Join Woods Bagot at its office for drinks, conversation, and a behind the scenes look at their ongoing work. The League’s First Fridays are monthly opportunities for League members to visit the offices of leading design practices to see work on the boards and learn more about the offices’ organization and design processes. These informal social gatherings feature brief office tours and presentations along with happy hour drinks arranged by the host office.

Woods Bagot is a global design and consulting firm with a team of over 850 practitioners working across 17 studios in Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. They aim to place human experience at the center of the design process “in order to deliver engaging, future-oriented projects that respond to the way people actually use space.” Woods Bagot has experience in a range of sectors including commercial, residential, and workplace architecture, brand strategy, urban planning, transportation, as well as science and health.

Recent projects include the Assembly Apartments in Melbourne; the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide; the University of Sydney Business School; the Tonsley Park Redevelopment in Adelaide; the Grosvenor House Apartments in London; and the interior design for The Baccarat Hotel and Residences in New York. The firm is currently involved in the construction of the mixed-use development at 203 Jay Street in Brooklyn and in the residential redevelopment of the Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan.

Recently, Woods Bagot received the 2017 Award for Interior Design Impact from the Australian Interior Design Awards (AIDA) and the 2016 David Oppenheim Award for Sustainable Architecture from the Australian Institute of Architects.