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The Net Zero Future Works Here
Rising above the new Sydney Metro Gadigal Station on Pitt Street, Investa’s Parkline Place is redefining the office property aesthetic.
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Creating a coastal escape
In creating the coastal holiday haven ‘le paix’, owner/developer Ben Flint, founder of Greystone Constructions, leaned into a sophisticated Mediterranean feel.
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2024 Sustainability Awards Winners
The 2024 Sustainability Awards Winners bestowed its honours on 18 winners, with 10 others receiving honourable mentions — a small gesture for contributions that loom large in our shared narrative of sustainability.
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Cheers to savouring local talent at Beenleigh
In the bustling coastal corridor between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, the new Distillery Road Markets precinct has become a major drawcard for tourists and locals alike. At the heart of this creative redevelopment of a former industrial precinct is The FED, which stands for Food, Entertainment and Dining.
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And that’s a wrap: Saturday Indesign was a design lover’s playground
From panel talks with luminaries to interactive installations, Saturday Indesign 2024 delivered a convivial experience for Australia’s design community.
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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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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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Feeding new design expression with net zero impact
The story of Verosol is one of vision and innovation. Since the 1960s the company has been pushing the boundaries of sustainable design to positively impact our built environment, give back to the natural environment, and nurture new creative expression. How do they do it? We’re about to find out.
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A forever home among the fig trees
Amidst the vibrant hum of Brisbane’s West End, a gorgeous tri-level home embraces nature within and without. Overlooking Orleigh Park with its stately Moreton Bay fig trees and the winding waters of the Brisbane River, the design of the home fuses the lifestyle of the owners with the essence of contemporary sustainable design.
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Back to basics at Zero Gipps: First-principles sustainability with SJB and Verosol
Beau Fulwood and Alison Peach on returning to a low-tech, first-principles concept of design as a strategy to combat climate change.
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Responding to people and place within the cancer treatment journey
Explore the future of cancer treatment at the Australian Bragg Centre, where a revolutionary design by Woods Bagot integrates cutting-edge proton therapy with patient-centric features, including natural light and adaptive Verosol blinds, creating a space that merges innovation and empathy for a holistic healing journey.
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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 […]
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Celebrating the winners from the 2023 Sustainability Awards
The pressing need for widespread change has never been more crucial. This year’s Sustainability Awards has called out the masters and leaders of sustainable architecture and design in 2023.
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Wurriki Nyal – a fusion of aesthetics and performance
Transparency and connection are significant themes in the design scheme for the new Wurriki Nyal Civic Precinct. In combination with the world-class sustainability goals of the client, City of Greater Geelong, this poses a challenge for an architect: how to resolve the conflict between expansive views and glazing as a dominant façade element, while ensuring comfortable indoor temperatures and minimised glare.
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How To Design And Establish Social And Sustainable Affordable Housing for Communities
The Sustainability Summit panel delves into innovative models such as the Nightingale Housing model and the AssembleFutures concept.
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Our esteemed speakers at this year’s Sustainability Summit sessions
Join us on Nov 9 at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium for the 2023 Sustainability Summit! Renowned architects will share their expertise at the Sustainability Awards.
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Creating Sustainable Outcomes, Wellness, And Performance By Using Industrial Design
This Sustainability Summit session will raise critical questions regarding why a sustainable design approach isn’t more prevalent in the industry.
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How To Use Biophilia To Design Buildings That Generate Their Own Energy
In this upcoming Sustainability Summit session, the panel will zero in on integrating biophilic design principles into contemporary architecture.
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The Rise Of New Multi-Residential Housing Models And How They Are Changing The Way We Live
“The Rise of New Multi-Residential Housing Models and How They Are Changing the Way We Live” will focus on the evolving landscape of multi-residential housing in Australia.
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Verosol blinds help maintain visual connectivity at Jubilee Place
Looking great and providing shade from the Brisbane sun, the Ambience roller blinds at Jubilee Place are also doing something else. They are helping ensure that everybody, both inside and outside, can experience the building’s striking external structure.
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Verosol blinds find a natural home in sustainable Sydney office tower
Specified in Salesforce Tower, a striking new building in Sydney’s commercial heart, Verosol blinds are ensuring panoramic harbour views, while helping to maintain impressive levels of thermal efficiency and sustainability.
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The complete guide to selecting window coverings for modern spaces
Examine the art of selecting window coverings that combine functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability in four compelling case studies across diverse project typologies, in the latest edition of The Edit.
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Verosol and the making of a dynamic, enviro-friendly workspace
Specified at Eleven Eastern, a state-of-the-art commercial development in Melbourne, Verosol blinds have helped create a work environment that is both energising and sustainable.
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Towards Net Zero - Blinds, Best Practice Sustainability & Beyond
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Timber, glass and blinds at Macquarie University
Specified at the new Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Verosol Ambience roller blinds are helping the building’s innovative timber structure shine.
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Verosol helps usher in change at Macquarie Uni
Specified in the new Central Courtyard Building, Verosol blinds are helping create a place in which lessons are learnt and friendships are forged.
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Fulfil all your CPD requirements anywhere, anytime with CPDLIVE.com.au
Your favourite CPD program is now a permanent destination, putting all your CPD needs just a click away
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Ensuring the safety of Australia’s botanical treasures
The National Herbarium of NSW houses over a million botanical specimens, some of which are more than two centuries old. Including numerous climate control features, such as Verosol blinds, the state-of-the-art facility is helping safeguard Australia’s natural heritage for future generations.
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Discover the speaker lineup for the 2022 Sustainability Summit
From academics, architects, engineers and innovators – your speaker lineup is bringing you the latest knowledge in Australia’s sustainable built environment!
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Arm yourself with knowledge: Sustainability Summit live
The industry’s leading conference on the Sustainable Built Environment takes place Thursday 10 November in person, in Sydney.
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Exemplars of science and design: Your Sustainability Awards 2022 shortlist is here
We introduce you to the 65 Sustainability Awards finalists who are revolutionising Australia’s built environment.
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Space for the spirit: Wood Pavilion is the Social Space of 2022
Situated near a river and designed as a gathering place for people to meet and contemplate life, Wood Pavilion #1 has been named The Social Space of 2022.
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Olderfleet offers new lease on life for Melbourne heritage buildings
The Mirvac Olderfleet development has brought Melbourne’s ‘dress circle’ of Colllins Street buildings into the 21st century. The buildings now represent the cutting edge of sustainable design, complete with Verosol blinds.
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Smart shade – why automated blinds are the future
It’s all automated: dishwashing, changing television channels, flying a plane, and driving a car. Now blinds and curtains are joining the age of automation… and Verosol is leading the way.
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Enhanced customer service: Westpac gets clever with a ‘blind’ approach
Westpac has found the balance between serving its customers and giving its staff the space to focus. Currently being rolled out across its Australian branches are motorised Verosol blinds that bridge the gap between customer-facing time, and task-oriented work.
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The Social Space shortlist: places that bring us together
The INDE.Awards 2022’s shortlist for The Social Space is a unique group of projects — all show stoppers in their own right but together they help define our region’s social landscape.
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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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The path to true sustainability with Smart Design Studio and Verosol
As Smart Design Studio can attest, achieving sustainability is no easy task. It involves ambition, true commitment and choosing products like performance blinds from Verosol.
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Verosol blinds making the grade at state-of-the-art educational facility
Verosol’s 802 SilverScreen Enviro is a unique metallised blind material. Representing the cutting edge of window covering technology, it has found a natural home at Griffith University’s innovative new Engineering, Technology and Aviation building.
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Deakin Uni delivers a masterclass in conscious design
With the most recent addition to Deakin University, Woods Bagot was able to balance design aspirations with environmental concerns to create something special. It did so with a little help from Verosol.
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Verosol blinds meet the brief for the Federal Courts of Australia
Elegant and functional, Verosol’s Ambience Twin Multi-Link Roller Blinds have proved themselves a perfect addition to the newly refurbished Federal Courts of Australia in Newcastle.
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Curtain University’s Legacy Living Lab puts Verosol to the test
Verosol has long been associated with not only developing ground-breaking window covering products, but also educating the wider world on their energy saving potential. Its collaboration with Curtin University’s Legacy Living Lab is just the latest example of this commitment.
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Opening the blinds on Section J and Beyond
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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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Why INDE 2020 was our Best Yet!
2020 INDE’s brought our community together from across the globe to celebrate the excellence in architecture and design from across the Indo Pacific
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The 2020 INDE.Awards Winners are here!
The 2020 INDE.Awards Winners have been announced. Discover the best in the Indo Pacific
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Your Go-To Guide to the INDE.Digital Gala
With the INDE.Awards Digital Gala just weeks away, we’ve got the lowdown on how to best enjoy the virtual event we’ve all been waiting for!
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On the Hunt for CPD Points? CPD Live is just a Week Away!
CPD Live is less than a week away! Have you registered?
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“Breathtaking and exciting” – Announcing the Official Shortlist for the INDE.Awards 2020!
At last the results are here! The Official Shortlist for the INDE.Awards 2020 had been announced.
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On Socially Sustainable Urbanisation: INDE. Luminary, Juan Du
Architect and academic Juan Du has devoted all aspects of her career to the study of urban development in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and the pursuit of more socially and culturally sustainable outcomes.
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Sensory Experiences: INDE. Luminary, Richards Stanisich
Jonathan Richards and Kirsten Stanisich create spaces that align with the human need for wellbeing, that address inclusivity and sustainability, and that make people ‘feel something’.
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Rigour, Refinement And Value: INDE. Luminary, Ross Gardam
Leading a studio of designers, engineers and makers in Melbourne, Ross Gardam is the author of rigorously considered objects that bring value to people in a noise-filled world.
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Making Places For People: INDE. Luminary, Andra Matin
For Andra Matin, the joy of seeing the public settled into his buildings is matched by the satisfaction that comes with the emergence of a more place-specific breed of contemporary Indonesian architecture.
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Introducing The INDE.Awards Luminaries Of 2020
They’ve spent years practicing architecture or design with a consistently bold and fearless approach. They inspire others with their skill, insight and foresight. We are honoured to reveal our Luminaries of 2020.
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Window Coverings: An Important Part of the Energy Efficiency Equation
As we look to improve the energy efficiency in commercial buildings, window coverings tend to be overlooked. This whitepaper outlines why this is a mistake
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Expand your design possibilities with Verosol
The high-performance solar fabric of Verosol has put the company on the map – cooling down buildings naturally and in style, but there’s a lot more to explore.
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How performance fabrics positively impact design
Glass has become a popular feature in modern design, so, when paired with performance fabrics, interiors can be protected from UV radiation and excess heat.
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NAB Place
The National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Brisbane Headquarters, NAB Place, designed by global architecture firm, Woods Bagot, sets a new benchmark in collaborative workplace environments.