Logical and imaginative.
Resourceful and inventive.
Pragmatic and progressive.

We are a respected architecture and urban design team that believes architecture can be a force for good. It’s this belief that informs all we do, continually challenging and inspiring us. How can we use resources more intelligently? How can we improve the lives of people through well designed buildings and places? How can clever, thoughtful architecture help solve today’s challenges?

Our work is all over Australia, from the centre of Sydney to some of our most remote places. Our past and current projects include museums, art galleries, libraries, social housing, precinct wide strategic plans and adaptive reuse of heritage places.

We take the time to genuinely know your project: your vision, the goals, the challenges and opportunities, the backstory and the place. We have the experience to make the complex processes simple, to hold our shared vision for the project and to shepherd it through to completion. We collaborate with you, with the engineers, with the planners, with the council, with the stakeholders and with the builders to create beautiful buildings for now and for the future.

Our six principles for creating places with purpose

Our projects take into consideration history, sustainability, community and equity – usually all at once. They are public, private and commercial; brand new and really old; in the city and the country; big and small. The common thread is the common good.

Diverse projects for the common good

Doing more with less

Buildings use 39% of the world’s energy and generate 40% of the world’s carbon emissions both in their construction and in their occupation. It’s a huge challenge, but presents an equally big opportunity to make a positive difference. So our approach is always to do more for your project while having less impact on the planet.

Not just bricks and mortar

We take a thoughtful, analytical approach, working with (rather than against) what’s already there. And because we know that places are rich with stories, meaning, identity and culture, we always work with care and sensitivity. A building is never just bricks and mortar.

We don’t need to shout

And nor should the architecture. Sometimes the most powerful elements of our design work go unseen, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have impact. Even our most radical idea should feel like just the right fit – so that you can’t imagine the place without it.

Past. Present. Future.

Fads and fashion come and go but buildings shouldn’t. Which is why we focus on what our clients and communities really need – now and decades down the road. We love to adapt old buildings for the present and the future and we build new ones to still be loved and useful in a hundred years from now.

We make the complex simple

Constructing a building, planning a precinct, setting a strategic framework; this work is complex, but it needn’t be painful. We’re experts in managing projects from blank page to completion, working with stakeholders, navigating policy and legislation, solving complex site issues. And we make sure the excitement of the early concepts is still there in the final outcome.