INDESIGN

With three issues a year, Indesign magazine is Australia’s leading voice in commercial architecture and design with an emphasis on sectors of workplace, education, hospitality, retail, healthcare and aged care. For 20 years, Indesign’s provocative and insightful coverage and conversations have been influential in shaping the Australian commercial design landscape. It is the premier professional resource for practicing architects, designers and specifiers, capturing the design thinking and thought leadership behind the region’s most outstanding projects, products and practices.

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INDESIGN

Introducing the Voices of Indesign • The ‘The Live & Learn Issue’

INDI.Awards Winners 2024 • Celebrating regional design on the global stage

The Luminary 2024

Dotty for Kusama

Build a Bett r World • Autex Acoustics has championed sustainability for over thirty years and continue to lead the way and find innovative solutions.

Perfectly browned • AI and innovation revolutionising the kitchen space

Rede ning the Water Space • Increasingly apparent in all commercial spaces where humans interact, whether that be a glamorous lounge or the staff lunch room, is a shift towards a more residential aesthetic.

DISCOVERED emerging APAC designers • American Hardwood Export Council promotes the works of next-gen designers through Discovered.

Home Grown Stone • The elegance and eco-friendliness of Australian stone is something we should all be enormously proud of and support through timeless design and architecture.

The Window to a Good Education

Reddam House North Shore

Embrace Tranquillity with Lamitak • Take it slow and savour the moment. Curate your own sanctuary of peace.

To Ask is to Include • There are increasing pressures on Australian museums to decolonise their methods. A task Chief Executive of the Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences, Lisa Havilah, is taking in her stride

One act at a time • Bangawarra means to make, to design and to bring about through sustained effort.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Accidental Architect • Artist, architect, activist and Noh theatre champion, Japanese superstar of the large format photograph, Hiroshi Sugimoto, is always a delight.

The Joy of Books • In his seminal essay “The Book as Spiritual Instrument,” French poet and modernism’s great champion of the book, Stéphane Mallarmé famously wrote: “everything in the world exists to end up as a book.” Wutopia Lab have embraced this ideal to build Shanghai Book City as quite literally a vertical city made of books.

Weaving Sustainability Through Time and Space • As Narendra Modi’s India evolves its history and destiny to become a vital mediator of 21st century geopolitics and commerce, its new airports are rising to internationally excellent engineering standards with creatively intelligent architecture.

At River’s Edge • Wardle has conceived a facility for the University of Tasmania that provides not only a place to educate but something more – connection to the people and the land.

A Biophilic Campus • In line with Singapore’s ambitions to become carbon free by 2050, the sustainably built Nanyang Business School designed by Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, and RSP Architects Planners & Engineers is currently the largest timber building in Asia.

Fluid Dynamics • Smart Design Studio’s expressive architecture for the Science Gallery Museum is designed to capture the curiosity of its young patrons, while delivering an intelligent, nimble, low-waste working structure for this global-standard gallery.

True Ambassadorship • Open, light- lled and speaking directly to contemporary Australian culture, the new Bates Smart-designed Australian...