Melbourne
Winner of The Learning Space at 2023 INDE.Awards, Wurun Senior Campus by GHD Design and Grimshaw features terraces in the sky and dynamic learning neighbourhoods that turn the vertical school model outside-in. Senior year just got better.
Events
The Emerging Designer Competition is back — and this time it’s exploring inclusive design in the hybrid space
Western Sydney University’s (WSU) School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment has partnered with Maxton Fox for a second year to present design students with a new kind of challenge.
QLD
Reimagining the full spectrum of student space: Hassell completes UQ Student Central
At The University of Queensland, Hassell has consolidated facilities across indoor and outdoor spaces in order to create a harmonious and supportive environment for students. It’s a project that aims to reinvent the delivery of student services.
Events
Insight: How will AI and designers work together into the future?
CO-architecture recently hosted a Future of Work panel, featuring 7 passionate architects and designers. Together they addressed the rise of AI and the industry’s ongoing transformation. Hudson Brown brings us key insights from this stellar-cast panel discussion.
Events
CIRCA, the university journal reinvigorating architectural discourse
Students at the University of Sydney launched CIRCA last year with the aim of creating a platform for architectural discourse for students and professionals alike. After a series of successful events, the second issue is under construction.
NSW
SJB wins competition for Broadway student living development
The design of 263-279 Broadway SJB with Land and Form Studios has been announced as the winner of a competition held by City of Sydney. It’s set to redefine student living in the heart of Glebe.
Events
“People want meaning in their work”: The architecture of employee ownership with Make and Meld
Employee ownership comes in many different forms and there is certainly no one size to fit all. It’s a growing trend, especially in design firms overseas, so Timothy Alouani-Roby spoke to some of those blazing the trail in Australia.
Events
RMIT and HOW. come together for the Ian Howard Memorial Scholarship
With the establishment of the Ian Howard Memorial Scholarship, there is a singular opportunity to broaden horizons and experience the incredible design of Spain and Italy for one lucky student from RMIT Interior Design.
Events
Anita B. Lawrence Centre launches: 25-year anniversary marks renaming of UNSW Red Centre
As part of UNSW’s Celebrating Women on Campus project, the home of UNSW’s School of Built Environment has been renamed in honour of a trailblazing architecture graduate.
Events
Buchan and the University of Queensland combine for Indigenous scholarship
A new architecture scholarship will support an Indigenous student through their degree and prepare them for a career in design thanks to a partnership between a global architecture practice and a major Australian university.
Events
The Sydney School, the modern house and the “bandit fringe”
At a recent event hosted by the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning in association with Sydney Living Museums and Sydney Open 2022, a panel of Australia’s leading architectural thinkers discussed the legacy of the ‘Sydney School’.
Events
Growth industry: Students leading the way in biodesign
In a competition held by K5 Furniture in collaboration with Monash University, students were challenged with a brief of mycelium-based product design. We visit the avant-garde with the exhibition ‘Metanoia’.
Project
Embedded in the bushland: Elkhorn Building by m3architecture
Purposefully engaged with its surrounding landscape, this University of Queensland precinct by m3architecture ensures plants are always the focus.
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Geological wonderland at Curtin University
Janet Laurence teams up with John Wardle Architects to hero WA’s most precious rocks in an architecturally crafted ‘cabinet of curiosity’.
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To create amazing things we must work together
Beyond the realm of academia, RMIT’s administrative offices, or RMIT Our Place, by ARM Architecture called for a series of curated, tech-savvy spaces to appeal to its diversity of workers.
News
A Sibella scholarship for interior design students
The Sibella Court Interior Design Scholarship is now available at Torrens University, thanks to a new partnership between the university and Sibella Court.
Project
6 schools reinventing space to drive wellness
Can schools be designed to enhance the wellness of their users? Here are six of our favourite spaces that merge education with wellbeing.
Events
Learning for the future
To learn is to grow and the space in which we develop is paramount. The Learning Space category in the 2021 INDE.Awards provides an opportunity to showcase design in education at its very best.
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Not your ordinary university bar
UNSW is upping the ante on university hospitality venues, employing design to attract and retain talent. The Lounge, designed by Bates Smart, is UNSW’s new hybrid space for academics
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Atelier Nuno Create Reason To Pause In HKU Faculty Lobby
A circulation space at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine becomes a poetic social space after a renovation by Atelier Nuno.
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The Street Hostel: Poetic Climatic Performance From Sanjay Puri Architects
Designing contextually for the climate and the orientation of the site, Sanjay Puri Architects set the conditions for varied experiences of student housing with The Street.
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Ordered chaos: ARM’s University of Adelaide
In the University of Adelaide, a gorgeous chaos of pattern and colour pulls students down the proverbial rabbit hole. But ARM Architecture has been careful to control the immersion, with meticulously considered interiors that facilitate student-centred learning and imaginative ideation.
Articles
Designing the university experience: student amenities and accommodation
University enrolments across Australia continue to skyrocket. How are our architects and designers responding to this increased demand on student amenities?
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Can A Building Improve Your Social Life? Murdoch University’s Mandurah Campus By CODA
Murdoch University’s new student space bridges the gap between classrooms, class times and students, contributing to the all-important social aspect of student life.
Articles
Lighting Up the Future of UTS
The University of Technology Sydney has entered an interesting phase as it nears its 29th birthday, with a number of renovations taking place within its iconic brutalist Tower.
Project
Social Learning Loop
Using a continuous 183 metre long learning loop, architects Bennett & Trimble have developed an ingenious short-term solution to increase learning space at Sydney’s Macquarie University. Tempe Ruth Macgowan writes.