WORK — March Studio

This monograph by Fleur Watson, part of RMIT and Thames & Hudson Australia’s EDITIONS series, offers an intimate look at one of Australia’s most dynamic young architecture practices. Designed by Stuart Geddes, the book reveals March Studio’s inventive, research-driven approach to design, blending form, materiality, and craft. Featuring essays, conversations, prototypes, and vibrant imagery, it provides a behind-the-scenes insight into their ambitious, playful, and experimental architectural culture.
March Studio - Making Architecture, Material & Process by Fleur Watson
9781760764708 | Hardback | Illustrated | AU $69.99
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Bidjara | Charleville, Queensland,
Ten pavilions unite beneath a dramatic circular roof that shades the site and frames a large rock landscaped courtyard.
Celebrating Country, climate, water and community gathering, the museum transforms during rain events into an Impluvium, becoming a resilient, contemporary place of storytelling, ceremony, reflection and connection to the Outback.

Ngunnawal | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Drawing inspiration from Canberra’s brutalist concrete heritage, reimagined for contemporary living. A series of rammed concrete blade walls, embedded with recycled brick and local Ginninderra Red Granite, define each home while bringing warmth, texture and thermal comfort. Seven dwellings are unified by a central, light-filled void, softened with terracotta screens and seasonal plantings, balancing privacy, community and connection to the local climate and landscape.

Hong Kong
This invited international design competition proposal for Louis Vuitton’s flagship store in Times Square, Hong Kong centres on timber sourced from sustainably managed forests, forming a refined and highly legible architectural expression. A space-frame structure weaves from façade to interior, integrating display, structure, and lighting while referencing Louis Vuitton’s heritage of craftsmanship, travel, and material innovation.

Wurundjeri | Cremorne, Victoria
An urban renewal project that transforms over 2,500 square metres of underutilised ground plane into a layered landscape for work, recreation, and community. Rewilding a former carpark between office buildings, the project introduces gardens, public amenities, art, and architecture to reconnect an overlooked corner of Cremorne with its surrounding streets and daily life.

Bunurong | Sorrento, Victoria
Inspired by the concrete bunkers of Fort Nepean, a robust coastal residence designed for permanence and retreat. Oriented north to Port Phillip Bay, expansive glazing frames moonah trees and water beyond, while deep concrete overhangs temper the sun. Cross ventilation, endemic planting and crafted timber detailing soften the structure. A lightweight black timber pool house contrasts the solid main form, completing a carefully balanced coastal sanctuary.

Wurundjeri | Strathmore, Victoria
A study in mass and void: a sculpted concrete volume carved, hollowed and split to form a porous domestic landscape. Organised around a central swimmable courtyard, two wings are stitched together by a soaring double-height void and suspended steel catwalk. Commercial construction techniques, curved precast panels and monumental glazing transform the house into an engineered yet luminous family retreat.

Wurundjeri | Richmond, Victoria
A renovation to a grand 1888 Boom-era home as a layered contemporary family dwelling. Delivered over a decade in close collaboration with the builder-client and his family, the project unfolded in carefully staged interventions, with the house progressively renovated and reoccupied. A discreet basement, light-filled rear addition and shaded steel screen extend the home while respectfully restoring its historic fabric.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
A visionary proposal for Melbourne’s CBD, conceived to blur the boundaries between reality and imagination. Inspired by the theme of weather, the design integrates atmospheric art, including Random International’s Rain Room, within a 70-metre tower rising from a heritage red-brick base. Thirty-two guest rooms, three restaurants and a rooftop bar wrapped in a cloud-like structure create a distinctly Melbourne experience shaped by sky and light.

Wurundjeri | Doncaster, Victoria
Revisiting an early March Studio project, transforming 7,560 reclaimed amber bottles into a luminous, transportable ceiling system. Originally conceived in 2008 as a modular, demountable retail environment, the project embeds direct reuse at its core. Re-emerging for our twentieth collaboration with Aesop, the bottles once again float overhead, reframing retail architecture as a system designed for longevity, adaptability and renewal.

Product
A true passion project of ours, blending old and new technologies — the warmth of authentic sound with the convenience of wireless streaming from your phone. Departing from the conventional symmetrical amplifier with exposed transformers, we’ve created a fully integrated piece of furniture. High-power, wide-range speaker drivers sit within a transmission line enclosure, all housed in a perforated, anodised aluminium sound bar that clips seamlessly into our wall-mounted folded aluminium shelf system.

Wurundjeri | Fitzroy, Victoria
Our fourth collaboration with Industry Beans, returning to its origins within a sawtooth warehouse just streets from where it began. Roasting, packing, hospitality and retail are unified under one skylit industrial shell. We retained the raw structure, inserting new operational zones, mesh, planting and recycled timber to frame production as theatre, balancing craft, community and operational clarity.

Wurundjeri | Brighton, Victoria
A reinterpretation of the suburban dwelling by challenging the introverted character of its neighbours. Set back to reveal an embankment of native grasses, the house combines a grounded concrete base with a hovering upper volume supported by oversized steel trusses. Wrapped in a veil of copper that filters light and provides privacy, the project brings together industrial scaled structure, material experimentation and landscape to create an open and generous presence within its suburban context.

Paris, France
Located within a discreet courtyard on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, this flagship store translates Damir’s layered aesthetic into architecture. Raw concrete, blackened steel, travertine stone and verdigris mirrored ceilings create a space that balances refinement with material honesty. Organised around a sculptural stone staircase, the interior unfolds as a series of intimate rooms that frame and elevate the collections.

Bunurong | Portsea, Victoria
Set within the coastal landscape of Portsea, this residence is conceived as a composed refuge, embedded into the natural topography of its rising site. The architecture unfolds as a series of cascading concrete shelves that mirror the land’s incline, establishing a measured rhythm between the built form and the terrain.

Product
These stools are a locally produced response to the need for a compact, durable seating solution suited to hospitality environments. Formed from CNC-bent wire with metal or timber tops, they balance robustness with refinement, allowing them to transition seamlessly into domestic settings while maintaining a consistent material and finish language.

Turrbal | Newstead, Queensland
Extending a long-standing collaboration between March Studio and Daniel Chirico, building on the success of the Carlton original for a new site. Set across two levels in Newstead, the bakery reveals its production as performance, with ovens, provers and specialised equipment on display. A cascading CNC-cut plywood interior and richly textured materials create a warm, immersive space that celebrates craft, process and continuity.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
A contemporary take on the traditional corner milk bar as a piece of urban infrastructure. Set on a prominent CBD corner, the gelateria is formed from folded stainless steel and bluestone that extends from the pavement, creating a durable, open and efficient space where service, craft and city life converge seamlessly.

March Studio is a solutions-driven practice shaped by a diverse network of makers, collaborators and contributors from across cultures and countries. The studio is defined by the many people who have engaged with it over time, each bringing distinct perspectives, skills and ways of thinking.

Bunurong | St. Kilda, Victoria
Transforming an overlooked piece of urban airspace into a cultural platform, framing architecture as both infrastructure and event. Designed to house Random International’s Rain Room, the temporary structure embraces ephemerality, combining engineered precision with a cloud-like, reusable scaffold system that dissolves into Melbourne’s overcast sky.

Gadigal | Sydney, New South Wales
A compact 55 square metre café perched above Martin Place Station, engaging a 10 metre high void. Wrapped in backlit fibreglass, the interior reads as a luminous volume, amplifying scale and height. Highly efficient planning integrates custom elements, creating a calm, precise counterpoint within a dense urban condition.

Step inside our studio and discover where ideas are tested, made, and built. Explore previously closed doors and experience the tools, processes, and people shaping the work, an active workshop of experimentation, collaboration, and production where architecture moves from concept to reality through making.

Muwinina | Pontville, Tasmania
Set within the historic Shene Estate, our design for the new Lark Distillery offers an immersive journey through Tasmania’s whisky-making process. Drawing on the island’s pristine reputation, the design weaves heritage buildings with bold new forms, uniting production and visitor experience. Giant concrete culverts frame views to kunanyi/Mount Wellington, while restored stone and timber echo the site’s layered history. The result is a masterplan that celebrates craft, landscape, and the enduring spirit of Tasmanian whisky.

Bunurong | Chadstone, Victoria
This project presents the gelateria as a sculptural pavilion within the Social Quarter. Formed from polished stainless steel tubing, the kiosk references the craft of gelato through its material logic. Reduced to a series of repeating lines, it reads as refined urban furniture, pairing industrial precision with a playful, immersive brand experience.

Bunurong | Brighton, Victoria
Ten years on from its completion, The Local Project revisits March Studio’s iconic Compound House. View the film here.

Hong Kong
Responding to Hong Kong’s vertical terrain, the design constructs a stepped groundscape within a constrained volume. Glass brick elements form a translucent, elevated interior, while a central counter and refined steel structure maximise spatial efficiency. Local granite and retained fabric anchor the project within its industrial and urban context.

Turrbal | Brisbane, Queensland
This project responds to a complex retail environment defined by dual entries, shifting ceiling heights and an expansive footprint. A freestanding structure is inserted to organise the space, creating a focused product and testing area while dividing the plan into back-of-house zones and a controlled, curated window display interface.

Muwinina | Hobart, Tasmania
A dark, immersive whisky bar in Hobart, The Still brings together archive, theatre and atmosphere. Barrels, bottles and Bill Lark’s original still sit within a rich material palette, while retractable tasting elements and a monumental fireplace frame a distinctly Tasmanian ritual of gathering, warmth and whisky.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
Watch an exclusive film from EST Living on March Studio’s award-winning apartment and foyer works at the 1970’s Tower of Power.

Bunurong | Frankston, Victoria
A careful reworking of a 1960s campus, this project retains and extends existing structures to deliver a light-filled, flexible library and improved circulation. A lifted roof introduces clerestory daylight, while covered walkways and adaptable interiors support contemporary learning, play and community use through efficient, minimal intervention.

Product
A study in reduction, the Rigmarole Coffee Table is formed from a single sheet of aluminium, shaped through standard industrial processes. The design aligns material, fabrication and use into a clear, durable object, where structure is explicit and time is registered through surface change rather than concealed complexity.

Geneva, Switzerland
Set within Geneva’s culture of precision and quiet wealth, this Aesop store is shaped by the material and symbolic resonance of copper. A sculptural, Citroën CX–inspired sink anchors the space, while layered textures of cork, sisal and timber soften its lustre, creating an atmosphere of warmth, craft and understated luxury.

Bunurong | Gardenvale, Victoria
Rethinking the contemporary coffee space through a raw, system-driven interior, the project transforms a narrow tenancy and tight budget into a cohesive environment. Standard elements are reworked to accommodate roasting, service and storage, where utility and material consistency shape both the spatial experience and the identity of the project.

Kulin Nation | Rural Victoria
This annexe extends an 1850s homestead through a farmstead logic of dispersed forms unified by a cypress hedge. A copper-clad volume stretches east, opening north to expansive views, shaping a protected courtyard, and culminating in a glazed master suite that contrasts with the original’s solid, enclosed rooms.

Bunurong | Hawthorn, Victoria
Located in Hawthorne, where the urban fabric is defined by deep, narrow allotments, this residence redefines the traditional suburban "hallway" as a unifying element. Rather than a singular mass, the home is conceived as a series of isolated pavilions, strung together by a continuous utility corridor that serves as a unifying connective tissue.

Ngunnawal | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Reimagining Canberra’s cultural landscape, this project helped bring the capital of age, establishing a new benchmark for civic and social interiors. Widely used by Tourism Australia to promote both Canberra and Australia, it earned global recognition, winning the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors award for World Interior of the Year.

Mouheneener | Kingston, Tasmania
The Kingborough Community Hub is the catalyst and centre of a suburban renewal project south of Hobart. In 2016, March Studio won the bid to redevelop 11.3 hectares of the former Kingston High School, a project intended to address the regional housing crisis. The scheme creates a "future town square" at the heart of Kingston Park, forming a vibrant civic core for a suburb that is still evolving.

Product
These stools are a locally produced response to the need for a compact, durable seating solution suited to hospitality environments. Formed from CNC-bent wire with metal or timber tops, they balance robustness with refinement, allowing them to transition seamlessly into domestic settings while maintaining a consistent material and finish language.

March Studio is a solutions-driven practice shaped by a diverse network of makers, collaborators and contributors from across cultures and countries. The studio is defined by the many people who have engaged with it over time, each bringing distinct perspectives, skills and ways of thinking.

Arrente | Alice Springs, Northern Territory
The Kings Narrative Gathering Pavilion was designed as a functional architectural framework that supports the specific, community-led programs of Kings Narrative. The resulting structure is an outdoor amphitheatre designed as a versatile platform for the organization’s teaching, storytelling, and group workshops.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
Completed in 2016, the foyer now sits within a heritage overlay, recognised as a ‘remarkably intact’ interior. It occupies an unusual position, simultaneously contemporary and protected. The project collapses conventional timelines, where a recent intervention is already considered heritage, reinforcing the building’s ongoing life rather than fixing it in the past.

Brisbane, Queensland
Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, held in Brisbane in 2010, brought together government, industry and the public to explore design’s capacity to shape culture and drive change. At its centre, the Make Change exhibition transformed the State Library into an immersive cloud of suspended paper, where interconnected projects formed a contemplative landscape, demonstrating how design thinking can meaningfully improve lives across the region while embracing resourcefulness and reuse.

Wurundjeri | Studley Park, Victoria
A house anchored lightly to its site, where structure and landscape work in concert to shape daily life. Conceived as an upside down dwelling, it balances privacy and openness, framing views through canopy and light, while expressing a clear, modern language that brings family, function and form into quiet alignment.

Muwinina | Hobart, Tasmania
Set within Hobart’s Mercury building, a previously disused space is transformed into a vibrant destination for tasting, making and work. Botanical exploration, immersive workshops and crafted cocktails sit alongside daily operations, forming a cohesive environment that establishes a distinctive and enduring home for the brand.

Zurich, Switzerland
Each Aesop store revolves around contextual design, ensuring each location reflects its surroundings. Zurich's Oberdorfstrasse creates a deliberately unadorned and raw space, utilising recycled construction materials. Zurich's immaculate and organised construction sites contrasted with those in Australia, prompting the repurposing the common yellow hoarding boards found across the city into the store's design.

Bunurong | Mornington Peninsula. Victoria
This winery and cellar door is conceived as a precise response to the vineyard’s geometry, aligning structure with the rhythm of planted rows. Balancing public hospitality with production, it integrates tasting, dining, and storage within a clear structural logic, where concrete and structure are expressed, reinforcing a direct connection to process and place.

Gadigal | Sydney, New South Wales
This project responds to strict preservation controls with a self-supporting interior system. Drawing on tensegrity principles and maritime language, it integrates structure, services, and custom aluminium elements into a transportable framework that preserves the building while enabling future reuse beyond the site.

Arrernte | Alice Springs, Northern Territory
This project responds to limited services, restrictive planning controls, and complex governance. Rather than offering a total solution, it proposes a modest, multi-functional intervention, combining shelter and water infrastructure, to support daily life while acknowledging the broader systemic challenges at play.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
An iconic interior language defines this Melbourne institution, fusing theatrical dining with spatial precision. Layered timber, brick and steel establish a distinctive architectural identity, where compressed entry and unfolding volume heighten experience, creating a bold and enduring presence within the city’s laneway culture.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
Redefining a university campus, The Oxford Scholar transforms a heritage pub into a multi-level social and academic hub. Integrating large-scale hospitality with teaching, events, and collaboration, the project balances complex compliance and infrastructure upgrades with a warm, durable material language, creating a central gathering place embedded within campus life.

Bunurong | Point Nepean National Park
QUARANTINE STUDIO speculated on the rebirth of regionalism by proposing new local tourism activations. The studio investigated the land, buildings, and structures in and around Melbourne’s original sanatorium, proposing new uses for the previously underutilized public land, landscape, and infrastructure.

Bunurong | Sorrento, Victoria
A high-capacity storage and maintenance facility that transforms industrial necessity into atmospheric architecture. A robust structure supports stacked vessels, while a kinetic Corten façade acts as a very large weather vane, registering wind, amplifying coastal conditions, and celebrating the craft and culture of local boat making.

Product
These stools are a locally produced response to the need for a compact, durable seating solution suited to hospitality environments. Formed from CNC-bent wire with metal or timber tops, they balance robustness with refinement, allowing them to transition seamlessly into domestic settings while maintaining a consistent material and finish language.

Wurundjeri | Emerald, Victoria
A museum, gallery, retail space, and restaurant are brought together within a single, immersive architectural experience that distils the Puffing Billy journey into built form. Embedded within the landscape and anchored by a new platform, the project choreographs movement between ground and canopy, uniting infrastructure, narrative, and place.

Muwinina | Hobart, Tasmania
An immersive workplace shaped by landscape, this Hobart headquarters centres on a 700-square-metre internal rainforest that draws the Tasmanian wilderness into the city. Blurring boundaries between nature and office, the project creates a performative, atmospheric environment designed to attract global talent while remaining grounded in its local context.

Wurundjeri | Docklands, Victoria
A high-performance workplace in Melbourne’s CBD, Kapitol Group’s headquarters redefines the contemporary office through flexibility, material clarity, and biophilic design. Integrating open, collaborative and focused environments, the project creates a refined yet dynamic setting that supports evolving modes of work while reinforcing the company’s culture, ambition, and commitment to excellence.

Wurundjeri | State of Design Festival
March Studio continues to use the yellow trace from the After Dark installation, extending its life well beyond the original event. Retained as both material resource and conceptual artifact, it remains embedded within the studio’s ongoing process—reappearing in drawings, models, and installations as a quiet continuity of practice.

Product
We like simple and these tables are about as simple as it gets. Each one comprises a single piece of anodised aluminium with folded corners; one simple move repeated four times. The utilitarian nature of the folded aluminium means these coffee tables are not only lightweight but also robust. These tables will last forever and age gracefully.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
A careful reinvigoration of a 1973 Brutalist landmark, this project brings 124 Exhibition Street into the present through targeted upgrades and spatial refinement. Enhancing performance, accessibility and amenity, the design amplifies the building’s original character while extending its life as a resilient and relevant presence within Melbourne’s CBD.

March Studio is a solutions-driven practice shaped by a diverse network of makers, collaborators and contributors from across cultures and countries. The studio is defined by the many people who have engaged with it over time, each bringing distinct perspectives, skills and ways of thinking.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
A careful restoration of a 1970s apartment, this project strips back accumulated layers to reveal volume, light and view. Precise insertions recalibrate the interior, aligning material, atmosphere and use. The result is a restrained yet richly detailed space that honours its origins while supporting contemporary modes of living.

Bunurong | Somers, Victoria
A contemporary reinterpretation of the Australian beach house, Somers Beach House draws from mid-century coastal typologies to create a relaxed, light-filled retreat. Two timber pavilions frame a flexible domestic landscape, balancing simplicity, structure and openness while reconnecting with the rhythms, materiality and social ease of life by the sea.

Jaitmatang | Falls Creek, Victoria
This 27-square-metre retreat is a calibrated spatial system that eschews traditional rooms for integrated, interdependent layers. Utilizing capsule architecture and curved geometries, it maximizes movement within a compact footprint. Atmospheric lighting and cinematic details create an adaptable, otherworldly environment that performs far beyond its size.

Bunurong | Chadstone, Victoria
This 400sqm framework transforms an irregular retail space into an integrated café, restaurant, and roastery. Utilizing industrial fibreglass to modulate light and acoustics, the design rationalizes complex geometry into a cohesive system. It prioritizes spatial precision over traditional signage, establishing a disciplined, breathable environment through careful calibration.

NGV Pavilion, Melbourne
GAV reimagines the NGV Summer Pavilion as a reusable system, transforming the existing structure into a vibrant, climbable canopy of colour. Developed during Australia’s marriage equality plebiscite, it operates as both playground and civic room, an open, tactile environment that invites gathering, interaction, and a quiet sense of shared cultural affirmation.

Brunswick, Victoria
A house and secondary dwelling are reorganised around a shared garden, conceived as the project’s central room. Extending and simplifying the existing roof, a cylindrical courtyard is carved from the form, drawing light and life inward. The result is a compact, materially direct architecture shaped equally by building and landscape.

Lenape Land | New York City, United States
Aesop Bleeker Street takes inspiration from a bygone era of the neighbourhood’s artistic legacy and combines it with the streamlined aesthetic of the New York Underground. Articulated in timber, leather and brass, the warm and intimate ambience is accentuated by the subtle patina that develops on these natural materials as they age gracefully. The timber panels acquire a deeper richness, the leather upholstery gains character through wear, and the brass elements develop a soft, alluring sheen.

Wurundjeri | South Yarra, Melbourne
Above the heritage base, the addition consists of a series of suspended concrete planes, each defined by a planted green edge. This stacked garden approach expresses the layered nature of the office type, using large concrete edges and perimeter planting to emphasize each level.

Melbourne, Victoria
This urban molecule brings the city fringe into the CBD; it is the meeting of a shipping yard with the central urban situation of China town. With Melbourne’s CBD towering above, this open-air setting creates a captivating stage where the individual becomes both spectator and performer, as an array of towering structures form an urban spectacle. Section 08 is Melbourne’s first truly temporary bar, eschewing the niceties of fashion and disregarding superficial trends, the project instead responds to the surrounding environment, weather conditions, and the harsh reality that the notion of a "designer bar" in Melbourne is swiftly replaced by the next in line. By the time Melbourne grows tired of this temporary bar, the bar itself will have already moved on, having grown weary of Melbourne itself.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne
A fit-out across four levels of RMIT Building 100 inserts a reversible system within the building’s warehouse half. Teaching spaces are defined by a modular framework aligned to the existing grid, enabling continual reconfiguration while preserving the integrity and intent of the original architecture.

Yugambeh | Carrara, Queensland
The exterior is defined by a series of cantilevered disks clad in roll-formed steel with integrated gardens positioned along their edges

Dear client, collaborator, or curious observer, Welcome to March Studio.

Wurundjeri | Prahran, Victoria
Greville Street in Prahran once held a similar allure to New York's West Village – a lively, gritty neighbourhood where being effortlessly cool was the norm. Embracing this spirit, this Aesop project deploys computer numerical controlled (CNC) cut plywood, a sustainable and unassuming material primarily used in the industry for structural bracing. The plywood was showcased en masse, forming a grid that was intentionally fragmented to accommodate the varying sizes of Aesop's diverse product categories.

Wurundjeri | Birrarung Marr
Whadjuk | Perth
Turrbal | Brisbane
These interactive installations engage children using 1:1 cardboard replicas of Archetypal international dwellings. By drawing and painting on the surfaces, participants explore cultural preconceptions and daily rituals. This collaborative "ordered chaos" transforms blank spaces into vivid expressions of shared values, challenging misconceptions while highlighting the nuances of diverse global contexts.

Worldwide Retail Strategy
Engaged to develop a prototype for global retail, the project operates without a site, proposing a system rather than a store, a framework for identity that is adaptable, repeatable, and responsive. Retail is repositioned as an evolving environment, defined by rules, not form.

Wurundjeri | North Melbourne, Victoria
Housed in an exquisite Victorian shop adorned with grand copper-clad framed windows and intricate stained glass above, the host building for this Aesop store required minimal alterations. The walls were painted in a pink hue found in Le Corbusier's Polychromie Architecturale colour book, while the ceiling and facade received a dark grey coating. Three old fountains were repurposed and hung from the wall as hand basins.

Tallinn, Estonia
Addressing global housing and climate crises, this project replaces conventional construction with factory-made, carbon-negative timber modules. These transportable, customizable units function as standalone residences or interchangeable parts of a vertical village. Utilizing renewable CLT technology, this system delivers a sustainable, tech-driven future for a community-positive, high-performance housing industry.

Wurundjeri | Kensington, Victoria
Expanding on roof geometries, this project modernizes an Edwardian cottage for a family of five. A concrete basement accommodates living and parking, while a twisting zinc roof makes a bold statement. This "big gesture" balances heritage constraints with light-filled interiors and panoramic city views through glazed portals.

Wurundjeri | RMIT Gallery
Taungurung | Mansfield
The work 4” x 2” Nest responds to ideas of a ‘gathered architecture’ – structures that are woven or stacked from materials that are otherwise discarded. The project provokes several fundamental propositions around architecture and domesticity: if a home is a collection of stuff, what makes a shelter? Sanctuary and protection nurture fundamental acts of kindness.

Bunurong | Chadstone, Victoria
This kiosk translates graphic identity into spatial form, evolving a two-dimensional brand into a three-dimensional object. A porous, suspended halo wraps the site in a lightweight skin inspired by signature packaging. Featuring Noritake’s illustrations, Black Star Pastry Chadstone merges architecture and branding into a cohesive, immersive retail experience.

Zurich, Switzerland
Carved from a cork whole, this texturally rich environment preserves verticality with fixtures suspended from five-metre ceilings. Mesmerising blocks and matte gold accents infuse a sophisticated glow, while a black steel trough provides a bold counterpoint. This design celebrates cork’s inherent beauty and a sustainable tomorrow.

March Studio is a solutions-driven practice shaped by a diverse network of makers, collaborators and contributors from across cultures and countries. The studio is defined by the many people who have engaged with it over time, each bringing distinct perspectives, skills and ways of thinking.

Product
These stools are a locally produced response to the need for a compact, durable seating solution suited to hospitality environments. Formed from CNC-bent wire with metal or timber tops, they balance robustness with refinement, allowing them to transition seamlessly into domestic settings while maintaining a consistent material and finish language.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
Drawing inspiration from the vibrant, post-industrial district of Athens sharing its name, Gazi embraced a rough, hedonistic aesthetic. The old Press Club restaurant that previously occupied the space had its hidebound environment stripped bare, its raw bones exposed, and then meticulously reimagined in the stylised forms reminiscent of ancient urns and vases. To pay homage to the craft of clay ware, a striking assemblage of 3874 suspended pots hung from the ceiling, evoking the grandeur of sweeping vaults that gracefully danced around windows and doors.

Muwinina | Hobart, Tasmania
This compact, transportable kiosk translates whisky’s material culture into a mobile architectural object. Composed of decommissioned oak barrels suspended within a steel armature, the design reimagines traditional bond stores. The result is a porous, functional structure that distills the essence of Lark into a highly refined, portable Tasmanian architectural expression.

Bunurong | RMIT Design Studio
The Life Saving Club is a familiar fixture of the Australian coast, traditionally serving as a hub for community volunteerism and shoreline safety

Gadigal | Sydney, New South Wales
A hotel tower reinterprets Sydney’s sandstone geology and culture of swimming pools into a vertical landscape. Pools at podium and roof define the building, while a screening system mediates urban density, gradually thinning with height. The architecture is shaped through erosion, water, and exposure rather than fixed form.

Wurundjeri | Canterbury, Victoria
A three-level headquarters reworks an existing commercial building into a connected system. Organised by an underlying grid, workspaces, meeting rooms, and shared areas are distributed across floors and linked by a central stair, transforming separate levels into a unified, continuous workplace environment.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
Challenging traditional glass-case displays, this installation presents jewelry through magnification and light. Twenty overhead projectors cast enlarged imagery onto opaque surfaces, creating a vibrant, multi-scale landscape. This immersive approach invites viewers to explore the fine details of form and material, fostering a novel connection with each piece.

Wurundjeri | Carlton, Victoria
This interior honors traditional baking through undulating CNC-routed plywood walls designed to cool and display naked loaves. Meticulous shelving accommodates various shapes, allowing for flexible arrangements. Complementing this, a central chopping-board counter simplifies the sales process into the essential ritual of slicing, wrapping, and selling bread.

Singapore
A retail interior redefined as a suspended field rather than a fixed enclosure, the project uses 60 kilometres of coconut husk twine to create a shifting, tactile atmosphere. In contrast to its context, it foregrounds material behaviour, ritual and spatial experience over conventional display and permanence.

Wurundjeri | Middle Park, Victoria
A free standing Edwardian house is cut to make way for two brick pavilions organised around a narrow courtyard. The project rethinks the suburban extension, separating rather than consolidating programme, and using light, ventilation and movement to structure a family home defined by balance, autonomy and connection.

Bunurong | Caufield Line
Wurundjeri | Dandenong Line
Removing level crossings has unlocked previously inaccessible land, creating a dynamic network of public spaces beneath elevated tracks. These nodes utilize bold graphics and recreational facilities to celebrate local culture and history. This transformation turns transit infrastructure into inclusive community hubs that foster pride, exploration, and social connection.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
At a fine-dining level, food is an artisanal creation, where every dish receives meticulous attention to its arrangement, presentation, smell, sound and taste. The sophisticated crafting of the Press Club dining room mirrors this philosophy. In the old Herald Sun building on the edge of the Melbourne CBD, this interior extends the discourse between the guest and chef within an elegant setting.

Kaurna | Adelaide, South Australia
The stores design draws inspiration from the vibrant Adelaide Central Market. Contemplating the charm of a market stall, where the produce itself becomes the store, the idea here revolved around bringing the essence of a marketplace into the shopping centre, celebrating the client's product – a humble amber glass bottle – en masse.

Gadigal | Barangaroo, Sydney
This design reimagines Sydney’s lost natural waterways through a pavilion of cascading ponds. A giant vortex filters harbor water, creating translucent walls for events and play. This interactive, sustainable landmark cleans the environment while establishing a modest new icon inextricably linked to the city’s deep connection with water.

Gadigal | Sydney, New South Wales
Set within a highly ornate heritage arcade, this project adopts a deliberately reductive approach. White porcelain elements—sinks, tiles and lighting—form a calm interior, offset by turquoise accents referencing Sydney Harbour. A CNC-routed system enables precision, efficient assembly and a durable structure that continues to perform over time.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
The landscape of shopping has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, with online stores often overtaking traditional ‘high street’ retail for the sake of convenience. Sneakerboy Melbourne emerged at the forefront of this retail revolution, taking the concept of web-based retail and bringing it directly to the streets. By blurring the boundaries between the physical and digital realms, the store established a destination that operates with the fluid logic and efficiency of an online platform.

Wurundjeri | Melbourne, Victoria
The project explores the application of cardboard in a retail setting, seeking to demonstrate that the material is both suitable and environmentally responsible. This approach stands in stark contrast to the wastefulness often seen in traditional retail fit-outs, which frequently last only as long as a standard lease. This urgent commission required the creation of a temporary store ready to open within just two weeks to cater to the Christmas rush.

Wherever the seas will take her
This 46-foot cruising smack features a sprung keel and a custom fitout by March Studio. Crafted by the Wooden Boatshop, the interior includes a curved dining booth, brass accents, and a writing nook. Based on Ken Lacco’s hull drawings, the project honors the memory of Eggleston’s mother.

Muwinina | Franklin, Tasmania
A compact, timber-framed house in Franklin pushes verticality over footprint. Octagonal in plan and diamond in section, it stacks living into a self-supporting form, extending outward through four decks calibrated to Tasmania’s shifting weather and expansive valley views.

March Studio is a solutions-driven practice shaped by a diverse network of makers, collaborators and contributors from across cultures and countries. The studio is defined by the many people who have engaged with it over time, each bringing distinct perspectives, skills and ways of thinking.

Paris, France
The store serves as a captivating exploration of materials, particularly the inherent warmth of timber. Located within a 17th-century building near the elegant Palais Royal, the design is profoundly influenced by delicate parquetry often found in the city's historic apartments. Embracing a contemporary abstraction of this historic decorative technique, the interior is a complex assemblage of consistent elements as though intricately carved from within.

Paris, France
A narrow tenancy at Place Vendôme is transformed into an ever changing clock. Organised around a twelve sided mirrored volume, the store reflects and recalibrates itself in response to time, product and context, dissolving spatial limits while creating a continuously shifting retail environment defined by light, reflection and precision.

Wurundjeri | South Melbourne, Victoria
This workplace features a pioneering construction method using sustainable timber. Engineered beams form a seamless interior where desks and stairs merge into one giant furniture piece. Optimized for efficiency, the grid layout accommodates 3,000 folders, blending natural materials with forward-thinking design to ensure long-term sustainability.

Paris, France
In 2010, Merci Merci emerged as one of the world's trendiest concept stores upon its arrival in Paris. Having garnered attention in the design and product world, Aesop was invited to feature their products in a three-month installation at the store. Using the brand's own packaging, an undulating featured ceiling rises up one wall and spreads across the space. Surplus standard shipping boxes recently sent from Aesop HQ in Melbourne were repurposed to create a display like the temporary store on Flinders Lane.

Wurundjeri | North Melbourne, Victoria
Originally a 1970s Brutalist warehouse commissioned by AFL legends Wes Lofts and Ron Barassi, this space was reimagined by March Studio in 2015. The headquarters features a central "factory for making" with CNC and 3D printing capabilities. This creative hub honors its heritage while fostering hands-on experimentation and innovative architectural construction.

Gadigal | Sydney, New South Wales
Challenging traditional retail, this stockless showroom bridges digital and physical worlds via a seamless app-based experience. Inspired by a retro-futuristic subway station, the design features interactive LED tickers and exposed cabling. This tech-forward space highlights modern connectivity, merging high-fashion history with the infrastructure of the internet.