biophilic design
Project
A brick envelope shapes life in Kerala
In Thrissur, India, LIJO.RENY.architects has wrapped a family home in a perforated brick envelope that moderates heat, encourages natural ventilation and creates a series of layered indoor and outdoor spaces.
Workplace
Workplace designed as an urban sanctuary
Bean Buro discusses the design of Palatino Hospitality’s Hong Kong workplace, where biophilic design, warm materiality and hospitality principles combine to create a calm retreat within the city.
Articles
Curate a beautiful buzz with the Pathmakers Collection
Even when we don’t realise it, we are guided by subtle cues in our environment. Colours, textures and geometries all converge to form an intuitive navigation system for inhabiting interior space.
Events
Jia CURATED 2026 expands its horizon with Nature Weave
From a beachfront transformation in Bali to a cross-cultural prelude in Tokyo, Southeast Asia’s leading design platform returns with renewed urgency and regional ambition.
Project
A living laboratory at school
At Kilvington Grammar, ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects (CHC) has converted an old single-storey library into three levels of flexible, collaborative learning spaces.
Project
Mangrove garden: Bean Buro reimagines corporate culture in Hong Kong
Bean Buro transforms a financial office into a biophilic workplace using local art, hospitality design and wellbeing-driven spaces.
Ideas
A journey of renewal: Integrating Japanese bathing rituals into bathroom design
Jason Gibney, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award in 2025 Habitus House of the Year, reflects on how bathroom rituals might just be reshaping Australian design.
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.
Articles
Soothing sound in the interior environment
In contemporary interiors, ensuring a sense of comfort and wellbeing means designing and specifying finishes and products that support all the senses.
Workplace
Architectural asset management
In Auckland, Wingates designs a new headquarters for a specialist investment firm focused on future growth, biophilia and collaborative work.
Articles
Dishing up ambience at Wooss Café
Serving up the perfect dessert is about more than what’s in the crockery, it is also about cultivating an ambient, immersive setting that enhances the treats.
Project
Clubhouse class in India
The Godrej Woods Clubhouse is the jewel in the crown of a residential development in Noida, India, offering every facility curated with style and finesse by Studio IAAD.
Workplace
A departure from conventional corporate environments
Architectus has designed new interiors for Allianz with an astute understanding of the modern workplace, where architecture, nature and technology converge to create an agile environment.
News
A different side of steel: The swoops and swirls of the Warren Integrated Studies Hub
The undulating roof of the Warren Integrated Studies Hub emerges from within the landscape in a fluid fusion of biophilic design and architectural integrity that unearths the immense creative potential of building materials.
Events
Light and materiality in outdoor spaces: Sally Evans reflects on Saturday Indesign panel
Sally Evans, Director at Nexus Designs, discusses outdoor lighting following her appearance as a panellist at Saturday Indesign.
Workplace
A modern beacon of health: Flinders Uni Health and Medical Research Building by Architectus
Atop a steep, sloped site at the base of Adelaide Hills, Architectus’ new Health and Medical Research Building (HMRB) stands as a gateway for Flinders University.
Workplace
Past and future at Maitland Administration Centre
Maitland Administration Centre is rooted in principles of accessibility and community in the workplace.
News
BLP marks $658m healthcare project milestone in Sydney
BLP announces the topping out of Health Infrastructure’s $658m Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre building.
Ideas
Radical logics of connectedness and circular economy with Chris Fox
We sat down with Chris Fox to speculate on the future of regenerative architecture, circular economy and experimenting with vegetation in and on buildings.
Ideas
Buddhist meditation and bamboo with Vo Trong Nghia
The Vietnamese architect discusses insatiable construction markets and dwindling urban ecologies. For the latter, he recommends bamboo; for the former, meditation.
Project
Beyond retail: UNStudio completes Huawei’s flagship Shanghai store
UNStudio, in collaboration with Chinese information and communications technology firm, Huawei, has unveiled the design for a new flagship store in Shanghai.
Furniture
Natural Habitat: The biophilic office with Adam Cornish and District
Adam Cornish and District present Habitat, where nature and the indoors perfectly align for the workplace.
Project
Koichi Takada on nature, luxury and his latest collaboration with Lexus
As LANDMARK by Lexus returns for its sixth iteration, Sydney-based Japanese architect Koichi Takada is reflecting on the place of nature in design.
Events
Unveiling a world first in architectural wallpaper
Architectural innovator Screenwood is introducing SOUNDLINA™, a unique woodgrain wallpaper with high acoustic performance.
Articles
Designing with nature’s palette: Biophilic design tours the world in Autex Acoustics’ new colour range
Rich yet muted hues tell stories of sun-baked canyons, mysterious oceans, and verdant highlands in Autex Acoustics’ captivating new palette.
Articles
Sustainable design finds sensory pleasures in Organoid Natural Surfaces
Our experience of the world is profoundly shaped by the essential elements of sight, touch and scent. Biophilic, ethical and inherently sustainable, Organoid Natural Surfaces explores the connection between texture and experience in the organic world.
Articles
The Lichen Community Collection: Biophilic design at its finest
Inspired by the regenerative role of lichen communities in our ecosystems, the Lichen Community collection proposes a new future for workplace flooring.
Project
ThomsonAdsett and Law Architects’ biophilic design delivers the calm in Melbourne’s Wollert Primary School
Former principal at ThomsonAdsett, Sally Brincat, sits down with Leanne Amodeo to discuss the importance of biophilic design in shaping Wollert Primary School, one of the projects featured in Indesign 88: The Education Outlook Issue.
Articles
Biophilic design with local flavours in a new carpet collection
Natural forms meet technological sophistication to produce GH Commercial’s Pattern Perfect® Native Collection of carpets. Step inside the factory to see how local flavours inform the design.
Project
Soothe the inner beast at Body WRL
X + O has completed a wellness studio that rivals the rest. Located in downtown Rosebery, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, Body WRL is a sanctuary for wellbeing that is beautiful and technologically advanced, with treatments that are guaranteed to soothe the inner beast. It’s just what the doctor should be ordering!
Articles
Decorative and functional acoustic timber that give you the best of both worlds
Acoustic Timber from Autex Acoustics® bridges the gap for a Group 1 fire-rated, carbon neutral acoustic solution.
Articles
Biophilia comes to the fore in this Gray Puksand fit-out
For this Melbourne-based workplace, Gray Puksand has created an environment that exudes calm and balance. Soft, gentle Milliken flooring helps to craft the ambience and flow of the spaces.
News
Celebrating 21 years of designing Australia’s healthiest buildings
With DesignInc celebrating 21 years since inception, we explore how the national studio has excelled in thought leadership, driving its health-driven exemplary projects.
Project
How staff input shaped the design of three new QBE offices
Through user consultation, GroupGSA developed a series of staff-focussed and future-ready workplaces for insurance giant QBE.
Project
Russell & George creates artwork out of retail space
A love letter to a city experiencing a year of hardship, Russell & George’s store for Sarah and Sebastian is an allegory for finding light in times of darkness.
Project
Rollimarchini x G8A create a factory that lives and breathes
Jakob Factory Saigon by Rollimarchini Architekten and G8A Architects proposes a new factory typology with emphasis on the wellbeing of people and planet.
NSW
How Crown Group is bringing serenity to city living
Paving the way for a new era of slow, biophilic multi-residential design are the two new developments by Crown Group in the inner-Sydney suburb of Waterloo.
Project
10 landscape designs that promote mental health and wellbeing
The 2021 NSW Landscape Awards winners selection is a treasure trove of outstanding landscape design projects. Here are 10 in particular that do wonders for wellbeing.
Project
The holistic and homey workspace of PSLab in London
Indesign visits the ‘professional home’ of PSLab in London. Designed by JamesPlumb, this space is neither an office nor a showroom, but functions as both.
Project
Thomas Heatherwick transcends luxury living, in EDEN
EDEN eschews the shiny, enclosed tower typology of high-end housing in favour of a more humanistic approach that celebrates Singapore’s tropical setting.
Project
This curated experience is a destination in itself
Making a statement of creativity, Studio IAAD has designed a project that is both beautiful and on brand and becomes a journey of discovery.
Articles
Bring the outside in, with Para Vert
Ippolito Fleitz Group reimagines our connection with nature through a sophisticated system of biophilic room dividers.
Project
Creating an island: Microsoft Place by Gensler
In bringing 2000 Microsoft staff into a single location, Gensler has deconstructed the typical working model. Taking its client into unchartered territories, the design team envisaged a new working landscape that moves beyond the corporate norms to embrace ‘island’ life.