Talking Architecture & Design

Tammy Beck joined William Ross Architects (WRA) in 2004 becoming Executive Director in 2020. Tammy has exceptional communication, consultation and analytic skills, and a finely honed design sense. 

She leads WRAs Design Review and people management at WRA and drives their management excellence.

She is passionate about community sport, urban design, education projects and contemporary learning environments. 

Tammy specialises in pre-design briefing, master planning and concept design, using consultation processes to facilitate project briefs. 

Tammy's  recent projects include facility planning / pre-design for several large aquatic, sport and recreation projects.

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David Chandler OAM was appointed NSW Building Commissioner in 2019 after an impressive forty-year career in the Australian construction industry. 

David is improving the quality of construction and restoring trust in the industry through leading the delivery of Construct NSW Reform Strategy in collaboration with the sector. The NSW Reform Strategy has involved in modernising the Building Regulator, shifting focus from reactive to proactive, with a core reliance on digital capability.

We talk to David  on a number if issues including where are we now in relation to flammable cladding in NSW and where do we need to be,  what are some of the areas that building owners may rethink to address their cladding replacement and why, what are some of the biggest challenges facing the building sector when it comes to both cladding issues as well as quality of final build and how are residential apartments being inspected using the NSW Residential Apartment Buildings Act powers showing up the issues identified in the recent inspections on residential apartment buildings in the Wollongong, and what results have they yielded to date? 

WeWork is a provider of coworking spaces, including physical and virtual shared spaces, headquartered in New York City. 

As of December 31, 2021, the company operated 756 locations in 38 countries, and had 590,000 members.

WeWork’s Global Head of Studios, Franquibel Lima has extensive design experience, having been with WeWork since 2017. He shares his thoughts on what the office should look like now.

He was recently in Australia and we caught up with him for a bit of a chat.

Ben Vielle is a partner of m3architecture with over 20 years of experience in architectural practice.

He has worked extensively in the education sector, having master planned, designed, documented and administered contracts on numerous school and university projects.

He also has expertise in contemporary learning environments, passive solar design, environmentally sustainable design, and life cycle assessment.

In this interview, Ben explains to us what is really important when it comes to designing new schools and what we may be missing in the way we understand the true nature and potential of our schools.

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Kate Nason is  the chairperson of Australian Passive House Association and is a passionate advocate of high-performance, healthy and resilient buildings. 

With a background as an architect (ARBV) she has worked across multiple low-energy buildings including Certified Passive House projects such as the Monash Gillies Hall and several single residential homes utilising low carbon prefabricated construction systems. 

She is a certified Passive House Designer (PHI), Green Star Accredited Professional and Chairperson at the Australian Passive House Association. She holds the role as Sustainability Advisor at Frasers Property Australia, focusing on buildings and master planned communities with leading sustainability objectives.

In this interview, Kate explains how airflow and good design all contribute to a healthy home.

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Aidan Hill,  Global Technical & Sustainability Manager from Autex, explains sustainability, carbon zero and just what are companies like his doing about lowering their environmental footprint.

Paul Ratcliff is a building consultant with over 30 years’ experience, with an onsite building background, and a strong foundation in understanding how structures are built and why they fail.

Involved in building litigation in all jurisdictions, written litigation reports on residential houses, multi-level residential buildings, commercial buildings, hotels and public buildings, Paul understands the importance of good straight advice in building litigation matters.

In this exclusive interview, he explains what we are doing wrong with our waterproofing and why this needs to be fixed and fixed quickly.

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Alex Goad is passionate about using design for marine restoration and the role it is playing to communicate research to the wider public.

His work is focused on combining digital fabrication with traditional techniques to create economically viable habitat solutions that respond to current environmental issues. Alex leads the studio’s collaborative approach to research projects and product development. Alex’s work has been exhibited internationally and acquired in the permanent collection of museums including New York’s MoMA, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Helsinki Design Museum.

In this exclusive one-on-one interview, Alex explains the amazing potential of  new ideas and technologies in design, architecture, engineering, science, the humanities and the arts and how these disciplines and design innovations can help address the urgent issues of our times.

Alex Goad will appear at the Sydney Opera House in conversation with Dr Danièle Hromek in BUILD: Life Below Water on Thursday 1 September.

Clare Connan Senior Associate, Woods Bagot Architect and Stewart Lock,  Principal of Jackson Architecture explain the complexity and challenges in redesigning the Victoria University tower in Melbourne.

From incorporating the 32-story glass tower onto a super-tight site to understanding the sites past as a one-time early 20th century STD clinic, the trials and tribulations of adaptive and heritage redesign, Clare and Stewart explain how they managed to deliver a structure that now holds the title of the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest university building.

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Scott Davies is an Urban Designer who in his own words is all about creating places people love. 

Scott had over 14 years experience in urban design across Australia, with a focus on large scale precinct planning, master planning for town centres and urban regeneration.

One of Hassell’s Senior Associates, Scott Davies, is the project lead on Hassell’s work in the new Western Sydney Aerotropolis and its strategic urban design and public realm framework.

In a timely move, after all our rain and flooding we have had in Sydney, Scott is tasked with implementing Hassell’s vision for the newly announced precinct plan will completely transform the most degraded catchment in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River by incorporating world-leading urban planning, environment design and mostly important, designing for Country principals. 

 But it's his work with the Western Sydney Aerotropolis that is of most interest.