Art
Workplace
Seidler, Nervi and fjcstudio walk into an office tower
Set within hallowed architectural surroundings amidst the ghosts of Harry Seidler and Pier Luigi Nervi, fjcstudio’s new Sydney home brings geometric clarity and a spirit of creative exchange to a challenging workplace fit-out.
Workplace
Adaptive reuse in WA turns teachers college into workplace
Spaceagency Architects complete executive offices for the Prendiville Group through the restoration and conversion of the State Heritage-listed former Fremantle Technical School Annex.
Events
Finding quotidian design joy at Melbourne Design Week
Designed to be touched, picked up and played with, ‘New/Relic’ was a Melbourne Design Week exhibition of every fixture you’ve never thought about twice.
Events
Venice Biennale 2026: Evocations of resilience and hope
Arts writer and editor Victoria Hynes reports on the breadth of this year’s Venice Biennale, drawing out highlights from national pavilions including Australia, Morocco, India and the UK.
Project
Powerhouse Parramatta readies itself for late 2026 opening
Scheduled to open later this year on the banks of the Parramatta River, the 30,000-square-metre Powerhouse museum — designed by Moreau Kusunoki in collaboration with Genton — represents a major shift in the geography of Sydney’s cultural infrastructure.
Events
Led by designers: Casting a curatorial eye across Melbourne Design Week
Curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin was in town for Melbourne Design Week. Here, she reflects on how light-touch organising and designer-led spaces created some of the most impactful, distinctive exhibitions.
Events
Hong Kong Art Week wraps up for another year
Where East Meets West and where leading commercial galleries connect with global audiences in an energetic week of sales, conversations, programmes and cultural exchange.
People
Who is Up To Something?
Spreading its young but mighty wings across Victoria and Tasmania, emerging practice Up To Something blends landscape, art and craft into thoughtful design.
Project
Re-imagining Bangkok’s urban landscape
A standout pavilion from this year’s Bangkok Design Week explores shade and light for people and place.
Events
“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.
News
David Sequeira on colour, form and time
An array of coloured circles overlaid in perfect geometric sequences create a spectrum of musical auras in artist David Sequeira’s Bundanon Art Gallery commission, Form from the Formless (Under Bundanon Stars).
Events
Penelope Seidler honoured as Officer of the Order of Australia
On Australia’s deeply contested national day, 680 Australians were recognised in the General Division of the 2026 Order of Australia Honours.
Project
Landscape as a blueprint: a workplace anchored in Western Australia’s terrain
Designed by Woods Bagot, the new fit-out of a major resources company transforms 40,000-square-metres across 19 levels into interconnected villages that celebrate Western Australia’s diverse terrain.
News
Australian Design Centre set to close
The Australian Design Centre (ADC) has announced that the organisation can no longer continue without adequate government funding to cover operational costs.
Events
Unsure about Designing with Country? Start with this event in October
Several design groups are coming together on 29th October, 2025 for ‘grounded,’ a day of talks and workshops on Country-centred design.
Events
Architecture as laboratory: Notes from the Venice Biennale with David Holm
In this comment piece, COX Principal David Holm reflects on Carlo Ratti’s curatorship in which climate, colonisation and gender equity took centre stage at the Venice Biennale.
Events
The future, today
NGV exhibition ‘Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday’ is open – and be prepared to be amazed and delighted by great creative design.
Ideas
Will Lynes calls for architects and designers to value the ancient trade of signwriting
Despite its long and rich history, signwriting is a profession in decline. Will Lynes’ new show, Oily Water at Canberra Glassworks, aims to showcase the techniques of the trade to highlight its potential in design.
Events
Wonderfully Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck is currently on view at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), an exuberant statement of flamboyant possibilities.
Events
Rose Nolan exhibition opens at TarraWarra Museum of Art
‘Breathing Helps’ is a major solo exhibition bringing together Nolan’s large-scale works with new commissions and performances.
Project
Abdullah and Artedomus combine to create Arden Station façade
Designed by artist Abdul Abdullah, the porcelain façade for this Melbourne train station has been executed with custom-printed Fiandre DYS panels.
Events
Intricacy, intimacy and imagination: Ross Didier’s ANTHROPOCENE
Fine art that informs commercial design has authenticity and soul, and Ross Didier is at the forefront of creativity that is infused with passion.
Ideas
The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art
The Melbourne-based artist works at the intersection of art and architecture. In a new exhibition at MAGMA Galleries, he turns his focus on urban space and agency to a smaller scale.
Events
“She is Country”: New artwork set for prominent Sydney spot
A major new permanent public artwork by Dharawal and Yuin artist Alison Page has been commissioned by Lendlease.
Events
Cerith Wyn Evans at the MCA
On the eve of Cerith Wyn Evans’ first museum exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region, we interviewed the internationally acclaimed contemporary artist in a wide-ranging discussion spanning Japanese gardens, the aesthetics of Buddhism and the Australian light.
Workplace
Seidler-inspired office warmth
Taking cues from Harry Seidler’s materials and curving corridors as well as luxury hotels and hospitality design, GroupGSA has completed a new suite of offices in Sydney.
Ideas
“My model is to make what I like and hopefully other people will too”: Meet Zachary Frankel
Pairing his honed expertise with a unique design language, Zachary Frankel is shaping his own world his way.
Events
Ballarat’s UNESCO Creative City status drives craft renaissance and economic growth
With events such as Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway, the city of Ballarat is centring design and craft for an economic reawakening.
Events
“My place defines what type of writings I do”: Meet Baka Bina, Papua New Guinean writer
The fourth edition of the First Nations Writers Festival took place in May 2025, and we spoke to Baka Barakove Bina about the importance of place and home in his writing, as well as the things that make the Pacific region so distinctive.
Project
Tilt on preserving heritage in public spaces: How technical innovation is making history accessible
From preserved boat remains to 8,000-year-old hearthstones with First Nations significance, Tilt Industrial Designs shares how their technical work is often directed towards heritage.
Project
Hints of New York in Hammond Studio’s Sydney office renewal
Global e-commerce tech company ROKT has a revitalised, art-filled workplace in Sydney thanks to Hammond Studio’s reuse-focused design.
Products
An ode to the tactility of the handmade
With craftsmanship and contemporary form at its core, Boyac and Origine present a special showcase as part of Melbourne Design Week.
Events
In conversation with Vincent Van Duysen at Milan Design Week
We spoke to the Belgian architect about his work ‘Optô,’ which was on display as part of the exhibition ‘Poetica’ by WonderGlass at Milan Design Week 2025.
Ideas
Stories Indesign with architect turned artist, Bruce Rowe
In this podcast episode, Timothy Alouani-Roby sat down with Bruce Rowe in Melbourne to talk about his move from professional design practice into the world of art.
Events
Exhibitions and installations galore from Milan
Milan Design Week amounts to so much more than product launches, so here are a few installation and exhibition highlights that we stumbled across in 2025.
NSW
“Cosy, uplifting and full of life”: Bar Julius is the sweet spot in new Sydney precinct
Set within the wider Surry Hills Precinct that includes The EVE Hotel, Bar Julius – designed by SJB – is a sumptuous hospitality venue bursting with colour and materiality.
Events
Giving form to yarning: Stories Indesign with Venice Architecture Biennale team
Dr Michael Mossman and Jack Gillmer-Lilley, two of the Creative Directors for the 2025 Australia Pavilion, join us for an in-person podcast to discuss their project, HOME, and Indigenising the built environment.
Project
Art and learning take centre stage in new addition to Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Victoria’s art scene is humming with the opening of the new Eva and Marc Besen Centre designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA).
Project
A simply beautiful design by HAS design and research
Simple Art Museum is art itself with a breathtaking white, light and linear design.
Events
Stories Indesign with digital creator, Paul Milinski
In this episode of Stories Indesign podcast, Timothy Alouani-Roby speaks to the Melbourne-based creative who is working with some of the world’s top luxury brands.
Events
SANAA in Sydney: Interview with Art Gallery of NSW director
Michael Brand talks us through a new book on the architecture of Naala Badu, the culmination of Sydney Modern Project.
Ideas
How public art elevates hotel and hospitality design with TURNER
Public art in hospitality design goes beyond decoration, shaping guest experiences by fostering a sense of place – exemplified by the Nepean Looking Glass at Pullman Sydney Penrith.
Events
The show goes on at MPavilion
Events continue apace at Tadao Ando’s MPavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, as Season 11 progresses into 2025.
Workplace
Harbour views and high-end timber touches in this executive office fit-out
Hammond Studio’s fit-out for an exclusive North Sydney workplace draws on Italy for inspiration to craft a modern and sophisticated executive office.
Ideas
Stories Indesign with Hassan Hajjaj: Where art, photography and design meet
In this episode of Stories Indesign podcast, Timothy Alouani-Roby speaks to world-famous British-Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj, who was in Australia for Sydney Design Week.
Project
A case study in the evolution of public art
The Heffron Centre in Maroubra, Sydney, stands as a testament to how authentic public art powered by collaborative project teams can transform urban spaces.
Events
Climate crisis informs new graphic novel, Cabal
Andrew van der Westhuyzen, one of Australia’s pre-eminent creatives, has launched his debut book Cabal, the first in a series of illustrated science-fiction short story works.
Project
The architecture of postcolonialism: Restoring Ethiopia’s Africa Hall
Architectus Conrad Gargett’s revitalisation of Africa Hall in Addis Ababa traces lines of historical, cultural and architectural significance.
Project
A Luchetti Krelle-designed culinary oasis in Sydney’s Western Suburbs
Nestled within the newly launched surf park URBNSURF Sydney, RAFI URBNSURF offers a local dining experience that integrates richly with its surroundings.
Events
Echoes of Country at Bundanon
Bundanon has announced its third major exhibition for 2024. Bagan Bariwariganyan: echoes of country and running from November 2nd to February 9th, 2025.
News
Continuity and contemporaneity: Winning design team for new National Sculpture Garden revealed
Multidisciplinary team CO-AP Holdings has been announced as winners of the National Sculpture Garden Design Competition.
Events
Highlights from London Design Festival
London Design Festival (LDF) has just finished and, with a number of programmes and exhibitions still running, Kate Goodwin reports on the highlights across the city.
Events
Singapore Design Week preview: Putting people at the forefront of design
Singapore Design Week is back and bigger than ever with a people-orientated theme featuring diverse events, workshops, talks and tours.
Events
The sixteenth edition of PAD London hits in October
PAD London remains a premier event for collectors and aficionados to engage with cutting-edge and historically significant design in a setting that celebrates artistic connoisseurship.
Project
Walking the line between office and gallery
Is it an office or a gallery? Perhaps it is both as Design ni Dukaan crafts its magic for a new workplace design.
Events
Sydney Design Week 2024 preview
Sydney Design Week 2024, presented by Powerhouse, will take place from 13-19th September with a host of local and international speakers.
Project
fjcstudio’s dual INDE.Award-winning school
fjcstudio recently took out two INDE.Awards for Darlington Public School. Managing Principal and incoming AIA NSW Chapter President, Elizabeth Carpenter, tells us more.
Events
“You have to meet architecture face-to-face to really understand it”: Touring with Anthony Burke
Renaissance Tours is partnering with the Art Gallery of NSW for their Word Art Tours program, with Anthony Burke set to lead a visit to the USA.
Events
A ‘Current’ affair spotlighting First Nations artists
Current is an exhibition presented by the Australian Design Centre that examines the interplay between land, water and ancestral memory as seen through the works of the respective artists.
Events
“We will drag these systems into the light and we will make them dance”: Exhibition launch at Tin Sheds Gallery
Designed and constructed by Complete Thought Studio, the exhibition kicks off at the University of Sydney’s Tin Sheds Gallery on 1st August.
Project
A landmark for gastronomy and design aficionados alike
Walker Street Precinct, designed as a collaboration between Cox Architecture, H&E Architects and Etymon Projects, is a project to satiate your urban palette and palate.
Events
Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating
Ash Keating is a treasure in the landscape of Australian art. His works are powerful and dynamic and, while they can grace a home and provide beauty, large-scale they are masterpieces of awe and wonder.
Ideas
Performing arts hubs: A case for cross-disciplinary creativity and community with Hayball
In this comment piece, Hayball’s Owen West, David Tweedie and Emma Parkinson make the case for an important dimension of education design.
Articles
Introducing the Here Before Collection, a collaboration celebrating Indigenous art
Dreamtime Flooring, a 100 per cent Indigenous-owned business, has partnered with renowned carpet manufacturer Godfrey Hirst to launch the Here Before Collection.
Events
A petite art space makes a huge impression
Ames Yavuz has inaugurated its second gallery on the eclectic streets of Surry Hills. The opening exhibition speaks to personal experiences, offering a recollection of sentiment.
Project
Indigenous heritage lacquers the walls of Australia’s newest rail stations
As an act of designing with Country, the integration of Indigenous art into rail infrastructure honours deep histories while symbolising a vibrant future for First Nations peoples.
Events
Australian Furniture Design Award winner 2024 with Stylecraft and NGV
Australia’s most significant furniture and lighting design accolade has been awarded to Australian-Portuguese architect and multidisciplinary designer, Marta Figueiredo.
Ideas
Supporting First Nations artists to deliver authentic stories in urban landscapes
Tilt Industrial Design Managing and Creative Director, Tim Phillips, comments on how industrial design intersects with First Nations artists.
Events
Helena Clunies-Ross brings her expertise to the INDE.Awards jury table
An INDE.Awards jury member of distinction – meet Helena Clunies-Ross, design notable with projects across the world.
Events
An urban canvas: Wall to Wall festival brings street art to life in Mordialloc
Melbourne’s Wall to Wall festival has just taken place, transforming neglected urban spaces into vibrant hubs of creativity through large-scale mural works by renowned artists.
Ideas
Behind the brand: Art and design with Alexandra Guglielmino
In our series spotlighting aficionados across the design industry, we spoke with Alexandra Guglielmino, who leads the Art Advisory team at Bluethumb Art Gallery.
News
Landscape design competition news at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden
Set to undergo a $60-million revitalisation, the National Gallery of Australia has announced the launch of a landscape design competition for its Sculpture Garden.
Events
Milan 2024: Seven installations and events to look forward to
Salone del Mobile 2024 is only a few weeks away, so we’re highlighting here seven special events, spaces and installations that we’re certainly planning to check out.
Project
The art and design of hospitality at The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne
Art, design, architecture and hospitality all combine perfectly at The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne by BAR Studio and Cottee Parker.
Events
Gearing up to celebrate 60 years of supporting Australian design
The Australian Design Centre (ADC) this year celebrates 60 years! A series of events are coming up to mark the occasion.
Project
Harmony and healing in mental health design with Hassell
Caring for our mental health is paramount these days and architecture and design can lead the way as Hassell shows in its latest project in Queensland.
Events
The Powerhouse collection storehouse is an artwork in itself
Symbolising a commitment to cultural preservation and timeless design, Powerhouse Castle Hill invites visitors into the stories behind the artefacts in a diverse range of educational and cultural activities.
Events
It’s design festival season! Melbourne Design Week asks us to ‘Design the world you want’
With over 300 events planned, the eighth edition promises another marathon week of design and its theme is at once a proposition of hope and an urgent call-to-arms.
Project
Exploring Hotel Indigo Kuala Lumpur on the Park with Anna Vivian
We hear from the GA Group Marketing Executive about how the neighbouring forest reserve, local culture, art and sustainability create a unique boutique hotel with a sense of place.
Events
The Biennale launches across seven venues in Sydney’s periphery
The curation of contemporary artworks at the 24th Biennale of Sydney explores the salient thematic of Australian culture, through a series histories, voices and perspectives.
Events
Highlights from the ‘Inner sanctum’ at Adelaide Biennial 2024
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art returns to the Art Gallery of South Australia on Kaurna Yerta for its 18th edition this year.
Project
A new cultural gem plays with light and dark in Beijing
This design for a combined workplace and cultural space in Beijing is sensitive to place, people and culture, all expertly executed by CUN DESIGN.
Events
Chasing lightning at Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Art Fair brings the high energy each year and this 17th edition is marked by a mammoth program of showcases, activations and satellite presentations.
Project
Design as a vehicle for reconciliation: Balarinji completes latest Qantas design
The Indigenous design and strategy agency is launching its latest aircraft design with Qantas, the sixth iteration of a longstanding partnership.
Events
From Stockholm with love (and lots of design)
Stockholm Furniture Fair and Stockholm Design Week 2024 put on an extravanganza of design for four days in February.
Project
CHADA weaves some flamboyant stories at Motley Hotel
Putting the quirk back into five star accommodation, CHADA has created a bespoke hotel experience of deliciously layered complexity.
Events
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery marks 40-year milestone with new publication and exhibition
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is launching a major publication – ‘Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: The First 40 Years – alongside a corresponding exhibition.
Project
How long is the bridge between nature and architecture? One kilometre, says Junya Ishigami
At Zaishui Art Museum in Ritzhao, Shandong Province, the Japanese architect has recontextualised the connection between architecture, nature and water.
Events
Tony Albert in dual exhibition and curated showcase at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney kicks off the year with a compelling showcase featuring two significant bodies of work by renowned Aboriginal artist Tony Albert.
Events
From Parramatta to Paris: Applications open for 2024 galang residency
Applications are open for the three-month residency program in Paris with Powerhouse Parramatta and the Cité internationale des arts.
Project
narrm ngarrgu, a place of learning and celebration by Six Degrees Architects
A new community hub has opened in Melbourne – narrm ngarrgu celebrates and showcases the voice and presence of Kulin people.
Events
A bonanza of art as NGV Triennial opens its doors
The NGV Triennial of 2023 has arrived in Melbourne and runs until April 2024 with a wide-ranging display of works.
Events
‘Creating a Better Tomorrow’: Gensler in Tokyo
A Gensler celebration in Tokyo celebrates the practice and looks to the future of design.
News
Australia lands its first Yayoi Kusama ‘Pumpkin’
Touted as Japan’s most successful living artist, Yayoi Kusama’s famed and iconic Pumpkin sculpture has just landed in Australia, at Pt. Leo Estate Sculpture Park.
Events
The best new products from London Design Festival 2023
Discover the latest furniture, lighting and accessories from the 21st edition of the London Design Festival, from previously unseen designs from Mid-Century masters to innovative new materials.
Events
Enchantment, thresholds and transformations at QAGOMA
Across a magical threshold and beyond the everyday, Fairy Tales is an unexpected and immersive exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this summer.
Events
Those famed Calder mobiles and the creative genius of Kentridge: How great opera is made
What began in creative response to Alexander Calder’s 1960s opera, has blossomed into a two-part opera that reveals the creative genius of artist William Kentridge. For ‘Sibyl’, he brings new vision to set design, fusing opera, animation and live performance to enrapture audiences.
Ideas
Altering the world we know: The sharp, sensitive works of Jonathan Dalton
Rife with metaphor and misdirection, the work of Jonathan Dalton pushes us to question the norms of everything we know: media, politics, technology. Gillian Serisier explores the ‘other perspective’ that Dalton’s work offers us.
Events
Sound in space: Story, resistance and radio on show at Tin Sheds Gallery
Amplify: Story, Resistance, Radio is the latest exhibition at Tin Sheds Gallery. With an evolving and interactive programme, it’s about more than just a static display of objects.
Project
Where the ocean and mountains meet: Yarrila Place by BVN
Yarrila Place, which celebrated its grand opening in September, is a new and colourful landmark housing a cutting-edge museum, art gallery, library and essential council services.