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Zone, divide and connect with Frame

Zone, divide and connect with Frame

Flexibility is a rising demand for the modern workplace as hybridity becomes the new norm. The CSM Work Aisles collection proposes a radical new solution with Frame.

Smarter storage for the flexible workplace

Smarter storage for the flexible workplace

CSM’s new Work Aisles range shows that smart storage can be more than just where you can keep personal items at the office, but also the key to enhanced connection and productivity.

Libraries Lead The Way In A Post-Digital World

Libraries Lead The Way In A Post-Digital World

With the role of modern libraries still firmly focused on sourcing, preserving and enabling access to physical collections, these masters of adaptability have also become significant drivers of innovation, digitalisation and interaction in their local communities.

Cheers to Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020, and many more industry events to come!

Cheers to Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020, and many more industry events to come!

The eve of Thursday 20 February 2020 was one of conviviality, celebration, and friendly competition, courtesy of Polytec and friends.

More Than Just A Party

More Than Just A Party

Inspired by Valentines Day just passed, Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020 is a chance for the architecture and design community to come together while the weather is still warm and reconnect before the year takes off.

Dynamic, agile and empowering spaces with CSM

Dynamic, agile and empowering spaces with CSM

The University of New South Wales is passionate about creating spaces that engage and inspire the student community. The new refurbishment of the Electrical Engineering Building looks to elevate the learning environment with superior products by CSM.

How to design end of trip facilities with sustainability in mind

How to design end of trip facilities with sustainability in mind

End of trip facilities are becoming an important part of modern office design, but CSM know that sustainability must go hand in hand with this development.

Q&A: Indesign talks with CSM on its 65th anniversary

Q&A: Indesign talks with CSM on its 65th anniversary

This year CSM is celebrating a significant milestone with 65 years in the business of providing integrated office storage solutions for clients nationwide. We talked to CSM about their journey from humble beginnings working in steel to how they became pioneers in customisable storage design.

‘Vertical’. ‘Sticky’ … What Has Happened to Education Sector Design?

‘Vertical’. ‘Sticky’ … What Has Happened to Education Sector Design?

How do you design a campus that encourages students and staff to linger? And how do you foster a sense of connection in a vertical tower block?

Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot

Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot

Integrated technology might be commonplace in the workplace, but in education spaces it’s still a fairly new phenomenon. At Western Sydney University, Woods Bagot’s vertical campus design raises the bar in more ways than one.

Jemena Melbourne by Woods Bagot

Jemena Melbourne by Woods Bagot

In an era where technology and the ‘digerati’ rules all, we feel a strong need to make close online connections with the world at large. But how does this sense of connectivity and community translate to the physical workplace, and by extension, its design? In Jemena’s new Melbourne headquaters, seven floors and 800+ people have offered up a juicy challenge in exploring how design might create a sense of communal familiarity in a large-scale environment.

Australian Educational Standards Have Fallen Below Par

Australian Educational Standards Have Fallen Below Par

In the effort to improve our comparative educational standards, the Australian A+D community is becoming more involved in creating a new culture of learning country-wide.