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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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Dialling In With Koichi Takada
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Dialling In With Koichi Takada

On the 4th episode of Dialling In With Habitus we speak to Koichi Takada, a Sydney-based globally-recognised architect, about the opportunities within architecture presented to us by way of the pandemic.


Koichi Takada is a Sydney-based architect with built work all over the world. He has numerous globally recognized projects such as the interior design for One Central Park, East Village Urban Marketplace, the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, and Arc by Crown Group which received an honourable mention in the 2019 INDE.Awards.

As a recipient of so many national and international awards, it’s easy to assume his practice, Koichi Takada Architects, has been around far longer than it has. In fact, it was founded in 2008 and in this short time, just more than a decade, he has established himself as a world leader in architecture.

Today on Dialling In With Habitus we chat to Koichi about how his frequent international work has meant that the transition to work from home was surprising streamlined and how working remotely whether you’re travelling or in isolation allows a greater ability to focus on the tasks at hand. We also speak about greening cities by designing much greener architecture, what it means for us a society and what it looks like.

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Happy listening!


About the Author

Holly Cunneen

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.


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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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