Introduction The design of buildings and environs for the fair and just delivery of Western forms of justice for Indigenous peoples is a new architectural domain. In this chapter, we discuss the background and design of the Kununurra Courthouse, a new courthouse designed and built in Kununurra, a town in northern Western Australia on the eastern extremity of the Kimberley region near the border of the Northern Territory. 1 Courts have been part of a ‘revolving door of despair’ for generations of Australian Indigenous people. Historically, procedures occurring in courts have contributed little to decreasing the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. The physical nature of the Western court settings designed with layers of hierarchy and control devoid of Indigenous control, have not allowed Indigenous people to participate meaningfully and have contributed to greater numbers of Indigenous people being remanded or sentenced to custody. This chapter is a collaboration bringing the first author’s theoretical scholar- ship in the field of Indigenous architecture and placemaking together with the architectural theory scholarship and practice experience of the second author as an academic and a senior member of the design team for the Kimberley court- house project. It should be stated from the outset that the authors, in line with the views of many others, see inherent issues arising from the design of courts, 1 Kununurra was created as a service centre for the construction of Lake Argyle, a large human- made freshwater reservoir created by damming the Ord River. Kununurra’s population com- prises some 7,500 permanent residents, growing to approximately 10,000 people in the ‘dry’ season, due to tourism. Thirty per cent of the population identify as being of Aboriginal descent, who are highly overrepresented in the criminal justice system. AU: We have capital- ised ‘Western’ as that is the predominant form across the book. 1 REIMAGINING SPACES FOR INDIGENOUS JUSTICE The architecture and design of the Kununurra Courthouse Elizabeth Grant and Martyn Hook DOI: 10.4324/9780429059858-1