This project assessed the development potential of a large landholding adjacent to Cavill Avenue at Main Beach on Australia’s iconic Gold Coast. The Project Proposal includes for an interesting and unique tower design, a set of scaled and measurable floor plans indicating apartment yields and sizes, and an overall project feasibility matrix including for all relevant development characteristics at the site.

Invited to contribute ideas for the Project, Matthew provided a unique and interesting concept for the new Mercedes HQ in Sydney’s Inner West. The project sought to express Mercedes design values as well as showcase the vehicles in a unique and special showroom environment.

Matthew led the design for this design competition sponsored by a major Sydney industrial Client, that sought to revitalise and renew a key inner city logistics site, the Enfield Intermodal Terminal, improving connectivity and access for the intermodal facility, at the same time as creating development sites for satellite businesses to develop facilities and be accommodated at the site. The design strategy took a whole of project approach; working with the sites particular and unique industrial heritage, the design concept provided site brand enhancement at all levels of site facility, right from the large scale of the unique and interesting warehouse and office designs, right down to interesting and unique site lighting and site signage designs. The project concept won the competition and was adopted by the Client.

Matthew was invited to contribute design ideas for the new flagship store for Subaru to be located in Sydney’s Castle Hill. Matthew investigated the Subaru Design Philosophy to define a building brand and style that gained support from all levels of Subaru, including at Subaru HQ in Tokyo Japan. The Project now has set the design direction for Subaru Showrooms around Australia and beyond.

Matthew was invited to Bali to visit an impressive site in Lombok, at Serangan Heads, suited to development as a beachside resort and hillside villas. Working closely with design architect Kim Ngoc-Tran from Sydney, Matthew provided site management strategies, concepts for infrastructure upgrades and geotechnical constraints to the site owner, as part of the creative and integrative approach for the Masterplan strategy. The site has now come to market and is selling well, with buyers investing to the Project from all around the world.

Working with Scale11 Architects in Phuket, Matthew sponsored a vision for this beautiful riverside island, to be developed as a world class Resort Facility, with associated freehold private Villas. Leaving the car at the dock, visitors and travellers arrive at an island steeped in the true essence of Vietnamese culture, a unique lifestyle experience of water, jungle, fruit trees and riverside living. Separated from the pressures of mainland living in a timeless and elegant design, the line between inside and outside is blurred, and basic lifestyle practices of bathing, eating and sleeping are celebrated in a beautiful and serene domestic environment.

Matthew worked with leading industrial developers, ALTIS, to develop a strategy for developing land parcels surrounding Bankstown Airport. This masterplanning process was required to consider and adhere to all airside building design and site planning controls, as well a create a design that provided the maximum utility and yield for the Client with the least spend. The project also considered the revitalisation of existing industrial buildings on site, and the incorporation of key retail tenants, such as Bunnings Warehouse.

Matthew worked with Lend Lease to prepare an initial scope, fee and design proposal for undertaking this significant USP as part of Sydney Airport’s expansion plans to accommodate the new Airbus 380 aircraft, as well as improve access to and from Sydney Airport. The Project Proposal considered and mapped out a design, coordination and consultation approach that was utilised by Lend Lease to enhance consultations with Government and QANTAS regarding the expansion opportunity.

Bringing together local residents and visitors, to be inspired to a community driven innovation in the use of the highly iconic “Spit’ at the northern end of the Gold Coast’s iconic Main Beach, this project set down ideas for future utilisation of this open space area in keeping with the incredible natural characteristics of the site as well as the lifestyle and attitude of the Gold Coast. The project included a community workshop attended by 350 locals, and advocacy to the Gold Coast’s Local Council Leadership.

Designed for a Friend, this project took advantage of an expansive and relatively flat site to create 3 separate and separable living ‘pods’, that could be used all together as a large house, or accommodate Air BNB guest groups at the same time as leaving available for the owners a small weekender, or accommodate a teenagers retreat as separate to the main family house as well as space for grandparents. The location of the project close to Noosa’s Main Beach also inspired a whale watching tower at the centre of the site.