Elenberg Fraser
Articles
The sheer impossibility: Materialised redefines curtain fabrics
Inspired by an unthinkable design challenge on Sydney Harbour, Materialised’s ingenuity didn’t just fuse acoustic performance with transparent finesse – it forever reimagined commercial curtain textiles by making the impossible possible.
Workplace
Twelve outstanding office projects
From grand corporate settings and extensive adaptive reuse to smaller boutique projects, here are a selection of workplace projects that caught our eye in 2024.
Project
Sledgehammer Games’ headquarters “deviates from the cold, minimalist look often associated with tech workplaces”
An environment that invites its occupants to escape the banality of the outside world and lose themselves in a space that is equal parts fun, functional and finely crafted.
Ideas
Design out front, business at the back: Behind the Brand with Zahava Elenberg
Continuing our series spotlighting aficionados across the design industry, we spoke with Zahava Elenberg of Move-in and formerly Elenberg Fraser.
Workplace
How the workplace evolves: Elenberg Fraser and Slattery
With a finger on the pulse of the changing workplace in and around the pandemic, Elenberg Fraser completed Slattery’s dynamic office in Melbourne.
Articles
Kitchen favourites – revealing the winners of Gaggenau Kitchen of the Year 2023
A reminder that the kitchen really is the heart of the home, the winners of the 2023 Gaggenau Kitchen of the Year Design Contest each let design shine.
Articles
Designing for agility, flexibility and fluidity in the future workplace
The workplace has changed – and it will continue to evolve. With dynamism at the heart of clients’ requirements, architects and designers at leading practices such as Elenberg Fraser are using and recommending Herman Miller’s OE1 products for the future workplace.
Project
“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers
At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.
Project
6 gyms that have had their own glow up
With 6 gyms that span from the corporate, to private, to the futuristic, working out has never felt so good.
Events
Love letter to Melbourne: Open House program launched
Open House Melbourne has launched its 2022 program and it’s the post-COVID return to normal that we’ve all been craving… plus more. Here is what we’ll be booking to see.
Ideas
Current workplace insights from Grimshaw, Warren and Mahoney, and Elenberg Fraser
From the correlation between the way we learn and our working preferences and the death of ‘corporate starships’, to the all-important sense of temporary ownership in an environment of constant change – in the second part of “The Future of Work” we explore further shifts that define the evolution of the workplace.
Ideas
The bizarro world of the future office
As Elenberg Fraser embarks on workplace fit-outs for future workplaces, they ask: What will make us genuinely excited to come into the office every day? Callum Fraser shares the studio’s framework for design principles that feed into the “bizarro world of the future office”.
Fixed & Fitted
Key advice for building a fluid workplace: Future of work part #1
From the polycentric model and upside-down buildings to the allure of whimsy and celebration of utility. Three top designers tell us how workplace design is responding to the fluid reality of work.
Ideas
11 certified carbon neutral Australian architecture firms
How far have Australian architects come since pledging to become carbon neutral? We explore Australia’s leading certified carbon neutral architecture firms.
Workplace
What ever will coerce people out of home and back to the CBD?
The pandemic saw unprecedented freedoms given to employees in an effort to keep the ball rolling. But as we move away from it, what does the ideal office look like in a post-pandemic world, and what will it take to bring employees back to the office in a full time capacity?
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?
Magazine
Our ‘Workplace Progress’ issue is now online
For those yet to experience Indesign #83, our ‘Workplace Progress’ issue in full, here’s news that ought to please you.
Project
When design brings workplace culture to life
Inspired initially by the groundbreaking Google HQ, workplace culture has risen steadily as a priority on the agenda of businesses since the beginning of the internet age.
Project
Employee health and wellness rules all at Market Lane
From its basement bike racks to its rooftop meeting pods, Market Lane by Elenberg Fraser fulfils a craving for greener pastures among its health-driven workers.
Ideas
Inside Indesign #83, the ‘Workplace Progress’ issue
Our ‘Workplace Progress’ issue—on sale from 25 March 2021—examines the shifting goal posts of workplace design, and shares the most notable contemporary insights, perspectives and projects in the space today.
People
The evolution of Ross Didier
Ross Didier has carved out a path in the Australian product landscape and continues to succeed doing things his way.
Products
Zahava Elenberg Brings Out the Fun in OH&S, with Clikclax
What began as a bespoke design solution by Zahava Elenberg for her own studio’s return from WFH, Clikclax has evolved into a success story of its own.