ROUSE HILL TOWN CENTRE STAGE 2 MASTER PLAN REVISION.
ROUSE HILL TOD-RAIL STATION INTEGRATION STUDY.
Sydney, NSW, 2011-2019
Client: GPT
Status: Station completed. Stage 2 DA approved.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Expanded and reinforced exemplary TOD attributes beloved by the community.
› Expanded & enhanced the established water-sensitive urban design strategies to integrate with civic facilities and placemaking
› Maximized TOD potential of site to enhance the town centre’s livability and commercial vibrancy while enhancing amenities and public realm focus.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & project/contract manager collaborating with full suite of architects (COX), landscape (Oculus), engineering, environmental, statutory, economics, and property development consultants.
› Led documentation production & management including panel hearings submissions.
› Co-led & managed this project as iterative contracts including terms modifications, supplemental, extensions, and related new work.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE VILLAGE CORE (KAMBRI) MASTER PLAN & URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK
Canberra, Australia, 2018
Client: ANU
Status: Stage 1 built, Stage 2 in-progress. Awards: ACT Architecture Awards 2020 in Public Architecture, Urban Design, Commercial Architecture, Educational Architecture and Sustainable Architecture.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Broke down silos & synergized cross-faculty analytics to create a comprehensive master plan that integrate education, living, retail/F&B, culture, events, health & wellbeing, facilities reuse/adaptation, and ANU identity & showcasing.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & project manager collaborating with ANU staff to revitalize the University’s core as a destinational precinct for students (19,000), staff (4,000), Canberra residents (470,000), and visitors (5 mil yearly).
› Architect & landscape architect tender review & awarding.
› Developed & final design phase collaboration with architects (BVN) & landscape architects (Aspect).
› Private & public workshop facilitation including with University Council.
› Integrated deep sustainability strategies (embodied carbon, energy, flooding) from masterplanning phase onwards to achieve full life cycle carbon neutrality or better.
› Co-led & won this open-process bid; managed iterative contracts including terms modification, supplementals, extensions, and related new work.
HIGHPOINT TOWN CENTRE MALL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
Melbourne, Australia, 2011 - 2015
Client: GPT
Status: Stage 1 built, Stage 2 update in-progress.
Awards: 2018 Australian Interior Design Awards-Interior Design Retail Impact (with Grimshaw and Buchan).
2015 Property Council of Australia - VIC Development of the Year.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Establish paradigm shift in Centre’s development & retail strategy by combining civic infrastructure with environmental placemaking design as leading design drivers.
› Urban designer collaborating with client to ensure effective integration of retail with placemaking strategy.
› Achieves 100% fresh air internal ventilation.
› Establishing in-house Revit & BIM processes.
› Led documentation production & management.
› Co-led & managed this project as iterative contracts including terms modifications, supplemental, extensions, and related new work.
MOLSONS REDEVELOPMENT
MASTER PLAN
Vancouver, BC, 2018 - Present.
Client: Concord Pacific
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Revisioning of brewery complex into mixed use residential/commercial as annex to CBD to inform client’s proforma & value proposition.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & project/contract manager collaborating with client, consulting engineers, city staff, First Nations, speculative high-tech tenants.
› Private workshop facilitation.
› Informed commercial leasing prospectus.
› Informed client’s broader strategic acquisitions and commercial imperatives throughout their portfolio.
› Led documentation production & management.
› Led & won this invite-only bid; managed iterative contracts including terms modification, supplementals, extensions, and related new work.
DRURY METROPOLITAN CENTRE MASTER PLAN
Auckland, New Zealand, 2018 - Present
Client: Kiwi Property
Status: Private Plan Change approved; Stage 1 under contruction.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› First major greenfields establishment of a new mixed use sustainable metropolitan centre in 21st century New Zealand that is transit-orientated and integrated with Te Aranga Maori design principles for anticipated +20,000 residents and jobs, and commercial services centre for +60,000 residents.
› Informed framework of form-based systems and processes for client’s in-house transition from retail to integrated mixed use portofolio.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & project/contract manager collaborating with full suite of landscape, civil/transport/ infrastructure engineering, environmental, statutory, economics, and property development consultants, as well as Council, central Govt., and iwi/hapu.
› Private & public workshop facilitation, including panel hearings.
› Led documentation production & management including panel hearing submission.
› Led & won this invite-only bid; managed iterative contracts including joint-ventures, terms modification, supplementals, extensions, and related new work.
NORTHEAST FALSE CREEK WATERFRONT MASTER PLAN
Vancouver, Canada, 2017 - Present
Client: Concord Pacific
Status: Council adopted, revision inprogress.
Awards: American Planning Association Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award 2019 in conjunction with City Council.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› First major downtown waterfront redevelopment incorporating stadia, district energy, sea level rise, and ecological restoration for 21st century Vancouver.
› Redefining & initiating redevelopment of major multi-modal transportation routes, connections, and infrastructure upgrades/downgrades.
› Identified & established broader strategic acquisitions for client - cityprovince negotiations.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & project manager collaborating with city staff and adjacent landowners’ teams to create an integrated mixed use tourism, retail, entertainment, public realm, and waterfront master plan & strategy for downtown residents (120,000), Vancouver (2.6mil), and visitors (8 mil yearly).
› Co-led documentation production & management including VR, public engagement materials, and panel hearing submissions.
› Private & public workshop facilitation.
› Co-led & won this invite-only bid.
› In-house contract advisor/reviewer on risk, strateg, and client repeats.
KHAMS SHAMAT MASTER PLAN
Syria, 2011-2012
Client: Majid Al Futtaim
Status: Client approved.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Revised existing concept plan to create a commercially viable master plan for a premier resort integrating entertainment & recreation tourism with living communities for Syrian & expat market.
› Urban designer/master planner collaborating with client, consulting designers & engineers to ensure effective integration of transportation, mobility, entertainment, events, resort, retail, commercial and residential with placemaking & public realm strategy.
› Co-led documentation production & management, digital modelling, and rendering artist liaison.
› Private workshop facilitation.
› In-house contract advisor/reviewer on risk & strategy.
BLATCHFORD AIRPORT-CITY REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN
Edmonton, Canada, 2011
Client: City of Edmonton
Status: Adopted. Awards: RAIC National Urban Design Award 2014 with Perkins+Will.
Key Impacts, Roles, Experience & Innovations:
› Established viable vision for large-scale sustainable community alternative to status quo.
› Comprehensive integration of carbon neutral & environmental strategies with built form, public realm, transportation, energy, economics, and heritage placemaking.
› One of the first district-scale LEED ND projects in Canada.
› Lead urban designer/master planner & manager.
› Inter-consultancy collaboration, including Perkins+Will secondment.
› Urban Design guidelines co-author.
› Co-led documentation production & management.
› Co-managed this project as iterative contracts including joint venture, terms modifications, supplemental, and extensions.
Australia & New Zealand
UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY DIGITAL SCREEN CAMPUS FEASILIBITY STUDY & URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK
Christchurch, 2021-2022
Client: University of Canterbury Led re-visioning of university campus transformation to integrate a new faculty.
SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK REDEVELOPMENT CONCEPT STRATEGY
Sydney, NSW, 2019
Client: GPT
Co-led masterplanning strategy of client’s landholdings as part of district-wide urban regeneration initiative to transform into a sports/events TOD in conjunction with BVN.
WIN GRAND CONCEPT PLAN
Wollongong, NSW, 2019
Client: WIN
Co-led masterplanning and concepting of high density, 200k sm mixed use catalyst development at focal junction of the city.
NORTHSHORE LANDS STUDY & COUNCIL WORKSHOP.
ROMA STREET PARKLAND REDEVELOPMENT STUDY
Brisbane, 2018
Client: Queensland Government Architect Invite-only study, workshop and presentation of adaptive and innovative new uses and strategies (including Olympics hosting) for city-shaping sites.
WOLLONGONG CITY CENTRE STUDY
Wollongong, NSW, 2011
Client: GPT
Commercially-sensitive study of city-wide redevelopment and urban design strategy and visioning.
