Workplace Designs
Ideas
Simon says we ought to be thinking outside the CBD
Simon Pole, global design director at Unispace, says that the CBD has had it too good for too long. As workplace designers, this is our moment to look beyond the office towers.
Workplace
What ever will coerce people out of home and back to the CBD?
The pandemic saw unprecedented freedoms given to employees in an effort to keep the ball rolling. But as we move away from it, what does the ideal office look like in a post-pandemic world, and what will it take to bring employees back to the office in a full time capacity?
Project
The Golden lesson in designing open plan, flexible work spaces
The flexible work spaces of RMBL’s new head office, designed by Golden, have transformed the mortgage manager’s conventional practices in favour of an activity based working model.
Ideas
What’s workplace design got to do with office dynamics?
Hybrid working puts the pressure back on the individual to expertly communicate and perform within a team of dispersed personnel. How can workplace design help to enhance office dynamics?
Project
10 pet friendly workplaces that deserve design kudos
Bringing your pet to work day may have once been a novel idea, but there’s mounting evidence to say that pet friendly workplaces could be the way forward.
Project
10 creative and agile spaces for activity based work
The following ten design projects represent the most inimitable offices we’ve seen of late, in which space goes above and beyond in its role as a facilitator of ABW.
Project
The holistic and homey workspace of PSLab in London
Indesign visits the ‘professional home’ of PSLab in London. Designed by JamesPlumb, this space is neither an office nor a showroom, but functions as both.
Project
Making a moving picture: Studio Y and Ambience Lighting
When longtime collaborators Studio Y and Ambience Lighting came together on a personal project, they successfully plotted the concept for an office space that is at once conducive to work and incredibly dramatic.
Project
Designed for people, inspired by place: NAB Brisbane by Woods Bagot
With staff fully assimilated to the rhythms of agile working, how do we begin to offer further flexibility? In its Brisbane headquarters, NAB looks to seamlessly align staff with space, giving them the room – quite literally – to physically and mentally ‘flex’. Designers Wood Bagot strove to bring physical space and human behaviour into perfect sync.
Project
Quality time: Woods Bagot’s own Melbourne studio
When do the rules and theories of contemporary workplace design not apply? In the case of Woods Bagot’s new Melbourne headquarters, project lead Bruno Mendes threw the rule book out and picked up a cookbook instead.
Articles
Home Away From Home
Domestication in the workplace continues to take the Australian corporate community by storm. Joining the revolution, the Wes Lounge from Zenith Interiors is bringing comfort and personality back to the workplace.