ADR catches up with global director and education sector leader at Woods Bagot, Georgia Singleton, to find out the biggest challenges that architects are facing and how the design of educational institutions is evolving. What does a ‘typical’ day look like in your role as global leader of Science and Education? The only consistency is […]
Woods Bagot has designed a 20-storey mixed-use development that is made up of specialist apartments for people living with a disability and retirement living apartments. Located along the river bank in Adelaide’s CBD, U City has been designed for Uniting Communities, which works across South Australia through more than 90 community service programs. The building features a function […]
Woods Bagot has designed the newly opened riverside pier as part of the Rockhampton Riverside Precinct, a project to revitalise the riverside district of the rural Queensland city. The practice chose materials that nod to the community’s historical past of gold, silver and copper mining and to signify a new age of economic and cultural growth after the […]
Australia’s diverse population and architects’ increasing work in different countries suggest that speaking different languages is a career boost. But practices looking to their bilingual staff overseas need them to also have design skills and be steeped in the firm’s culture. How important is it for architects to speak a language other than English when […]
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