Places
Design commences with a deep understanding of ‘place’ and our responsibility as stewards of the built environment. We integrate the principles of ‘Caring for Country’ with scientific knowledge in a rigorous, creative design process to deliver place specific and innovative solutions for all living beings.
Project - International House Sydney and Daramu House
Twin exemplars of low carbon architecture
These buildings prove to the Australian commercial market that cross-laminated timber structures are a viable low-carbon alternative to concrete and highly desirable property investments.
Project - Dangrove Art Storage Facility
A visionary facility built for resilience and sustainability
Designed for a minimum 100-year life, this storage facility houses an exceptional collection of contemporary Chinese art and doubles as an exhibition, screening and performance space.
Vision - Reversing the Cycle
Sustainability means caring for Country
The role that architecture can play in reversing the cycle of environmental degradation – by reverting to the tenets of harmony and respect that are intrinsic to Country.
Value
We are committed to a post-carbon future
We seek to drive the industry in a direction that aims beyond net zero carbon, targeting instead a new and regenerative paradigm which gives back and supports the health of the natural environment into the future.
Project - 6 Hassall Street
A hybrid tower that activates its place
This ground-breaking building combines an education facility for two universities with A-grade commercial spaces and established a wider urban design vision for Parramatta.
Value
We are thought leaders in placeshaping
Drawing upon our deep understanding of the forces that shape environmental change, we strive for the conservation of the habitat for all living things and for the betterment of humanity.
Project - City of Sydney Street Furniture
Demonstrating the value of quality design at a human scale
Public domain furniture is part of a city’s cultural identity, as the system of coordinated furniture elements amalgamate to form and enrich a city’s unique character.
Project - Brewery Yard
A sensitive integration of old and new to future-proof an emerging precinct
This new landmark for Central Park, a technically-complex yet conceptually-simple adaptive reuse project, offers significant benefits to the community.
Vision - Daramu House
Environment Case Study - Daramu House
At the core of the design for Daramu House is a commitment to minimising the embodied and operational carbon of the building, while also minimising water use, waste generation and encouraging biodiversity.
Value
We collaborate and innovate
Collaboration is at the core of our culture and our design process. It enables assumptions to be challenged, drives effective innovation and helps deliver optimal, enduring and appropriate design propositions.
Project - The Woollahra Hotel & Bistro Moncur
A triptych of exceptional hospitality spaces
These buildings respond to the area’s historic fabric in a contemporary idiom and integrates commercial objectives, public domain improvements and distinctive architecture.
Project - Early-Stage Studies
Robust studies lead to valuable proposals and design excellence
Our rigorous studies, paired with the early adoption of First Nations design principles and regenerative design considerations, often lead to propositions that exceed our clients’ expectations, result in cost and time savings and benefit the broader community.
Value
We create enduring architecture
Enduring architecture is resilient, beautiful, adaptable and, through its longevity, inherently sustainable. We aim to create enduring architecture that appreciates in value and continues to be lived in and loved.
Project - Opera Residences
A distinctive architecture that completes East Circular Quay
Distinguished by fluid forms shaped to enhance the amenity of residents, this premium apartment enhances the urban characteristics of East Circular Quay and augments the global identity of the precinct.
Vision - Investigation of Development Applications
A GIS Based Spatiotemporal Analysis in the City of Sydney Area 2004–2022
Using the City of Sydney as a case study to show how open data about individual DAs can be used to build a critical spatiotemporal information framework to guide important city-shaping design and planning decisions.
Vision - Is the Competitive Design Process Anti-Competitive?
Shaping the built fabric of the city
Knowing that the pool of design competition winners is reducing in diversity and the issue of competition remuneration remains outstanding, we have to question whether the process has become anti-competitive.
Value
We begin from first principles
We are inspired to question assumptions and to develop unique design propositions without preconceived ideas. Doing so helps us develop innovative concepts, deliver greater benefits to the community and meet or exceed client expectations.