ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS – AUSTRALIA

‘Huge demand’: Australia’s largest design firm expands worldwide

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Original article by Michael Bleby, Patrick Duffy
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 2-Jul-24

Sarah Kay is the new CEO of Woods Bagot, which is Australia’s largest architecture firm. She notes that the company has a very large share in what is one of the world’s smallest markets, namely Australia, and so it is seeking to boost its market share in larger markets such as Europe and North America. Woods Bagot is privately owned with 60 partner owners, and Kay says that it intends to remain independent at what she says is a time of consolidation within the architecture and engineering sector. Woods Bagot opened its London-based Customs Bureau hotel unit in 2022 to service what Kay says is the "huge demand"for luxury hospitality in Europe and the Middle East.

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WOODS BAGOT PTY LTD

Architecture firms rebuild

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 44 : 3-Jul-14

While the jobs market for architects in Australia remains patchy, there are some signs of an emerging recovery. The forecast turnaround in the construction sector as building takes over from resources engineering has already led to BureauProberts in Brisbane lifting its headcount 25% to 25. However Wilson Architects, also in Brisbane, has downsized from 30 staff to 22. At Cox Rayner no further redundancies are planned after the workforce declined to 60 from 75, but nor will it recruit in 2014-15. Among recent casualties of the downturn in the profession have been the Smith Madden and Woodhead firms

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BUREAU PROBERTS PTY LTD, PECK VON HARTEL ARCHITECTS, SMITH MADDEN, WOODHEAD PTY LTD, GHD PTY LTD, PTW ARCHITECTS, CONRAD GARGETT RIDDEL ANCHER MORTLOCK WOOLLEY, THE RICE DAUBNEY GROUP, SUTERS ARCHITECTS, PEDDLE THORP AND WALKER PTY LTD, ELENBERG FRASER PTY LTD, GRIEVE GILLETT PTY LTD, BESPOKE CAREER MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, WILSON ARCHITECTS, COX RAYNER, THE AVDIEV GROUP