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Halls of power

Halls of power

Open, light-filled and speaking directly to contemporary Australian culture, the new Bates Smart-designed Australian Embassy in Washington DC is positioning Australia at the forefront of contemporary design.

Map out your Melbourne Design Week with these 12 highlights

Map out your Melbourne Design Week with these 12 highlights

Melbourne’s epic Design Week is almost upon us. I put it out to my friends and colleagues, asking what they can’t wait to see, and have collated a top 12 program highlights list for you here.

Design becomes gentler, more caring: Insights from Stockholm Furniture Fair

Design becomes gentler, more caring: Insights from Stockholm Furniture Fair

Danielle Brustman recently attended the Stockholm Furniture Fair with KFive Furniture. What she encountered was experimental and playful, at times mind blowing, and always conscious.

Character and masterful design collide in this surprising anthology of lights and furniture

Character and masterful design collide in this surprising anthology of lights and furniture

K5 Furniture are turning heads with the release of three products equally fit for residential and commercial purposes. Herein lies furniture with attitude: explore three new products packed with personality.

The Influencer and K5 Furniture at the 2023 INDE.Awards – the category that makes a difference

The Influencer and K5 Furniture at the 2023 INDE.Awards – the category that makes a difference

Leading the way and impacting architecture and design thinking is The Influencer at the 2023 INDE.Awards – just as K5 Furniture, the partner for the category, has been a trailblazer in the industry for decades.

We’re building healthier habits with these 3 new furniture ranges from K5 Furniture

We’re building healthier habits with these 3 new furniture ranges from K5 Furniture

K5 Furniture gives us an elegant nudge towards healthier habits and self-care with three new ranges that help us experience and enjoy life, build a sustainable mindset plus more.

The sustainable future of workplace furniture

The sustainable future of workplace furniture

K5 are shaking things up with a collection of pieces that celebrate circularity and prioritise wellbeing.

Growth industry: Students leading the way in biodesign

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’.

Caulfield Library Refurbishment, from John Wardle Architects

Caulfield Library Refurbishment, from John Wardle Architects

What are students’ expectations of academic libraries? This is a question John Wardle Architects tackled when renovating and expanding Monash University’s Caulfield Library.

Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation Dissections by Crone Architects

Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation Dissections by Crone Architects

An owner-occupier client with a program more diverse than most and a need for information sharing in a constantly evolving sector – led to an uplifting and pragmatic design outcome that supports healthcare professionals to ‘walk the walk.’

Salamanca

Salamanca

The new Parliament Square development symbolises the current rejuvenation of Hobart and the Salamanca Building is the key.

RMIT New Academic Street

RMIT New Academic Street

The redevelopment of RMIT’s so-called ‘grey ghosts’ signals a much-anticipated final instalment in the University’s long – decades in fact – campus transformation.