wellness design
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A modernist icon gains a new communal space
Wood Marsh has transformed a disused caretaker’s apartment within Melbourne’s heritage-listed Fairlie building into a wellness centre that extends the legacy of one of Australia’s most significant residential towers.
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Student housing with room to settle in
AJC Architects’ EPIISOD Macquarie Park brings a more residential approach to student accommodation, pairing warm interiors with shared amenity and a strong connection to campus life.
Products
The kitchen and bathroom launches at Milan Design Week 2026
From sculptural basins and wellness-led bathrooms to kitchens and professional-grade appliances, these Milan Design Week releases reframed the home’s most functional spaces as places of ritual and care.
Workplace
Designing the daily rituals of work, hospitality and health
The Commons has recently opened two new sites in Melbourne designed by DesignOffice — and this time, they include comprehensive health amenities.
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Wellbeing at its best
Éthos by Biasol in Brighton reimagines the wellness clinic with sculptural interiors, rich materials and a calm, immersive experience.
Ideas
Behind the Brand with Jasper Sundh
Jasper Sundh of Hästens shares insights on global growth, wellness-led design and expanding the premium sleep brand in Australia.
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Wellness, reimagined at One Playground Victoria Cross
It’s glamourous, luxurious and experiential – the new flagship destination for One Playground by Mitchell & Eades has it all.
Ideas
A journey of renewal: Integrating Japanese bathing rituals into bathroom design
Jason Gibney, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award in 2025 Habitus House of the Year, reflects on how bathroom rituals might just be reshaping Australian design.
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Japanese delight in Melbourne’s CBD
Making a splash on the hair spa scene, the latest project from X + O makes a little slice of Japan right at home in suburban Melbourne.
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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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The Parlour Room Redfern offers luxury through curves and craft
Tom Mark Henry refines a layered design legacy into a softly sculpted retreat in Redfern, where light, tactility and crafted detail define a new expression of restrained luxury.
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Sanctuary within a sanctuary: KWD completes accommodation interiors at Alba
In what is already a peaceful idyll on the Mornington Peninsula, Kate Walker has crafted an intimate retreat with new villas for overnight stays at Alba.
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The Commons’ ambition to reshape the wellness conversation
In an era where the demands of modern work often clash with the need for restoration, The Commons Health Club in Melbourne sets a new precedent.
Events
Your highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2025
Well, it’s done and dusted for another year but what a major success and influential event it was! Here are some standout exhibitions and installations for 2025.
Project
Far from the madding crowd, better health through great design in Hong Kong
The AIA Alta Wellness Haven offers the complete package for health and wellbeing away from the busy city life in Hong Kong and does it through a stellar interior design.
VIC
Elegance, luxury and deep restoration at Alba Thermal Springs and Spa
Alba Thermal Springs and Spa is all fire and ice: essential yet monumental, discrete yet indulgent. The project has been shortlisted at this year’s INDE.Awards in The Health and Wellbeing Space category – the wellness journey is yours for the taking.
Workplace
Good design is the solution to resenteeism and employee wellbeing
Future X Collective co-founder and managing/creative director at Futurespace, Angela Ferguson, comments on the phenomenon of resenteeism. Good design is at the heart of the solution.
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HUMANSA Hong Kong: 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. PANORAMA Design Group has created a wonderful environment that is anything but ordinary.
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Welsh + Major leading the way with new building typology
Welsh + Major recently won the design excellence competition for a major warehouse and distribution complex in St Peters, Sydney. The latest here.
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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.
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Ally Singapore: Spin studio with a tribe experience
Ally Singapore by Kaizen Architecture is more than a spin studio with multiple communal spaces carved out for social interactions in a post-pandemic world.
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Inside Mirvac’s very own Melbourne home
Mirvac has a new office designed with care and detail that hits the mark in amenity and comfort for employees and clients alike.
Ideas
Wellness-driven cities can be an antidote to loneliness
What makes a healthy town centre in 2022? HDR director, Alex Wessling, comments on how important it is for architects to place wellness at the very centre of neighbourhood and town centre design.
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Bold new business: Biasol’s latest wellness project
Insight Body and Mind, a new multidisciplinary studio focused on holistic wellbeing in Melbourne, offers a sensory design experience. It is the place to go to review, revitalise, regenerate and refresh – all in the most beautiful surroundings.
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Soothe the inner beast at Body WRL
X + O has completed a wellness studio that rivals the rest. Located in downtown Rosebery, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, Body WRL is a sanctuary for wellbeing that is beautiful and technologically advanced, with treatments that are guaranteed to soothe the inner beast. It’s just what the doctor should be ordering!
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Bold beauty: Made For’s Bali Body fit-out
Made For has brought refinement and relaxation to a dilapidated warehouse in Brighton, Melbourne, that brings Bali Body into an era of beauty and space.
Finishes
Arent&Pyke’s bespoke rug design for Vida Glow HQ
Vida Glow has teamed up with Arent&Pyke to create its stunning new home base. A destination that, thanks to supple elements like Tappeti bespoke rugs, feels both luxurious and grounded.
Articles
Vida Glow’s sumptuous new home by Arent&Pyke
Vida Glow’s stunning new home base features bespoke rugs in a design that adds a sense of comfort and luxury to a place of work.
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Stripped back, amped up: Joyce’s gym
Veiled in a stainless-steel mesh screen, this new 24/7 gym in Geelong by Joyce Architects creates a ‘paradigm shift’ in the fitness category.
Articles
Humanising healthcare interiors
KE-ZU’s thoughtful furniture solutions help to bring warmth and comfort to healthcare interiors, to improve patient experiences.
Project
Herculean effort: A new paradigm for fitness design
Created as a place to enhance daily workout life, Hercules Fitness is anything but your average gym.
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
This healthcare unit is made from upcycled 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.
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Where we swim: Liquid Blu’s aquatic culture
With a portfolio that extends from Hobart to Darwin and everywhere in between, Liquid Blu has played a key role in the development of Australia’s aquatic culture.
News
INDE.Awards entry deadline extended
INDE.Awards entries are extended to 31 March, to give you just that little bit more time to get your award-worthy submissions in. Here’s everything you need to know.
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The 5 things you need to enter INDE.Awards today
We know how much work is involved in pulling together an awards entry. We’ve collated an INDE.Awards entry checklist to help you along.
News
The pared back luxury of Eden Health Retreat
Collectivus creates an immersive wellness escape at Eden Health Retreat with luxury cabins that celebrate a natural material palette and spectacular views.
News
It’s a no-brainer! 5 very good reasons to enter INDE.Awards
Have you entered the INDE.Awards yet? Time is of the essence and we’ve given you 5 pretty good reasons to enter in 2022.
Articles
A tranquil women’s wellness centre, delivered with quality and integrity
Building Guild’s early contract involvement in Holixir, an all-in-one women’s wellness space, culminated as a high-calibre, sophisticated and serene project with collaboration and meticulous client consultation at its core.
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7 therapeutic interiors designed with mental health in mind
To celebrate Mental Health Week this year, we explore 7 artfully therapeutic environments that have been designed with mental health front of mind.
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.
People
Designing for health and wellness is our ultimate responsibility
To what extent is designing for health and wellness within the remit of the built environment? Here’s what Kylie Buhagiar and Alicia McKimm of GOLDEN think.
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FARM returns to origins for its design of Aesop’s new store
Earthy orchards and elemental processes form the design genesis of Aesop’s store at ION Orchard in Singapore.
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State of Kin brings a state of zen to adaptive reuse
State of Kin has designed a new space for Bodyscape Yoga that enriches the body and the soul through expert interior design.
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Welcome to Q Dermatology, please make yourself comfortable
Q Dermatology presents a new way of greeting and treating patients, all within an environment that focuses on the comfort and wellbeing of the individual.
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Not your ordinary doctor’s office
Adopting a Wellness philosophy this clinic has enlisted the help of three separate architecture firms to build a relaxing, tranquil space.
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Balance by Studio 103 brings a balanced design
Balance by name and balanced by design, this wellness studio designed by Studio 103 is a tranquil, peaceful space for AMP employees to look after their health and wellbeing.
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A dermatology clinic with a difference by LAANK
Peer behind the calming timber reception and you will be surprised to find bursts of pink, orange and blue. This dermatology clinic breaks with convention to offer a new way of projecting professionalism and comfort.
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Reinventing the boutique fitness studio
Ohlo Studio’s new design for LA Fit takes inspiration from 1980s Los Angeles and reinvents the boutique fitness studio typology as a friendly place for all.
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The ‘Anti-Gym’ Gym: R.A.W Melbourne by Travis Walton
Working with Travis Walton Architecture and Interior Design, new health and fitness company Ready And Willing (R.A.W) has created a very un-gym environment.