Discipline: Architecture
Spanning 16,000sqm, Stage One of Aura Town Centre will bring together retail, commercial, hospitality, entertainment and healthcare within a walkable setting open to the public realm. Envisioned as a ‘lifestyle centre immersed in a subtropical playground’, the town centre will serve as a social and economic anchor for the emerging 15-minute neighbourhood. Situated adjacent to […]
The characterful fabrication shed, which dates to World War Two, will become the community heart and establish a strong identity for the precinct. The design respects the shed’s existing form, proportions and materials. The main entry faces north towards the river and accentuates the shed’s distinctive, stepped contour. Openings in the facade reveal the internal […]
Among the many projects we’re incredibly proud of this year, our design partnership with Housing and Relief Charity is one that will give back for years to come. Buchan has designed a multi-residential, affordable and community housing scheme in Sydney’s south to provide temporary accommodation and emergency shelter for hundreds of people in distress each […]
Buchan has celebrated the official opening of the redesigned Collins Arcade today. Our architecture and interior design teams are proud to have partnered with Kaipara Property Group to revitalise this expansive arcade, bringing together commercial, retail, hospitality, entertainment and coworking space in an unmistakably Melbourne way. The redesign showcases the power of adaptive reuse to […]
Over the past six months, the Australia Pavilion at World Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan, has welcomed over 3 million visitors, sharing the warmth and vibrancy of Australian culture with the world. True to its design by Buchan, the Pavilion has burst with colour and life, hosting 850 cultural performances, 165+ events and more than 5,000 […]
The development includes 10 one bedroom, 38 two-bedroom and 21 three bedroom apartments across two buildings that are carefully scaled to respect the surrounding neighbourhood. The design draws on the site’s industrial legacy, with curved forms and brickwork referencing the former soap and candle factory dating back to the 1880s. A communal courtyard inspired by […]
Melbourne Walk, the first new development in Bourke Street Mall for over 50 years and the centrepiece of its revitalisation, is now open. Knitting together several buildings on a large inner-city site, Melbourne Walk includes 6,295sqm of retail and InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG)’s first Australian dual-branded hotels, each has a distinct identity, a Hotel Indigo and a […]
Arden Gardens is part retail, part residential and part commercial. It compromises two residential towers, one 16-story and one 10-story, with 299 contemporary, residential apartments, anchored by a full supermarket, 12 specialty shops, café tenancies and shared office space. Basement and podium-level car parking will provide for 600 vehicles. The apartment offers 64 unique floorplans, […]
Tulmur Place – Nicholas Street Precinct has been awarded Best Public Building or Social Infrastructure at the 2025 Property Council of Australia Innovation & Excellence Awards. The award recognises Nicholas Street Precinct as setting a new benchmark for urban revitalisation – a transformation that has delivered a new city heart to the people of Ipswich. […]
The design brief for the Australia Pavilion at World Expo 2025 Osaka centred on the narrative theme of ‘Chasing the Sun’, a response to the main World Expo theme, ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives’. The design had to represent commonality across all the nation’s peoples and cultures, old and new. From the outset, the […]