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The design, with Venetian-inspired courtyards and flamboyant neo-gothic flourishes, transforms the precinct into a city within a city.

Queen and Collins by Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN

With precision and nuance, Kerstin Thompson Architects and BVN have come together to create a benchmark workplace and urban project that celebrates and re-energizes the iconic Gothic Bank Complex in Melbourne’s CBD.

Commercial
At ground floor, an informal meeting space with timber pods encourages collaboration.

Industrious detailing: Alfred Stables

Architects EAT has reinvented a 150-year-old three-storey factory at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital into a dynamic and adaptive workplace for 150 administrative staff, all while celebrating the existing building fabric.

Commercial
Carefully considered openings in the glass brick walls promote cross-ventilation and direct engagement with outside activity.

A tough little building with a big civic heart

This office building by Clare Cousins Architects glows as a beacon of utilitarian elegance amidst the industrial lowlands of Collingwood.

Commercial
The windows are double-framed, making the glazing blast-proof in the unlikely event of an explosion at the nearby port.

A deceptively simple cafe: Gathered

Designed by Ewert Leaf, this pared-back and striking cafe in Melbourne’s Footscray belies a host of logistical and functional solutions to manage its portside setting.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors
Pinboards running the length of the office are essential to the team’s design process, encouraging dialogue and acting as a communication mechanism for staff.

Work wonders: Techne Studio

For its new home in Melbourne’s Carlton, Techne Architecture and Interior Design has created a workplace expressed as a venue for creative production.

Interiors
Spotted gum and cedar are used in the reception area, including a signature circular pattern perforated across standout panels of the gum.

Victorian Auditor-General’s Office

Baumgart Clark Architects has created an office environment in Melbourne that exudes gravitas and dignity, but also prioritizes wireless and paperless technology.

Interiors
The brief required a coworking venue offering a range of different workspaces.

Work smarter: Building No. 2

The sturdy blockwork and steel-framed windows of this mid-century industrial building in Melbourne give little clue to its rich history, but Wolveridge Architects has celebrated its past in a reimagined coworking space.

Interiors
Theatrical curtains allow the house to be switched from work mode to home mode, adding a sense of the domestic to the workplace but also a sense of drama to the home.

Playfully accessible: Frenches Interior

Sibling Architecture strikes a good balance between function and delight in this accessible home office in inner-city Melbourne.

Interiors
Two-part copper and timber doors, based on a Mexican cathedral, make for a grand and dramatic entry to the QT Melbourne hotel.

A fine pairing: 131 Russell Street and 478 George Street

Two new towers by Candalepas Associates, the hotel QT Melbourne on Russell Street and the AHL Headquarters on George Street in Sydney, complement the existing fabric of the city with compositional finesse.

Commercial, Hospitality
106 Flinders Street is a residential-like space in which the client can work, meet and entertain.

Comforting seamlessness: 106 Flinders Street

Bates Smart has rethought the conventional workplace in its design of an office for an architectural physicist in Melbourne’s CBD.

Interiors
Strong sight lines allow vignettes of activity to be reciprocally glimpsed between the zones.

‘Transformational architecture’: Clemenger BBDO Melbourne

Finding inspiration from constraint, Powell and Glenn has taken a modest budget and turned the Melbourne offices of creative agency Clemenger BBDO into a perfect integration of stillness and energy.

Interiors
Western BACE provides startup companies with offices, a cafe, meeting rooms, a space for anchor tenants and a separate workshop.

De Stijl accelerator: Western BACE

Six Degrees Architects references De Stijl and late modernism in its design of this business accelerator for the burgeoning community of Melton, west of Melbourne.

Commercial
Star turn: Napoleon Perdis Chapel

Star turn: Napoleon Perdis Chapel

Make-up entrepreneur Napoleon Perdis commissioned Studiobird to design an interior for his new South Yarra concept store that includes cosmetics, a foray into lifestyle retailing and a make-up academy.

Interiors
The boardroom, located opposite reception, is a comfortable place to host clients and meetings.

Concrete theatre: Wolfdene

Young design practice Larritt-Evans has capitalized on the concrete materiality of an existing tenancy in Melbourne, crafting an impressive new face for property developer Wolfdene.

Interiors
Natural light reaches deep into the building through the atrium.

Freedom at work: Medibank Place

With the aspiration to create one of the healthiest headquarters in the world, Medibank enlisted multidisciplinary design firm Hassell to create a head office where employees have freedom to choose how and where they work.

Commercial, Interiors
The central atrium redefines the height at which a vertical void can be used to connect a workspace while remaining humane and legible.

Healthy ambition: Medibank Place

Hassell’s new headquarters for healthcare giant Medibank delivers a vibrant and health-centred workplace while being a hospitable neighbour to stadium-goers.

Commercial, Public / cultural
The L-shaped cafe and hub space encourages staff collaboration.

Ideas exchange: CHE Proximity

Designed by Bates Smart, this new Melbourne workplace for creative agency CHE Proximity is textured and personable, encouraging staff to interact and share ideas.

Interiors
Lyons’ 41X in Melbourne – a hybrid public–commercial building that serves as a new public face for the Australian Institute of Architects.

When “little becomes big”: 41X

The Melbourne home of the Australian Institute of Architects speaks of the integral role of the architecture profession in the future of Australia’s cities.

Commercial
The Bunker houses two companies on the upper level. On entering the building company's side of the office, visitors are greeted with a palette of concrete and plywood.

Blackwood Street Bunker

Dubbed ‘The Bunker,’ this shared workplace gives new purpose to a building “only an architect could love.”

Interiors
The murals provide visual respite for the staff who spend much of their time on the phone.

CBA Customer Service Centre

Davenport Campbell (interiors) and graphic agency Frost Design make a vibrant Melbourne workplace.

Interiors
The art collection: (L–R) Clifton Mack, Dawsons Well 1, 2011; and Tim Johnson’s, Lakota, 1989; Platte River, 1989; Red Mt Meru, 2000; and Justine.

Allens Linklaters

BVN Architecture’s finely balanced fitout for legal practice Allens Linklaters.

Interiors
The offers a wide variety of work settings.

Hub Melbourne

An office by Hassell with spaces designed to be bustling, relaxed and easily adapted.

Commercial, Interiors
Concrete wrapped in polycarbonate refinished in dichroic coating.

National Centre for Synchrotron Science

Bates Smart’s National Centre for Synchrotron Science in Melbourne creates the conditions in which to see.

Commercial
Outside looking in: the studio in an orchard at Officer, Victoria.

Branch Studio

A tiny studio in an orchard in Officer, Victoria, is base camp for Branch Studio Architects.

Commercial
Rebranding included external, reception and way-finding elements.

Norton Rose

Carr Design Group’s refit of Norton Rose’s reception in Melbourne takes rebranding to a new level.

Interiors
Skilled Medical

Skilled Medical

Hola Projects used salvaged materials from a previous fitout to create a workplace in warm tones with real character.

Interiors
Meeting zones are lined with environmentally friendly EchoPanels.

Plus Architecture’s offices

The Plus Architecture team’s design for its own offices.

Interiors
Colour has been used throughout to identify functional areas.

Centre for Adult Education in Melbourne

Tasteful and universal, Gray Puksand’s interiors for the CAE, in Melbourne, include layers that reference the street below.

Education, Interiors
Reception to the university’s Central Clinical School on level 6.

Monash Uni’s medical teaching facilities

Bates Smart’s highly complex interior is flexible and appealing.

Education, Health, Interiors
The curved meeting room in the lift lobby is more like the lobby of a boutique hotel.

9. Yarra

A Melbourne office tower by Bird de la Coeur melds weekday work with weekend style.

Interiors