APPOINTMENTS

SUZANNE TOUMBOUROU BECOMES NEW HEAD OF AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF RECYCLING

The Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) has confirmed the departure of Executive Director and Sustainability Awards Judge Suzanne Toumbourou, who has been appointed CEO of the Australian Council of Recycling.

Working within the role for nearly a decade, Toumbourou has had a major impact within the sector, recently overseeing the delivery of Built to Perform, an industry led pathway to a zero carbon ready building code in collaboration with ClimateWorks Australia. The program informs the COAG Energy Council’s ‘Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings’, paving a cross-jurisdictional pathway for net zero buildings in Australia. A RAFT OF PROMOTIONS AT DESIGNINC

DesignInc has completely altered its Melbourne leadership team, with the internal promotions of five members of staff, reflecting the confidence the practice has in its people and to increase the diversity of styles and viewpoints within the studio.

Jane Sayers and Kieran Leong have been appointed as Principals, while Cameron Smith, Michelle Harris and Simon McKeown have all been elevated to the position of Senior Associate.

IMAGE Suzanne Toumbourou. IMAGE Stirling Fletcher (left) Sara-Jane Bacon (right).

TWO KEY APPOINTMENTS FOR ARCHITECTUS

Architectus has made two new appointments to its national Interior Architecture team, with Stirling Fletcher joining as a Senior Associate, and Sara-Jane Bacon to Associate.

The practice hopes the strategic appointments will strengthen Architectus’ Interior Architecture and Workplace design capabilities and will be instrumental in the firm’s delivery of design excellence nationally and within the local Perth and Sydney markets.

Fletcher held an Associate Principal position at Woods Bagot in Perth and prior to that was the Regional Leader of Geyer Perth. He has worked as a design consultant on many city-shaping projects in the Perth CBD including KPMG, PNG Bank, VGW and Quadrant Energy, in addition to global projects with South32 and BHP.

In his new role as Senior Associate at Architectus, Fletcher will work closely with landlords, tenants, and user groups to develop the next generation of innovative and transformative workplaces.

CHAN MOVES INTO INFLUENTIAL COUNCIL POSITION Architecture news & editorial desk

IMAGE HY William Chan.

Previous Sustainability Awards winner HY William Chan has been elected as Curator of the Global Shapers community for the World Economic Forum.

Remaining in Sydney, Chan will utilise his expertise in design thinking and city-making strategy, as well as engaging business stakeholders and the wider public with design entrepreneurship.

His move into the innovation and sustainability leadership domain builds on his professional practice honed at leading design firms including Hassell and Arup Foresight + Innovation.

Most recently at Cox Architecture, Chan facilitated the development of the firm’s future focussed global sustainability agenda, and held positions at the annual general meeting as well as the board of management design and marketing committee. NEW PRACTICE BUILT AROUND THE MANTRA OF GOOD DESIGN

Former Tzannes Directors Mladen Prnjatovic, Ben Green and Chi Melhem have teamed up to form EM BE CE – a Sydney-based practice exploring new ways of living together.

Deriving its name from a phonetic rendering of the co-founders first name initials Mladen, Ben and Chi, the studio combines their collective experience in residential design, planning and urbanism, that includes everything from bespoke private homes, to city-scaled projects and precincts.

GROUP GSA USHERS IN NEW DIRECTORS

GroupGSA Managing Director Mark Sheldon is handing the reins to four long-serving directors, in a changing of the guard that the practice describes as a ‘natural evolution and transition’.

Well supported by ten Principals — eight in Australia and two in Asia — the Directors oversee specific national disciplines including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design.

Since the early 2000s, Sheldon has been ably assisted by Co-Director and architect Michael Mandl — who is set to step back from his full-time position at GroupGSA in favour of a consulting role. Mandl says working alongside Sheldon was straightforward due to the similar approach they share in completing various tasks.

IMAGE GSA ushers in new directors. IMAGE Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard (left) and Susan Carruth (right).

GXN HAS TWO NEW PARTNERS

Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard and Susan Carruth have joined Lasse Lind in the leadership of GXN.

The new leadership structure reflects GXN’s maturation into an independent consultancy, applying knowledge grown through research projects to architecture, urbanism and product design, the company says.

Kåre joined GXN in 2016, after receiving his MSc in Digital Anthropology from University College of London in 2014. He received his DPhil degree at University of Oxford in 2020.

After nine years of practice in London, Susan received her PhD from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2015 and joined GXN in 2018, following a role as the Danish Head of Sustainable Development at White Architects.

POOLE DIVES INTO ASSOCIATE ROLE AT CARR

Carr has announced the promotion of Stephanie Poole, which will see the architect move into an Associate position. With a career spanning 10 years, Poole has been key to the development of the business direction in larger scale multi-residential and boutiquecommercial sectors.

Previously working on projects such as Frame House and Gippsland Spa, Stephanie is currently leading Brunswick Yard, which starts on site later this year. The project fuses architecture, interiors, landscape and streetscape into a contemporary multi-residential offer comprising 122 apartments. The architect recently delivered the project’s highly engaging display suite that offers a compelling alternative to the traditional model of selling apartments.

Every project is a chance to innovate

James Hardie announces a second design collaboration – with Lynn Wang and Michael Lineburg, of emerging Brisbane-based architects Lineburg Wang.

Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding offers designers the chance to innovate and nd new unique ways to meet a client brief. “We always enjoy the challenge of working with new products and new ways of construction.” Michael says. “We wanted to demonstrate how a sense of movement can be achieved through the layering and “pleating” of panels and how a sense of depth comes when the textured surface combines with moments of light and shade.”

The result is Pleated House, a light- lled conceptual extension to a Queenslander that ful ls the brief to greatly improve the lives of the occupants and also embodies our ambition to create exceptional cladding solutions for design-savvy homeowners.

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