Australian Design Review’s regular round-up of appointments, promotions and other practice news in Australian architecture and design for September 2026. Appointments Architectus Strengthening its national design capability, Architectus has made a series of senior appointments across Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The appointments bring together established design leaders and emerging talent across Living, Infrastructure and Landscape […]
Two-thirds of the way down Bourke Street, in the pulsing professional services and finance heart of Melbourne’s central business district, you’ll find a robust brutalist office tower. Amid a sea of concrete, glass and steel towers that reach skyward like exalted totems of commerce, 500 Bourke Street stands out for two reasons. Firstly, it is […]
In late May, the Australian architecture and design community was abuzz with news that award-winning multidisciplinary practice FK would be designing the new Crystalbrook Hotel precinct in Canberra. Given the scale of the project, which will usher in a transformation of Canberra’s Garema Place and Bunda Street, Australian Design Review wanted to dive deeper into […]
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