Gray Puksand

Gray Puksand An Australian architecture and integrated design practice, creating an inspired future by improving the way people work, learn and live.

Australian multi-studio architecture and interior design practice

At Greenway Views Seniors’ Living Village in Canberra, we applied the thinking shared in our Designing the Future of Sen...
12/06/2026

At Greenway Views Seniors’ Living Village in Canberra, we applied the thinking shared in our Designing the Future of Senior Living white paper to a real, complex project.

Working with Cromwell Property and LDK Healthcare, the Gray Puksand team reimagined five former government buildings into a connected community supporting ageing in place across the full spectrum of care. The goal was to create a place that feels like home, not a facility.
Key decisions were guided by daily life, and apartments were designed to support resident independence.

Colour was used deliberately to aid navigation and reduce dementia related agitation. Materials and lighting were selected for warmth, familiarity and clarity.

The resulting accommodation is a place where residents can live with dignity and freedom, and ultimately, an improved quality of life.

10/06/2026

Gray Puksand’s Digital Design Technology team is testing and implementing early stage carbon insight workflows using Autodesk Forma, exploring embodied carbon, operational carbon and energy use intensity from the very beginning of a project. By modeling early-stage carbon insights, we are able to make more informed decisions around sustainable architecture.

By using the digital models already developed during concept and schematic design, teams can see how key choices around massing, materials and façades impact performance while design options are still flexible.

The result? Carbon and performance become part of everyday design conversations, and not a late stage compliance exercise to help project teams and clients make more informed decisions from day one.

Gray Puksand welcomes the announcement construction has commenced on EPEC’s new 100 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane hea...
08/06/2026

Gray Puksand welcomes the announcement construction has commenced on EPEC’s new 100 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane headquarters.

This necessary relocation due to EPEC’s continued growth will see a total of 3450+sqm refurbished to reflect EPEC’s corporate values, and employee-centric workspace requirements.

Following a workplace strategy engagement, and drawing inspiration from EPEC’s brand, Gray Puksand has created a workplace concept that positions EPEC as Australia’s renewable energy grid connector.

Inspired by the concept of light, the design uses light as a dynamic material that shapes the workplace experience through its reflection, transmission, and absorption. This approach creates a highly connected, adaptable, and energised environment that embodies EPEC’s role in enabling the flow of renewable energy across Australia.

See renders of the library, breakout space and staff lockers as this project comes to life.

Designing for senior living means understanding more than buildings.Our Seniors Living team understands how ageing, deme...
05/06/2026

Designing for senior living means understanding more than buildings.

Our Seniors Living team understands how ageing, dementia and care are closely linked with the built environment. That understanding comes from specialist training undertaken by team members with Dementia Australia and hands on experience with the realities faced by residents, families and care teams.

We’ve strengthened this capability further through early access assessment audits, allowing our teams to identify risks, ask better questions, and design with greater confidence from the outset.

This reflects the outcome of our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living and how design can support dignity, independence and wellbeing over time.

Read the white paper herehttps://www.graypuksand.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Paper_Designing-the-Future-of-Senior-Living.pdf

Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and suppo...
03/06/2026

Giving kids their best start, these three new regional Early Learning Centres complement existing school sites and support local communities.

The centres are designed around a series of architectural principles which reflect their function. The forms are designed with simplicity of design and construction using a series of modular elements.

Key facade elements are accentuated through scale and material composition to create an architecture in the round. These elements highlight key entries and create a sense of hierarchy in the built forms.

Materials and colours reflect the regional context drawing upon natural landscape elements and the muted colour palette of the Victorian Riverina and Goldfields regions. These help to embed the centres and create a strong connection to place.

Photographer: Tom Roe

Senior living shouldn’t feel institutional, it should feel like home. We still see environments shaped by compliance and...
29/05/2026

Senior living shouldn’t feel institutional, it should feel like home.

We still see environments shaped by compliance and efficiency than by the everyday experience of the people who live and work there.

The new Aged Care Act and National Design Guidelines have shifted this thinking, and has lead to Four Design Principles that center on the experience of the individual, not the provider. This starts with enabling the person, cultivating a true sense of home, ensure real access to nature and connecting people back to the community.

Success looks different when you design this way. Homes feel familiar and nature becomes integral to everyday life. Community connection is genuine and not symbolic.

When we start with people rather than systems, better design outcomes are achieved.

We’ve captured this thinking, and the practical lessons behind it, in our white paper Designing the Future of Senior Living by Pragya Gupta our National Senior Living Lead.

Read morehttps://www.graypuksand.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Paper_Designing-the-Future-of-Senior-Living.pdf

This National Reconciliation Week 27 May – 3 June, the theme All In is a call for all Australians to commit to reconcili...
27/05/2026

This National Reconciliation Week 27 May – 3 June, the theme All In is a call for all Australians to commit to reconciliation wholeheartedly, not just during a week but every day.
At Gray Puksand, reconciliation is an ongoing commitment to listening, learning and strengthening relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, embedded across our practice.

To mark Reconciliation Week, we’re taking time to reflect, learn and connect through Cultural Appreciation training, the installation of our artwork Galyna Woka (Beautiful Land – Yorta Yorta) by KINYA LERRK across our studios, the celebration of First Nations music artists, and participation in local Reconciliation Week events.

View the images to see our artwork created as part of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), followed by a range of projects designed with Country, community and collective intelligence.

Photographer: Tanika Blair (Dakabin Youth Hub); Tatjana Plitt (Medibank); Anthony McKee (Kitjara – The Gordon Institute)
Artists: Kinya Lerrk (Emma Bamblett and Megan Van Den berg)

Reconciliation Australia

Senior Living Whitepaper: Design Matters Now More Than EverIn the wake of the Royal Commission, the new Aged Care Act an...
22/05/2026

Senior Living Whitepaper: Design Matters Now More Than Ever

In the wake of the Royal Commission, the new Aged Care Act and National Design Guidelines have fundamentally shifted expectations for aged care environments to a human-centric approach.

We are moving from compliance driven, provider-centric care to rights and outcome driven models where the built environment actively enables autonomy, wellness, dignity and connection.

Design is no longer a backdrop, but a core mechanism for delivering seniors’ rights and standards.

The message is clear that environments must support how people live, not just how services are delivered.

Our National Senior Living Lead Pragya Gupta describes this in her recently published white paper.

Read morehttps://www.graypuksand.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/White-Paper_Designing-the-Future-of-Senior-Living.pdf

108 Wickham Street has undergone a strategic repositioning to a contemporary office space within Brisbane’s CBD-fringe.E...
20/05/2026

108 Wickham Street has undergone a strategic repositioning to a contemporary office space within Brisbane’s CBD-fringe.

Engaged by the client CapitaLand, Gray Puksand’s brief was to strengthen the property as a competitive commercial asset through design – to enhance functionality, experience, and leasing appeal. The project is a prime example of sustainable adaptive reuse, retaining as much as possible of the existing built form while introducing a material and spatial strategy to transform it into a commercial space worthy of its A grade location.

The design encompasses the concept of Duality – drawing inspiration from Fortitude Valley’s vibrant mix of heritage, culture, and energy. It celebrates contrasts: the historic and the modern; the intimate and the expansive; the functional and the experiential. This was achieved through adaptable spaces for a multitude of uses – accommodating both professional and social requirements. This dual function is reinforced through a lobby that anchors the building while maintaining a clear visual and spatial connection to its urban context.

Areas that previously operated as transitional space are redefined to support pause, informal gathering and everyday use, strengthening the building’s connection to its surrounding precinct. The workplace environments are configured to support flexibility, allowing the building to respond to a range of tenant needs over time.

Photographer: tanikablair_photography


Canberra Institute of Technology Woden Campus has received a commendation in the 2026 Learning Environments Australasia ...
18/05/2026

Canberra Institute of Technology Woden Campus has received a commendation in the 2026 Learning Environments Australasia Design (LEAD) Awards. We’re honoured to see the project acknowledged as part of a wider conversation about the future of learning environments across Australasia.

The project was recognised in the New Campus with Educational Facilities category, which applies to the construction of a new educational institution on a new campus. The LEAD Awards celebrate excellence in learning environment design, recognizing projects where pedagogy, place, culture and community come together to enable meaningful, inclusive and future focused learning.

At the heart of Woden, the project brings together a major new education campus, a youth foyer and a public transport interchange into a single, connected precinct. Designed in close partnership with Canberra Institute of Technology, Lendlease and Infrastructure Canberra, it supports learning, access and community in a way that reflects the evolving relationship between cities and education.

Our sincere thanks to Canberra Institute of Technology, the Ngunnawal people, Yerrabingin Lendlease, Infrastructure Canberra and the many collaborators who shaped this project.

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