In Melbourne and want to get a first-hand look at some great architecture?
The Hester Hornbrook Academy City Campus on Exhibition Street is opening its doors for Open House Melbourne @openhousemelb on Saturday 25 July. Running tours and a panel discussion, this Gray Puksand designed project has transformed two levels of a former CBD office building into a vibrant, wellbeing-led learning environment for young people who have faced barriers to education. It’s a powerful example of how adaptive reuse can reimagine surplus commercial space into meaningful infrastructure.
This year’s MOH theme is Generous City which explores how design, creativity and architecture can foster openness, care and possibility.
Tickets available soon
First release: 12pm Wednesday 1 July
Second release :10am Saturday 4 July
Book tickets to reserve your spot.
In Melbourne and want to get a first-hand look at some great architecture?
The Hester Hornbrook Academy City Campus on Exhibition Street is opening its doors for Open House Melbourne @openhousemelb on Saturday 25 July. Running tours and a panel discussion, this Gray Puksand designed project has transformed two levels of a former CBD office building into a vibrant, wellbeing-led learning environment for young people who have faced barriers to education. It’s a powerful example of how adaptive reuse can reimagine surplus commercial space into meaningful infrastructure.
This year’s MOH theme is Generous City which explores how design, creativity and architecture can foster openness, care and possibility.
Tickets available soon
First release: 12pm Wednesday 1 July
Second release :10am Saturday 4 July
Book tickets to reserve your spot.
Gray Puksand was invited to redesign existing infrastructure at the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne, delivering flexible, multi-use training kitchens including the Learning Commons, Chef’s Table, Super Kitchen and Kitchen 3, comprising 48 student cooking stations. The spaces reflect the William Angliss brand and replicate real-life workplaces, which lead to stronger graduate outcomes.
Integrated digital technology supports visual learning alongside hands-on training, creating a blended learning environment that enhances program delivery and collaboration across food, drink, cookery and dining disciplines.
This project is one of multiple Gray Puksand have delivered for the William Angliss Institute, including the street level Tram Cafe, and the chocolateria and gelateria training facility in the same complex.
📸 @tatjanaplitt
Gray Puksand was invited to redesign existing infrastructure at the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne, delivering flexible, multi-use training kitchens including the Learning Commons, Chef’s Table, Super Kitchen and Kitchen 3, comprising 48 student cooking stations. The spaces reflect the William Angliss brand and replicate real-life workplaces, which lead to stronger graduate outcomes.
Integrated digital technology supports visual learning alongside hands-on training, creating a blended learning environment that enhances program delivery and collaboration across food, drink, cookery and dining disciplines.
This project is one of multiple Gray Puksand have delivered for the William Angliss Institute, including the street level Tram Cafe, and the chocolateria and gelateria training facility in the same complex.
📸 @tatjanaplitt
Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and support local communities.
The centres are designed around a series of architectural principles which reflect their function. The forms are designed with simplicity of design and construction using a series of modular elements.
Key facade elements are accentuated through scale and material composition to create an architecture in the round. These elements highlight key entries and create a sense of hierarchy in the built forms.
Materials and colours reflect the regional context drawing upon natural landscape elements and the muted colour palette of the Victorian Riverina and Goldfields regions. These help to embed the centres and create a strong connection to place.
📸 @tomroe__
Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and support local communities.
The centres are designed around a series of architectural principles which reflect their function. The forms are designed with simplicity of design and construction using a series of modular elements.
Key facade elements are accentuated through scale and material composition to create an architecture in the round. These elements highlight key entries and create a sense of hierarchy in the built forms.
Materials and colours reflect the regional context drawing upon natural landscape elements and the muted colour palette of the Victorian Riverina and Goldfields regions. These help to embed the centres and create a strong connection to place.
📸 @tomroe__
Gray Puksand Wins Top Architectural Honours in Canberra for CIT Woden
CIT Woden, designed by Gray Puksand has been recognised with three major honours at the @institute_architects_aus ACT Awards, including the Enrico Taglietti Award for Educational Architecture, the Interior Architecture Award and a Social Impact Prize. CIT brings learning, student accommodation and transport together in a connected civic precinct.
The 22,500m2 6 Star Greenstar Design accredited building is constructed with Australian sustainably sourced timber, all electric facilities and welcomes some 5000 students to participate in a range of vocational training opportunities from hairdressing to technology studies to sound engineering.
Designed in close partnership with @citcanberra, @lendlease, Infrastructure Canberra @wearecbr and cultural advisers @yerrabingin , it supports learning, access and community in a way that reflects the evolving relationship between cities and education.
We are extremely honoured to be recognised for our work on this project and congratulate the entire team, especially John Czechowski, Paulina Markos, and Solven Bisceglia, Partner In Charge, Barry Hackett and Lead Partner (ACT) Amanda Fyfe.
Image Credit: @brettboardmanphotography, @matthewsherrenphotography
Gray Puksand Wins Top Architectural Honours in Canberra for CIT Woden
CIT Woden, designed by Gray Puksand has been recognised with three major honours at the @institute_architects_aus ACT Awards, including the Enrico Taglietti Award for Educational Architecture, the Interior Architecture Award and a Social Impact Prize. CIT brings learning, student accommodation and transport together in a connected civic precinct.
The 22,500m2 6 Star Greenstar Design accredited building is constructed with Australian sustainably sourced timber, all electric facilities and welcomes some 5000 students to participate in a range of vocational training opportunities from hairdressing to technology studies to sound engineering.
Designed in close partnership with @citcanberra, @lendlease, Infrastructure Canberra @wearecbr and cultural advisers @yerrabingin , it supports learning, access and community in a way that reflects the evolving relationship between cities and education.
We are extremely honoured to be recognised for our work on this project and congratulate the entire team, especially John Czechowski, Paulina Markos, and Solven Bisceglia, Partner In Charge, Barry Hackett and Lead Partner (ACT) Amanda Fyfe.
Image Credit: @brettboardmanphotography, @matthewsherrenphotography
379 Collins Street elevates place and aesthetic through architectural transparency that reveals the building’s original heritage while establishing a meticulously crafted arrival experience. Gray Puksand led the architectural vision to position the lobby as a civic interior—open, light filled and closely attuned to its prominent Collins Street address and broader city context.
Working in close partnership with @studiotate and @riverleegroup, the design establishes a considered dialogue between façade and interior, with a glazed atrium defined early as the project’s architectural centrepiece. Within this framework, Studio Tate’s interior concept draws on the civility and calm of an orangery, shaping a layered journey from the external footpath through to the elevated lift lobby, enriched by daylight, integrated planting and a warm, composed palette of natural materials. This continuity reinforces clarity between existing and new, delivering a space where civic generosity and enduring asset quality are equally resolved.
📸 @blachford
379 Collins Street elevates place and aesthetic through architectural transparency that reveals the building’s original heritage while establishing a meticulously crafted arrival experience. Gray Puksand led the architectural vision to position the lobby as a civic interior—open, light filled and closely attuned to its prominent Collins Street address and broader city context.
Working in close partnership with @studiotate and @riverleegroup, the design establishes a considered dialogue between façade and interior, with a glazed atrium defined early as the project’s architectural centrepiece. Within this framework, Studio Tate’s interior concept draws on the civility and calm of an orangery, shaping a layered journey from the external footpath through to the elevated lift lobby, enriched by daylight, integrated planting and a warm, composed palette of natural materials. This continuity reinforces clarity between existing and new, delivering a space where civic generosity and enduring asset quality are equally resolved.
📸 @blachford
At Greenway Views Seniors’ Living Village in Canberra, we applied the thinking shared in our Designing the Future of Senior Living white paper to a real, complex project.
Working with Cromwell Property and LDK Healthcare, the Gray Puksand team reimagined five former government buildings into a connected community supporting ageing in place across the full spectrum of care. The goal was to create a place that feels like home, not a facility.
Key decisions were guided by daily life, and apartments were designed to support resident independence.
Colour was used deliberately to aid navigation and reduce dementia related agitation. Materials and lighting were selected for warmth, familiarity and clarity.
The resulting accommodation is a place where residents can live with dignity and freedom, and ultimately, an improved quality of life.
At Greenway Views Seniors’ Living Village in Canberra, we applied the thinking shared in our Designing the Future of Senior Living white paper to a real, complex project.
Working with Cromwell Property and LDK Healthcare, the Gray Puksand team reimagined five former government buildings into a connected community supporting ageing in place across the full spectrum of care. The goal was to create a place that feels like home, not a facility.
Key decisions were guided by daily life, and apartments were designed to support resident independence.
Colour was used deliberately to aid navigation and reduce dementia related agitation. Materials and lighting were selected for warmth, familiarity and clarity.
The resulting accommodation is a place where residents can live with dignity and freedom, and ultimately, an improved quality of life.
Gray Puksand’s Digital Design Technology team is testing and implementing early stage carbon insight workflows using Autodesk Forma, exploring embodied carbon, operational carbon and energy use intensity from the very beginning of a project. By modeling early-stage carbon insights, we are able to make more informed decisions around sustainable architecture.
By using the digital models already developed during concept and schematic design, teams can see how key choices around massing, materials and façades impact performance while design options are still flexible.
The result? Carbon and performance become part of everyday design conversations, and not a late stage compliance exercise to help project teams and clients make more informed decisions from day one.
Gray Puksand’s Digital Design Technology team is testing and implementing early stage carbon insight workflows using Autodesk Forma, exploring embodied carbon, operational carbon and energy use intensity from the very beginning of a project. By modeling early-stage carbon insights, we are able to make more informed decisions around sustainable architecture.
By using the digital models already developed during concept and schematic design, teams can see how key choices around massing, materials and façades impact performance while design options are still flexible.
The result? Carbon and performance become part of everyday design conversations, and not a late stage compliance exercise to help project teams and clients make more informed decisions from day one.
Gray Puksand welcomes the announcement construction has commenced on EPEC’s new 100 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane headquarters.
This necessary relocation due to EPEC’s continued growth will see a total of 3450+sqm refurbished to reflect EPEC’s corporate values, and employee-centric workspace requirements.
Following a workplace strategy engagement, and drawing inspiration from EPEC’s brand, Gray Puksand has created a workplace concept that positions EPEC as Australia’s renewable energy grid connector.
Inspired by the concept of light, the design uses light as a dynamic material that shapes the workplace experience through its reflection, transmission, and absorption. This approach creates a highly connected, adaptable, and energised environment that embodies EPEC’s role in enabling the flow of renewable energy across Australia.
See renders of the library, breakout space and staff lockers as this project comes to life.
@Gallagherjeffs
@plangroup_australia
Evolve Engineering
#InteriorDesignBrisbane #GrayPuksand #EPEC #WorkplaceDesign #ConstructionCommenced #AustralianDesign #Architecture #ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitectureProject #Design #ArchDesign #InteriorDesign
Gray Puksand welcomes the announcement construction has commenced on EPEC’s new 100 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane headquarters.
This necessary relocation due to EPEC’s continued growth will see a total of 3450+sqm refurbished to reflect EPEC’s corporate values, and employee-centric workspace requirements.
Following a workplace strategy engagement, and drawing inspiration from EPEC’s brand, Gray Puksand has created a workplace concept that positions EPEC as Australia’s renewable energy grid connector.
Inspired by the concept of light, the design uses light as a dynamic material that shapes the workplace experience through its reflection, transmission, and absorption. This approach creates a highly connected, adaptable, and energised environment that embodies EPEC’s role in enabling the flow of renewable energy across Australia.
See renders of the library, breakout space and staff lockers as this project comes to life.
@Gallagherjeffs
@plangroup_australia
Evolve Engineering
#InteriorDesignBrisbane #GrayPuksand #EPEC #WorkplaceDesign #ConstructionCommenced #AustralianDesign #Architecture #ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitectureProject #Design #ArchDesign #InteriorDesign
Designing for senior living means understanding more than buildings.
Our Seniors Living team understands how ageing, dementia and care are closely linked with the built environment. That understanding comes from specialist training undertaken by team members with Dementia Australia and hands on experience with the realities faced by residents, families and care teams.
We’ve strengthened this capability further through early access assessment audits, allowing our teams to identify risks, ask better questions, and design with greater confidence from the outset.
This reflects the outcome of our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living and how design can support dignity, independence and wellbeing over time.
Read the white paper via our link in bio.
Designing for senior living means understanding more than buildings.
Our Seniors Living team understands how ageing, dementia and care are closely linked with the built environment. That understanding comes from specialist training undertaken by team members with Dementia Australia and hands on experience with the realities faced by residents, families and care teams.
We’ve strengthened this capability further through early access assessment audits, allowing our teams to identify risks, ask better questions, and design with greater confidence from the outset.
This reflects the outcome of our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living and how design can support dignity, independence and wellbeing over time.
Read the white paper via our link in bio.
Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and support local communities.
The centres are designed around a series of architectural principles which reflect their function. The forms are designed with simplicity of design and construction using a series of modular elements.
Key facade elements are accentuated through scale and material composition to create an architecture in the round. These elements highlight key entries and create a sense of hierarchy in the built forms.
Materials and colours reflect the regional context drawing upon natural landscape elements and the muted colour palette of the Victorian Riverina and Goldfields regions. These help to embed the centres and create a strong connection to place.
Photographer: @tomroe__
Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and support local communities.
The centres are designed around a series of architectural principles which reflect their function. The forms are designed with simplicity of design and construction using a series of modular elements.
Key facade elements are accentuated through scale and material composition to create an architecture in the round. These elements highlight key entries and create a sense of hierarchy in the built forms.
Materials and colours reflect the regional context drawing upon natural landscape elements and the muted colour palette of the Victorian Riverina and Goldfields regions. These help to embed the centres and create a strong connection to place.
Photographer: @tomroe__
Senior living shouldn’t feel institutional, it should feel like home.
We still see environments shaped by compliance and efficiency than by the everyday experience of the people who live and work there.
The new Aged Care Act and National Design Guidelines have shifted this thinking, and has lead to Four Design Principles that center on the experience of the individual, not the provider. This starts with enabling the person, cultivating a true sense of home, ensure real access to nature and connecting people back to the community.
Success looks different when you design this way. Homes feel familiar and nature becomes integral to everyday life. Community connection is genuine and not symbolic.
When we start with people rather than systems, better design outcomes are achieved.
We’ve captured this thinking, and the practical lessons behind it, in our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living by Pragya Gupta our National Senior Living Lead.
Read more about the white paper via the link in our bio.
Senior living shouldn’t feel institutional, it should feel like home.
We still see environments shaped by compliance and efficiency than by the everyday experience of the people who live and work there.
The new Aged Care Act and National Design Guidelines have shifted this thinking, and has lead to Four Design Principles that center on the experience of the individual, not the provider. This starts with enabling the person, cultivating a true sense of home, ensure real access to nature and connecting people back to the community.
Success looks different when you design this way. Homes feel familiar and nature becomes integral to everyday life. Community connection is genuine and not symbolic.
When we start with people rather than systems, better design outcomes are achieved.
We’ve captured this thinking, and the practical lessons behind it, in our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living by Pragya Gupta our National Senior Living Lead.
Read more about the white paper via the link in our bio.
This National Reconciliation Week 27 May – 3 June, the theme All In is a call for all Australians to commit to reconciliation wholeheartedly, not just during a week but every day.
At Gray Puksand, reconciliation is an ongoing commitment to listening, learning and strengthening relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, embedded across our practice.
To mark Reconciliation Week, we’re taking time to reflect, learn and connect through Cultural Appreciation training, the installation of our artwork Galyna Woka (Beautiful Land – Yorta Yorta) by @kinya_lerrk across our studios, the celebration of First Nations music artists, and participation in local Reconciliation Week events.
View the images to see our artwork created as part of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), followed by a range of projects designed with Country, community and collective intelligence.
Photographer: @tanikablair_photography (Dakabin Youth Hub); @tatjanaplitt (Medibank); @anthony_mckee_photo (Kitjara – The Gordon Institute)
Artists: Kinya Lerrk (Emma Bamblett and Megan Van Den berg)
This National Reconciliation Week 27 May – 3 June, the theme All In is a call for all Australians to commit to reconciliation wholeheartedly, not just during a week but every day.
At Gray Puksand, reconciliation is an ongoing commitment to listening, learning and strengthening relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, embedded across our practice.
To mark Reconciliation Week, we’re taking time to reflect, learn and connect through Cultural Appreciation training, the installation of our artwork Galyna Woka (Beautiful Land – Yorta Yorta) by @kinya_lerrk across our studios, the celebration of First Nations music artists, and participation in local Reconciliation Week events.
View the images to see our artwork created as part of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), followed by a range of projects designed with Country, community and collective intelligence.
Photographer: @tanikablair_photography (Dakabin Youth Hub); @tatjanaplitt (Medibank); @anthony_mckee_photo (Kitjara – The Gordon Institute)
Artists: Kinya Lerrk (Emma Bamblett and Megan Van Den berg)
