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Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025
From city-making to craft, design heritage to material innovation, these standout interviews offered rare insight into the people steering architecture and design forward.
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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.
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<strong>City Gather Park: Where art, nature and people come together</strong>
In the City Gather Park in Changsha, China, Chengdu-based Dean Design merges natural ecology and urban life with installations to create a memorable and poetic respite in the heart of the city.
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Making placemaking endemic in our post-pandemic city
As cities emerged from the pandemic with plans to become more resilient, it is an opportunity to engage people in better placemaking. Regular columnist Justin Zhuang shares his perspective.
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Drift: How one pedestrian bridge enhances connectivity and improves neighbourhood
Designed by Volkan Alkanoglu, Drift is created to bridge a physical divide – a creek – between two halves of one neighbourhood and their respective park systems.
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This playscape is imbued with lessons vital to development
We Architech Anonymous (waa) has transformed an industrial complex into a neighbourhood playground designed to support children’s development, in Beijing.
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9 fresh takes on Education and Urbanism in Indesign #84
Our latest issue looks beyond the classroom as simply an environment for teacher and student, to consider the relationship between education and urbanism.
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“It’s about people and place” – education design in 2021
How can we design our schools to better support our people and enrich our sense of community? Indesign Editor, Alice Blackwood, talks education and urbanism in 2021.
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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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Ronan Bouroullec on urban daydreaming in Asia
“I think we can always agree on that we miss nature,” shared Ronan Bouroullec about the Urban Daydreaming exhibition at HKDI Gallery, Studio Bouroullec’s first foray into the realm of urban design. We asked him to share more.
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Is this the world’s most liveable suburb?
Melbourne’s YarraBend has been marked as the world’s most liveable suburb, but what makes it so? We hear from Glenvill’s strategic director, Ashley Bramich, as well as the forecaster who made the claim, Martin Raymond of The Future Laboratory.
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Toward Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem
In the last of our three articles recapping the ‘Dense and Green Building Typologies’ symposium, we hear from architects and landscape architects on achieving systematised urban ecology.