Rigg Prize, 2018

For the nation’s richest design award we wanted to make a statement about Australian identity. So we created a golden space to embody the “boundless plains to share” that figure in the national anthem – and in doing so refute the anti-immigration rhetoric of much Western discourse today. Collaborating with 16 artists and 30 suppliers from 22 cultures to create a space of defiantly contrasting architecture in which windows, skirting, cornices, floors, walls, fire place and ceiling all have a strong voice, creating a new harmony.