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Sydney Water’s rejuvenated headquarters is an urban watering hole designed by GroupGSA

Sydney Water’s rejuvenated headquarters is an urban watering hole designed by GroupGSA

Drawing on the concept of a watering hole as a gathering place in nature, GroupGSA has rejuvenated Sydney Water’s headquarters located in Parramatta.

It’s design festival season! Melbourne Design Week asks us to ‘Design the world you want’

It’s design festival season! Melbourne Design Week asks us to ‘Design the world you want’

With over 300 events planned, the eighth edition promises another marathon week of design and its theme is at once a proposition of hope and an urgent call-to-arms.

Radical logics of connectedness and circular economy with Chris Fox

Radical logics of connectedness and circular economy with Chris Fox

We sat down with Chris Fox to speculate on the future of regenerative architecture, circular economy and experimenting with vegetation in and on buildings.

Today Design, tomorrow the zero-waste workplace

Today Design, tomorrow the zero-waste workplace

In a veritable feast of recycled material, modular efficiency and functional flexibility, Studio Edwards has designed a zero-waste workplace for Today Design.

Comment: Tilt’s top three sustainability priorities for 2024

Comment: Tilt’s top three sustainability priorities for 2024

In this comment piece, Tim Phillips, Managing and Creative Director of Tilt Industrial Design, identifies three key initiatives for sustainability in 2024.

Office agility at Cox Architecture’s Midtown Workplace

Office agility at Cox Architecture’s Midtown Workplace

Midtown Workplace is an agile 20,000-square-metre workplace spanning nine levels and merging two commercial towers in Brisbane.

Masti Dubai 2.0: A chaos of colour and delight

Masti Dubai 2.0: A chaos of colour and delight

Studio Lotus has brought vivacity and luxury sass to this redesign of a Dubai hotel hospitality spot

Buchan aims to deliver “a renewed sense of optimism” at Invercargill Central

Buchan aims to deliver “a renewed sense of optimism” at Invercargill Central

Invercargill Central has been redeveloped by Buchan with a focus on retail, hospitality, civic, entertainment and commercial zones, all intricately connected by pedestrian pathways.

Buildings Breakthrough at COP28: Q&A with David Ness

Buildings Breakthrough at COP28: Q&A with David Ness

UniSA Professor David Ness played a key role in a UN report on CO2 emissions relating to buildings, construction and urban growth which underpins the Buildings Breakthrough official launch at COP28 in Dubai.

The theatre that became an office at Watt St Commercial

The theatre that became an office at Watt St Commercial

CKDS has created distinctive new office space in Newcastle’s CBD following the adaptive reuse of what was previously a theatre.

Building a culture of product stewardship: Cultivated 10 years on

Building a culture of product stewardship: Cultivated 10 years on

In 2013 Cultivated launched as a restoration service, today it is a full-service product stewardship business, buying back, refurbishing and recycling authentic design pieces. In this article we continue the conversation around whole-of-lifecycle-furniture.

Leopold Banchini profile: A sense of place from Sydney to Switzerland

Leopold Banchini profile: A sense of place from Sydney to Switzerland

Leopold Banchini is nothing if not internationally mobile. So how does this architect, whose Marramarra Shack has recently been turnings heads in Australia and around the world, build authentic connections to places as far apart as Sydney, Lisbon and Bahrain?