A special place for learning, wellbeing and community

Hayball has once again created a new paradigm in education design, encompassing the nuanced demands of the health sector in the Betty and John Laidlaw AO, Alfred Innovation and Education Hub.

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UTS’s Building Genome Project hopes to quantify just what makes good design

Good residential design has long been seen as a subjective quality, rather than a quantifiable one. The University of Technology Sydney aims to challenge this belief with the establishment of the Building Genome Project that examines the data present in building modelling software.

Crowning the cultural jaws of Adelaide with the JamFactory

Brian Parkes has been the JamFactory’s chief executive officer for about 18 months. Also in charge of its creative direction, he is keen to see it grow as a place unique in the way it trains designers, produces and markets quality design and as an educator about design. “It’s an extraordinary organisation with a rich […]

“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.

Comment: Four design principles pushing beyond the office in 2026

As 2026 gathers pace, Davenport Campbell Principal Neill Johanson argues that the people-place-process nexus in workplace design just won’t cut it any longer.

Appointments across five studios in the Plus pipeline 

Plus Studio has made four internal promotions and one strategic appointment across its Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne studios.

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.