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One Two Five by Hub expands flexible work in Perth
A 10,000-square-metre flagship by Hub Australia and Hassell at Brookfield Place reframes the co-working office as a hybrid of workplace, events venue and lifestyle destination.
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Steelcase opens hybrid showroom and workplace in Hangzhou
Steelcase has unveiled one of its largest Asia Pacific showrooms in Hangzhou, merging workplace, brand experience and client engagement in a single flexible environment designed by M Moser.
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Requiem of Ruins: Multitude of Sins turns leftovers into living design
Bangalore studio Multitude of Sins elevates true leftovers — not surplus — into a richly layered workspace where waste materials become narrative, structure and sculptural expression.
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Bundarra unites heritage and modern design
Smart Design Studio and Those Architects combine landmark and workplace in Bundarra, a Surry Hills gateway blending old and new.
Workplace
The changing workplace and why it demands good design
With Steelcase having reopened its refreshed WorkLife Showroom in Singapore this year, we spoke to Navedita Shergill about some key workplace macro shifts identified in their research.
Articles
Ace: A smarter way to sit, stand and work
Krost’s new Ace height-adjustable system challenges convention with the world’s thinnest column profile, engineered for design-led workspaces.
Workplace
A workspace with many views: Mim Design’s in King’s Counsel
Mim Design and Konstance Zaharias collaborate to design an interior for a unique context: the chambers of a King’s Counsel in Melbourne.
Project
Growing space: grovve by FARM and WY-TO reimagines youth wellness with design empathy
grovve sets a new benchmark in youth mental wellness design – an empathetic, biophilic sanctuary where mental wellbeing is nurtured through choice, comfort and co-creation.
Workplace
Workspace oasis
Moving from the busy city to its tranquil suburbs, Ahmedabad-based Studio Saransh has crafted its very own workplace that prioritises connection to nature.
Workplace
Wingates sets the legal grounds for Anthony Harper
In this New Zealand workplace design by Wingates, Anthony Harper were “keen to evolve their working environment as the world evolves as well.”
Workplace
Blending domesticity and commerce
Led by Kart Projects and brought to life within an existing warehouse space, the new HQ for Studio Mass needed creativity, flexibility and a nuanced interplay between both digital and physical places of connection.
Products
Klaro’s fresh-off-the-press designs for Pandora’s new Sydney HQ
Unispace turned to Klaro Industrial Design VOL 4 collection to source key furniture pieces to complete carefully curated future-proofed workplace fit-out that seamlessly reflects culture and identity of a global brand.
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A law office that references residential precedent, then conventional office design
At SOFT FIRM by Kim Kneipp, the design pivots around a central kitchen, a configuration commonly seen in residential undertakings.
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The Eames Institute of infinite curiosity
The Eames Institute channels a legacy of great design to create their new office space in Richmond, California.
Products
Future-proof your workspace with Zenith
The products and solutions needed for the workplaces of tomorrow.
Project
A shining beacon for work
Harbourside Light Beacon shines in its location and sparkles on the inside as an exemplary workspace designed by Esoteriko.
Articles
Eco-design from start to finish: Designing and manufacturing sustainable workplace furniture
As well as considering the materials and processes used to manufacture furniture solutions, companies like Workspace are shifting their focus to the entire lifespan of products.
Project
Tropical Space delivers an innovative office building in Ho Chi Minh City
Designed with commitment to sustainability and featuring the integration of solid clay bricks, Premier Office seamlessly blends into the urban fabric of Tan Binh district.
Ideas
“Workplace and learning space design have more in common than you think”: CDA International
CDA International weigh in on the need for agile and versatile offices and classrooms. They delve into suitable fit-outs that can cater to the changing and varied requirements of users within both these contexts.
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Let the gaming begin: Design Shop’s workspace for Ubisoft, Canada
Design Shop presents an inventive workspace for Ubisoft. Located in the Historic Exchange District of Winnipeg, this workspace amalgamates historical charm, local narrative and modern design elements to reimagine office design.
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Tonal restraint in this calm Melbourne office by Fender Katsalidis
The new Melbourne headquarters of Holder East at 170 Queen Street offers a unique blend of tranquillity and sophistication in the CBD. Designed by Fender Katsalidis, the office aims to be a calm sanctuary amid the urban hustle.
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It’s all in the hospitality: The Great Room makes its Australian debut with Sydney coworking space
Coworking spaces continues to grow in line with demand in Australia. The hospitality-led coworking space, The Great Room, has recently launched its first Australian location in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.
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Studio Bipolar delivers Media Monks a new, vibrant workplace
Nestled within a lushly vegetated garden, the Media Monks Campus in India spans 100,000 square feet of dynamic, modern workspace that reflects the team’s youthful energy.
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Dyson converted the St James Power Station into its global headquarters
Can innovation be facilitated in a building that’s a relic of a bygone era? It’s a question Dyson and M Moser considered, with elegantly seamless results.
Events
Workplace design firm Conexus Studio offers its office for takeover
The award-winning design firm is providing a unique opportunity for businesses seeking an exceptional workspace without the hassle of designing and renovating from scratch.
Articles
The ever-shifting landscape of work
How can we build more flexible spaces? How do we pre-emptively adapt to the demands of the future? Workspace proposes a new way forward.
Ideas
10 key drivers shaping workplace design in Asia
Insights and predictions for what work will look like in Asia for 2023 and beyond.
VIC
Modern industrial: Kane Constructions’ new office by ARM Architecture
ARM Architecture took inspiration from Kane Constructions’ gritty urban surrounds to deliver a dynamic workplace as exciting as it is functional.
Articles
What can a touchdown workspace do for you?
Explore the radical new organisation strategy which accommodates for the hybrid future of work.
Project
Monumental and intimate: John Wardle Architects in Ballarat
As featured in Indesign issue #87, the centre for civic life in Ballarat is a complex project that delivers a community hub, workspaces and an architectural destination.
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Living the studio life: Bengaluru workspace design
Designing a new workplace for its own practice, Taliesyn incorporates all its forward thinking biophilic ideas and more in Taliesyn Studio. This is a place to work and thrive, a home that nurtures and sustains design for both clients and staff.
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Taliesyn practises what it preaches with its sustainably designed studio
Designing a new workplace for its own practice, Taliesyn incorporates all its forward thinking biophilic ideas and more in Taliesyn Studio. This is a place to work and thrive and a home that nurtures and sustains design for both clients and staff.
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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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Bean Buro creates a playful and porous workplace within Unicorn Stores headquarters
Drawing on traditional Japanese architecture as well as the designers’ own international backgrounds, Bean Buro has created an interior office space with a distinctly modern atmosphere.
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Cocooned in green – Irving Smith Architects’ new bespoke office
Would you love to work here? We certainly would! Discover the highly sustainable and functional offices of New Zealand firm Irving Smith Architects.
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The Work Space shortlist for 2022 INDE.Awards
Workplaces are evolving and, in this year’s INDE.Awards, there are offices that showcase just what is expected in the new office environment. Fit-for-every purpose, these offices are homes away from home, with every amenity to sustain a working life.
Events
Workspace and polytec’s latest launch: The Forza Collection
During a marvellous event, celebrating the return of in-person activities, Workspace revealed their latest product collection Forza, in collaboration with polytec.
Ideas
Is the clubhouse the next workspace and learning space?
What is the purpose of a clubhouse? COMODO Interior & Furniture Design gives new meaning to this social space through its Artisan Garden Clubhouse project.
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Templewell brings home into office for Expedia Group
There is a shift in what we perceive the Australian workplace to be; no longer just a place of work, but a second home. Inspired by the region’s connection to the coastal landscape, Templewell has brought the outside in.
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Steelcase WorkLife showroom puts hybrid working into motion
Steelcase’s new Melbourne WorkLife showroom is a workspace that puts product into action, exploring the possibilities of hybrid working.
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Staff well-being drives the design direction of T Office
For T Office, Right Angle Studio draws on the concept of a home office, illustrating a clean yet functional design for employees to enjoy.
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Greg Natale’s Cotton On campus makes work look like luxury
What would entice you back into the office? For the Cotton On campus in Geelong, Australia, Greg Natale solves the dilemma with a set of luxe and soulful facilities. Work never looked so good!
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Evans Lee Design’s office focuses on art and people
Evans Lee Design’s new workspace in Guangzhou is a minimal, labyrinthine space that eschews the formality of typical office culture.
Ideas
Work reset: What is the future of work?
The pandemic-driven disruption of how we work has been painful for both companies and employees. But it is also providing an opportunity for everyone to recalibrate how we want the future of work to look like.
Furniture
5 great solutions for a flexible office space
A flexible workplace is ready to support employees as their tasks and focuses change. It has to be fit-out accordingly to address the needs of the modern workforce.
Project
PwC SEA Experience Centre breaks the design mould in branding and workplace efficiency
PwC South East Asia Consulting’s Experience Centre by Siren Design presents a dynamic interior of spatial and technological cohesion.
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Wilmar Headquarters: A workplace that focuses on community and well-being
By domesticating the office and setting employees at ease with a wellness-oriented approach, the Wilmar International Headquarters design proves that the workplace can become a place of comfort and inspiration that people would want to return to.
News
SLAB dreams big for tomorrow’s Social Office to win Herman Miller’s design challenge
SLAB wins Work, Redefined – The Design Challenge with a Kit Of Pods for the Social Office. This 3-D printed off-the-shelf product is both a solution and a strategy that puts people at the centre of the new socially-driven workplace.
Articles
Finding furniture that fits amongst home and office
As working between home and the office becomes more commonplace, we now need to find furniture that supports us within both environments.
Articles
Workspace celebrates 110 years as a furniture luminary
No one lasts 110 years in the furniture industry without continually refining and creating premium furniture products. In 2021, Workspace celebrate 110 years of being in practice, and are showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Project
A fashion-forward and technologically driven workplace for a fashion company
An interplay of dualities, Bestseller’s new Shanghai workspace offers a rose-tinted perspective on the future of fashion.
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The Workshop @ Lavender gives new meaning to co-working space
What are the real benefits of co-working spaces? The Workshop @ Lavender elevates the conversation beyond form and smart colour use to address light, space and an acute appreciation for the user.
Workplace
Can commercial tenancies facilitate workplace flexibility?
Looking beyond the standard rental agreements of the past, Space&CO. are opting to bring options to the table previously unseen for office tenants.
People
Siren Design’s human-centric approach in workspaces
Siren Design’s progressive and unequivocally cool workspaces are grounded by a belief in designing for community and context. It is all the more relevant in our isolating pandemic circumstances, asserts its Singapore managing director Penny Sloane.
Articles
Step into the virtual world to create the ideal office
Paving the way for the post-pandemic office is Wilkhahn. With their new study, ‘Human Centered Workplace,’ the global company provides powerful insights on the new era of work through a range of products designed to encourage growth and productivity in the evolving workplace.
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?
Furniture
Work and the workplace: It’s a brave new world
One year later, flexible work is practically the status quo. Despite this, the office still matters, says Gensler’s David Calkins. Here’s why.
Articles
The worldwide study on the post-pandemic workplace
A comprehensive survey conducted by Steelcase has birthed the ‘Global Report: Changing Expectations and the Future of Work.’ We take a look at the results.
Articles
More connection, less contact with Orangebox
Workplace Design in Post-Pandemic Times.
Articles
Reinventing the wheel of furniture for aged care
With an increasing need for premium health environments, Workspace offers bespoke and standard furniture options readymade for innovative spaces.
Articles
Announcing the 2020 Workspace Awards Shortlist!
Since 2017, the Workspace Awards have been a highlight on Australia’s design calendar, celebrating interior design, and showcasing the finest work in our community.
Ideas
Time to rethink workspace strategies
The events of the past months have forced a rethink of existing workspace ideals. How will we adapt current strategies in workplace design for our new future?
Articles
Extraordinary aged care environments with Workspace
Australian furniture company, Workspace Commercial Furniture brings their expertise in inspiring furniture to the Aged Care and Allied Health environments.
Articles
Ergonomic design for modern offices
From Spanish design group Forma 5 comes the Dot.Pro Chair, inspired by ergonomic design in every aspect, and with effortless style.
Ideas
A Closeness In Distance
As March draws to a close and we begin a new month, Sue Davis talk with Simone Oliver, Principal and Sector Leader Interior Architecture at Architectus, about their transition to WFH and the future of their culture.
People
The Cloud: Foolscap’s new base reveals a distinctly collaborative spirit in the heart of Melbourne’s design community
After 10 years, multi-disciplinary design studio Foolscap Studio needed a change. After spending years in an office in the hubbub of Melbourne’s CBD, the team was long-ready to find a peaceful new home from which it could expand on its already impressive resume of projects.
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Russell & George On Its Futuristic, Multi-Award-Winning Space & Time Fit-Out
The Work Space is one of the most tightly contested categories in the INDE.Awards. Which is why Russell & George’s self-designed North Melbourne studio was such a worthy winner in 2019.
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Russell & George on its futuristic, multi-award winning Space & Time fit-out
The Work Space is one of the most tightly contested categories in the INDE.Awards. Which is why Russell & George’s self-designed North Melbourne studio was such a worthy winner in 2019.
Articles
Announcing the 2019 Workspace Awards winners!
Going from strength to strength, the 2019 Workspace Awards saw the most exciting submissions in the history of the program, and here’s who took home gold…
Articles
Announcing the 2019 Workspace awards shortlist
The Workspace Awards are an annual highlight of the design awards calendar, and these are your 2019 shortlist entrants.
Articles
Pedrali showcases @ NeoCon 2019 for the first time
Pedrali put its best foot forward with its latest collection of modern office furniture at one of the commercial design industry’s most popular design fairs.
News
Where is the best office in the region? Well … here it is!
Asia Pacific boasts some of the world’s leading commercial environments. But is there one that truly stands out as an exemplar? The INDE.Awards says YES!
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Where Is The Best Office In The Region? Well … Here It Is!
Asia Pacific boasts some of the world’s leading commercial environments. But is there one that truly stands out as an exemplar? The INDE.Awards says YES!
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Code Space: A Tribute To Thailand’s Sacred Mountain
Drawing inspiration from its scenic location, a software design company headquarters designed by Chiangmai-based studio Full Scale Studio manages to both stand out yet also remain in harmony with its neighbours.
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Futurespace Breaks Traditional Barriers At Savills’ New Sydney Workspace
Designed by Futurespace, the design strategy for Savills new Sydney digs was influenced by ABW methods, allowing for the breakdown of both physical and communication barriers to enable a more coherent, collaborative, team-accessible workplace.
Dissections
BEON Energy Solutions (Powercor CitiPower) by Siren Design
What are the principles and strategies behind designing for incidental staff collisions and chance encounters? Siren Design maps out its creative thinking and approach for Powercor CitiPower’s BEON Energy Solutions, Melbourne: a purpose built workplace which encourages its staff to ‘interact’ and ‘collide’.
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Future-Proofing Is All About Solid Adaptive Re-Use
A century-old woolstore is redeveloped for another 100 years of use, ready for the new industries that emerge and develop in Pyrmont.
Furniture
Tom Dixon’s Vision Of How You’ll Work
As the make-up of the conventional office phases out to cater to new working practices, Tom Dixon’s inaugural workplace collection aims to point the way forward with functional, versatile and considerate details.
People
In Conversation: Artlink Design Associates
Michael Lam talks about changing attitudes and behaviours in the workplace, and their impact on spatial design.
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A Place for Creative Encounters
Singapore-based design studio Asylum designs a co-working environment suited for innovators from all industries. Olha Romaniuk writes.
Furniture
Natural Sitting With the Fern Chair
When we think about ‘seating’, we often think of an object: something tactile and physical. Yet when we think about ‘sitting’, we think about an organic action, comfort, and relaxation. Haworth’s Fern chair reworks traditional design with a focus on sitting, rather than seating.
Furniture
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Harbor Work Lounge
Nicolai Czumaj-Bront has worked with Haworth as an industrial designer since 2005, and is now currently Haworth’s Design Lead for Europe. Having grown up in a creative household, he strives to design product solutions with an emphasis on translating the abstract into something tangible.
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A New Office for Art Basel
OpenUU creates a raw, flexible space for the art event organiser’s base in Hong Kong.
Furniture
Workspace Productivity Tools from Integ
Modtec design and manufacture the Integ range of workspace productivity tools