Episode Summary Host Seton Walsh-Rose is joined by Laraine Sperling, CEO of Buchan, the 136-year-old architecture and design practice with five studios across Australia and New Zealand. Laraine shares how Buchan’s people see themselves as custodians on a timeline, how the firm moved from shopping centres into mixed-use precincts, and what it means to be…
Episode Summary Host Seton Walsh-Rose is joined by Godfrey Frederick, Director of National Strategic Partnerships at BSE (Building Services Engineers) and one of the four co-founders of Tree of Knowledge, the free quarterly networking event that now runs in 10 locations across Australia and New Zealand. Godfrey traces a career from manufacturing engineering through semiconductors…
Episode Summary Miranda Sheehan has been at PDT Architects for close to thirty years, and the Brisbane firm itself has been going for eighty-eight — six generations of ownership, in a profession where most practices do not outlast their founders. She is one of three directors who deliberately chose not to appoint a managing director….
Episode Summary Jess Noonan never meant to be a town planner — she wanted to be a nurse, or an accountant. Twenty years on she is a Senior Principal at Tract, co-hosts the PlanningXChange podcast, and tells host Seton Walsh-Rose that Victoria’s planning system has been reshaped in four or five years. Her verdict is…
Episode Summary Ceilidh Higgins spent about twenty years as an architect and interior designer before moving into workplace strategy with CBRE‘s Pacific Workplace Consulting team. That double vantage point — designing offices, then sitting inside a global property business measuring how they actually get used — runs through the whole conversation. She starts with a…
Episode Summary Sarah Buckeridge graduated into a serious Victorian recession in the mid-1990s, went to Singapore because there was no work at home, and came back to interview at Hayball as a graduate when the practice had about thirty people and one office. Three decades, three children and several redefined roles later, she is Co-Managing…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Dua Green, CEO of AJC (Allen Jack + Cottier) — a Sydney architecture practice of around eighty people, celebrating 70 years and recently recognised with the NSW Enduring Architecture Award. The two first met at the Australian Design Review 30UNDER30 leadership retreat in Bali, and Dua’s story is…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Richard Austin, CEO of Omnii — Australia’s largest fire engineering and fire protection consultancy, working across health, rail, defence, education and major projects from Cross River Rail to Darling Harbour. Richard’s path is anything but linear: hospitality, travel, media, financial services and shared-service procurement before the built environment. He’s also a keen cyclist and co-founder…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Karl May, Managing Director of Turner — the Sydney- and London-based urban design, architecture and interiors studio he helped start in 2001 and has grown, at times 20% a year, for over 25 years. A graduate who cut his teeth in Malaysia and New York before helping build…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Cathryn Greville, the inaugural CEO of NAWIC — the National Association of Women in Construction. A former construction lawyer turned government regulator, peak-body advocate and, most recently, a UK-based leader of sector-wide cultural change, Cathryn brings a rare, systems-level view of why construction struggles to attract and keep…