Designing for
People, Place and Purpose
Awarded World Building of the Year in 2013 and 2024
Designing for
People, Place and Purpose
Awarded World Building of the Year in 2013 and 2024
Vision and Values
fjcstudio is a multidisciplinary studio that brings together talented and committed designers in a single, collaborative practice. The studio nurtures a culture that develops and supports its people, allowing fjcstudio itself to adapt, evolve, and thrive through change.
We hold that design is a social and ethical act. Every project is an opportunity to shape how we live together, how we inhabit the natural world, and how we strengthen community values. Our aspiration is to help create places that are equitable, support a stable and healthy climate, reflect authentic reconciliation with First Nations peoples, and enhance shared public life. These are not constraints on our work; they are what we hope to contribute through it.
We resist the reduction of design to image, metric or commodity. We measure success by service to community, custodianship of Country, and symbiosis with the natural world, not by scale or spectacle. At its best, our work is grounded in place, answerable to the public, and committed to the patient, often immeasurable task of bringing people and place into lasting interrelationship.
World Building of the Year
We are privileged to have received the prestigious World Building of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival in both 2013 and 2024. These recognitions reflect our commitment to design excellence, innovation and creating meaningful places that enrich communities and the built environment.
Auckland Art Gallery
The new Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is an extensive public project that includes the restoration and adaption of heritage buildings, a new building extension, and the redesign of adjacent areas of Albert Park. The architecture has developed from a concept that relates as much to the organic natural forms of the landscape as it does to the architectural order and character of the heritage buildings.
Darlington Public School
Darlington is a small school located on the fringe of the city of Sydney, near Redfern and vibrant and cosmopolitan Newtown. It features a sequence of linear brick forms, reflecting the masonry character of the surrounding residential and industrial context and houses flexible learning spaces, a hall, and support areas. Complementing this, a curvilinear perforated metal screen defines fluid, organic movement and gathering spaces, seamlessly connecting outdoor play areas and gardens
World Building of the Year
World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival, 2013 and 2024.
Auckland Art Gallery
The new Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki restores heritage buildings, adds an extension and redesigns adjacent areas of Albert Park.
Darlington Public School
Darlington is a small school near Redfern and Newtown, with linear brick forms and a curvilinear perforated metal screen.
The Cutaway
A new cultural venue for Sydney at Barangaroo, where Country is the generative heart and essential architectural expression of the design.
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The Whittlesea Aboriginal Gathering Place sits on a horseshoe-shaped ridge within Quarry Hills Park, a traditional meeting place of the Wurundjeri Willam. Timber and texture unify two pavilion buildings, linking indoor and outdoor spaces. A fluid veil facade evokes water, rock formations ground the base in the landscape, and yarning and welcoming circles extend the buildings onto Country.
Bennetts Lane is an A-grade mixed use workplace in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Retail, food and beverage line all three street frontages, adding to the city’s laneway network. Around 13,000 sqm of office space steps from 1,300 sqm floorplates to smaller boutique floors above, with interconnecting stairs, north-facing outdoor decks, a concierge and end-of-trip facilities.
111 Castlereagh Street introduces a layered rooftop landscape above the heritage-listed David Jones building in central Sydney. Meandering paths, lush planting and curved landscape elements, inspired by natural forms and rippling water, link private, semi-private and communal spaces, while the elevated gardens celebrate city and harbour views.
The landscape at Fort Street Public School reimagines a constrained inner-city site as a layered, multifunctional terrain for learning, play and community. Tiered terraces, outdoor classrooms and shaded play zones connect the heritage fabric of the school with contemporary educational needs, while native planting enriches biodiversity and ties the school to its place.
Three modular laboratories across two University of Oxford sites, delivered with Portakabin after the closure of the Tinbergen Building, providing research and teaching space for Experimental Psychology, Zoology, Biology and Biochemistry.
Oxford & Foley restores and adapts three groups of heritage buildings on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, bringing cultural and creative space, contemporary workplace and retail back to a street long known for its culture, creativity and diversity.
Hunter Street Metro sets out two mixed-use towers above the new Sydney Metro West station in the Sydney CBD: 58 storeys above the east station and 51 storeys above the west. Office, retail and hospitality connect directly to the station, and both concepts were approved in April 2024.
The interiors of The Cutaway follow a clear spatial hierarchy. A dark, theatrical pre-function area lets sculptural timber ‘trees’ and curving forms emerge, while the event hall and gallery are calm and pared back for flexibility. Natural materials, acoustic treatments and textural surfaces support comfort and performance, with detailing that expresses First Nations motifs with subtlety and respect.
fjcstudio completed stakeholder engagement with the University of Adelaide to provide a unified masterplan for its three primary campuses: North Terrace, Waite and Roseworthy. The process involved consultation with over 30 stakeholder groups and hundreds of individuals, with wider project records indicating participation by more than 1,000 students and staff.
fjcstudio’s Sydney studio occupies Level 6 of Australia Square beneath the Nervi ceiling. A quadrant strategy gives orientation without breaking the open floor: enclosed functions sit in freestanding curvilinear volumes that keep long sightlines to the ceiling, with angular forms aligned to its interlocking ribs. In the western quadrant, circlesix hosts reviews, collaboration and industry events.
Community consultation for The Concourse commenced in 2000 and continued throughout the masterplanning phase, representing over ten years of debate and consultation culminating in a popular vote. The consultation program included five rounds of engagement comprising focus groups and open community workshops, and three masterplans with different functional arrangements were taken to full community consultation.
SubStation No. 164 transforms and extends two heritage buildings in Sydney through a concept of suspension, contrast and complement. A light ‘anti-extension’ floats respectfully above the articulated weight of the heritage fabric, weaving workplace, retail and event uses through old and new. The building runs on 100 per cent fresh air and green power, with a 24 per cent reduction in embodied carbon.
fjcinteriors created a new head office for Built within SubStation No. 164. Two heritage buildings, the Shelley Warehouse and the electrical substation, are integrated through penetrations in adjoining walls, modern insertions and interconnecting stairs. Multiple view lines and circulation paths create a collaborative, sustainable and healthy workplace within the historic fabric.
fjcstudio’s engagement experience at UNSW extends across multiple projects within the Science Precinct. Across the Applied Science Masterplan and building and Chemical Sciences, engagement across Science and Engineering schools, specialist users, and infrastructure and estate teams supported the co-location and sharing of facilities previously distributed between faculties, enabling greater interdisciplinary collaboration.
The end-of-trip facilities at 200 George Street begin in a renewed lift lobby with a timber-lined ceiling, textured walls and softly glowing glass sconces. Lounge seating, planting and a saturated blue palette create a warm arrival. Dark timber-toned shower zones lined in inky blue tiles offer privacy and calm, with bespoke island vanities and lockers completing the amenities.
Located on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country in Nunawading, Victoria, fjcstudio delivered this $28 million community hub for Whitehorse City Council through an engagement process that treated consultation as a foundation of the project. Working closely with Council and more than ten permanent user groups drawn from a total of 26 community groups, fjcstudio undertook extensive data collection with local authorities and client groups, formed working groups, and ran a series of workshops, surveys and interviews.
At The Garrison Church in Millers Point, new work protects the hierarchy and legibility of two State Heritage listed sandstone buildings. Additions stand apart from the historic fabric with minimal connections. A recessive amenities building provides compliant facilities, and the parish hall’s timber roof and stone surfaces are freed from later partitions, with new service pods for kitchen and audiovisual functions.
The Cutaway transforms a concrete shell beneath Barangaroo Reserve into a cultural venue for performance and events. Nature-inspired forms soften the rigid geometry of the existing structure and honour the sandstone cut of the former headland, excavated for industrial use from the mid-19th century. The architecture acknowledges this scar on Country and seeks to heal it through abstractions of original landscape elements.
At The Garrison Church in Millers Point, a light, transparent pavilion sits between the church and the parish hall. Conceived as a sheltering tree, its floating timber roof forms a canopy for gathering, set back from Lower Fort Street to keep the heritage facades and stained-glass windows primary. Full-height glazing makes the life of the parish visible from the street.
fjcstudio was engaged to undertake a detailed masterplan for Loreto Kirribilli, an independent Catholic school for girls from Kindergarten to Year 12 with an enrolment of just over 1,000 students. The response to the masterplan was initiated by a deep process of consultation and collaboration with the school leadership, students, staff and parents.
Reuben College, the first new college at the University of Oxford in almost 30 years, transforms Grade II listed laboratory buildings. Additions include library facilities open to all Bodleian readers, spaces for communal dining, collaboration and events, and the Collections Teaching and Research Centre. It is one of the University’s largest decarbonisation and decontamination projects.
Darlington Public School, located on Gadigal Country in inner Sydney, has approximately a 30% First Nations student population and a long relationship with the local Aboriginal community spanning generations. From the outset, fjcstudio engaged the school and wider community on possibilities for integrating culture through inclusive design, landscape, artwork, and built elements.
The landscape of Liverpool Civic Place celebrates the ecologies of Country: the riparian landscapes of the Georges River in a sunken courtyard, the flora of the Cumberland Plain, and a timber-decked gathering garden shaded by local eucalypts. A grove of deciduous trees gives the plaza summer shade and winter sun, framing the curved form of the Yellamundie library.
At Bunjil Place, a mixed-use cultural and community facility in Narre Warren, engagement with the Kulin Nation was central to the design process from the beginning. fjcstudio’s initial meetings with Elders from the Koorie Heritage Trust provided knowledge about the Bunjil and its important relationship with place and people, and planning of the spaces incorporated Boon Wurrung stories relating to the meeting of many paths.
fjcurban revitalised the tired and underused Fleming Park precinct through a series of modest interventions: new paths, fencing, solar lighting and playground sculptures. Two new buildings complete the work, a community sporting building and the restoration of a derelict grandstand. A former gravel car park became a basketball half-court, a rebound wall, bioswales and native garden play areas.
Liverpool Civic Place reshapes the southern end of Liverpool’s CBD. At the end of tree-lined Macquarie Street, the curved library draws people south through a walkable public space to the Civic Building and Terminus Street, stepping down in scale between the heritage School of Arts and larger developments to the south and east, in a design that takes its cue from the Georges River.
Inside Yellamundie, the library at Liverpool Civic Place, the layers and flow of the interiors are inspired by the curve of the Georges River, known before European arrival as Tuggerah. Rippling surfaces invite movement inside and out, and curved spaces create places of gathering and embrace, offering diverse settings for study, play and community life across every level.
Korumburra Community Hub creates a new community heart for a fast-growing regional township. The welcoming, accessible multipurpose facility brings together 26 community groups, serving young families moving into the historic town as well as older residents from surrounding farming communities. New public spaces connect into the heritage streetscape on the foothills, linking the building with the life of the main street.
Yellamundie, the new library at Liverpool Civic Place, activates the southern end of Liverpool’s main street after Council’s previous building was destroyed by fire. Its curvilinear form is inspired by the gentle curve of the Georges River. As the river’s sustaining arc creates eddies both calm and dynamic, the layers and flow of the library create diverse spaces for everyone.
Charlie Parker is one of the first build to rent towers in New South Wales, at the meeting point of Harris Park and Central Parramatta. Its curvilinear form follows the bounding Parkes, Wigram and Charles Streets and the adjacent canal, bridging low-scale brick cottages and city towers, while a human-scale ground floor addresses three street frontages with a high level of amenity.
University Terraces creates an active campus housing precinct for UNSW along Kensington’s High Street, facing the entry to Royal Randwick Racecourse. Higher forms at Gate 2 and Racecourse Walk mark active hubs below, while a lower four-storey element allows glimpses between High Street and the inward-facing courts. A row of figs shades the northern boundary.
Waterfront Brisbane weaves the city grid and the river’s edge together on the site of Brisbane’s first produce markets, re-establishing lost vistas to the river at Creek and Mary Streets. Beyond its two workplace towers, designed with Arkhefield, the project creates more than 9,000 sqm of riverfront public realm, including a 280 metre riverwalk with shaded meeting places and terraced steps.
At 388 George Street, a new urban pavilion redefines the corner of King and George Streets and enables the sustainable adaptation of John Andrews’ King George Tower. The pavilion re-creates a diagonal public arcade, removing the intrusive podium to reveal the grounding of the original tower, and a repositioned entrance lobby addresses George Street with interiors that echo its curvilinear forms.
At 2 King Street in Brisbane, double-height podium walls clad in natural materials draw on the material heritage and craftsmanship of the RNA. An urban verandah along St Pauls Terrace opens sightlines into King Street and supports pedestrian flow from Fortitude Valley station, framed by sculpted V-shaped columns that reflect the RNA’s engineering heritage beneath warm timber soffits.
Grand Central is embedded in the urban fabric of Toowoomba, integrating its retail offering with the main streets and pedestrian networks of the city centre. The building ensemble draws on the materials, scales and proportions of the city’s valued buildings. Along Margaret Street, a rhythmic facade of precast frames and folded brickwork respects the two-storey scale of the existing streetscape.
Spiritus provides space, flexibility and freedom for learning at Loreto Kirribilli. Its learning environments are complemented by interwoven landscaped terraces that connect the many levels of the existing campus, an abstract interpretation of the dramatic natural topography of Kirribilli. The terraces reimagine the school, creating new opportunities for learning and connection through inclusivity and accessibility.
200 Victoria Parade is a workplace building on one of Melbourne’s key boulevards, respecting views to and from the historic Treasury Gardens. Layered glass ribbons with thin copper films provide thermal performance and glare control above clearer vision panels, with curved transitions that respond to orientation, as the gateway site moves from commercial to residential in one of Melbourne’s oldest precincts.
The Jindabyne Community Library and Innovation Hub replaces a mobile library service with a landmark for the town. It supports lifelong learning and reflects the character of the region, with quiet spaces for study, places to collaborate and multifunction spaces for events. Built with stone, timber and prefabrication, it was the first of the State Library of NSW Small Library Projects.
Fleming House brings together two Grade II listed 1860s buildings on Oxford’s High Street, within the city’s Central Conservation Area. Built as a grand banking hall with a manager’s residence, and as a music shop and warehouse with rooms above, the buildings have changed over 150 years. The project gives them a renewed life while respecting their Gothic character.
At Darlington Public School, flexible learning spaces, a hall and support areas sit within linear brick forms. The school’s collection of Aboriginal artworks features in the classrooms, hall and reception, and murals from the original building are repainted on the new walls, carrying the school’s history and its connection to culture and community into the new interiors.
Spring Quarter is a mixed use precinct in the heart of Chatswood, consistent with the Chatswood CBD Strategy. A fine-grain ground plane of streets, lanes and places brings new openness, permeability and activation. A large independent commercial building is supported by retail, a hotel and new residences, helping Chatswood grow economically and support a diversity of city functions.
Norwest Marketown will offer high-amenity, open and civic public spaces at its heart, creating a vibrant local centre connected directly to the new Norwest Station. fjc’s masterplan considers the precinct’s relationship with the heritage-listed Bella Vista Farm Park and surrounding developments, proposing a pedestrian-friendly structure in a relaxed, campus-like setting for living, working, shopping and gathering.
The Acton Waterfront project is a significant and transformational urban project for Canberra. It continues the legacy of the Griffin Plan, enhancing the landscape setting and amenity of the capital and bringing new urbanity, vibrancy and diversity to the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin. fjc is reviewing the masterplan and advising the City Renewal Authority on connecting the city to the lake.
Masterplans for the University of Adelaide’s North Terrace, Waite and Roseworthy campuses set a framework for the University to 2030. At North Terrace, the plan reinforces address and identity, the pedestrian experience and high-quality connective open space, linking the campus with the city. At Waite, new vistas and avenues connect the heritage quarter with research partnership sites.
The Blackwattle Bay Precinct Plan is connected to Country, Tjerruing Blackwattle Bay, and to the qualities of the Pyrmont peninsula. It unites the natural forms of the harbour landscape with the grid of streets and buildings, delivering public spaces connected to the Glebe Foreshore and Wentworth Park, prioritising walking and cycling, and enhancing links to new public transport.
Blackwattle Bay is one of eight destinations identified for renewal in Sydney’s Bays Transformation Plan and the first to move toward the Precinct Proposal phase. As master planning lead for the 30 hectare study area, fjc prepared three concept plan scenarios for the NSW Government, testing how the precinct can harness the new Sydney Metro station at Pyrmont.
The Entertainment Quarter masterplan proposes a clear pedestrian spine connecting a sequence of public spaces, from the Hordern Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries through to the Showring and AFTRS, with links to Cook Road, Centennial Park and the Equestrian Centre. A broader mix of employment and hospitality uses supports day and night activation within the Centennial Parklands.
Parliament Square sits beside Tasmania’s Parliament House on Hobart’s waterfront. A new commercial building and six refurbished heritage buildings provide 15,000 sqm of office accommodation, a boutique hotel, restaurants and al fresco dining. Invasive structures are removed to open the heart of the site to a new public square with views to Constitution Dock, linking Salamanca Place to Murray Street.
Darling Quarter is a true integration of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture. Split at its centre, it frames a new pedestrian street, the Civic Connector, linking Darling Harbour South via Bathurst Street with Town Hall. A pedestrian boulevard, parklands, a gateway and a children’s playground meet the city’s western edge, creating a public place within the city.
Child of the Rocks by Leonie Rhodes is a hand-sculpted bronze for The Harrington Collection in The Rocks, commissioned by fjcplace with UAP. It draws on the long histories of The Rocks as a place of creative play, friendship and survival in children’s lives, joining the tradition of bronze statuary with a site-specific practice inspired by the mined sandstone wall.
Country by Jake Nash is a functional sculpture at The Harrington Collection that treats the plaza as a contemporary midden, a slice of ground holding the stories of the past, present and future. Abstracted layers and textures, recognisable images and language words run across the faces of the plaza elements, reclaiming histories built over in the Sydney landscape.
Eora by First Nations artist Jake Nash occupies the eastern elevation of King & Phillip Residences, facing Queens Square. Standing among the colonial buildings of the city, it is a symbolic gesture of unity and acknowledgement, reminding everyone who passes that we all travel together on the land of the Eora, through marks made by hand that celebrate the natural world.
Ingress by Warren Langley is a suspended light installation designed for the upstairs foyer of The Concourse in Chatswood. Sustainable LED lights cast a blue glow, arranged to imply movement towards the Concert Hall entry. The sculpture is a lateral interpretation of the chandelier, recalling the memorable chandeliers of performance spaces, opera theatres and concert halls around the world.
Visiting Enki by Wendy Mills fills the water court of The Concourse in Chatswood. A boat-like open framework forms the focal point, balanced by scattered grey shapes on the floor beneath the water. The work draws on the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna, queen of heaven, who travels in her sky-boat to visit Enki, the lord of wisdom.
The landscape of Ovo and its sister development, No.8 Ebsworth, responds to their gateway site at Green Square. Two new landscaped laneways connect Bourke Street to Portman Lane and Ebsworth Street, resolving level changes between the developments. The roof terraces provide spaces for passive outdoor recreation, with custom-designed planters and furniture for residents to gather and relax.
The courtyard of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery forms part of a subtle but dramatic addition to TMAG’s highly significant heritage fabric. New contemporary and conservation works were integrated to best practice under Burra Charter principles, opening public access to all parts of the site and revealing new opportunities within the historic fabric, including areas long hidden from view.
ngarunga nangama: calm water dream by Judy Watson is a sandstone work at 200 George Street, created with Gadigal Elder Uncle Allen Madden, that recalls the Tank Stream beneath the site. fjcplace guided the procurement of art across the site through the Public Art Strategy, with Mirvac and curator Hetti Perkins, with site-specificity as a core principle.
The landscape of Bunjil Place connects its theatre, library, exhibition spaces and public gathering areas under the sheltering wings of Bunjil. It creates a welcoming, inclusive sense of place, with sun-drenched and shaded settings for gathering year-round. Drawing on the natural history and cultural significance of the land, the plaza becomes the civic heart of the City of Casey.
At Melton Library and Learning Hub, a challenging site facing a supermarket loading dock became an opportunity to create a new frontage and outlook for the library and community centre. The central idea of the landscape and architecture is a community veranda, moving between interior and exterior gathering spaces, with safe children’s play extending into welcoming public space.
Cambridge Courtyard sits on the shoreline-to-ridge terrain west of Circular Quay, where life has unfolded on the outcrops of The Rocks for centuries. After 20th century erasure of many laneways and stairs, the scheme restores and extends original pathways, creating gathering places perched on stairs and rock cuttings and linking pedestrian movement to places for life to return.
At Wellington Street Park in Chippendale, a landscaped buffer to the south brings amenity to new and existing residents. A permeable, richly textured ground plane invites people around and through the building, with densely planted gardens and a celebration of the area’s brick warehouses and terraces. Visible roofs carry green planting, communal spaces and private terraces.
At Darlington Public School, a curvilinear perforated metal screen defines movement and gathering spaces that connect the outdoor play areas and gardens. Selected indigenous plants feature in the community garden, where students learn how plants are used in Indigenous cooking and culture, extending the school’s connection with its Aboriginal community into the landscape.
The landscape of Parliament Square in Hobart opens the heart of the site behind Tasmania’s Parliament House to a new public square. Removing invasive structures, it links Salamanca Place to Murray Street and creates places for outdoor dining, galleries and performance, with views to Constitution Dock, set among refurbished heritage buildings and a new commercial building.
Liberty Place creates a major new public space for Sydney, inviting the energy of the city into the development. A retail and dining precinct, public open spaces, a sunlit plaza and a light-filled pedestrian laneway connect Castlereagh Street and Pitt Street, providing a distinctive ground-plane entry into the ANZ Tower and its heritage neighbours.
The landscaped terraces of SubStation No. 164 complement 12 floors of A-grade office space that combine heritage and contemporary styles. Alongside ground-floor retail and end-of-trip facilities, the project retains the former substation’s industrial Machine Hall, with its 12-metre-high ceilings, gantry, machinery and original hydraulic lifts, restoring and consolidating two heritage buildings.
The new Inner Sydney High School sits within Prince Alfred Park in Surry Hills. Between its built forms are outdoor learning and recreational spaces, from elevated undercrofts and spaces between the cloud volumes to an outdoor multipurpose sports court above the studio, and protected courtyards formed by the heritage buildings and the landscaped terraces of the podium.
At Crane Place, the landscape reinterprets and honours the history of the 200 George Street site. The ground of the new building, kiosk and public space is formed in stone, curved and folded up into steps and a place to display archaeological finds. A bronze line incised through the public domain and into the lobby marks the water’s edge of the pre-European estuary.
The landscape of UTS Central weaves the building into the city, integrating the ground plane with a new entry plaza to Broadway and Jones Street and a grand stair to the alumni green. Garden courtyard terraces respond to the facade and create a summit experience, with trees and a vertical green winter garden extending student life into outdoor spaces.
Sydney Law School divides an extensive programme into podium and superstructures, creating a new sequence of lawns, terraces and plazas along Eastern Avenue, the campus’s main public artery. The library and teaching spaces sit within the podium, lit from above through skylights and clerestories, while slender superstructures above split and splinter to frame views across the campus.
Cydelia House provides high-quality, accessible postgraduate student accommodation within the University of Melbourne precinct in Carlton. For the Cybec Foundation, fjc sensitively refurbished and extended two Victorian heritage-registered terrace houses, creating generous bedrooms with natural light and ventilation, tutor accommodation and shared spaces, while protecting the character of the historic Drummond Terrace streetscape.
111 Castlereagh Street places just over 100 apartments above the heritage-listed former David Jones art deco building in the heart of Sydney. The interiors make the most of the building’s architecture and elevated position, with grand living rooms, intimate retreats and refined detailing, and views east across the canopies of Hyde Park towards Sydney Harbour.
The interiors of The Harrington Collection in The Rocks draw on the heritage architectural language of the area: deep window and sill reveals, material authenticity and local history. Responding to heritage streetscapes, topography and views, the buildings create a sense of belonging, offering a place and a home rather than an apartment in an isolated tower.
The interiors of King & Phillip Residences continue the building’s response to Sydney’s heritage legal precinct. Studio to three-bedroom apartments are planned for efficiency and generosity above a sandstone loggia of timber vaulted ceilings, whose organic leaf forms celebrate Country. Eora, a facade and square artwork by Jacob Nash, faces Queens Square.
The interiors of Inner Sydney High School support 1,200 students on a tight urban site within Prince Alfred Park. Egalitarian learning spaces engage all user groups, providing for self-paced learning, research, collaboration, support and help desk functions. Interiors connect with landscaped terraces, undercrofts and heritage courtyards to create a positive learning environment for every student.
The interiors of Sydney Law School extend its idea of a law school as an open door to the University. Library and teaching spaces sit within a solid podium, reached from stepped terraces and lit from above through skylights and clerestories, while the slender superstructures above hold the offices and spaces of the faculty.
The interiors of the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney maximise efficiency and flexibility while encouraging collaboration across disciplines. More than 16,000 sqm of wet and dry laboratories surround a large central atrium, whose sculpted ribbons link balustrades, stairs and screen wall, creating the social heart of the building and places for informal exchange.
UTS Central establishes a new vertical campus on the fringe of Sydney’s CBD, connecting the city with the University. Within its constrained site, the interiors stack learning, library and student spaces around a series of connected voids and stairs, bringing the life of the campus up through the building and creating places to study, gather and collaborate.
The UTS Faculty of Law moot courts sit within UTS Central, where law students practise advocacy in purpose-designed courtrooms. The interiors bring the formality and acoustics of a working court into a contemporary teaching setting, part of a building that respects and responds to the existing campus and the Broadway streetscape.
The UTS Reading Room within UTS Central provides quiet, focused study space at the heart of the University’s vertical campus. Set within a building that responds to the existing campus and the Broadway streetscape, it offers students a calm setting with natural light and outlook, connected to the library and learning spaces around it.
The 580 George Street lobby upgrade reimagines the workplace entrance as an open, sculptural threshold to the city. Recognised at the Sydney Design Awards, the new lobby gives the building a distinct identity and a welcoming arrival, while Matthew Johnson’s integrated frit facade artwork shifts with the light above the retail tenancies.
At the base of the ANZ Tower at Liberty Place, a 16 metre high glazed foyer announces the entry to the 44-storey premium-grade tower. The foyer is enclosed by suspended walls of translucent glass held on high-tension stainless steel cables and custom patch fittings, filling the space with soft, diffused light from Castlereagh and Pitt Streets.
The interiors of 200 George Street include the foyer and Mirvac’s workplace headquarters within a tower that grows out of its site. Yellow Block sandstone lines the core, and Judy Watson’s ngarunga nangama, created with Gadigal Elder Uncle Allen Madden, is carved into the stone. 200 George Street was the first Australian building certified WELL Gold.
The interiors of 118 Mount Street continue the curved linear forms of this workplace tower on the eastern edge of North Sydney. A lower, street-defining form lifts visitors into a warm and welcoming arrival experience of shared amenity and facilities, and the paired tower forms create workplace floors open to natural light and views.
The Bunjil Place workplace gives the City of Casey’s traditionally department-based workforce a fluid, collaborative and innovative environment for delivering services to the community. It extends the organic interior forms, materials and design elements of the wider Bunjil Place, symbolising traditions of the past while offering a contemporary vision of movement, technology and innovation.
The Wolfson Building at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford extends from a constrained, sloping site beside a conservation area, with expansive views over the city. It houses the UK’s first dedicated centre for the prevention of stroke and dementia, with interiors that bring together research, clinical and collaborative spaces around light and outlook.
The interiors of 388 George Street accompany the building’s new urban pavilion at the corner of King and George Streets. A repositioned entrance lobby addresses George Street, with interiors that echo the curvilinear forms of John Andrews’ original King George Tower, reconnecting the building with the street through a diagonal public arcade.
Tasmanian timbers run through the interiors of the Salamanca Building at Parliament Square: joinery in Tasmanian Oak, Stringybark and Blackwood, and furniture in Myrtle, Huon Pine and Sassafras. The workplace for government agencies sits on a new public platform overlooking Sullivan’s Cove, with an organic design language drawn from the Tasmanian landscape.
The UTS Law Faculty fitout creates a collegial and collaborative working and learning environment while keeping aspects of the faculty’s established ways of working. A Dean’s suite and enclosed offices for confidential work are surrounded by open plan areas, meeting rooms, breakout spaces and a large boardroom.
The Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre is a public building designed to encourage creative, educational and social exchange. The interiors support a library over three levels, a 300-seat theatre, IT labs, conference facilities and community meeting rooms, with a scented reading garden and cafe, all within a high-performance, sustainable community hub.
The interiors of Craigieburn Library create a public focus for a fast-growing community north of Melbourne. Built in part from local earth, the library, learning centre and gathering spaces connect with a landscape transformed by residential expansion, giving residents a warm and welcoming civic heart for study, reading and community life.
Nunawading Hub is an open and inviting public building for a broad range of community activities. Its interiors bring 26 community groups into a single purpose-built facility, from the Nunawading Lapidary Club to the Whitehorse Arts Association, alongside a timber-lined basketball stadium, a dance hall and function spaces designed for multipurpose use.
The interiors of Melton Library and Learning Hub give the old township of Melton a contemporary library and civic heart. A double-height reading space is joined by community meeting rooms, a theatrette and multipurpose training spaces, within a building with a strong environmental agenda that opens to a community veranda and public space.
The Frank Bartlett Library and Moe Service Centre gives the Gippsland town of Moe a new civic heart on a former car park beside the railway. Two timber portals rise over a gently curved landscaped platform, and the interiors bring library and council services together in warm, light-filled spaces that embody community and civic pride.
At the Port of Sale, fjc transformed late-modern brutalist Shire offices and gallery into a multi-use cultural and civic hub for Wellington Shire. The interiors provide generous shared spaces for civic, tourist and cultural facilities, with revitalised links to the historic port, giving the town a cultural and community heart it previously lacked.
Bunjil Place is a new form of community and civic building for the City of Casey: a help point, service centre, library, theatre and place of work. At its centre, a fluid, non-hierarchical foyer lets these uses overlap, with organic interior forms and materials drawn from the story of Bunjil, the creation spirit of the Kulin Nation.
Inside St Barnabas Church on Broadway, the worship space has a folding floor that wraps around the congregation and opens to soft, cloud-like ceilings, conceived like an open hand under the sky. Simple, modest materials finish the interior: concrete, compressed cement sheet, steel and glass, creating a warm, protective and light-filled space.
Newcastle Museum reuses a series of 1880s to 1920s brick railway workshops in the Honeysuckle waterfront precinct. Inside, a glazed link holds the foyer, temporary exhibitions and circulation, and metal tube-like forms create thresholds into the workshops. Glazed facades stand off the heritage walls so they remain protected and visible.
At the Art Gallery of Western Australia, a new rooftop experience begins with a sharply triangular lift, offset from the existing building to create a new tension with the landscape. Read against the sky, it entices visitors to explore further, while softened edges to the roof terrace extend the greener urban landscape of the cultural precinct.
The Waterfront Pavilion sits on a narrow wharf at the Australian National Maritime Museum, between two significant naval vessels on Darling Harbour. Its interior reflects the vessels themselves, hardy, rough and adaptable, with sheet vinyl floors, insulated aluminium walls and industrial fans, bringing stories of naval service to life and inviting future change.
Inside Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Kauri ceilings profiled into precise geometric patterns cover the atrium and galleries, inspired by the canopy of the adjacent Pōhutukawa trees. Circulation loops from the main atrium through a smaller southern atrium to the Wellesley Wing, joining heritage and contemporary rooms into a continuous sequence for visitors.
Yellamundie at Liverpool Civic Place
A 21st-century library for Liverpool, inspired by the flow of the Georges River, whose curved, rippling form creates diverse spaces for everyone.
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22 Oct 2026
The Cutaway at Barangaroo received the People’s Choice Award and the Fitout, Commercial and Public award at the 2026 Australian Timber Design Awards.
21 Oct 2026
Lumina at Parliament Square opens for Open House Hobart on Saturday 7 November, with a talk by fjcstudio architect Michael Sanday-Ferrier and SHAPE.
21 Oct 2026
Museums of History NSW runs an expert-led tour of The Cutaway at Barangaroo on 5 December. Machine Hall, The Mint and 580 George Street join Sydney Open 2026.
17 Oct 2026
fjcstudio designed the staff amenities building and facade of the Baiada processing plant in Tamworth. Richard Francis-Jones discusses the design.
17 Oct 2026
LUMINA, fjcstudio’s column-free event space at The Tasman in Parliament Square, Hobart, opens with cantilevered beams of Tasmanian plantation oak.
17 Oct 2026
fjcstudio’s Collections Teaching and Research Centre at Oxford opens, uniting over one million objects from four University museums for the first time.
17 Sep 2026
fjcstudio has worked on 15 HDA-recommended projects with capacity for more than 6,800 homes, designing housing around place, Country and people.
4 Sep 2026
Richard Francis-Jones, Dr Shannon Foster and Jo Kinniburgh discuss the tensions and opportunities in designing with Country and architecture’s limits.
4 Sep 2026
fjcstudio marks the official opening of 111 Castlereagh, a revisioning of the heritage-listed David Jones Men’s store at Market and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney.
3 Sep 2026
Behind the Garrison: the Garrison Renewal Project on Lower Fort Street shows how careful adaptation of heritage buildings can strengthen a community.
19 Aug 2026
Shaped by community, grounded in Country and designed to support culture, wellbeing and reconciliation, the Whittlesea Aboriginal Gathering Place provides
10 Aug 2026
An Environmental Crisis: Urban Overheating. Professor Matthaios Santamouris on the technologies and strategies helping cities survive rising temperatures.
31 Jul 2026
TAFE NSW Padstow opens: fjcstudio inserts prefabricated, demountable labs and learning spaces into a former industrial shed, ready for term time.
29 Jul 2026
The Critical Space Between Development and Architecture: Barrie Barton of Right Angle on closing the gap between designer and developer for better outcomes.
18 Jun 2026
fjcstudio is expanding Campbelltown Arts Centre with new galleries, a 350-seat theatre and artist residences, drawing on Dharawal landscape and culture.
11 Jun 2026
Richard Thorp shares the stories behind the design of Australia’s Parliament House by Mitchell/Giurgola and Thorp at this free event, The Making of Parliament.
22 May 2026
Yellamundie Library at Liverpool Civic Place is awarded ALIA Public Library of the Year, an open and visible civic place at the heart of Liverpool.
13 May 2026
Unfrozen music with Hikaru Fuminashi, Elizabeth Carpenter and Annie Hensley explores the relationship between architecture and music, with live performance.
20 Apr 2026
fjcstudio marks the completion of The Cutaway, a public place for Sydney shaped by its context, history and community, with Dr Shannon Foster and Jake Nash.
9 Apr 2026
Sails, Octopuses and Telescopic Cranes: Paolo Stracchi and Luciano Cardellicchio on the Sydney Opera House’s construction decisions and its sail-like roof.
16 Mar 2026
Bennetts Lane by fjcstudio is now open in Melbourne, with laneway retail, nineteen floors of tiered workplace and terraces over the city skyline.
16 Feb 2026
Women, Design, Equity: how can architecture and design overcome gendered structures and inequities, and support women’s wellbeing, safety and agency?
18 Dec 2025
fjcstudio Australia and UK holiday closure for Christmas 2025: closed from Friday 19 December, reopening Monday 5 January 2026, with thanks to collaborators.
28 Nov 2025
Mongarlowe Community Hall and Refuge Centre officially opens, a safe place to shelter after the 2019-20 fires, won by four years of community advocacy.
7 Oct 2025
fjcstudio has received three International Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Arc
1 Oct 2025
200 George Street has been recognised in the honorary category Remarkable Facade Bringing Paradigm Shift by ZAK World of Facades.
30 Jul 2025
A panel debate on the fence and the villa, two typologies that shape and fragment the built environment: is architecture complicit in withdrawal?
16 Jul 2025
Reuben College wins the Hugh O’Neil Award for Heritage at the Australian Institute of Architects International Chapter Architecture Awards 2025.
13 Jul 2025
Parliament Square Hobart has received the John Lee Archer Triennial Prize at the 2025 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. Awarded by the Tasmanian Chapter of th
7 Jul 2025
fjcstudio’s Sydney studio has moved to Level 6, Australia Square, 264 George Street, bringing the whole team together in an iconic Seidler tower.
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