health and wellbeing
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.
Ideas
On healthcare and inclusion with BLP’s Tracy Lord
Healthcare design expert Tracy Lord joins us on the Stories Indesign podcast to discuss her varied inspiration and the need for nuance in her sector.
Project
HUMANSA: A new way to health and wellbeing in the busy city
A new destination in Hong Kong provides all that is required to support health and wellbeing but in oh such a wonderful environment that is anything but ordinary.
Project
Yin Yang Tai Chi Centre repositions an ancient art for a new generation
Located centrally in Causeway Bay, and designed by ADRO, the Yin Yang Tai Chi Centre draws on everything from Ming Dynasty aesthetics to Bruce Lee movies for inspiration.
Project
Creating that “butterfly moment” – Arent&Pyke’s design for Vida Glow
With Vida Glow, taking your supplements feels like an indulgence. The brand has recently worked with Arent&Pyke to execute its beautiful and lush Sydney headquarters. We take you through this “butterfly moment” with Sarah-Jane Pyke.
Project
INDE.Awards 2022 winners announced!
The auditorium was full, the vibe electric and the winners truly outstanding last night at the INDE.Awards Gala. Scroll the Indo Pacific’s most outstanding projects and people, here.
Events
American Standard Design Catalyst: Ideas, insights and trends on wellness
Thought leaders from the Asia Pacific region come together to inspire the future with purposeful design through a one-day webinar.
Project
Mohalla Clinics: Portable healthcare solution in India made from used shipping containers
Architecture Discipline has done it again! Not only is its latest project a response to need, it also provides a template of health-giving design for the future.
Ideas
The blueprint to designing for health and wellness
How do begin to facilitate better wellness within a community context? Kylie Buhagiar and Alicia McKimm of GOLDEN share their perspective.
Products
Bring the outside in, with Para Vert
Ippolito Fleitz Group reimagines our connection with nature through a sophisticated system of biophilic room dividers.
Articles
Bring the outside in, with Para Vert
Ippolito Fleitz Group reimagines our connection with nature through a sophisticated system of biophilic room dividers.
Project
Split Down The Middle: UPSTAIRS_ Designs A Contemporary Clinic
Despite a limited selection of materials for medical facilities, UPSTAIRS_ has conceived a contemporary clinic, fit for medical and aesthetic treatments, while embedding the practitioners’ beliefs.
Project
Doing it for the kids: Compass Immunology Clinic by whitewood
Compass Immunology Clinic is a unique concept clinic, one of the first in Australia, where children (and adults) can come for a holistic health approach to treating allergies.
Project
An artful balance of wellness and functionality at Chifley Lifestyle
Renowned architecture and design firm Gray Puksand demonstrates the importance of a healthy work-life balance with a sophisticated and elegant end of trip facility – Chifley Lifestyle.
Articles
Creating healthy office spaces
Healthy office spaces don’t need to be bland, style-free boxes, as Staron Surface Solutions proves.
People
Bates Smart’s Mark Healey on normalising the clinical environment
Bates Smart studio director Mark Healey has carved out a unique CV having worked on some of Australia’s best healthcare projects, alongside multi-res and commercial work. Here he opens up about the latest design thinking behind our changing healthcare landscape.
Project
All aboard! Interface’s new Sydney HQ transforms a heritage-listed railway building
After taking +Positive Spaces around the world, Interface is designing the change it wants to see in the world in its new headquarters in Sydney, Australia.
News
Fresh off the press… Indesign #75 ‘Healthcare & Wellness’ out now!
The latest issue of Indesign magazine has hit newsstands, this time focusing on the growing sector of ‘Healthcare & Wellbeing’. Tying it all together is a regionality that we’re exploring in new ways.