Talking Architecture & Design

In this special episode ahead of International Women's Day this March 8 and for her debut podcast for Talking Architecture & Design, our Digital Editor Clémence Carayol talks to Gray Puksand Lead Partner Maria Correia to discuss her journey as a woman in architecture, the challenges she faced, and the progress being made toward greater gender equality in the industry. 

At Gray Puksand, Maria Correia’s primary responsibility is to deliver relevant, innovative and intelligent design solutions that deliver results and exceed expectations.
 
She has over 20 years’ experience working on interior design, retail design to brand and customer experience projects. 
 
 Correia has worked in leading international brand and retail agencies from luxury, fashion, leisure, workspace, beauty, financial services and technology.
 
 As a strategic, creative thinker, she can move from strategy to creative solutions via insights, research and brainstorms to uncover the ‘big idea’. 

As a creative leader, she inspires teams of varying disciplines to distil the brand essence in order to deliver creative solutions that deliver results for clients.

Download this inspiring conversation on leadership, design, and the evolving role of women in shaping our cities.

Rose Jackson is a Labor Member of the NSW Legislative Council and NSW Minister for Mental Health, Housing, Homelessness, Youth, Water, and the North Coast. Rose was elected to the Legislative Council in May 2019 and has been fighting for real action on climate change and tackling homelessness and housing affordability.

Jackson has held a variety of roles within the labour and union movements including Assistant Secretary of NSW Labor and as an official for United Voice (formerly LHMU.)

She recently took time out of her busy schedule to talk with us about what are the state government's upcoming plans for building new housing for some of our most vulnerable citizens.

Jessica Saravia is the technical director of DMAC Architecture & Interiors based in Chicago Illinois in the US.

With over 20 years of experience, Jessica brings extensive technical expertise in design, construction and administration, assuring high performance results on every DMAC project. 

Jessica currently sits on the AIA National Building Performance Knowledge Community Leadership Group and is Vice-Chair of the Chicago Building Enclosure Council.

She joins us from the US to talk design bushfires, sustainability and asks will the Trump presidency influence her profession?

Alex Symes, the founder of ASA picked up the Commercial Architecture - Small with Coconut Crab as well as the Single Dwelling -Alteration award at the 2024 Sustainability Awards with his Fun Haus adaptive Passive House reuse.

He also delivered the keynote speech at last year’s sustainability summit that was held on the same day.

 Away from those wins, Alex Symes founded his practice in 2014 with a mission to advance sustainable architecture. 

Alex combines a deep understanding and interest in building physics and sustainability best-practices to create buildings that are not only beautiful but contribute to stronger environmental outcomes overall.  

So, what will be driving residential design in 2025?

Recently elevated to Fellow by the Institute of Architects, Tina Tziallas graduated from Sydney University in 2003 and underwent registration with the NSW Architects Registration Board soon after. 

 In 2013, she launched her own practice, Tziallas Architects in the Southern Highlands of NSW and has never looked back.

Tina has worked on a variety of projects, including high-end and sustainable residential, multi-unit, commercial, equine, religious, and landscape projects, as well as a variety of masterplans & feasibility studies. Tina has a passion for heritage/ adaptive re-use work as well as designing contemporary, sustainable dwellings.

That passion and flair for beautiful design was just one reason Tina was recently elevated to a Fellow by the Institute of Architects? Fellowship, of course is awarded to those who have demonstrated a significant contribution to the architecture profession beyond architecture practice, so this is quite an honour.

In this podcast, Tina talks about some of those passions, design ideas, concepts to do with sustainability and a whole lot more.

This podcast is brought to you in association with AWS, proud sponsors of our 2025 Residential series of podcasts.

Transport infrastructure projects, such as airports and railway stations, are complex buildings with demanding requirements for functionality, longevity, and durability.

Most transport hubs operate around the clock and are expected to last for decades while also being subject to heavy foot and equipment traffic.

Airports and railway stations are architecturally complex structures, placing high demands on functionality, aesthetics, and performance. 

As a ceiling material, metal offers design flexibility as well as aesthetic and performance benefits. Taking a variety of forms – from planks and panels to curved beams and perforated options – metal can transform a space into a striking piece of modern architecture.  

So how do metal ceilings fulfil vital functions, providing light, managing interior acoustics, while concealing and interfacing with electrical and mechanical services, while delivering a functional environment that people are comfortable in?

So, to explain all this, we have with us: Paul Sheehan Ceiling Division Manager at Network Architectural and Steven Fraser Ceiling Systems Manager at Network Architectural.

This podcast was proudly sponsored by Network Architectural, which specialises in high-quality architectural façade and ceiling solutions to architects and specifiers across Australia and New Zealand.

As part of the new concept masterplan being developed for Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, Kharkiv, whoch is home to some 1.4 million people.

The Norman Foster Foundation along with the City Council, UNECE and Arup launched an international competition to create a new landmark for the city, which was requested by the Mayor in April 2022. 

Jansen Che is a Sydney-based architect with over 10 years of experience having worked on a wide range of projects, from home renovations to high-rise towers. In addition, he currently teaches at the University of New South Wales and contributes as an assessor for the Architects Registration Board.

Jansen has  received multiple accolades for the design of an ULTRA minimalist watch. Awards: The Red Dot Design Award, IDA Design Award and Good Design Award.

During his time at JPW, he contributed to significant heritage projects such as the revitalisation of Sydney’s first skyscraper, 33 Alfred St at Circular Quay and the Overseas Passenger Terminal and major urban precinct developments such as Parramatta Square.

Last week, Jansen Che was announced as the winner of The Norman Foster, Kharkiv Freedom Square Revival design competition.

Sam Morris, a multi-award-winning architect and Senior Associate and Public Sector Sustainability Lead at Architectus drives sustainable design solutions and is uniquely positioned to understand the social and environmental challenges facing the architectural profession.

An expert in mass timber construction, Sam has led innovative projects such as the Macquarie University Ainsworth Building - winner of the 2021 Sustainability Awards.

In our last podcast interview for 2024, Sam explains why the Barker College Maths Hub was a recent winner of the prestigious AIA NSW Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture and the Editors Choice winner at the 2024 Sustainability Awards.


The 2024 Editor’s Choice award was sponsored By Sika Australia.

Nuanu Creative City is a city spanning 44 hectares set on a lush tropical site in Bali, Indonesia.

Designed as an integrated ecosystem, the city features dedicated spaces for education, art & culture, wellness, experience, and nature-inspired living, envisioning a future where these elements seamlessly intertwine.

 And Lev Kroll is the CEO of Nuanu Creative City.

Lev’s entrepreneurial ventures span creative agencies, SaaS companies and global projects. In addition to his role at Nuanu, Lev mentors start-up companies, serves on the board and supports technological innovation.

Lev reveals the process in coming up with the idea of a 'creative city' and also how the vision behind this concept that makes Nuanu so unique came to fruition.

T3 Collingwood won the Commercial Architecture – Large category and the Best of the Best category at the recently-held Sustainability Awards, that were hosted in Sydney by Architecture and Design.

 According to the architects behind this project, T3 Collingwood is the firm’s first project in Asia Pacific to adopt the T3 strategy - Timber, Transit and Technology.

Senior Associate at Jackson Clements Burrows Architects Jimmy Walker has worked in leading design practices in both Melbourne and Darwin, across multi-residential, healthcare, education, residential, social housing, infrastructure, tropical design and remote community work. 

Jimmy also led JCB’s T3 Collingwood project, a 15-level mixed-use office tower and Victoria's tallest mass timber building.

So to take us through this amazing design and the Sustainability Awards win, we  spoke with Jimmy Walker.