Indesign - Issue 91 - Work & Play | PREVIEW

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Guest Editor Adam Haddow

Sanxia Tea Town Exhibition Centre by ARCHSTUDIO

MESHKI Head Quarters by Those Architects

Berry Place by Breakspear Architects and ASPECT Studios

Mandarin Cake Shop by CCD

The Work (Place) and Play Issue

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Cake Shop by

is a delightful jewel of colour and light in the Guangzhou Mandarin Hotel, China. The Hong Kong based practice is led by Cheng Chung. Photography BORIS / Jack Qin, page 130.

Hello!

I am incredibly proud to be the first in a series of guest editors that INDESIGN have invited to contribute to the dialogue of architecture and design across the Indo-Pacific. This is a new and exciting endeavour for which the INDESIGN team deserve praise. As a practitioner this initiative creates an opportunity for me to articulate an agenda from within the profession - to describe what I believe is the criticality of our time.

For this issue I reached out to this year’s AIA Gold Medalist, Architect Kerstin Thompson — for an in-conversation piece discussing the ‘Business of Living’ (page 144), and I’ve shared with you my thoughts on Glocalisation (page 154)- what does it mean and where is it taking us?

We are also excited to reveal the 2024 INDE.Awards luminaries: Brit Andresen, Colin Seah, Vince Frost and Shimu Javeri Kadrieach profiled by Jan Henderson. What an amazing bunch of people (page 55).

There is a great line up of new projects, from a timber building in Collingwood by Jackson Clement Burrows Architects (page 124), a collaborative design project for Monash University lead by Lyons (page 118), a bespoke commercial o ce building in Paddington by Those Architects (page 74), and Sanxia Tea Town by ARCHSTUDIO in China that sits like a curled extension of the tea terraced mountains that surround it (page 100).

I’m super excited about this edition, it deviates slightly from what you’ve grown to love from INDESIGN — hopefully through a critical lens of city making and the business of living.

Adam Haddow Guest Editor

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Director, SJB

Adam has been a director at SJB since 2002. As a studio, SJB is acclaimed nationally and internationally for their work. SJB’s buildings gestate in the belief that architecture should provide an armature for community life; that the activities buildings facilitate are just as important as the physicality of the buildings themselves. Adam is a Churchill Fellow who investigated alternatives to conventional models of urban design. The sabbatical resulted in a research project entitled ‘Shall We Dense’ an examination into the state of modern density living in Australia and led to successful collaborations within the professional and architectural realms. As NSW Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, Adam leads the Institute in its mission to promote excellence in architecture and advocates for the role of architects in shaping the built environment. He works closely with the Institute’s members, stakeholders and partners to ensure that the voices of architects are heard, and that the industry is equipped to meet the challenges of the future.

Berry Park by Breakspear Architect and ASPECT Studios, page 82. The Business of Living, page 144. In Praise of Glocalisation page 154. Hunter Valley by Dangar Barin Smith, page 158.

Introducing the Voices of Indesign

The ‘The Work (Place) and Play’ Issue

Gillian Serisier

Editor

As the newly appointed Editor of Indesign magazine, Gillian puts her twenty plus year of experience towards informed and interesting commentary across all aspects of architecture, art and design. Gillian has been working with Indesign Media as Editor At Large for the last two years and was previously the co-editor of (Inside) Interior Design Review with Jan Henderson. Architecture, art and design are inherently part of this world and o en the focus of her writing and travel plans. Her immediate adventures include the art trail through Nevada, where desert scenery is interspersed with extraordinary works including City by Michael Heizer and Seven Magic Mountains by Ugo Rondinone.

T3 by Jackson Clements Burrows, page 124. Mandarin Cake Shop by CCD, page 130. Swell Hotel by Nyre Mackenzie, page 136.

Sarah Hetherington

Writer

Sarah moonlights as an art, architecture and design writer and is a member of the International Art Critics Association (AICA). Sarah was most recently Director, Galleries at Sydney Contemporary –Australasia’s premier art fair and held the curatorial responsibility for Installation Contemporary featuring 13 large-scale projects spanning the iconic, heritage-listed Carriageworks. With over two decades’ experience working in the art world, Sarah has previously held positions at the Biennale of Sydney, Liverpool Street Gallery and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW. Sarah was a Board Director of Art Month Sydney during its inaugural year and for many years has been an Asia Pacific Correspondent in the architecture and design media.

Yiyun Bishan Hotel by ya.d studio, page 114.

Alice Blackwood

Writer

Dianna is a Melbourne-based photographer specialising in architecture, interior and landscape photography. Her work features regularly in leading architectural and design magazines both nationally and internationally. She is an Honours graduate of Melbourne’s RMIT BA (Photography) Course with 20 years experience in the field. Dianna has a passion for the built environment and urban landscape and works closely with architects, interior designers, landscape architects and property developers to establish a visual dialogue that records and promotes their buildings and vision.

Forbes Global Head Quarters by Studio Gri ths and Swee Design, page 92.

Alice is a design editor and journalist, with a background in branding and communications strategy. For 20 years Alice has been a passionate advocate of the Australian architecture and design industry. She served as Editor on Indesign magazine and Indesignlive until 2023; has contributed in a programming capacity on major international design festivals, and the INDE. Awards since its inception in 2016. She has helped to establish major platforms that recognise and celebrate the region’s most exciting architecture and design, and elevate those industry leaders into the global spotlight. Alice is an active member of the Australian design and media industries as a Moderator, MC, Judge, Commentator, Mentor and Advisor.

Victorian Department of Transport and Planning peckvonhartel, page 106 .

Dianna Snape Photographer

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Shimmering Ruins

The latest at White Rabbit Gallery, ‘A Blueprint for Ruins’, curated by David Williams, o ers a startling realisation of change. Beneath the glossy surface of progress lurks a simmering undercurrent of violence. Cities tear themselves apart to make way for towering skyscrapers and gleaming high-rises. However, in this bright new world, one question arises: where have all the people gone? Streets devoid of life and vacant apartment blocks stand as haunting reminders of an abandoned dream. Like solemn tombs from a long-lost civilisation, these forgotten monuments silently bear witness to the cost of rapid urbanisation, where each new creation necessitates the destruction of another. ‘A Blueprint for Ruins’ reverberates with the shadows of the dispossessed within China’s urban metamorphosis. The artworks guide us toward the remnants of memories woven into the very fabric of each structure, even as the walls crumble. As the artist Hu Weiyi poignantly writes: “It’s as if every abandoned building, about to disappear, is attempting to sing its last note, and eventually they will come together to form a requiem for an era.”

Image: Chen Wei, Drunken Dance Hall, 2015, wood, steel, luminescent paint, broken glass, lights, acrylic, mirrors, site speci c, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Artist and the White Rabbit Gallery. Photography: Hamish McIntosh