Great Urban Design creates places that are timeless

Successful place design requires thoughtful planning and design choices that display a deep understanding of the needs and aspirations of a community, a celebration of a site’s characteristics and by displaying a commitment to sustainability. 

Studio Profile

Our Urban Designers provide innovative design solutions to private and public-sector clients across Australia, for residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use developments. The team is experienced in a diverse range of land development projects and provide solutions that demonstrate our commitment to sustainability and to creating great places to live, work or visit.

Our design approach responds to local community and broader social issues specific to each development. We have well established networks with councils and authorities involved in land development, as well as land sales agents who provide advice on the market relevance of our subdivision designs. Our team have worked on award winning projects and are certified EnviroDevelopment professionals which ensures that every project has the opportunity to incorporate cutting edge sustainable development practices. We have a detailed working knowledge of all relevant guidelines and legislation for land development.

Our Urban Design services include:

  • Site analysis and opportunities plans
  • Design response plans
  • Feasibility plans for new subdivisions
  • Vision documents
  • Indicative concept plans – commercial and town centres
  • Detailed development plans and indicative subdivision plans
  • Plans for planning permit and development applications
  • Precinct Structure Plan submissions
  • Strategic planning and design documents
  • Land use and master plans
  • Community and Council presentation material
  • Marketing plans
  • Massing models
  • Design guidelines documents
  • GIS-based plans

Our design philosophy is reflected by our Urban Design Pillars:

  • Place Identity – enhancing the relationship between our space and the surrounding environment.
  • Celebrating – recognising the site’s natural character and building upon the key existing place characteristics
  • Sustainability – adopting core sustainable design practices to promote a climate resilient future community
  • Innovation – developing site specific responses that reflects best practice urban design
  • Community – establishing the foundations for enriched neighbourhood, to achieve pride of place
  • Collaboration – connecting with our internal and external teams to enhance projects, problem solve, act efficiently, and to achieve innovative design outcomes
  • Excellence – continually achieving high quality design outcomes

We are local

We are a proud part of the communities we serve, so our urban designers aren’t just outcome focused, they pursue improved community outcomes.

Our local expertise enables us to understand the unique needs and challenges of your area, ensuring that our urban design services are tailored to create the best possible outcomes for your community. With a commitment to sustainable and thoughtful development, we are your trusted partners in building a brighter local future.

Our urban design services are available in all our CBD and regional offices: Melbourne, Sydney CBD, Bairnsdale, Sale, Ballarat, Geelong, Wonthaggi, Warragul, Traralgon, Western Sydney and the NSW Central Coast.

Project Experience

Key Contacts

William Byrne

Manager Urban Design, Melbourne

Koston Tang

Principal Urban Designer

William Byrne

Manager Urban Design, Melbourne

William is a Senior Urban Designer and the team leader. He has experience in land surveying, landscape architecture and town planning. His recent work has involved master planning large and complex sites within multiple councils throughout Victoria. William has been focusing on delivering highly commercial designs through housing products, efficient road networks and street design.

Koston Tang

Principal Urban Designer
Melbourne

Koston has a background in Landscape Architecture, with over 10 years of professional experience in Urban Design, with experience across a range of project types and scales Australia wide. He is passionate about community, traditional neighbourhood design and incorporating walkability to produce high-quality urban design outcomes.

Commitment & Capability

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