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The extraordinary French architect, Manuelle Gautrand, has recently completed PHIVE, a major civic project in Paramatta, NSW. We took the opportunity to talk with her about architecture.
We look back at the Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition in late 2025, where Junya Ishigami, Yasushi Horibe and Hideyuki Nakayama designed three poetic mobile kiosks.
The built environment is all around us; would the average citizen feel less alienated if the education system engaged more explicitly with it?
The Simple Living Passage marks the final project in the Simple World series by Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS design and research, transforming a retail walkway in Hefei into a reflective public space shaped by timber and movement.
Australia’s first planted light rail corridor sets new benchmark for transport-led urban transformation.
Pier Pavilion by Besley & Spresser provides a refreshing, architecturally thoughtful and versatile public space by the water at Barangaroo.
With a date now set for January 2026, Sydney’s landmark project is taking shape as a significant and welcome addition to civic life in the city.
Richard Francis-Jones, Design Director at fjcstudio, writes about the search for public space between the consumerism of commercial self-interest and the bureaucratic authoritarianism of the state.
DesignOffice brings this 1980s Harry Seidler icon into modern working mode with ‘third spaces’ that look and feel like a top-end business lounge.
In the City Gather Park in Changsha, China, Chengdu-based Dean Design merges natural ecology and urban life with installations to create a memorable and poetic respite in the heart of the city.
What is the purpose of a clubhouse? COMODO Interior & Furniture Design gives new meaning to this social space through its Artisan Garden Clubhouse project.
From 1960s New York when private developers were incentivised to create civic space in the public realm, to today: where POPS tread a fine line between the private and the public. Denton Corker Marshall looks at how we can bridge the two.
