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"Our design approach is very much driven by the emotional sensibility and function of spaces - these are the qualities which stay with you, make the place work and keep customers returning." Mark Simpson and Damien Mulvihill of DesignOffice discuss their work on Higher Ground, the new CBD café from the team behind Kettle Black and Top Paddock.
The winners of the Victorian Chapter of the AIA Awards have been announced, with ARM Architecture taking out four awards - including a sixth Victorian Medal - for the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. "It has elevated the role of public architecture for both Geelong and the wider regional community," Hamish Lyon, Chair of Juries said.
The state’s longest standing honour, the Sulman Medal, was awarded to the "quintessentially Australian" Kempsey Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club by Neeson Murcutt Architects, with SJB Architects, Smart Design Studio and WMK Architecture among the other celebrated practices at the AIA NSW Architecture Awards.
Drawing on their diverse experience in building workplace culture, Gavin Harris (senior associate and design director at futurespace), Bradford Gorman (director of Gorman/Birrell), and Keti Malkoski (principle of people and consulting at Schiavello) give their insights on the many factors shaping our offices, the increasing integration of work and life, and how this will affect us in years to come.
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