Rhea Thomas

February 24, 2026

Steelcase opens hybrid showroom and workplace in Hangzhou

Steelcase has unveiled one of its largest Asia Pacific showrooms in Hangzhou, merging workplace, brand experience and client engagement in a single flexible environment designed by M Moser.

February 24, 2026

Light, space and amenity at the ‘People’s Hospital’

The new Footscray Hospital by COX Architecture and BLP has set the bar high for best practice health design.

February 24, 2026

A straw odyssey: Australian architect heads to Europe for waste materials research

Byera Hadley Scholarship-winner Michael Jones is about to set off on a research trip across five countries. He tells us why his research focus, straw, is a sleeping giant in the context of climate crisis and built environment waste.

February 24, 2026

Urban verticality in India

Completed in November 2025, Hafeez Contractor’s 91 storey Minerva Tower sits within a 6.5 acre redevelopment that prioritised rehabilitation first.

February 24, 2026

“Doing things differently demands an incredible sense of responsibility”

Chus Martínez and Nguyen Le reflect on the importance of exhibition design as their own show – 'A velvet ant, a flower and a bird' – runs at the Potter Museum of Art.

February 24, 2026

Art, design and momentum at Melbourne Art Fair 2026

Record attendance, $16.4 million in sales and the debut of FUTUREOBJEKT signal a fair confidently expanding its cultural and commercial reach.

February 24, 2026

Colin Seah on Creative Amnesia and Designing Social Universes

Colin Seah discusses the philosophy behind crafting meaningful social spaces, the importance of emotional intent in architecture, and how “creative amnesia” helps his studio stay ahead of trends.

February 23, 2026

Layering time: A Contemporary farmstead in Kyoto

A contemporary rural home by Tomohiro Hata Architect & Associates reinterprets historic farmstead clusters in a bamboo-forest landscape.

February 23, 2026

The Catcher: a rural guesthouse framed by rice fields

Set among the rice fields near Shanghai’s Xinchang Ancient Town, The Catcher by TEAM_BLDG reworks two rural houses into a guesthouse that mediates quietly between architecture, landscape and time.

February 20, 2026

The detail of design

After eight years at Cera Stribley, Jessica Ellis launches her own studio, bringing a refined, hands-on approach to residential, hospitality and lifestyle interiors, beginning with the quietly confident Brotherwolf flagship in South Melbourne.

February 20, 2026

A village in the sky: rethinking retirement living in Sydney

Architectus reimagines ageing in place with Australia’s tallest retirement community, combining housing, care and community in Sydney.

February 19, 2026

A vision in silver: TAOA’s new studio

A simple and stark silver box juts out into the street. It can be no other than architectural practice TAOA’s new studio.