Insights
Date
Title
Summary
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.
11 Jun 2025
Two emerging fjcstudio designers, including Cheera Montriwat, are recognised at the 2025 NSW Institute of Architects Student Architecture Awards.
22 May 2025
On a pivotal threshold between the eastern edge of Melbourne’s CBD and the city’s cultural spine, the Lindrum Hotel site is steeped in history. Built as th
20 May 2025
Oxford and Foley continues to transform as construction progresses on its revitalisation of Sydney’s creative precinct, with curving roof forms almost complete.
20 May 2025
Construction is well underway at The Cutaway, turning a concrete shell beneath Barangaroo Reserve into a three-level cultural venue overlooking Nawi Cove.
4 Mar 2025
fjcstudio is designing Mongarlowe’s new Community Hall and Refuge Centre with the community, a multi-purpose hall that doubles as an emergency refuge.
20 Feb 2025
Reuben College at the University of Oxford, the first new college in almost 30 years, is among 10 projects shortlisted for the RIBA South Awards 2025.
4 Feb 2025
The Korumburra Community Hub is a multi-purpose community facility in the historic regional Victorian town of Korumburra, completed in late 2023.
29 Jan 2025
Elizabeth Carpenter assumes the role of NSW Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects for 2025/2026 after the recent elections.
28 Jan 2025
Construction progress on City Tattersalls Club’s Sydney House: three restored heritage buildings and a new infill building complete the Pitt Street composition.
20 Jan 2025
Vale Gevork Hartoonian: Richard Francis-Jones honours a dedicated teacher, prolific author and scholar of architectural theory, with memorial service details.
20 Jan 2025
338 Pitt Street, Sydney: two slim 80-storey towers in the Midtown precinct, with new laneways and public squares that enhance pedestrian connectivity.
20 Jan 2025
Oxford and Foley, Darlinghurst, balances heritage restoration with contemporary innovation, with culture and creative spaces and workspaces along Oxford Street.
20 Dec 2024
fjcstudio holiday closure dates for Christmas 2024: Australia closes at 12pm on Friday 20 December and reopens Monday 6 January, with thanks to collaborators.
13 Nov 2024
Darlington Public School is named Building of the Year at the 2024 World Architecture Festival, making fjcstudio the first practice to win the title twice.
12 Nov 2024
Reuben College wins the 2024 Oxford Preservation Trust Green Award for outstanding sustainability achievements, chosen from all finalists across all categories.
23 Sep 2024
Reuben College at the University of Oxford, designed by our UK studio, has been named Low Carbon Project of the Year at OxProp Fest 2024. The award was pre
17 Sep 2024
Yellamundie Library and Gallery at Liverpool Civic Place is nominated for the IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award, one of four finalists.
2 Sep 2024
A discussion on whether consciousness extends beyond human life and what that means for architecture, ethics and the environment today.
30 Jul 2024
Managing Principal Elizabeth Carpenter is elected NSW Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, succeeding Adam Haddow.
2 Jul 2024
Darlington Public School wins the Educational Architecture Award at the 2024 NSW AIA Awards, with thanks to the school community who trusted fjcstudio.
1 Jul 2024
fjcstudio’s Melbourne studio has relocated within the CBD to Level 17, 263 William Street, above the historic Metropolitan Hotel. Visitors are welcome.
28 Jun 2024
Cambridge Courtyard wins the highest award for small projects at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Awards for fjclandscape and fjcplace.
24 Jun 2024
111 Castlereagh Street in progress: a light, curvilinear tower form floats above the 1930s Art Deco heritage building, contrasting with and complementing it.
4 Jun 2024
Nunawading Community Hub has been named Jury Winner in the Institutional, Community Centers category of the Architizer A+Awards.
2 Jun 2024
fjcplace and the City of Sydney create Machine Hall, a cultural space for public engagement, not another bar or restaurant, says director Paul Schulte.
10 May 2024
Jindabyne Library receives a Small Public Library Award for its carbon-neutral design in the Snowy Mountains, built with CLT from local fire-damaged forests.
4 May 2024
Equity of access, welcome, sustainability and respect for place guided the Fleming Park project for Merri-bek City Council, creating a place to be enjoyed
18 Apr 2024
Charlie Parker, a Build to Rent project in Harris Park, Parramatta, officially opens, developed with Coronation to address housing affordability.
9 Apr 2024
The University of Melbourne approves renaming Medley Hall as Wilam Hall, ‘home’ in Woi Wurrung, after Indigenous student advocacy and 18 months of consultation.
18 Mar 2024
Memories of Monuments: Penelope Seidler and Richard Thorp on Harry Seidler and Romaldo Giurgola, in the Culture of Australian Architecture Series.
8 Mar 2024
fjcstudio is a founding partner of Tomorrow’s Women in Construction, an online platform inviting more women to explore and pursue careers in construction.
6 Mar 2024
Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre celebrates 50 years, and fjcstudio presents a vision of design interventions for the next 50 years of women’s health.
4 Mar 2024
Eastern underpinning is complete at the heritage-listed City Tattersalls Club, Sydney, part of a redevelopment with a 6-storey podium and 50-storey tower.
21 Feb 2024
Construction soon starts on The Cutaway at Barangaroo, a three-level cultural facility beside Nawi Cove, shaped with First Nations Knowledge Keepers.
20 Dec 2023
fjcstudio holiday closure dates for Christmas 2023: Australia closes 22 December and reopens 8 January 2024, with thanks to clients, consultants and staff.
28 Nov 2023
Liverpool City Library, now known as Yellamundie Library, opens with a community celebration on Sunday 3 December 2023, 10am to 4pm at Civic Place, Liverpool.
18 Oct 2023
Join an eminent panel on The Consciousness of Architecture and The Will of the Architect, asking whether architecture is a form of extended consciousness.
14 Sep 2023
Darlington Public School officially opens: a new primary school commissioned by Schools Infrastructure NSW and designed with the school community.
29 Aug 2023
Chris Bridge and Luis Betancor discuss evolving the Liverpool Civic Centre Library façade, from early investigation to prototype, at Zak World of Façades.
29 Aug 2023
fjcstudio wins three of the four International Architecture Awards given to Australian practices: Nunawading Community Hub, The Foundry and SubStation No. 164.
12 Jul 2023
Why the fence and the villa may be architecture’s most destructive typologies, partitioning land and driving alienation, inequality and environmental harm.
3 Jul 2023
Parliament Square Hobart wins Commercial Architecture, Heritage Architecture and Urban Design awards at the Tasmanian Chapter of the 2023 AIA Awards.
26 Jun 2023
fjcstudio wins three 2023 NSW AIA Awards: Educational Architecture for UTS Central, and Commercial Architecture and Heritage for SubStation No. 164.
26 May 2023
Design for Decolonisation: Richard Francis-Jones on how new architecture can begin to undo colonial architecture’s symbols and instruments of oppression.
23 May 2023
Liverpool’s new civic centre reaches a milestone: a 5000sqm library at the end of Macquarie Street, in a project fjcstudio has worked on for over seven years.
23 May 2023
Jindabyne Library opens, giving the largest regional NSW town without a library a facility, backed by Create NSW’s Regional Cultural Fund and a library grant.
17 Apr 2023
Celebrate the renaming of UNSW’s Red Centre as the Anita B. Lawrence Centre, with an exhibition of original drawings and models and a panel discussion.
3 Apr 2023
fjmtstudio becomes Francis-Jones Carpenter Studio (fjcstudio), a new name reflecting the leadership of Elizabeth Carpenter and Richard Francis-Jones.
24 Mar 2023
Annie Hensley, Head of fjcplace, gave the keynote at the IFLA seminar on Global and Indigenous Trends in Library Design, University of Sydney, 24 March 2023.
22 Dec 2022
Holiday closure dates for Christmas 2022: Australia closes 23 December and reopens 9 January 2023; the UK studio reopens 3 January, with thanks to clients.
2 Dec 2022
fjcstudio, with Jasmax and designTRIBE, wins the WAF Inside Public Building Award for Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Te Ao Marama South Atrium.
1 Dec 2022
The temporary timber pavilion on George Street, a crafted extension of the stone staircase at Crane Place, 200 George Street, is soon to be demolished.
1 Dec 2022
Student Castle Oxford, a landmark in the Oxpens regeneration, wins an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design 2022 Awards.
21 Oct 2022
The St Barnabas community celebrates 10 years in its contemporary city church, a space of connection and transcendence in the heart of the city.
14 Oct 2022
fjcstudio is selected to design The Cutaway, a welcoming destination shaped with First Nations Knowledge Keepers and Creatives led by Bangawarra and Jake Nash.
28 Sep 2022
Indesign Live profiles the rise of Bangawarra; fjcstudio reflects on working with Shannon Foster, Jo Kinniburgh and the team on projects and competitions.
21 Sep 2022
Architecture Australia features SubStation No. 164 in ‘Pathway to a dense, historic and beautiful city’, a fjcstudio project. Read the article online.
28 Jul 2022
Locating Giurgola launches an Australian Research Council-funded project on the work of Romaldo Giurgola, principal designer of Australian Parliament House.
30 Jun 2022
Unfrozen podcast episode 30 interviews Richard Francis-Jones, author of Truth and Lies in Architecture, on the role of the architect in the post-truth era.
22 Jun 2022
fjcstudio’s Sydney and Melbourne studios close on 23 and 24 June 2022 for Country Climate Community, the studio conference on deepening commitment in design.
31 May 2022
fjcstudio and Bangawarra develop a Connecting with Country Framework for Blackwattle Bay that acknowledges the stories and cultural significance of the site.
6 May 2022
Truth and Lies in Architecture, provocative essays by Richard Francis-Jones on the cultural, social and environmental challenges facing architects.
20 Dec 2021
Holiday closure dates for fjcstudio’s Australian and UK studios over Christmas 2021, with thanks to clients, consultants, contractors and staff.
6 Dec 2021
Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Te Ao Mārama South Atrium and galleries win both the Public and Heritage Awards at the NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.
8 Nov 2021
The Wolfson Building, a neuroscience research facility at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, wins at the RIBA South and Oxford Preservation Trust Awards.
8 Sep 2021
Bunjil Place wins the Impact Award at the Australian Interior Design Awards, recognised as a true civic heart bringing community and staff functions together.
3 Aug 2021
Richard Francis-Jones reflects on Sirius, saved from demolition, and what was lost despite its survival, in a Sydney Open panel on new heritage.
28 Jul 2021
Nunawading Community Hub receives a Commendation for Public Architecture from the Australian Institute of Architects in the Victorian Architecture Awards.
12 Mar 2021
LOST: Urban Propositions and Concepts, an exhibition of unrealised Sydney architecture ideas that are rarely shared and remain lost to the city’s culture.
8 Nov 2019
Annie Hensley, Head of fjcplace, writes in Indesign issue 79 about bringing back the town square. Read the article, published in November 2019.
22 Aug 2019
UTS Central officially opens as the final building in a 10-year campus redevelopment, with a ceremony at the Alumni Green beside the brutalist Tower.
18 Aug 2019
fjcstudio supports Architects Declare, a public commitment to address the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss through the way we design.
1 Apr 2019
Twelve olive trees lifted to level 17 of UTS Central form the Executive Gardens for the Vice Chancellor and research staff, ahead of July 2019 completion.
14 Aug 2018
Richard Francis-Jones speaks on the Frank Bartlett Library and Community Centre at The Architecture Symposium, Art Gallery of NSW, 28 September 2018.
20 Jun 2018
Elizabeth Carpenter speaks with Architecture Review’s Madeleine Swain about business, design and diversity, career progression for staff and new technologies.