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News
Peninsula University Hospital reimagines healthcare through connection to Country
Designed by Bates Smart and Architectus, Peninsula University Hospital brings a sense of place, community and connection to Country into a new vision for healthcare architecture.
News
Jordan Knight explores architecture in an ever-changing landscape
Through a series of speculative design experiments, INDE.Awards 2026 The Graduate winner Jordan Knight reconsiders architecture’s relationship with water and the changing landscape of Hawke’s Bay.
Ideas
Hassell leads international design lab focused on Australia’s housing crisis
With the launch of the ThriveInspiration™ International Design Lab, Hassell is leading the design component of a new international initiative aimed at addressing Australia’s housing crisis through modular construction.
Events
Built to last: SJB on permanence at Billyard Avenue
Hosted by Anterior XL and Krause Bricks, a special Saturday Indesign discussion brought together SJB and developer North East Corp to explore permanence, material longevity and the thinking behind Billyard Avenue in Elizabeth Bay.
Ideas
Warren and Mahoney Guest Editors join the podcast
Andrew Tu’inukuafe and Barrington Gohns worked together as Guest Editors on Indesign #96, and the Warren and Mahoney pair recently shared their insights on the process STORIESINDESIGN.
News
The kinetic buzz of Jakarta’s 25 Hours Hotel The Oddbird
Rising 28 stories above Ashta Mall in the heart of Jakarta’s bustling Sudirman Central Business District, 25hours Hotel The Oddbird is a multifaceted exercise in spatial storytelling and material friction.
News
Sydney Fish Market: The Building Winner at the INDE.Awards 2026
Recognised as The Building Winner at the INDE.Awards 2026, Sydney Fish Market by 3XN GXN in association with BVN and ASPECT Studios reframes the working market as a generous civic destination on Sydney Harbour.
NSW
Elevating legal architecture: Studio Tate’s human-centred balancing act
Studio Tate’s approach to Gordon Legal’s Melbourne HQ deliberately subverts the stuffy, traditional hierarchies of the law office, instead crafting a softer and more democratic space.
People
Creating and curating with light
In the latest instalment of The Photographers, Tony Evans discusses his path from travel photography to the built environment, the importance of light and why architectural photography is as much about interpretation as documentation.
WA
Drama in design defines this WA Architectus education project
Architectus’ new Cultural Centre at Perth’s Santa Maria College makes a case for investing in performing arts – and the buildings that support them.
Project
A local brew
Fabric Studio gives Goons Brewing a permanent home on the NSW Central Coast, combining the rawness of a working brewery with colour, custom furniture and a resourceful, hands-on approach.
Events
CPD Live returns for its final 2026 season
CPD Live returns on 21–22 October for its final livestreamed season of 2026, with eight expert-led sessions offering architects and design professionals the opportunity to earn up to 8 Formal CPD points.
VIC
Studio 55: Systems thinking at Hassell’s new ‘anti-home’
Hassell’s very own new workplace in Melbourne/Naarm follows a rigorous, well-resourced design process to truly understand the environmental impact and potential of design decisions.
Project
Travelling in style
Wood Marsh draws on the surrounding parklands to give Melbourne’s new Keon Park Station a distinct civic identity, combining transport infrastructure with landscape, colour and improved community connections.
People
A titan of interior design
After more than four decades in design, Jeff Copolov steps down as Director of Bates Smart, leaving a legacy that has helped elevate interior design within the Australian profession.
Furniture
More than meets the eye: The sofa Snøhetta designed ‘form last’
Behind the cushy, curvaceous form of Array lies a rigorous design process. Snøhetta’s Matt Irvine reveals how the modular sofa system for MDF Italia was engineered from the inside out – long before its curves took shape.
Events
Talostone’s alchemical stone surprises win the day at Saturday Indesign
Responding to the theme of ‘Alchemy’, this year’s winner of The Project at Saturday Indesign is an exciting collaboration between Talostone and the Whitehouse Institute of Design.
News
Prestige University by Sanjay Puri Architects named Best of the Best at the INDE.Awards 2026
Prestige University by Sanjay Puri Architects has been named the Best of the Best Winner at the INDE.Awards 2026, recognised for an ambitious architectural response that brings education, landscape and community together.
Furniture
“Eames goodwill in the office”: A Saturday Indesign standout as Alex Alorda visits from Europe
CEO Alex Alorda travelled from Spain to launch Kettal Workplace – including part of the Eames Pavilion System – in Australia alongside Mobilia at Saturday Indesign.
Project
“Social sustainability” and heritage renewal at Aigantighe Art Gallery
Irving Smith Architects has transformed a dilapidated heritage mansion into a house gallery that pays tribute to the past and is ready for the future.
News
Movers and shakers at SJB Melbourne
SJB’s Melbourne studio has announced the appointment of two Senior Associates and the elevation of four Associates.
Events
Saturday Indesign 2026 ends on a high at Woollahra Hotel
After a full day of design across Sydney, Saturday Indesign 2026 continued into the night at Woollahra Hotel, where the architecture and design community came together for the official Afterparty.
Ideas
From AI to housing, lighting and careers: The design discussions of Saturday Indesign 2026
A curated series of panel talks provided highlights across this year’s Saturday Indesign, with showrooms hosting discussions on topics ranging from atmosphere in lighting to the blurred typology lines shaping Australian homes today.
Articles
Sensory impressions set in stone
As a child, Beck Smith was mesmerised by stone and the colour and fire of opals found in Lightning Ridge, where she grew up. Today, she’s a successful interior designer and creative living and working on the Gold Coast, but the connection to the raw earth of the inland remains strong.
News
Phrontisterion: The labyrinthine new library of Mona
Occupying the space beneath the mammoth artwork Elektra by Anselm Kiefer, Phrontisterion is the new library within the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart.
Events
Revealing the 2026 Sustainability Awards shortlist
The Sustainability Awards shortlist has been announced, marking a significant milestone as Australia’s longest-running awards program dedicated to sustainable design and construction celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Ideas
Tzannes’ Amy Dowse on three golden rules for a viable practice
Tzannes Director Amy Dowse sets out a triangle of three golden rules for a successful practice: leadership, rigour and respect.
Events
It’s time for debate and discussion at Saturday Indesign
Saturday Indesign might be revitalised and full of surprises in 2026, but the ever-popular Design Discussion series is back for more thought-provoking panels. Find out who’s discussing what in Sydney on 12th September.
Furniture
Zenith: 70 years young!
Zenith marks the incredible milestone of seven decades, celebrating as well as looking to the future.
Workplace
The butterfly workplace
A new workplace by lyth Design for ChrysCapital in Mumbai is both creative and original and enhances the everyday working life through its innovative design.
News
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
A rollicking good story with Richards Stanisich and Royal Oak Floors
Jonathan Richards and Kirsten Stanisich discussed practice, design process and the business of running a studio at a live audience event hosted by Royal Oak Floors in Sydney.
Events
Indesign x Wilkhahn: Melbourne, where are you working?
Our latest collaboration saw a range of designers come together at Wilkhahn’s Melbourne showroom for a discussion on the workplace dynamics specific to the Victorian capital.
Workplace
Per atria ad astra
In the very heart of Sydney’s CBD, 1 Elizabeth is a vast civic-scale project that integrates workplace design, transport infrastructure, event spaces, and hospitality around some dramatic void spaces.
Events
“A journey into a whole new material world”: Plant Life at the NGV
Curator Ewan McEoin tells us about the NGV’s new exhibition on plant-based materials as alternatives to plastics, synthetic materials and other non-renewable resources.
Workplace
Seidler, Nervi and fjcstudio walk into an office tower
Set within hallowed architectural surroundings amidst the ghosts of Harry Seidler and Pier Luigi Nervi, fjcstudio’s new Sydney home brings geometric clarity and a spirit of creative exchange to a challenging workplace fit-out.
Events
The inaugural Coastal Design Assembly is about to make landfall in Sydney
Sophie Lanigan, organiser of a new event centring on Sydney’s relationship to water, tells us what the event’s all about, who it’s for and why it matters today.
Articles
Injecting identity into adaptable workplaces: the brand harnessing the visual treasure trove of cross-sector design culture
The magnetic pull of certain spaces comes down to how seamlessly they work and, more importantly, how they feel. Recognising this, Kettal Workplace draws on the uplifting codes of other sectors to deliver contemporary workplace design.
Workplace
Softness balanced with boldness in Technē’s lobby fitness fit-out
The very first SFIDI fitness and wellness centre is a cutting-edge interior architecture fit-out designed to add impactful new life to the lobby of Melbourne’s Rialto Towers.
Events
Indesign Social Club kicks on in Melbourne with Reece
Born out of Saturday Indesign research, our new Social Club is a space for younger, junior designers to meet and discuss the issues of the day — and it just hit Melbourne for the first time.
Ideas
CARD finds value in the everyday
For emerging Melbourne practice CARD, architecture is grounded in authenticity, responsiveness and collaboration, with a focus on robust materials, practical thinking and the realities of everyday life.
Events
We talk to Anupama Kundoo ahead of Living Cities Forum 2026
As the Living Cities Forum returns to Sydney and Melbourne this August, Kundoo — appearing alongside international speakers such as Finn Williams and Ludwig Engel — tells us about time, abundance and care in her work.
Events
Migrating Modernism: Seidler on show in Sydney
Following a successful exhibition at San Marco Art Centre (SMAC) in Venice, a retrospective exhibition on the work and life of preeminent Australian architect Harry Seidler is open at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Events
Nature Weave: Jia CURATED returns to Bali for a Southeast Asian design feast
Jia CURATED is happening once again in Bali and this extraordinary design festival is not to be missed!
Project
A retail fit-out that grows from the street
For The Eye Piece’s fourth store, Ricci Bloch brings general optometry and a dedicated Lindberg shop-in-shop together within a double-height tenancy at Sydney’s EY Centre.
Events
DIA: It’s time to Write DESIGNER at the Australian census
With an in-your-face campaign from the Design Institute of Australia, Write DESIGNER urges every design professional to identify themselves in the upcoming census.
Project
An Italian sea urchin finds Gold Coast hospitality
Bar Ricci by Studio Kennon brings a touch of Milanese restaurant style to the Gold Coast, inspired by the meaning of ‘ricci’ in Italian.
Events
Now or Never turns Melbourne inside out
From an overnight concert beneath the Royal Exhibition Building’s dome to light works along the Birrarung and a full-scale takeover of Melbourne Town Hall, Now or Never returns with a program that treats the city itself as a stage.
Events
Singapore and the SIA, a powerhouse of design
Shortlisted in the 2026 INDE.Awards are a plethora of projects from Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Architects’ members. We celebrate the talent that resides in this country, as we showcase design that crosses borders and resonates in our Indo-Pacific region.
Events
Saturday Indesign memories: Escaping the corporate catch-up trap
Cox Architecture’s Remy Chard reminisces about her interstate trip for Saturday Indesign two years ago, writing that such design events can act as catalysts for connection while countering the ‘catch-up trap’.
Events
INDE.Awards Gala marks ten years with truly regional scope
At a packed awards night in Melbourne, the design community from all corners of the Asia-Pacific region came together to celebrate an incredible range of winners.
Events
Celebrating ten years of Indo-Pacific design: 2026 INDE.Award winners revealed
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 2026 INDE.Awards recognised the outstanding people, projects and products shaping design across the Indo-Pacific.
Events
Tappeti marks 20 years of bespoke rug design
At Paddington Town Hall, the Australian rug studio reflected on two decades of bespoke design with an event that brought its archives, collaborations and making processes into motion.
News
“A moment of global significance”: Atlassian tops out in Sydney
Atlassian Central by SHoP Architects and BVN has reached its full structural height, marking a construction milestone for the 39-storey commercial tower in Sydney.
Events
The national architecture awards shortlist has dropped!
The Australian Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2026 National Architecture Awards Shortlist has been revealed, showcasing some of the country’s best new homes, buildings and community spaces before the winners are announced in October.
Project
A brick envelope shapes life in Kerala
In Thrissur, India, LIJO.RENY.architects has wrapped a family home in a perforated brick envelope that moderates heat, encourages natural ventilation and creates a series of layered indoor and outdoor spaces.
Project
The showroom as home
Daniel Boddam’s new Bronte showroom is also his home. By inviting clients into the spaces where he actually lives with his furniture, the designer offers a more intimate way to experience design.
Project
A new mixed-use precinct for West London
TURNER’s first major UK project brings together more than 400 apartments, retail and communal spaces in a Brentford precinct shaped by view corridors and infrastructure.
Project
Reconnecting retail with the city
Suzhou MixC World draws on the city’s historic streets and gardens to create a retail precinct that feels less like a shopping centre and more like an extension of the public realm.
Ideas
Byera Hadley travelling scholar: What I learned about Autism-friendly design across three continents
Illiana Jones, a graduate at Sam Crawford Architects, reports back from her recent Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship on autism-friendly design from London to Cairo.
Project
Woods Bagot brings four individually crafted homes to Bondi
Designed for Cadmium Property, 22 Edward Street rethinks boutique residential development through four distinct homes that prioritise landscape, privacy and coastal living.
Events
Kiwi Architects make their presence felt in the shortlist of the 2026 INDE.Awards
Discover the Aotearoa New Zealand architects and designers shortlisted in the 2026 INDE.Awards, celebrating outstanding regional design excellence.
Events
World Architecture Festival shortlist is here!
With significant representation from Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific, this year’s WAF shortlist is announced ahead of the Florida event.
Events
Reporting back from a Scandinavian design odyssey
Following a design pilgrimage through Copenhagen, Stockholm and Finland, FK’s Nicky Drobis reflects on 3daysofdesign, the work of Aino and Alvar Aalto, and why great design begins and ends with people.
Project
“A dialogue between advanced digital technology and traditional craftsmanship”
Southeast Asian craft traditions meet French high fashion in Thailand, as Enter Projects Asia completes Hermès with an emphasis on rattan materiality.
News
A powerhouse partnership
Sonali and Manit Rastogi are a powerhouse couple. Partners in life and work, they create architecture for people and place that truly makes a difference, while shaping a sustainable design pathway for the future.
Workplace
Workplace designed as an urban sanctuary
Bean Buro discusses the design of Palatino Hospitality’s Hong Kong workplace, where biophilic design, warm materiality and hospitality principles combine to create a calm retreat within the city.
Events
Q&A: Kengo Kuma in Milan
Kengo Kuma, founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Pritzker Prize-winning architect, talks us through his collaboration with Jaipur Rugs that culminated with a showing at Milan Design Week 2026.
Workplace
Adaptive reuse in WA turns teachers college into workplace
Spaceagency Architects complete executive offices for the Prendiville Group through the restoration and conversion of the State Heritage-listed former Fremantle Technical School Annex.
Events
INDE.Awards celebrates ten years with shortlist reveal at Zenith
The design community gathered at Zenith’s Sydney showroom to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the INDE.Awards and the official unveiling of the 2026 shortlist.
Events
Art, acoustics and colour come together
Woven Image welcomed more than 100 architects and designers to Sydney to celebrate its latest collaboration with Australian artist Ben Goss, exploring how art and colour are shaping contemporary commercial interiors.
Project
March on Milan
Rodney Eggleston, Australian architect and founder of March Studio, designed one of Milan Design Week’s standout installations in 2026 as Aesop took over Santa Maria Del Carmine for its ‘Factory of Light.’
Events
Fireside with Kirsten Stanisich, Jonathan Richards and Royal Oak Floors
The Richards Stanisich duo will be in conversation with our Editor at Royal Oak Floors’ Sydney showroom on Thursday 23rd July, 2026.
Events
Finding quotidian design joy at Melbourne Design Week
Designed to be touched, picked up and played with, ‘New/Relic’ was a Melbourne Design Week exhibition of every fixture you’ve never thought about twice.
News
Greg Lamb on designing for disconnection
In this SpeakingOut! episode, Greg Lamb explores the intersection of design and wellbeing, sharing the thinking behind Albion Bathhouse.
Articles
Dipped in integrity: The profound depth of Aeron Chair’s extended palette
Aeron Chair’s new shades, Nightfall and Jasper, arrive with a sense of quiet cohesion – no bells and whistles, no loud technicolour; just two timeless, perfectly versatile near-neutrals. But the new hues aren’t just about colour – and their significance is much more profound than their surface-level subtlety might suggest.
Events
Venice Biennale 2026: Evocations of resilience and hope
Arts writer and editor Victoria Hynes reports on the breadth of this year’s Venice Biennale, drawing out highlights from national pavilions including Australia, Morocco, India and the UK.
Events
3daysofdesign diaries with Jason Gibney
The Sydney-based director of Jason Gibney Design Workshop travelled to Copenhagen for this year’s Scandinavian festival of design, reflecting on what makes the event — and the city — so special.
Events
Your 2026 INDE.Awards shortlist is here
Explore the full lineup of shortlisted people, projects and products!
Project
Indi Footscray reimagines build-to-rent as urban repair
SJB transforms former railway land into a 702-home build-to-rent community, using housing, public space and shared amenities to reconnect one of Melbourne’s busiest transport precincts.
Ideas
“Pure, unadulterated visions”: A book on the unbuilt
Phaidon’s ‘Atlas of Never Built Architecture’ is a thought-provoking romp through the counter-factual architectural imaginary on a global scale.
Events
“Cities Made With Care’: Living Cities Forum returns with international speakers
Anupama Kundoo, Finn Williams and Ludwig Engel will be keynote speakers as Living Cities Forum comes to Melbourne and Sydney in August 2026.
Project
“It’s a privilege to be able to support”: OFFICE works with Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
The Melbourne-based, not-for-profit practice has designed a new fit-out and outdoor gathering space for the Victorian Aboriginal Healthcare Service.
Events
3days: Seven ways to get from more to meaningful
We round up the seven projects at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign that best reflected this year’s theme: Make This Moment Matter.
Ideas
More than a showroom crawl: what Saturday Indesign means to the industry
As Saturday Indesign prepares to return to Sydney this September, architects, designers and exhibitors reflect on what has kept the event relevant for more than two decades.
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
Mutual Trust finds a new home in Adelaide
For Mutual Trust’s Adelaide workplace, Woods Bagot drew on the idea of a stately family home to create an interior shaped by legacy and ease.
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.
Workplace
From floorplate to cityscape
M Moser Associates has reimagined DuPont’s Shanghai R&D Centre as a network of connected neighbourhoods, using local references and workplace strategy to support collaboration, flexibility and future growth.
Events
Four things we learned as Saturday Indesign evolves
Our recent exhibitor session showed a renewed SID moving towards hospitality, process and more meaningful showroom experiences.
News
Celebrating regional voices at the 2026 INDE.Awards
Celebrating three countries from our region and their respective Architecture Institutes at the 2026 INDE.Awards.
Project
A new front door for paediatric care at Westmead
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership, the Wattle Building brings expanded clinical services together with a more legible, family-centred experience of hospital care.
Project
“Density can be done well”: JPW project increases social housing offering by 300%
As a significant renewal of an established social housing project, JPW’s recently completed Cowper Street Housing in Glebe, Sydney aims to bring sustainable and community-focused density to an inner city suburb.
Project
A perfumery with somewhere to sit
For Libertine Parfumerie’s new Armadale boutique, Tamsin Johnson looked to the warmth of the home and the rhythm of old-world shopfronts to make fragrance retail feel slower, richer and more personal.
Events
Powerhouse Parramatta announces a smorgasbord of Australian design
Powerhouse Parramatta has commissioned more than 50 leading designers from across Australia to shape the spaces and experiences of the new museum, including public, exhibition, restaurant and retail spaces.
Articles
What happens when a chair becomes the conversation?
At Machine Hall, Herman Miller gathered Sydney’s design community to consider performance seating as part of workplace strategy, not just workplace furniture.
News
A line straight to the top
Drawing at a young age gave Angelene Chan an appreciation for architecture and provided the impetus to propel her to the top of her profession.
Events
3daysofdesign promises a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’
After Milan Design Week’s ‘festival of consumption’, 3daysofdesign offers a much-needed reset, an opportunity to ‘make the world a better place’ and perhaps even a soft-launch of the future.
Events
“I’m not trying to design a shape, I’m trying to shape a feeling”: Eugeni Quitllet & Pedrali in Milan
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet launched Libre, a new seating collection with Pedrali that focuses on form, function and ergonomics.
Ideas
Comment: The design story behind storytelling spaces
What exactly does a theatre consultant do, and why are they an important part of designing the spaces in which we tell the most dramatic stories? Charcoalblue’s Erin Shepherd tells us more.