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The Architecture Ball 2024 sets the scene for Sydney Mardi Gras

The Architecture Ball 2024 sets the scene for Sydney Mardi Gras

Architecture with Pride (AWP) 2024 has kicked off with style! The Architecture Ball just took place in Sydney, with more events to follow soon.

Architecture with Pride is back for 2024!

Architecture with Pride is back for 2024!

Architecture with Pride (AWP), bringing together the LGBTQI+ design community, is back again with events coming very soon – tickets are on sale now.

On The Move: A bumper round of career news to finish 2023

On The Move: A bumper round of career news to finish 2023

It’s the final round of career moves for 2023. Stretching back to November, it’s a bumper list full of diverse and exciting appointments.

Kristen Whittle and the quest for soulful density

Kristen Whittle and the quest for soulful density

Building on a profound depth of experience, Kristen Whittle is orchestrating his very own studio with a humanistic design philosophy based on care.

Inner city oasis: We visit Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart

Inner city oasis: We visit Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart

Alice Blackwood visits Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart, pausing for an overnight stay, to explore the sustainability principles and design innovations underpinning Rivière’s unique lifestyle proposition.

Putting the spark back into CBD life: Bates Smart re-imagines The Metropolitan Hotel

Putting the spark back into CBD life: Bates Smart re-imagines The Metropolitan Hotel

The Metropolitan Hotel is breathing new life into the west end of Melbourne’s CBD, making William Street – a precinct often overlooked by restaurant-goers – actually sparkle.

Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?

Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?

From third spaces to connections with the urban realm, Alison Huynh shares her vision for healthy hospital design.

Meet the speakers that you’ll be hearing from at Saturday Indesign

Meet the speakers that you’ll be hearing from at Saturday Indesign

Get ready to hear from design’s best and brightest.

The full speaker lineup for the 2023 INDE.Summit is here!

The full speaker lineup for the 2023 INDE.Summit is here!

Discover who you’ll be hearing from at the region’s leading architecture and design symposium.

Bates Smart and the build-to-rent model for city living

Bates Smart and the build-to-rent model for city living

That’s it. It’s a no-brainer. Move to central Melbourne and rent at LIV Munro where the apartments are beautifully conceived and the amenities are beyond outstanding. Build-to-rent is making waves and, through excellent design, the lifestyle of this new way of living is elevated to another dimension.

Ace Hotel Sydney rises from within the historic Tyne House warehouse

Ace Hotel Sydney rises from within the historic Tyne House warehouse

Bates Smart director Guy Lake walks us through the architectural aspects involved in transforming a heritage 1915 brick factory into the Ace Hotel Sydney.

6 staircases that have us spiralling out of control

6 staircases that have us spiralling out of control

In the hands of commercial architects, spiral staircases have never been so beautifully resolved. Gillian Serisier shares 6 eye-popping commercial spiral staircases.