APPOINTMENTS

ABOVE Michelle Cramer.

MICHELLE CRAMER JOINS GHD

Urban designer and architect Michelle Cramer has been announced as GHD’s Future Communities Lead, which will see her play a major role in creating connected, resilient, productive and inspired communities.

Joining GHD after holding senior cityshaping roles with Lendlease, Hames Sharley, Woods Bagot and the City of Sydney, Cramer recently worked on the Central Precinct Renewal Program with Transport for NSW.

Cramer holds a passion for designing people-centric cities, particularly for children. She will draw on her deep urbanisation, placemaking and precinct delivery expertise in her ongoing work as a specialist advisor to UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Cities Initiative.

Future Communities Global Leader, Jill Hannaford, says Michelle’s appointment adds significant strength to GHD’s capacity to help clients with community creation. NEW PERTH PRINCIPAL FOR HAMES SHARLEY

Hames Sharley has appointed Andrew Tang-Smith as Principal to it’s Perth studio, which will see the experienced architect lead design and collaboration across portfolios.

With over a decade of experience and a proven track record of success, Tang-Smith will boost the studio’s design leadership with a balanced international and local lens. His portfolio spans a number of diverse projects, from design to delivery of master planning, heritage, multi-residential, commercial, major mixed-use, civic and aviation projects throughout Australia, China and Dubai.

Back home, Tang-Smith’s impressive local portfolio includes Perth’s World Trade Centre proposal, Mill Green Precinct, Perth Airport’s Virgin Pier, as well as complex smaller projects like the Palace Heritage refurbishment and The Terraces luxury apartments in South Perth.

Possessing exceptional attention to detail, a passion for creativity and an impressive list of awards, Tang-Smith is well placed to help lead the team on several cross-portfolio projects through 2021 and into the new year.

BELOW Andrew Tang-Smith. ABOVE Justin O’Neill, Meaghan Morice and Andrew Kimmins (Left to Right).

NEW PARTNERS APPOINTED AT O’NEILL ARCHITECTURE

O’Neill Architecture hopes the recent appointment of two new Partners will boost its reputation as a practice that places people and relationships at the centre of its approach.

The boutique practice has overseen the design and construction of a number of successful and acclaimed projects, notably The Eminence, located in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Spanning across a range of industries, O’Neill endeavours to build relationships with its clients and cementing itself as a trusted partner who offers clients’ a full project management and development strategy service.

While the building is the atypical assignment, Senior Partner Justin O’Neill (left) says the practice’s approach focuses on people.

Joined by Meaghan Morice (centre) and Andrew Kimmins (right) who have been promoted internally to the role of Partner, O’Neill will now be assisted in the direction the practice takes. Morice says both her and Kimmins will endeavour to take a humanistic approach to the practice’s future direction.

ABOVE Gray Puksand.

Gray Puksand has announced the acquisition of Greg Wines, with the new Senior Associate boosting the practice’s Queensland operations with the appointment.

Wines brings 20 years’ experience in designing healthcare, commercial and tertiary education institutions. Particularly interested in biophilic design principles, the architect hopes he will be able to satisfy his curiosities at Gray Puksand.

His focus on healthy buildings, coupled with the role of light within the built environment, has seen his work internationally published.

Wines’ project experience includes work for the University of Queensland and Ramsay Health Care, Australia’s largest private healthcare provider.

MAJOR CHANGES SIGNALS SHIFT FOR BUCHAN

Buchan has announced a number of new appointments to its operations, signalling a major shift for the design studio.

Three of the practice’s Principals have become key sector leaders, with Valerie Mack will take the helm of Interiors for the firm, while Harvey Male will assume Living and Phil Schoutrop will lead the Precinct sector (Retail/Mixed-Use).

Buchan CEO Stephen Auld says the firm is moving to a common platform to ensure its expertise across Australia, New Zealand and China remains consistent. Turner is currently within the midst of great change, looking to expand its operations into broader sectors including hospitality and build-to-rent, as well as focussing on designing for wellness post-pandemic.

With these changes comes two new senior appointments in the form of Gemma Bainbrigge moving to Business Development Manager and part of the Senior Leadership Team, and Monique Franklin as Senior Associate, Head of Interiors. The practice has also internally promoted Claire Mallin and Carolina Álvarez Arellano to Associate Directors.

Mallin and Álvarez have been at Turner for eight and ten years respectively, spearheading many of Turner’s most prestigious projects, including George & Allen Waterloo, West End Residences Glebe, AMG Sydney and 85 Macquarie Street Parramatta.

Franklin brings sophisticated wellness, sustainability, and luxury insights from the Asia Pacific to the firm. As Senior Associate of Interiors, she will lead interior concept and development across the multi-residential, retail, hospitality, workplace, and mixed-use sectors.

ABOVE Claire Mallin, Carolina Álvarez Arellano, Monique Franklin and Gemma Bainbrigge (Left to Right). ABOVE Philippe Naudin.

ARM Architecture has announced the promotion of Philippe Naudin to the role of Principal, as the practice looks to boost it’s operations in Adelaide.

Currently leading ARM’s Adelaide studio, Naudin brings eight years of experience in the realms of architecture and urban design. An Adelaide local, the architect is passionate about his home city and how design thinking and architecture can offer social and cultural expression to shape places and the people in them is front of mind for the new Principal.

Naudin has spent six years leading the ARM Adelaide studio, working at Hames Sharley initially after graduating with a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Adelaide nearly a decade ago. Naudin is positioning ARM to radically transition the practice of Architecture in state.

Combined with business development, Naudin’s promotion to Principal will allow the practice to expand its already educational project expertise to the state of South Australia and will allow for the expansion of public realm cultural civic works in the pipeline.

I2C ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCES GENERAL MANAGER, SCOTT PALMER AS EQUITY PARTNER Architecture and design firm i2C Architects has added a new equity partner in Scott Palmer, Senior Associate and General Manager, to join the likes of Brian Jende, Anthony Merlin and Rod Rose, as owners of the business.

Formed in 1999 by Brian and Anthony, and with Rose joining the ownership team in 2018, i2C Architects has been built from the ground up and today turns over $16 million annually with offices spanning Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.

Responsible for managing i2C business activities and developing and implementing effective business strategies and programs, Palmer says the move to partner was a natural progression as he had always viewed himself as a business owner.