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Ideas
Beyond the panel: What makes a design event worth attending?
Ahead of Saturday Indesign, architects reflect on why smaller gatherings, unexpected voices, candid discussion and meaningful follow-up can make meeting in person genuinely worthwhile.
Workplace
The office as a stage: Wilkhahn x Indesign
A recent gathering hosted by Wilkhahn brought designers together to discuss flexibility, technology and the changing role of the workplace.
Workplace
Comment: Why the most valuable workplace connections are built offline
Davenport Campbell’s Neill Johanson argues that, in a hybrid era, the office is no longer justified by attendance alone.
Workplace
Comment: Four design principles pushing beyond the office in 2026
As 2026 gathers pace, Davenport Campbell Principal Neill Johanson argues that the people-place-process nexus in workplace design just won’t cut it any longer.
People
Leone Lorrimer: A life in architecture, leadership and change
Across four decades, Leone Lorrimer LFRAIA GAICD reshaped Australian architecture through strategic vision, global influence and fearless leadership.
Workplace
The invisible workforce: Davenport Campbell on the risks and realities of remote work
Neill Johanson, Principal at Davenport Campbell, comments on what we might be losing and gaining with the expansion of remote work.
Workplace
Davenport Campbell: Forget ‘future-proof,’ because your workplace is about to perceive, adapt and evolve
Davenport Campbell’s Neill Johanson shares insights from WORKTECH25 and the impact of AI on the workplace experience.
Workplace
Comment: The potential of story-telling in understanding neurodiversity
Davenport Campbell’s Anneke Alberto and Kathryn Marshall comment on the fallacy of averages in workplace design.
News
Inner beauty: The Estée Lauder Companies’ Sydney HQ is a jewel in a Brutalist building
High up in the CBD skyline, Davenport Campbell has designed a prestigious, connected and collaborative new workplace for The Estée Lauder Companies.
Ideas
The Indesign campaign that takes you behind-the-scenes with 8 industry leaders
Presenting Your Moment INDESIGN, an exciting creative campaign brought to you by Indesign Media and eight of Australia’s best known architects and designers. Experience the campaign and hear from these leaders of industry about the design philosophies they live and work by, and how INDESIGN fuels their daily practice.
News
One architect’s journey from Everest Base Camp to rebuilding education in Nepal
Since the Nepal earthquakes of 2015, architect Neill Johanson of Davenport Campbell has been working to rebuild schools and support communities in Nepal’s remote regions. It’s a pro-bono project that has expanded from emergency efforts to a wider and longer-lasting vision.
News
How does architecture shape employment? The INDE.Awards’ Work Space reveals all
What will The Work Space category of INDE.Awards reveal to us in 2022? Last year it shone a light on the changing standard of workspaces and commercial design. Here’s what past shortlisters and category partner, Herman Miller, have to share.
Ideas
What’s cooking in hospitality design?
Indesign #85, the ‘Social Spaces’ issue is out now. Indesign Editor Alice Blackwood brings us up to speed on the retail and hospitality design topics informing this edition’s theme.
Project
An expansive atrium shines in CBA’s impressive Sydney offices
Davenport Campbell delivers the second phase of CBA’s South Eveleigh campus with a future-fit workplace that aligns people with tech and innovation.
News
Design industry kicks off FY21/22 with some major moves
The beginning of a new financial year has come along with numerous new appointments and promotions made by the likes of Architectus, DesignInc, Gray Puksand and more.
News
Great work leads to growth for Davenport Campbell
The leading design practice takes things up a notch, expanding its footprint, adding new talent to and promoting more from within its teams, in several states.
Ideas
9 fresh takes on Education and Urbanism in Indesign #84
Our latest issue looks beyond the classroom as simply an environment for teacher and student, to consider the relationship between education and urbanism.
Project
5 workplace design trends seen in the Australian Interior Design Awards 2021
What can we learn from the workplace design projects named on the Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 shortlist?
Project
The Nest: lifelong learning starts here
Purposefully fluid to provide for different learning environments, Davenport Campbell’s early learning centre is conceptually focused on nurturing a holistic family experience.
Ideas
Our Latest Webinar ‘Educating Futures’ is on tomorrow!
With thousands of registrations across our series our next Webinar is on tomorrow!
Ideas
What is 2020 teaching us about the future of work?
A comprehensive survey conducted by Iva Durakovic (UNSW), Lisa Munao, Head of Workplace Design and Innovation (Davenport Campbell) and Kathryn Marshall (Davenport Campbell) questioning Australians on workplaces changes since COVID-19 has given us a great deal of insight into what the workplace might look like moving forward.
Ideas
What is 2020 teaching us about the future of work?
A comprehensive survey conducted by Iva Durakovic (UNSW), Lisa Munao, Head of Workplace Design and Innovation (Davenport Campbell) and Kathryn Marshall (Davenport Campbell) questioning Australians on workplaces changes since COVID-19 has given us a great deal of insight into what the workplace might look like moving forward.
Edit
The Indesign Edit On Working The Workplace
Welcome to the first edition of The Indesign Edit. In this issue, we focus on commercial projects and feature three of the best that workplace design has to offer.
Project
The ‘woke’ workplace
Commonwealth Bank has long been an innovator in workplace strategy. Now, with the Axle building in Sydney’s South Eveleigh, it offers a template for the future of ‘work’ working in Australia.
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.
People
Imagining workplaces of the future
FRONT.design Ambassador Neill Johanson of Davenport Campbell speaks about placemaking, ergonomics and the role of technology in informing the future of workspace design.
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.
News
Davenport Campbell shares the power of design for social good
Having just returned from building a school in the aftermath of Nepal’s earthquake, nine building professionals from Davenport Campbell share their experience and the impact it has had on the community.
Project
High EQ: Mirvac’s EY Centre
Can you design emotional intelligence into a workplace? The trail-blazing EY Centre in Sydney gives it a red hot go, with a human-focused approach to both the development and design of the building. EY Centre’s appeal proved irresistible for Mirvac which, half-way through the development process, decided to locate its headquarters across six floors of the building.
Dissections
Mirvac HQ
When builder/developer Mirvac decided half-way through the development process for the EY Centre at 200 George Street, Sydney to move their headquarters into six levels of the building, it was a vote of confidence in their own project.
Dissections
KPMG Headquarters Barangaroo by Davenport Campbell
Workplaces are no longer just singular production hubs, but company showrooms used by and with clients. Designed by Davenport Campbell, the new KPMG headquaters in Barangaroo transforms the brave new world of agile working into a workplace to call home.
Project
200 George by fjmt
Sydney’s city skyline has a new, gold-hued tower among its sparkling silver skyscrapers. 200 George by fjmt is a 37-storey office building, quite unlike its predecessors.
Project
New Heights For The Agile Workplace : Davenport Campbell’s KPMG
KPMG proves why agile working is becoming such a successful business model.
News
Introducing the Indesign Webinar Series
The Indesign Webinars are a series of free, open, collaborative conversations between key players in the industry researched and facilitated by Indesign Media.