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Harold Gregson Reserve is a new recreational parkland and youth space for Maitland City Council - the final stage of a 4-stage masterplan that delivers a new precinct of public open space and sporting facilities. The project involved the rehabilitation of a disused brownfield site combining informal sports such as basketball and skateboarding with landscaped recreation areas. The design incorporates three pavilions providing a performance stage, picnic shelter and public amenities. Their unique modular form melding the architecture into the landscape - providing a an urban asset with an enduring legacy.

The City Tattersalls Club is a landmark heritage building in the heart of Sydney's CBD. Built in 1891, the Club is State Heritage listed as one of the few surviving city clubs of the late nineteenth century. To ensure it’s longevity the Club made the decision to develop the air space above their building. The new tower will accommodate a new hotel having 101 boutique rooms and a further 241 bespoke apartments above. The design was awarded through the City of Sydney’s Design Excellence pathway and will create a vibrant, mixed-use precinct that reinvigorates and celebrates the historic importance of the Club.

Taking up an entire block of the Sydney’s CBD, Capella is the reimagining of the 1912, State Heritage-listed, Department of Education Building into a new benchmark, boutique 5-star hotel. Working within the distinctive sandstone heritage fabric, the design includes 192 guest rooms, reinstates an original central courtyard and restores key elements such as entry lobby, stairs and roof lanterns. Vibrant reception and restaurants are located on ground floor. A spa and wellness centre with 20m lap pool has been accommodated on Level 05 and four new levels of larger hotel suites have been added at roof level.

Australia and Thailand have longstanding and deep connections. The two countries enjoy a substantial commercial relationship, underpinned by the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Thailand is also a popular destination for Australians travelling abroad. This project involved the transfer of Australia’s Embassy from Sathorn Road to new premises in Bangkok’s embassy quarter in Lumphini. The 6-storey design accommodates state-of-the-art consular and diplomatic services in distinctive landscaped grounds. The building is Australia’s busiest international Embassy.

Bumrungrad International Hospital provides world-class healthcare services and international patient support for over 1.1 million patients from more than 190 countries annually. The Hospital sought to expand it’s facilities in Bangkok with a new multi-purpose clinic in Sukhumvit Soi 1. The design incorporates three 7-storey buildings that accommodate various consulting and treatment facilities. The buildings are raised above a landscaped, cool, shaded, public garden reminiscent of traditional Thai houses. The buildings aim to increase the Hospital’s exposure to potential Thai and international patients.

Markaling House is a 1874 State Heritage listed building on the Gladesville Hospital site. The building is occupied by Giant Steps Sydney - a non-for-profit school educating children and young adults on the Autism Spectrum. The school received funding from the ‘Building an Education Revolution’ [BER] to refurbish and extend its teaching space for its early learning programme. The very nature of Autism requires the building to be identifiable to the children and to have a very defined spatial program. The design creates a new centralised, column free, domed, teaching space with an undulating roof line.

Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is a not-for-profit, comprehensive centre specialising in advanced treatment and research for public and private patients who are suffering from rare and complex cancer cases. Located within the RPA Hospital Precinct, Lifehouse sets a new benchmark in the treatment of cancer and establishes a truly integrated comprehensive cancer care facility - the first of its kind in Australia. Seeing more than 40,000 patients a year, it combines diagnosis, treatment, research, education and emotional support to improve the lives of people affected by the disease.

The Sanderson Hotel, located in London’s West End, is the reimagining of Moberly and Uren’s 1960s Grade II* Heritage listed Sanderson House into a boutique 5 star hotel. Designed in collaboration with Phillipe Starck, the 9-storey building accommodates reception areas, 150 guest rooms, restaurant and bar areas, day spa and back of house support functions. The design successfully merges Starck’s interior design elements with key Modernist features including the building’s unique façade to Berners Street, central courtyard by Philip Hicks and artworks by Jupp Dernback-Mayen and John Piper.

Tower Place is a new office building adjacent to the historic Tower of London and All Hallows Church. The building replaced a sixteen-storey 1960s office tower and reinstated view corridors between Greenwich and St Paul’s Cathedral and between the Monument and the Tower of London. The project consists of two 6-storey office blocks, both triangular in plan. The buildings have a deep-plan, energy conscious exterior cladding and flexible interior. The two buildings are linked by a large, glazed public atrium that incorporates advanced glass technology.