Perth
Project
One Two Five by Hub expands flexible work in Perth
A 10,000-square-metre flagship by Hub Australia and Hassell at Brookfield Place reframes the co-working office as a hybrid of workplace, events venue and lifestyle destination.
Workplace
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.
Events
DesignFreo 2026 is up and away!
Design culture organisation DesignFreo has launched its 2026 program, kicking off its sixth year of events celebrating design and design ideas in the West.
News
Architectus teams grow across defence, infrastructure and Perth studio
Architectus strengthens its Defence and Infrastructure teams while expanding its Perth studio with new leaders and major projects.
Ideas
Perth Design Week 2026 adopts curated festival format
With government backing and a sharpened focus on design with purpose, Perth Design Week unveils a bold new structure for its fourth edition, expanding its reach across architecture, interiors and the wider creative industries.
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.
Events
Perth Design Week reveals new 2026 format
Following a strong 2025, Perth Design Week (PDW) is set to take on a special format with ten major events in 2026.
News
WA’s Architecture Awards winners
Woods Bagot, Architectus and Hassell were among the big recipients at the Western Australian Architecture Awards 2025.
Workplace
Working on the banks of the Derbarl Yerrigan
The Hub, Australia’s largest private workspace operator, has 16 locations across the country. Their newest site – designed by Architectus and Hassell – puts Perth’s unique context front and centre.
Events
WA’s award-winning landscapes revealed
Bunbury, Albany and Subi East are among the sites taking out prizes at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Western Australian Chapter Awards.
Events
Perth origins: Artedomus’ new showroom is open
Artedomus has opened a new showroom in Perth, marking a return to the city where the company was founded in 1982.
Workplace
More than just a transitional space: Perth’s Palace Tower receives the Woods Bagot treatment
Woods Bagot has completed a lobby refurbishment inspired by the historic architecture of the Palace Hotel.
Events
Stories Indesign: Perth Design Week with Sandy Anghie and David Smith
Co-founders Sandy Anghie and David Smith joined us for a podcast interview ahead of 2025 Perth Design Week, which kicks off on March 20th.
Project
Architectus’ Ruah Centre for Women and Children marks an Australian first
Architectus has delivered Perth’s new Ruah Centre for Women and Children (RCWC), the first purpose-built facility of its kind in Australia for women and children affected by family and domestic violence.
Workplace
Video: Mass timber on the rise with Arup in Perth
Perth’s first timber hybrid office tower is complete, designed by – and home to – Arup in Western Australia.
Events
Design extravaganza coming to Western Australia
Fremantle Design Week 2024, running from 18th to 25th October, will transform the Western Australian city into a vibrant creative hub with more than 50 design-focused events.
Project
Locality, theatre and voyeurism as California meets Paris in Perth
Gibney by Rezen Studio writes rules for what you might call ‘coastal couture,’ creating a dining experience that blurs inside and outside.
Events
The 2024 WA Architecture Awards exhibition launches
The official launch of the 2024 WA Architect Awards opens today – Wednesday 1st May – with the opening of the AIA WA Awards Exhibition.
Ideas
Behind the Brand: Innerspace’s Luc O’Brien
Continuing our new series on the design enthusiasts who work in all sorts of different roles across the industry, we hear from Innerspace’s Creative Collaborator and State Manager NSW.
Events
Cult Design celebrates dual showroom launches in Perth and Auckland
Cult has just celebrated the grand openings of its newest showrooms in Australia and New Zealand, marking a significant milestone in the ever-evolving design landscape.
Workplace
OMA and UniFor launch PRINCIPLES Collection at Perth Design Week
Ahead of the 2024 edition in Perth, renowned international architecture practice, OMA, launches its PRINCIPLES collection pushing the boundaries of modularity in office furniture.
Events
Hassell’s Perth BTR housing gets thumbs up from the Prime Minister
195 Pier Street is a build-to-rent (BTR) housing project in Perth and Hassell’s design just received some approving words from Anthony Albanese, no less!
Events
Stylecraft hosts a feast of photography with I SHOT 23
This year, the Image Makers Association of Australia has expanded its offering with three exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.
Products
How to make a Bellini: Kate Stokes gives us the design masterclass
Kate Stokes of Coco Flip recently launched the Bellini collection, a series of seats that responds to a gap in the market for comfortable bench seating. It feels both laid back and luxe.
Ideas
Plus Architecture comment: What inspired us about the Scandinavian housing model?
Plus Architecture’s Patric Przeradzki offers four key takeaways from the Scandinavian housing model. Przeradzki argues they can be applied in Australia to work towards healthier, safer and more cohesive residential communities.
People
Licking the local competition: Studio Roam
While Perth’s Studio Roam chooses to stay consciously small in practice, its vision is big, and its joint ventures lead to even larger outcomes.
Workplace
Renovated for remote work: Inside Newmont’s new Perth office
Interiors and architecture studio Rezen has designed a sleek, modern office in Western Australia for the American company. Colour, light and versatile spaces come together to create a contemporary working environment.
Events
5 Australian design studios to watch: The Indesign round-up
Leanne Amodeo rounds up our top 5 emerging designers and design studios – each producing projects that prove Australia really does have some of the best design talent in the world.
Ideas
“We want more green space, less traffic”: The case for placemaking in Perth
Buchan’s Andre Jones outlines five factors that will positively impact on the design evolution of Perth. From policy to population, biophilic measures and sense of place. Read Andre’s insights here.
Events
iredale pedersen hook has designed The Building of 2022
Pingelly Recreation and Cultural Centre by iredale pedersen hook exemplifies design that is sensitive to place, people and culture: a template for best practice into the future. We present to you, the winner of INDE.Awards’ Building category.
Project
WA Museum’s makeover is a taste of things to come for OMA
OMA, the international practice responsible for the WA Museum Boola Bardip, has settled into its recently opened local office and is ready to make some serious contributions to the Australian architectural landscape.
People
Slaying the building dragons with Perth studio State of Kin
Champions of women in design and creators of bold and adventurous spaces, Ara Salomone and Alessandra French take Perth by storm.
People
Woods Bagot’s fabulous four: Eva Sue, Fiona Chong, Melanie Porrins and Ashleigh Lyford
Woods Bagot’s Perth interiors division is led by a stellar team of women. The holistic leadership model has seen the studio’s exceptional portfolio of products flourish.
Project
A medical practice designed to favour warmth over austerity
Rezen Studio utilises a soft, warm and balanced material palette in New Me, an unconventional medical centre in Booragoon, Perth.
WA
State of Kin redefines iconic Perth bar
State of Kin is taking Perth by storm at the moment — and their intriguing and sculptural extension to iconic Perth bar and eatery The Stables is proof.
Articles
Generosity is the best investment
On an idyllic site at the meeting point of two rivers, Cirque is setting a new standard in sustainability and changing perceptions about multi-residential living.
Project
The brilliant new Zenith Perth showroom
With a history going back over 100 years, the building that houses the new Zenith Perth showroom is a deserving home for such a vital design brand.
Articles
The brilliant new Zenith Perth showroom
With a history going back over 100 years, the building that houses the new Zenith Perth showroom is a deserving home for such a vital design brand.
Project
The beauty of age
Perth’s new Living Edge showroom in a converted merchant building in the CBD sets a new benchmark for high-end retailing in the city, offering global brands such as Herman Miller, Walter Knoll, BassamFellows, Muuto and Vitra.
Articles
The final furnishings of QT Perth
QT Perth represents a new level of designer hospitality in the heart of WA. For the final touches, Indyk Architects knew to turn to JEB.
Articles
M/24 By Match: Pushing the future of Perth forward
Step inside Perth’s newest multi-residential development: M/24 by Match.
Dissections
Deloitte Perth, by Geyer
How does the world’s most influential auditing firm self-audit? Designed by Geyer, the new Deloitte Head Quarters in Perth is a stellar case study for self-analysis and designing for the (sometimes opposing) needs of many in a single space.
Project
Can Hospitality Design In Workplace Environments Help Build Culture?
In preparation for the future and with a nod to the past, the Woods Bagot Perth Studio is an agile workplace with state-of-the-art technology and a distinctive hotel-like aesthetic.
Project
Deloitte Perth by Geyer
How does the world’s most influential auditing firm self-audit? Designed by Geyer, the new Deloitte Head Quarters in Perth is a stellar case study for self-analysis and designing for the (sometimes opposing) needs of many in a single space.
News
Aaaaaaaand, That’s a Wrap!
#CWID16 is all wrapped up. Thanks for the memories, Perth! Until next time.
Ideas
You Gonna Learn Today: #CWID16
Contemporary Wine In Design is tackling the biggest issues in A+D today. Do not miss out on getting amongst it all, this October 15th.
Ideas
Design, and the Nation’s Shame
How is the A+D community responding to the ever-increasing rate of homelessness in this country? In this extended discussion, we consider what ‘human-centred’ design means at its more fundamental core.
News
10 Reasons to Join Us for Contemporary Wine In Design
Here’s your cheat-sheet to CWID. Trust us, you don’t want to miss out!
Project
NOLITA BY MATA DESIGN STUDIO
Mata Design has transformed Nolita Trattoria from an outdated Italian restaurant into a modernised, yet familiar hot spot for Perth. By Yen Dao
WA
HBO+EMTB Goes West
HBO+EMTB’s major mixed-use development for Perth to include 30,000sqm of commercial space and 300 room hotel