Open-space teaching and learning environment can provide opportunity to implement more flexible and collaborative teaching methods in higher education. Tertiary institutions gravitate to problem-based and technology-based learning to keep up to date, which require flexible spaces. In early 2017, the department of Engineering and Architectural studies at Ara moved to a new building with modern open-space teaching environments. This paper presents preliminary observation and discussions on the benefits, advantages and some challenges of the open-space teaching and learning in higher education based on this experience. The preliminary observations show that the open-space environment can better support the technology integration and delivery of new pedagogical models. The open learning space to some extent resembles modern work/industry environment encouraging more collaboration, interaction and knowledge sharing between students. The approach also comes with some challenges and limitations which are discussed.