Panel members and state government design champions

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Elisabeth is an architect and urban designer with 35 years’ experience on award-winning infrastructure, urban renewal, greenfield, heritage, and public buildings across the public and private sector. Her interest lies in the power of quality urban realm to enhance community and place.

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Gabrielle is associate director at Sam Crawford Architects and is a national leader in sustainable design and architectural advocacy, delivering complex projects across housing, infrastructure and heritage. She received the NSW Emerging Architect Prize in 2025 and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.

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Peter is principal of Orwell & Peter Phillips, a practice on Gadigal Country, that has been active in building conservation since the 1950s. He is a conservation architect with a strong interest in conserving the heritage of the past, and creating the heritage of the future.

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Bianca is Associate Studio Director for ASPECT Studios. She leads a dedicated team of landscape architects and designers delivering projects that demonstrate exemplary design quality, cultural value, and environmental benefit.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

John is a principal at Woods Bagot, with over 25 years’ experience as an Architect and Urban Designer. He leads the Sydney studio and city shaping projects, promoting sustainability and design excellence across all sectors.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Adriano is principal at Adriano Pupilli Architects and director of the Paul Pholeros Foundation. He has experience working in remote Indigenous communities, regional and urban settings, across civic, commercial, and residential projects that prioritise occupant wellbeing.

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Paul is principal, design director and design board member at WW+P and has been practicing for over 25 years. His experience is in driving teams to produce exceptional places through design excellence on major projects across New York City, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Melbourne and Sydney.

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Mark is a director at ARM Architecture, leading major projects and shaping places through strategic and creative leadership across sectors. He has extensive expertise in masterplanning, feasibility, stakeholder engagement, and design delivery.

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Samantha is a Wiradyuri woman, a designer and researcher working across architecture, urban design and research. She focuses on the role that architecture plays in supporting reciprocal relationships embedded in Indigenous culture to care for people, communities and Country.

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Tam is a landscape architect dedicated to design excellence and ecological urbanism. After delivering globally recognised projects at Grant Associates, she joined e8urban to lead landscape architecture, embedding sustainability in master plans and landmark destinations.

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Rod is Director of Simpson + Wilson Architects and was the inaugural Environment Commissioner of the Greater Cities Commission. He was an Associate Professor and Director of the Masters of Urban Design and Urbanism programs at the University of Sydney.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Peter is Principal at Smith & Tzannes and focuses on housing from single dwellings to precinct planning. He has expertise in design and policy, delivering quality housing through a balanced approach.

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Shellie is an Awabakal descendent lecturer in architecture and program convenor of the Designing with Country program at the University of Newcastle. Her work in architecture and heritage embeds reciprocity and Indigenous knowledges in built environment practice and education.

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Terrence leads TCL’s Sydney studio, bringing expertise in landscape architecture and urban design. He delivers complex city-shaping projects across Australasia with a focus on inclusive design, urban cooling, biodiversity and sustainability.

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Keith is an associate director at OCULUS and has over 30 years’ experience as a landscape architect and urban designer. He is known for driving strong design, community and sustainability outcomes in projects and creative, strategic, big picture thinking.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Paul is the managing director of Atelier Ten Australia and is a global leader in sustainable design. He is recognised for strategy and design on large-scale urban projects and precincts, and works across museums, workplaces, residential, healthcare, education buildings and campuses.

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Amanda is a director at MHN Design Union with extensive experience leading award-winning projects across Australia, Asia and the United States. Amanda has worked across cultural, commercial, urban, multi-residential, mixed-use and adaptive re-use typologies.

Design Champion

Jody is Director Design, Place Making & Property at Sydney Metro and a registered Landscape Architect and Urban Designer. She works across government and collaborates with stakeholders on state-significant urban development and infrastructure projects. At the forefront of leading Place Making processes, she is an advocate for Design Excellence and Connecting & Designing with Country.

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Katherine is a principal at MGS Architects, and an architect and urban designer who supports the public interest in urban transformation through practice, academic and advisory roles. She is also a senior lecturer at Monash University, and chairs the Australian Urban Design Awards steering committee.

Design Champion

Anne is director of Design & Place at Landcom with over 20 years of experience across government, and private sector development. Her expertise spans complex precincts, infrastructure, inter-agency collaboration, and urban design frameworks that support resilient environments across NSW.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Roger is a scientist, urban planner, and a sustainability specialist with extensive experience on major project design and delivery across property and infrastructure. He sees design excellence as a long-term pursuit driving positive cultural, social, environmental, and economic futures.

NSW SDRP Panel Member

Dan is a director at Turner, and has more than 25 years’ experience in architecture and urban
design. He has particular expertise in multi-residential and mixed-use projects, and remains
hands-on in the design and delivery of projects from concept stage, through to construction.