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November 2025 brought about significant leadership changes across pockets of Australia’s architecture and interior design industry, as well as studio updates and individual honours. View them all below. DIA welcomes new CEO Simone LeAmon. Photo: supplied. At the end of November, the country’s peak voice for design, the Design Institute of Australia, announced that Simone […]
Brisbane’s design community gathered at the Miele Experience Centre on Wednesday 30 April for the official launch of the 2025 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and a first look at its newest award: Enduring. Miele Experience Centre Brisbane on 30 April 2025 Hosted in partnership with Miele – IDEA’s Overall sponsor and the sponsor of […]
The December/January issue of inside magazine is out now, featuring the winners of the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), alongside intimate interviews and investigative features on heritage architecture, whole-systems thinking, environmentally grounded technological advances and more. For the architecture and design community, the end of the year presents a perfect opportunity to reflect, recuperate […]
Bates Smart has taken home the top honours at the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). As well as being named Designer of the Year, the architecture practice with studios in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane won the Overall Project of the Year and the Public Space category for its design of the Australian Embassy in […]
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