Projects
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest architecture and interior design projects from across the Indo Pacific region and beyond. With the help of our locally and internationally esteemed contributing architectural design writers, Indesignlive is an endless resource for discovering the outstanding architectural projects Australia produces, and every exemplary interior design project completed here and abroad too.
SA
Spatial branding and shades of yellow in the SA workplace
At RAA’s new Adelaide headquarters, the brand’s iconic yellow is turned from past towards more of a future focus in Walter Brooke’s spatially driven, contemporary reinterpretation.
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A new kind of iconic: how Layan Verde is rewriting Phuket’s development story
At Layan Verde in Phuket, developer VillaCarte Group and Dewan Architects + Engineers are rethinking luxury development through landscape-led architecture, environmental performance and a commitment to community.
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Dhäwu’mi Wäna (House of Stories): Cave Urban at Garma Festival
Multidisciplinary design studio Cave Urban comments on how community, art, light and storytelling have been at the heart of their Garma Festival work in Northern Territory.
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An Italian restaurant hidden in the heart of sandstone Sydney
Florence Guild’s Spezia, set within the once-private, open-air courtyards of Sydney’s former Department of Lands building, pairs Italian cuisine with the spice of the Silk Road.
Workplace
Beyond the end-of-trip
At 10 Shelley Street in Sydney, RIZEN Atelier has transformed an underground end-of-trip facility into a considered workplace amenity, bringing a little of the hospitality experience into the working day.
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A sanctuary shaped by water
The spectacular GROHE SPA Aqua Sanctuary – where water, wellness and luxury are celebrated through refined and innovative design.
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A place to exhale
Designed by Studio LCD, EVOLVE is a women-only wellness club in New Delhi where flowing spaces, natural materials and carefully considered lighting create a welcome retreat from the city.
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The kinetic buzz of Jakarta’s 25 Hours Hotel The Oddbird
Rising 28 stories above Ashta Mall in the heart of Jakarta’s bustling Sudirman Central Business District, 25hours Hotel The Oddbird is a multifaceted exercise in spatial storytelling and material friction.
VIC
Elevating legal architecture: Studio Tate’s human-centred balancing act
Studio Tate’s approach to Gordon Legal’s Melbourne HQ deliberately subverts the stuffy, traditional hierarchies of the law office, instead crafting a softer and more democratic space.
WA
Drama in design defines this WA Architectus education project
Architectus’ new Cultural Centre at Perth’s Santa Maria College makes a case for investing in performing arts – and the buildings that support them.
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Room to discover
DesignOffice brings a considered new identity to Apato’s Collingwood showroom, creating a sophisticated setting for the retailer’s collection of Japanese furniture and lighting.
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A local brew
Fabric Studio gives Goons Brewing a permanent home on the NSW Central Coast, combining the rawness of a working brewery with colour, custom furniture and a resourceful, hands-on approach.
VIC
Studio 55: Systems thinking at Hassell’s new ‘anti-home’
Hassell’s very own new workplace in Melbourne/Naarm follows a rigorous, well-resourced design process to truly understand the environmental impact and potential of design decisions.
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Travelling in style
Wood Marsh draws on the surrounding parklands to give Melbourne’s new Keon Park Station a distinct civic identity, combining transport infrastructure with landscape, colour and improved community connections.
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“Social sustainability” and heritage renewal at Aigantighe Art Gallery
Irving Smith Architects has transformed a dilapidated heritage mansion into a house gallery that pays tribute to the past and is ready for the future.
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Phrontisterion: The labyrinthine new library of Mona
Occupying the space beneath the mammoth artwork Elektra by Anselm Kiefer, Phrontisterion is the new library within the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart.
QLD
Living outside the box
At Northshore Hamilton, Plus Studio’s Danny Juric is looking beyond the apartment tower as an isolated object, drawing on mature trees, Brisbane’s subtropical climate and the rituals of outdoor living to shape Duet.
Workplace
The butterfly workplace
A new workplace by lyth Design for ChrysCapital in Mumbai is both creative and original and enhances the everyday working life through its innovative design.
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A civic gateway for Pakenham
Genton’s Pakenham Station transforms a utilitarian transport interchange into an open civic landmark, reconnecting the town through landscape, public space and infrastructure designed around Country.
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Per atria ad astra
In the very heart of Sydney’s CBD, 1 Elizabeth is a vast civic-scale project that integrates workplace design, transport infrastructure, event spaces, and hospitality around some dramatic void spaces.