Ideas

To celebrate Mental Health Week this year, we explore 7 artfully therapeutic environments that have been designed with mental health front of mind.

BLP’s Orygen and OYH Parkville offers a worldclass case study for the role can buildings play in alleviating feelings of loneliness and elevating mental health.

An addition to the INDE.Awards this year is The Graduate, recognising excellence in the work of a fifth-year architecture student.

Insights from Hassell’s 2021 Workplace Futures Survey could add fidelity to the design brief, revealing the motives underlying what employees envision for the hybrid workplace.

How might we foster a more open, help-seeking culture and create meaningful change around occupational burnout and mental health in the design industry?

Plus Architecture’s Danny Juric questions the validity of ‘build-to-rent’ as an affordable housing solution, looking instead towards possibilities such as micro apartments.