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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.
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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.
Articles
Elemental materials for elegant domains
For centuries, stone and timber together have been used to translate architectural ideas into tangible spaces and places. There is a soul-level response to their sensory qualities, one that translates into an immersive feeling of connection and belonging.
Events
Saturday Indesign 2025 Afterparty: A rooftop celebration to remember
On 6th September 2025, Saturday Indesign went out with a bang at The Albion Rooftop in Melbourne. Sponsored by ABI Interiors, Woodcut and Signorino, the Afterparty was the perfect finale to a day of design, connection and creativity.
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David Jones and Country Road Group, by Gray Puksand
Six major Australian labels, two buildings, one unified workplace. Graydelviered David Jones and Country Road Group a stylish new Melbourne headquarters.
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Yancoal Sydney Workplace, by Hammond Studio
Encouraging the evolution of company culture is no mean feat, particularly when said company is in an industry as notoriously conservative as mining. Yet with their new Darling Park office for Yancoal, Hammond Studio managed to do just that.
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Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation Dissections by Crone Architects
An owner-occupier client with a program more diverse than most and a need for information sharing in a constantly evolving sector – led to an uplifting and pragmatic design outcome that supports healthcare professionals to ‘walk the walk.’
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Red Energy Melbourne
Pavilions, hubs, neighbourhoods, precincts and the like are fast becoming a popular staple in the agile workplace diet – but why? In their latest project for Red Energy Melbourne, iconic studio Carr sees the significance of these spaces as allowing users to claw back some personal ownership of their working environment.
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Mercedes Me Melbourne
When is a showroom not a showroom? Whenever Mercedes-Benz launches a new Me Store. Mercedes Me Melbourne inhabits a shell by Woods Bagot, as part of the Rialto Towers street level refurbishment.
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Make Ventures HQ by Tecture
Tecture has used humble and hardy breeze blocks and plywood to create a fresh, youthful interior with subtle references to Make Ventures’ brand identity.
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Flack Studio HQ
A quick peek around Flack Studio’s new space in Fitzroy reveals no white boxy surfaces. Instead, the former electroplating factory is the outer embodiment of the inner workings of founder, David Flack’s mind. Or in other words, an outward look in to rethink the conventional design studio.
News
Last Night With Adele Bates
After 5 years running her eponymous multi-disciplinary design practice, Adele Bates takes a moment to relax, reflect and most importantly – celebrate!
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Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas by Mim Design
What defines the luxury resort of 2017? As the goalposts of modern travel continue to shift, Mim Design offers up a vision of post-millenium luxe with the news Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas. Welcome to resort living 2.0. Determined to balance the exoticism of 1980s glamour with time-honoured contemporary design, Mim Design lobbied for elements of the original hotel to be preserved and even reinstated.
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University of Melbourne Arts West by ARM Architecture & Architectus
What is ‘salon learning’ and how is design responding to this new educational format? Arts West, Melbourne Univeristy’s riotous new Arts Faculty by ARM Architecture and Architectus, reimagines on-campus learning via the philosophy of object-based learning.
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Gandel House at Emmy Monash Aged-Care by Bates Smart
What is interior design’s responsibility in revolutionising aged-care environments? The new Emmy Monash Aged-Care facility in Melbourne’s Caufield has all the luxury commodities of a contemporary multi-residential complex. From thoughtfully considered finishes through to superior shared facilities, no expense has been spared on residents’ comfort and quality of life.
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Garden State Hotel by Techne Architecture + Interior Design
What does it take to redesign a tried and tested model? For centuries, the iconic Australian pub has shaped our country’s communities, quenching the thirsts of millions of Aussies and offering social solace at the end of a long, hard day. This side of the new century, our shifting lifestyles, played out in the concrete jungles of our capital cities, has bred a new brand of beer o’clock. But just how ‘refreshing’ is it?
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Harry The Hirer, Melbourne, by SJB Interiors
How are designers problem solving the often opposing needs of the one-size-fits-all space? Harry The Hirer is a solid success story in puzzling together a series of complex needs.
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University of Sydney Business School by Carr, Woods Bagot and Kann Finch
How might the agile working model influence the design of education spaces? University of Sydney’s new state-of-the-art Business School presents an interesting experiment.