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e Ware again grateful to RMIT for the opportunity to run a design studio in their Master of Architecture program this se...
16/03/2026

e Ware again grateful to RMIT for the opportunity to run a design studio in their Master of Architecture program this semester. Before the outcomes of our Museum of Weather reboot hit our feed, we wanted to share the work of our Major Project students from semester 2, 2025.

The first project, ‘42’, combined ambitious speculation, rigorous inquiry, and vivid imagining. Roberto Conde considered the early stages of human settlement on Mars, bringing together investigations of advanced technology, a spiritual and communal spatial imperative and the mitigation of extreme environmental forces within a closed economy.

The intriguing result was neither hi tech or sci-fi, a reflection on architectural culture or Martian vernacular; rather, it was a unique, intriguing product of all of these things. An architecture for extremes of environment and/or location, for whatever frontiers we can still find (and with the deterioration of our climate, of frontiers that are coming to us).

Carlos Daza on the other hand, offered a project that was an embodiment of joy, a full-throated expression of the city as a project of creative renewal. Set on the former site of the Little Saigon Market in Footscray, he challenged associations of urban youth with crime and fear, offering instead a riotous optimism of music, theatre and art. 

A reconfigurable container park – combining market stalls, street performance and art studios - forms an entry plaza to a theatre, rooftop bar and accommodation for a suite of creative residencies. Wound around this building, and unspooling from it, is a ribbon of perforated metal that traces access ramps and provides the perimeter to the ensemble. This gesture, ‘The Embrace’, is the name of the project and a declaration of its positive intent. 

Images:

42: View of Accommodation and Community Centre

42: Section through Accommodation and Community Centre 

42: Interior showing community facility

42: View of Horticultural facility

The Embrace: Birds-eye view of plaza during a market 

The Embrace: View of plaza during a concert 

The Embrace: View of theatre from Leeds Street

The Embrace: Interior of ‘in the round’ type theatre 

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InstagramWith the Carlise River bushfire now contained and the threat to communities within the Otway Ranges lessening, ...
09/02/2026

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With the Carlise River bushfire now contained and the threat to communities within the Otway Ranges lessening, we wanted to share a recently completed project within that beautiful forest park. An entry arch to the Forrest Mountain Bike Trails, it is a neat demonstration of our design process, a field of ideas and references that we bring to projects regardless of scale or complexity.

The double image of Cheviot Tunnel’s entry and exit, lifting David Lynch’s curtain in the forest, the transparent thinness of an empty billboard becoming more solid when seen obliquely, the arch glances across all of these references rather than setting itself on one. Threshold, moment and depth, all together.

The recent fires and the heatwaves that created and fed them, along with the unease of what February may bring, gives the arch’s contrasting colours of charred and raw timber an unintended effect. What was meant to edify the beauty of bushfire’s cyclical colours now seems a sombre testament to our failed stewardship, of this land and its creatures.

Project Photography: Fred Kroh

Other images:

Cheviot Tunnel, Yea

Still from Twin Peaks, entrance to the Black Lodge

Empty billboard

Area in recovery from bushfire, Forrest Mountain Bike Trails

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william barak_resting place… being in the yarra valley on this day it seemed fitting to pay respects to william barak at...
26/01/2026

william barak_resting place… being in the yarra valley on this day it seemed fitting to pay respects to william barak at the coranderrk aboriginal cemetery… acknowledge, mourn and reflect but then and only then look forward and celebrate

With their entwinement of physical presence and conceptual content, the works of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson have long...
20/01/2026

With their entwinement of physical presence and conceptual content, the works of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson have long been an influence on our practice.

Presence is also the name of the extensive Eliasson exhibition currently showing at GOMA in Brisbane. For this show the collection work Riverbed has been reinstalled, this time exhibited alongside his photographs of Icelandic glaciers. Taken in 1999 and again in 2019, Eliasson explains that this riverbed is the landscape of glacial retreat evidenced in the pairs of photographs. Simultaneously compelling, playful and mournful, these works capture the artist’s idea of presence; being present - physically and thoughtfully - to the work is also to spool outward towards our larger situation, encompassing its wonders and its tragedies.

Works:

Presence, 2025
Riverbed, 2014
The Glacier Melt Series, 1999,2019
Beauty, 1993
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Details @ Yarra Primary School: Entry and stair.
18/12/2025

Details @ Yarra Primary School: Entry and stair.

We are looking for a Graduate of Architecture to join our practice. The position will be an ongoing full-time role, assi...
10/12/2025

We are looking for a Graduate of Architecture to join our practice. The position will be an ongoing full-time role, assisting in the design and documentation of new health, residential and education projects. Though initially your contribution will be as part of small teams, our intention is for you to play a lead role on smaller projects, working closely with a director. Wherever possible, we maintain the same team throughout the life of the project, from feasibility to completion of construction.

Whether you are newly graduated or already have some industry experience, we’re looking for someone with the ambition to become an all-rounder, able to develop a building from concepts to a well-crafted realisation. Strong graphic and visualisation skills will be advantageous, proficiency in Revit is important as we use it across all scales of projects. 

Our practice pursues a diverse range of projects. From education and Indigenous health and culture, to tourism, emergency services and the visual arts, we value every opportunity to contribute to public architecture while also enjoying the detailed, personal nature of private residential design. We also collaborate with larger practices to participate in projects of greater complexity and scale.

As a studio of eight, we offer a lively and supportive environment: assisting towards registration, discussion and tours of practice projects, a mentor to help you learn the office’s systems and procedures, social and cultural events.

Please contact Workshop Architecture at [email protected] to register your interest and forward CV and portfolio prior to Tuesday 13.01.2026. Following an interview, the successful applicant will ideally commence early in February 2026.

Project Images:

Funaki Gallery 
Photographer: Shannon McGrath

Bunjil Wellbeing Centre
Photographer: Peter Bennetts

Drummond St Residence
Photographer: Tatyana Plitt

Bayswater Secondary College
Photographer: Peter Bennetts
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BDAC_ detail … in collaboration with
01/12/2025

BDAC_ detail … in collaboration with

mount cobbler_light and colour
24/11/2025

mount cobbler_light and colour

western heights college_steel … great work and thanks to and … heading for lock up by xmas
19/11/2025

western heights college_steel … great work and thanks to and … heading for lock up by xmas

Over the next few months our shelter for Angela Malacarne Park will be taking shape in Yarragon. The strong support for ...
24/09/2025

Over the next few months our shelter for Angela Malacarne Park will be taking shape in Yarragon.

The strong support for the design, shown by Baw Baw Shire Council and community representatives, has been a terrific experience.

Gippsland is a region linked through lines of infrastructure; this shelter’s roof is shaped by the artefacts of its rail heritage. The supporting walls, that provide seating areas while screening occupants from south west winds, recall other remnant structures: fragments of homes, the stone
silhouettes of walls and chimneys found within rural landscapes
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matria_inside… giant pink garbage bag stuck in world heritage building
24/08/2025

matria_inside… giant pink garbage bag stuck in world heritage building

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