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Bennett Architecture

Website Design, Website Development, Content Writing, Custom Filters

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Website Design
Website Development

Content Writing

Custom Filters

about this project

The brief was simple in the best possible way: less words, more work.

Bennett Architecture came to Captovate with a clear sense of who they are and what they wanted their website to do. The result is a clean, visual website that puts Bennett Architecture's projects front and centre.

Overview

Bennett Architecture is a respected architectural practice with a strong presence in the Northern Territory and South Australia, delivering work across a range of sectors and scales. While they had an existing website, they wanted something that better reflected the quality and range of their project portfolio.


The goal was a website that felt refined and uncluttered: one that let the work speak for itself. Navigation needed to be intuitive, the design restrained, and the focus firmly on projects, people and the 3 disciplines that define their practice.


That meant avoiding the temptation to over-explain. Every design and content decision was made with one question in mind: does this help the user find and experience Bennett Architecture's work?

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A visual-first website experience

The design direction for this website was deliberately minimal. The brief called for a "less is more" approach: high-quality imagery, clean layouts, and simple navigation that didn't compete with the content it was framing.


Captovate worked within this direction to build a website where visuals carry the weight. Where text does appear, it's set in large, confident typography, a deliberate choice to maintain visual impact while keeping copy to a minimum. Rather than filling space with words, the design uses scale to create presence.

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Representing 3 core disciplines

Bennett Architecture operates across 3 distinct disciplines: Architecture, Interior Design and Landscape. The website needed to communicate this clearly without overcomplicating the structure.

Each discipline has its own dedicated page that gives users a clear picture of what Bennett Architecture offers in that space. These pages also feature selected projects relevant to the discipline, giving visitors an immediate sense of the practice's experience and quality of work, without needing to navigate elsewhere.

The pages also highlight the specialist team members behind that work, helping users understand who they'd be working with and the depth of expertise the practice brings to each area.

It's a simple but effective way to build confidence: connecting capability, people and project experience in one place, and reassuring users that Bennett Architecture has the right team for the work.

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Community totem

The website also incorporates a series of custom illustrations representing each community, provided by the council. These illustrations include symbolic animals such as the cockatoo for Wadeye and the emu for Palumpa.



Integrated across the site, the illustrations align with the council’s brand palette of earthy tones including brown, dark red and black. They add a distinctive visual layer to the website while reflecting the identity and individuality of each community.

Project pages built around the work

The project pages are the centrepiece of the website. Each page was built to give a focused, considered view of an individual project: covering a project summary, key objectives or highlights, and the story behind the work.


Bennett Architecture supplied the project-specific content, and Captovate provided guidance and support with content writing and structure to ensure each page read clearly and consistently.


Each project page was also optimised for both search engines and AI discovery tools, with SEO-conscious copy and optimised imagery to support performance and visibility over time.

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Custom project filtering

To make it easy for users to explore Bennett Architecture's body of work, Captovate developed a custom project filter widget. Users can filter projects by discipline and sector, helping them quickly surface work that's relevant to their interests.


The filter was styled to align with the overall design direction: large visual tiles that lead with the image, with the project title appearing on hover. The intention was to keep the focus on the photography and let the work do the talking. Each tile links through to a dedicated project page with the full detail.

Making it easier to find jobs with council

Employment opportunities are an important part of council engagement with local communities. The website now features a dedicated Employment hero section that highlights available positions and encourages people to explore career opportunities with West Daly Regional Council.


A customised job listing interface allows users to filter positions by:

  • industry
  • community
  • department


This makes it easier for visitors to quickly identify roles relevant to them and supports the council’s efforts to promote local employment.

Connecting people with project experience

Captovate also developed a custom filter for the People page, allowing users to filter team members by their role or area of expertise. Each team member has their own individual staff page, which includes key projects connected to that person.


This connection between people and projects serves a practical purpose: it creates natural pathways back to Bennett Architecture's work.

Whether a user lands on a team member's profile or starts by browsing projects, the site is designed to guide them toward the experience and expertise that matters most.

Streamlining document publishing with Doc Assembler

Many councils use Doc Assembler to manage the publication of agendas, minutes and other formal documents that must be accessible to the public.


To simplify the council’s workflow, Captovate integrated Doc Assembler directly into the website. Documents published within Doc Assembler automatically appear on the relevant pages of the council website.


This integration removes the need for council staff to upload documents twice, reducing administrative workload while ensuring the website always displays the most up-to-date information.


The integration is designed to pull only specific document categories through the Doc Assembler HTML feed, ensuring confidential materials remain hidden while approved public documents are published automatically.

Smarter filtering for news and public notices

Council websites play a key role in communicating updates to communities across the region. To support this, Captovate developed a custom filtering system for news and public notices.



Visitors can filter updates by both community and content type, making it easier to find relevant announcements and stay informed about what is happening locally.


This feature improves the overall user experience and ensures important information can be quickly located.

Outcome

Bennett Architecture now has a website that genuinely reflects who they are and what they do. The work is front and centre: easy to find, easy to explore, and presented in a way that lets the quality speak for itself.



The site brings together the three pillars that define the practice: their disciplines, their projects and their people. Each of these elements is connected, so visitors can move naturally between them: from a discipline page to a featured project, from a team member's profile to the work they've been part of. It all points back to what Bennett Architecture does best.


For a practice that leads with expertise and craftsmanship, the website now reflects that standard online. It gives potential clients a clear and confident picture of who Bennett Architecture are, what they offer and the people behind the work.

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