Warren and Mahoney
Magazine
The Regions: Indesign 96 is here!
The latest print magazine is about to arrive! In this issue, Guest Editor Andrew Tu’inukuafe & Barrington Gohns of Warren and Mahoney push us to think, consider and collaborate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The office as a stage: Wilkhahn x Indesign
A recent gathering hosted by Wilkhahn brought designers together to discuss flexibility, technology and the changing role of the workplace.
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A place of water in the Park Lands
Designed by JPE Design Studio with Warren and Mahoney and cultural creative designer Karl Winda Telfer, Adelaide Aquatic Centre — Kauwingka — recasts civic leisure as landscape, gathering place and cultural story.
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This New Zealand stadium is full of community and technological significance
Josh Robson, Senior Principal and Senior Architect at Populous, talks us through the recently completed One NZ Stadium at Te Kaha, designed with Warren and Mahoney.
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Andrew Tu’inukuafe on Designing with Place, Culture and Collective Intelligence
In this SpeakingOut! episode, Andrew Tu’inukuafe, Warren and Mahoney, explores the importance of Indigenous knowledge, design rooted in place, and the power of collective thinking in shaping meaningful, enduring projects.
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The Mill: Where architecture meets athletic performance
Warren and Mahoney’s The Mill in Queenstown blends architecture, wellbeing and landscape, creating a transparent training facility.
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The University of Auckland’s Hiwa wins Sport Architecture at WAF 2025
Hiwa, the University of Auckland’s six-storey recreation centre by Warren and Mahoney with MJMA Toronto and Haumi, has taken out Sport Architecture at the 2025 World Architecture Festival. A vertical village for wellbeing and connection, the project continues its run of global accolades as a new benchmark for campus life and student experience.
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Fernando Menis wins World Building of the Year 2025 for The Holy Redeemer Church
The World Architecture Festival has named The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas in La Laguna, Spain as World Building of the Year 2025, alongside major winners in interiors, future projects and landscape.
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The Moment Generator: Warren and Mahoney’s rethink of Beca’s Auckland HQ
Warren and Mahoney’s design for Beca’s Auckland headquarters turns the mechanics of engineering into poetry, rethinking how workplace design can reveal its own systems.
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In the spotlight at the 2025 INDE.Awards
Projects and people from across our region were certainly prominent at the 2025 INDE.Awards gala and in particular, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand made their presence felt.
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Too cool for school
Joan Montgomery Centre PLC by Warren and Mahoney is a tour de force of education design, with high-end facilities including a swimming pool and general athletic amenities.
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INDE.Awards Gala 2025: A night of outstanding design and glamorous celebration
At Saltbox in Sydney, this year’s INDE winners – including a Best of the Best from Asia – were announced at an extravagant, fun Gala awards night.
People
Designing for Innovation: Joseph Hampton on the Award-Winning Waimarie Science Facility at Lincoln University
Joseph Hampton discusses the challenges and triumphs of designing the award-winning Waimarier Science Facility – a groundbreaking educational space promoting sustainability and innovation.
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2025 INDE.Awards Jury
This year the INDE.Awards jury breaks all records as the largest and most iconic group ever gathered together for the program.
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WAM puts sport on playful display at Oran Park
Warren and Mahoney’s (WAM) design for the newly opened Oran Park Leisure Centre (OPLC) celebrates the facility’s unique location – promoting an active lifestyle at the literal core of this thriving community.
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Winners from the 2024 World Architecture Festival
Another Sydney project has taken out the top prize this year in Singapore, with a wide range of other winnings works from around the world.
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WAM, a worm and DNA: Inside Warren and Mahoney’s all-embracing brand refresh
Warren and Mahoney’s rebrand leans into its regional identity as well as the past, the future – and some colourful new graphic design.
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Spice mixture: A hot new restaurant in Auckland
Warren and Mahoney and Technē explore the symbiotic relationship between architecture and nature at a restaurant in Auckland’s bustling waterfront.
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Te Kaha: From reuse to mixed-use at One Queen Street by Warren and Mahoney
Warren and Mahoney’s mixed-use project in Auckland is approaching full occupancy, with big plans across hospitality, workplace, retail and more.
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Coming home to the creative incubator: ACMI by Warren and Mahoney
In Melbourne’s Fed Square, the ACMI team is now working under one roof in a colourful new space home to co-working residents and museum staff.
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HDR outlines six megatrends for 2024
In a climate of innovation, HDR’s architecture practice has forecasted six trajectories of change that will have a transformative impact over the coming year and redefine city-shaping for the foreseeable future.
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Warren and Mahoney craft an urban village in Melbourne’s Docklands
Designed by Warren and Mahoney, ‘District Living’ is a build-to-rent project set to significantly expand and enhance accommodation options at Melbourne’s inner-city Docklands precinct.
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Honouring Aboriginal trailblazers and activists at UTS Indigenous College
A stunning concept created by Greenaway Architects, Warren and Mahoney and OCULUS has won the design competition for UTS’ future National First Nations College.
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Rory Hunter: One man’s MODEL for build-to-rent
As he creates a template for the future, Rory Hunter envisages a type of build-to-rent that will deliver better lives for residents on every level.
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Winners at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore
The 2023 World Architecture Festival (WAF) features no less than 44 category prizes – find out about the winners and commendations from days one and two here.
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Five of the best landscape architecture practices
Landscape architecture is enjoying a rise in prominence. Today, it’s taking a seat at the design table from the very beginning of a project, so we bring you some of the leading practices.
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Here, there and everywhere: On The Move October
Taking us into the final quarter of 2023, there has been a varied array of moves and promotions across all parts of the wider design industry this month.
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9 projects and people celebrating First Nations culture through design
Here we present 9 projects and designers leading us towards a culturally informed future that puts caring for Country and connection to Country and First Nations culture at the centre of both practice and outcome.
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Bringing it home: Claire Sharpe returns to Warren and Mahoney Wellington
She thinks big and has the credentials to back it up. Returning to the Wellington studio of Warren and Mahoney in 2022, this architect brings home a wealth of expertise.
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The full speaker lineup for the 2023 INDE.Summit is here!
Discover who you’ll be hearing from at the region’s leading architecture and design symposium.
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On The Move June: Mid-year transfers, appointments and promotions across the design industry
As we hit the half-year mark, who’s been doing what and going where? In our regular monthly column, we track the latest changes in studios and firms far and wide.
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“The most successful projects are those that reflect an authentic culture”
Featured in the new Indesign magazine, now on sale, Warren and Mahoney’s Melbourne studio has been conceptualised through strong cultural narratives. Principal Daryl Maguire shares how the practice led with heart to achieve a symbiotic response that also met key workplace objectives.
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Indesign’s 10 best workplaces of 2022
In 2022 it was all about coming to the office, and feeling good while you were there. No surprises – 2022 marked a year of new workplaces that were bold, beautiful and not at all your typical office.
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2022’s 10 most teachable moments and inspiring quotes
Whether inspirational or thought-provoking, we bring you the 10 most quotable moments of 2022. They’re all takeaways that resonated with us for their insightfulness, authenticity and mindfulness. Prepare to be inspired.
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Who’s On the Move? New appointments in design
The launch of Foreground Architecture, Richard Weinman joins Hayball, meet HDR’s new sustainability leader and more in this month’s On The Move, careers in design column.
Workplace
6 Ideas for best-practice hybrid collaboration
Six Ideas by Dexus and Warren and Mahoney shows us how to establish an optimal hybrid collaboration framework. Read this insight-rich article from the presenters themselves.
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Google Aotearoa takes out Work Space award
As the winner of INDE.Awards’ 2022 Work Space, this Warren and Mahoney project exemplifies the very cutting edge of workplace design.
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Design culture “bristling” with talent: INDE.Awards jury speaks
For INDE.Awards winners, receiving the accolade is the pinnacle of success where talent is recognised and rewarded. We hear from the Jury on what made this year’s winners truly outstanding.
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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.
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Comfort and space at the heart of today’s workplace
Workplaces are evolving and, in this year’s INDE.Awards, 12 shortlisted Work Space projects showcase just what is expected, with every amenity to sustain a working life.
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Shopping but make it beautiful – 12 award-worthy retail spaces
In this year’s INDE.Awards, The Retail Space show us that shopping is all about experiential showcases for both products and customers alike. Discover 12 award-worthy examples, right here.
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Building our future: The Building shortlist
This year’s INDE.Awards – The Building shortlist recognises projects that mark new direction in the future of architecture.
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Surf’s up: Warren and Mahoney take the beach
Surf’s up with the latest project from renowned architecture and design practice Warren and Mahoney. Mona Vale’s Surf Life Saving Club is an exemplar building that serves both people and place with aplomb, epitomising an aspect of the great Australian way of life through a stellar new building.
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Future of hybrid working at Dexus Place and Burnet Institute
How does hybrid working operate, in real world terms? We consider two recently completed projects, designed for a post-pandemic workforce.
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Revealing the alter ego at Dexus Place
Warren and Mahoney has unlocked potential by dialling up the experiential at Dexus Place. As Indesign #86 hits doorsteps, Tamara White gives us a sneak peek into one of this issue’s headline projects.
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News from the editor’s desk
Entries for the INDE.Awards close this Thursday, 31 March. Our Indesign editorial lead, Alice Blackwood, gives you the big deadlines and regales you with highlights of the past fortnight in design.
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Designing for diversity: considered details can create big impacts
Daniel Thompson believes inclusive design has an exciting and important role to play in helping shape our built environment. Here’s how.
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Whare Timu leads by example
Warren and Mahoney principal, Whare Timu, is a man of our time, working to instigate cultural change and mindful that connection to people and place are the key to better design. Jan Henderson introduces us to this visionary designer and INDE.Awards juror.
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“All urban planning projects must have a carbon neutral objective”
As Warren & Mahoney marks 15 years of carbon neutral operations, it intends to steer its clients in the same direction. Principal architect, Simon Topliss, says all urban planning projects must now have a carbon neutral objective or risk being ‘out of date’ on completion.
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Shop, but not. 5 fit-outs that recast retail
Retail has become a hyper-dimensional experience. While a destination may draw you in for any number of reasons – social, educational, personal wellness – shopping remains the ultimate act.
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Warren and Mahoney is leading the way in architecture and design
More than doubling staff and creating avenues of influence in Australia, Warren and Mahoney is making its presence known as a dynamic architecture and design practice in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Reintegrating with the real world post lockdown
Warren and Mahoney interiors principal, Tamara White, says following the insular life of lockdown we must invest in real-world experiences to both reinvigorate ourselves and retain top talent.
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Take a look at this year’s leading health sector project
The winner of The Wellness Space category in 2021 embodied all our desires for health and wellbeing in a detailed and beautifully resolved project.
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Generation Alpha demands we make “audacious change”
Warren & Mahoney principal, Simon Topliss, outlines the architectural strategies required to educate the generation that understands they need to ‘be the change’.
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Design industry kicks off FY21/22 with some major moves
The beginning of a new financial year has come along with numerous new appointments and promotions made by the likes of Architectus, DesignInc, Gray Puksand and more.
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Retail pop-up makes the most of the Trans-Tasman bubble
A unique Australian and New Zealand partnership has pulled off an innovative retail concept to demonstrate that affordable luxury is alive and thriving.
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People front and centre
Moving into an agile environment is rarely a ‘turn-key’ experience for a client. For Mercury, two years of pilots and team input precipitated its ambitious shift to agile.
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We’re on the move
Change is always a constant, and these latest appointments, promotions, new office openings and names changes at BKA Architecture, Hames Sharley, Hayball, ClarkeHopkinsClarke and more, can attest to that.
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Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct, from Warren and Mahoney
Designed to super-charge co-working and collaboration, Auckland’s Innovation Precinct extends into building number three, a six-storey purpose-built environment.
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“Innovative and awe-inducing” – Announcing INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist
The results are out! We’re excited to introduce you to your INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist. Read on to find out which entries made the final cut.
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Works like magic: The top workplace projects of 2018
Work is such a big part of life. And designers are constantly pushing forward with new agendas in the spaces we inhabit while at work. What workplace projects had you inspired throughout 2018? We count them down.
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Warren and Mahoney on kicking trans-Tasman business goals
You can probably count on one hand, the number of firms that have exported design services from New Zealand into Australia. Firms like Warren and Mahoney, whose ‘one studio’ approach has made it possible to grow exponentially, while still running a tight, talent-rich team.
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What makes Good Design?
Last week saw hundreds of products across a wide range of categories awarded in the annual Good Design Awards. Here we highlight the projects and products that remain close to our heart – architecture, interiors and furniture.
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Blade Runner-inspired workplace by Warren and Mahoney
With all this buzz around ‘human-focused’ design, architects and designers are having to think far more creatively around how to best integrate ‘responsiveness’ into workplaces – especially if your client is a rapid live news outlet.
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TVNZ Television Centre
With all this buzz around ‘human focused’ design, architects and designers are having to think far more creatively around how to best integrate ‘responsiveness’ into workplaces – especially if your client is a rapid live news outlet. For New Zealand firm Warren and Mahoney, the design of Television New Zealand’s new Auckland headquarters was driven by their interest in the ‘power of people’ and the translation of their collective behaviours into the built form.
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Russell McVeagh Auckland by Warren and Mahoney
The legal sector has traditionally adhered to a strict workplace hierarchy, with senior staff allotted a private office and entry-level employees assigned to the ‘open-plan’. Designed by Warren and Mahoney, the new head office for New Zealand law firm Russell McVeagh, challenges the antiquated workplace approach with a daring, material-rich agile strategy.