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Powerhouse Parramatta prepares to open its doors
From Es Devlin and aerospace innovation to First Nations-led stories of Water Country, Powerhouse Parramatta has unveiled the five exhibitions that will launch the new museum this November.
Events
“Renewable real estate”: Wrapping up Melbourne Design Week with FK
FK hosted a standout Melbourne Design Week event with a panel on adaptive reuse and renewable real estate at 500 Bourke, featuring previous contributor Nicky Drobis and our editor as moderator.
Project
Arup Workplace, Perth/Boorloo wins The Work Space at the INDE.Awards 2025
The Arup Workplace in Perth/Boorloo, designed by Hames Sharley with Arup and Peter Farmer Designs, has been awarded The Work Space at the INDE.Awards 2025. Recognised for its regenerative design, cultural authenticity, and commitment to sustainability, the project sets a new benchmark for workplace architecture in the Indo–Pacific region.
Workplace
Moments of material reuse magic as Hassell designs Arup’s Brisbane office
Reuse, resourcefulness and material transformations bring unexpected stories to Arup’s new Brisbane office, designed by Hassell.
Events
Grimshaw in Venice
The 19th International Architecture Biennale has been on in Venice and Grimshaw’s latest installation explores the civic role of digital infrastructure in our cities.
Project
Layers of meaning in Greenaway Architects’ Melbourne pavilion
Designed with culture and meaning, Casuarina Pavilion is a jewel in the crown of Melbourne city and a place where everyone can come together to celebrate Country.
News
On the Move: Key industry and career developments in the first quarter of 2025
The first quarter of 2025 heralded a period of growth and transformation in architecture and design, with practices broadening their influence, experiencing leadership shifts and inaugurating new operations – here’s what you need to know.
Events
2024 Sustainability Awards Winners
The 2024 Sustainability Awards Winners bestowed its honours on 18 winners, with 10 others receiving honourable mentions — a small gesture for contributions that loom large in our shared narrative of sustainability.
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
Towards a golden age of Australian architecture?
On the eve of 2024, our new editor, Timothy Alouani-Roby, addresses an exciting yet provocative open letter to the Australian architecture community on the opportunities of an era.
Events
China and Sydney provide global standouts in the WAF winners list
After three days of crits, talks and presentations, the full winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced.
Magazine
Engineer for humanity: In conversation with Tristram Carfrae
If you’ve heard Tristram Carfrae speak, then you know he is a pretty inspiring individual. He is a natural leader of people and monumental projects that represent change for good. In this interview he speaks about Arup’s “secret sauce” and the challenge of channelling Gaudi.
Events
“A unique intersection between tertiary education and professional practice”: 10 years of MADE by the Opera House
Arup is celebrating not only the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, but also ten years of MADE by the Opera House, the Multidisciplinary Australian Danish Exchange program for which it was one of eight founding partners.
NSW
“The most ancient of stories”: AKIN announced as winner of design competition for Barangaroo’s Harbour Park
The NSW Government has announced the winning design for Harbour Park at Sydney’s Barangaroo. AKIN, a First Nations-led design, will cover the 1.85 hectares of open space with a “regenerated natural retreat in the heart of the city.”
News
New tool helps you experience a city like a toddler
Using a custom virtual reality tool, the Proximity of Care Design guide is intended to help developers and designers create urban environments that are more liveable for pregnant women, children, their caregivers — and in fact everyone.
Articles
American hardwoods: Building a Sustainable Future
Timber has always had a significant role to play in environmentally sensitive construction; Now, two different timber technologies have revolutionised timber’s use for structural applications.
Events
“2023 is all about preparing for the future”: Designers on the move
Is it really February already?! With 2023 already well on its way, it’s time for our first On The Move round-up of promotions and hires across the design industry. Who’s moved in 2023?
Events
Discover the speaker lineup for the 2022 Sustainability Summit
From academics, architects, engineers and innovators – your speaker lineup is bringing you the latest knowledge in Australia’s sustainable built environment!
News
Architectus, Arup and cancer fighting device lead winners at Good Design Awards
Catch up on all your Australian Good Design Awards news here, with a comprehensive list of the 2022 winners.
Project
Curious Practice takes structured landscape one step further
The Newcastle-based studio, Curious Practice is the latest firm to produce a provoking pavilion for the Powerhouse Architecture Commission. Named, Cadeau, it cleverly incorporates the surrounding environment into its design.
Project
A building that can’t be ignored: BVN and Woods Bagot’s monumental Sydney collaboration
Greenland Centre is a landmark project in the heart of Sydney that has redefined the possibilities for residential skyscrapers.
Ideas
How COVID-19 cured an outmoded working culture
The pandemic-driven disruption of how we work has been painful for both companies and employees. But it is also providing an opportunity for us to recalibrate how we want the future of work to look like.
CPD
Lighting to make Cities Safer
Presented by Light Project
Ideas
#ConstructionDeclares Singapore
Singapore architects and engineers join the declaration of environmental crisis and commit to positive action.
Articles
New space, new identity for Stylecraft Singapore
Stylecraft and HASSELL’s collaborative legacy of awe-inspiring showroom interiors has breached new frontiers with the new Stylecraft Singapore showroom.
News
What happened on Day One at FRONT.design?
With day one almost wrapped, we bring you the blow-by-blow from the floors of FRONT.design at Barangaroo.
News
The FRONT.design Forum topics will inspire
With a focus on thought leadership, idea-generation and knowledge sharing, FRONT Forum tackles the hot button issues. Book your seat for these 10 topical talks.
News
Introducing our first FRONT Ambassadors
FRONT is shaping up to be an action-packed event filled with tangible innovations, leading-edge businesses and brands, new learning and networking opportunities as well as actionable knowledge. Meet the Ambassadors heading up FRONT 2019.
Dissections
Green Square Library and Plaza, from Stewart Hollenstein and Stewart Architecture
Designed by Stewart Hollenstein, in association with Stewart Architecture, Green Square Library is a vital community space facilitating lifelong learning and helping people connect in an emerging community.
Dissections
Woodside, by Unispace
The same blue-sky thinking that underpins Woodside’s energy exploration, development delivery and supply business set the tone for its new global HQ in Perth, designed by Cox Architects and Unispace.
Dissections
Denton Corker Marshall Studio
Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) is well known on the Melbourne and international architectural scene, and it was time for them to have a new home.
Project
First Mobile Vertiport For Air Taxis To Be Built In Singapore Later This Year
Public flight trials of Volocopter’s electric air taxis will take off from a mobile vertiport designed by Brandlab, Graft Architects and Arup.
Events
On The Move: New Industry Appointments
We track who’s moved where with our ‘On The Move’ segment. Get in touch to include your studio’s staff news in the next segment.
Events
Cubes Issue 95: Work Place Is Out Now!
What does the ‘place’ in workplace really mean? Cubes 95 investigates the extent to which the workplace is being redefined for human experience and to facilitate the most effective communication between people.
Events
Cubes 95: Work Places
What does the ‘place’ in workplace really mean? Cubes 95 investigates the extent to which the workplace is being redefined for human experience and to facilitate the most effective communication between people.
Project
Shaping a better workplace: Arup by HASSELL
If Arup’s motto is “We shape a better world,” then its approach to its new workplaces, designed in collaboration with HASSELL, was to shape a better workplace.
Ideas
What is the design ecosystem? We debated it at FRONT
In this FRONT seminar session, a medley of design and industry professionals talked about the shortening gap between and tighter-knit design ecosystem that is allowing for progressive built outcomes.
Dissections
Salamanca
The new Parliament Square development symbolises the current rejuvenation of Hobart and the Salamanca Building is the key.
Dissections
Red Energy Melbourne
Pavilions, hubs, neighbourhoods, precincts and the like are fast becoming a popular staple in the agile workplace diet – but why? In their latest project for Red Energy Melbourne, iconic studio Carr sees the significance of these spaces as allowing users to claw back some personal ownership of their working environment.
Dissections
RMIT New Academic Street
The redevelopment of RMIT’s so-called ‘grey ghosts’ signals a much-anticipated final instalment in the University’s long – decades in fact – campus transformation.
Ideas
Why Design Needs A Narrative: The Power of Storytelling
The power of storytelling is integral to all creative pursuits and never, in our identity crisis post-digital age, has the need for storytelling been more central to the world of A+D. But how exactly can the concept of the design narrative be used effectively, and why is it so important?
People
Who Has Changed the World of Design … For YOU?
Indesign’s Luminaries return in 2017 for our inaugural INDE.Awards. Here we meet the shortlist.
People
An Urban Dialogue With Farrells
Having set foot in Hong Kong since 1991, Farrells has realised iconic and context specific projects within the city, including the Peak Tower and the planning of the West Kowloon Cultural District. Sylvia Chan finds out how the practice continues to engage the city through urban discourse.
Ideas
Engineering A Smart City
Arup Hong Kong, the engineering giant behind numerous large infrastructural projects in the city including the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor and the Hong Kong International Airport Passenger Terminal, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Sylvia Chan speaks with Arup Director Wilfred Lau about the firm’s contribution to the city.
Project
The World’s Largest Free Spanning Dome Is Complete
Singapore’s new and iconic sports hub has been designed as a destination that the public can enjoy every day of the week.