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Our Crew
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Kirsti Stock
Kirsti Stock
CAD TechnicianKirsti has over 20 years experience in architectural drafting and specialising in Interior documentation. She has an extensive background on a range of projects in New Zealand, London, and Australia. Her specialty and passion is residential, with a wealth of knowledge on high-end and multi-residential projects.
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Ron Prisk
Ron Prisk
Senior DesignerRon brings to DC8 Studio his 20 years’ experience as Senior Designer for a wide range of project types including mixed use, commercial, retail, high and medium density residential developments, integrated housing and one off houses. Ron works closely with clients, consultants and authorities to ensure the best design outcome for all stakeholders, within time constraints and budget. Ron believes that buildings should have a sense of authenticity and integrity through a direct response to climate, place, function, materiality and structure.
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Riccardo Rizzalli
Riccardo Rizzalli
DirectorMeet Riccardo and you’ll discover he’s one of those people that adds value to the project from the moment he joins the team. He has more than 20 years’ experience as an architect and has held senior design positions in a number of practices, culminating in his role as Queensland Practice Director and National Design Director for Mirvac Design.
Now as a Director and Co-Founder of DC8 Studio, Riccardo continues to provide innovative and considered design solutions for many large and complex projects throughout Australia. His architectural and high level corporate experience has provided him with a unique skill set that is invaluable to DC8 and our clients.
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Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Interior DesignerKara has highly developed skills and a commitment to interior design, accomplished through years of experience in interior design and documentation, in a variety of complex residential, commercial and retail projects, both here and overseas.
Her attention to detail, strong design skills and thoroughness add value to every project she is involved in. Self-motivated, she has exceptional interpersonal and client service skills. Kara’s strong computer-based skills ensure an efficient design approach in her work methodology and a coordinated process throughout her projects.
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Moe Shahin
Moe Shahin
Architectural GraduateMoe’s interests focus on design translation and the transformation of conceptual ideas into pragmatic built forms. The scope and richness of this translation process is a constituent Moe enjoys working collaboratively with both clients and colleagues to achieve. His investment in the architectural production process enables him to offer holistic design outputs and project efficiencies.
By approaching every project as an open learning process, Moe endeavors to deliver architecture that is both responsive and meaningful in both inter and intra-disciplinary contexts. Moe firmly believes that good buildings and spaces should be an everyday commodity for cities and their people.
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Genevieve Vella
Genevieve Vella
Project ArchitectGenevieve is a graduate architect from the University of Queensland with four years’ experience working in the design industry. Working while completing her studies has given her an intimate and holistic view of the operation and processes of DC8 Studio and the profession as a whole. She has had experience working, as part of a team, on a large range of building scales and delivery stages with a varied collection of clients and consultants.
Genevieve has a passion for thoughtful and integrated design responses which are unique to each project and location. Gen is a creative visualiser, bringing her architectural design bent to 3D modeling.
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Noa Tranter
Noa Tranter
Project Co-ordinatorNoa has spent 5 years working in Urban Design and major projects in Local Government since graduating his degree in Architecture/Law at the University of New South Wales. In this time he has developed skills in resolving complex programs with numerous competing stakeholder interests in addition to an intimate understanding of the workings of Local Government.
Noa has been involved in the ground work for the redevelopment of key land holdings including preliminary feasibility, site master planning, consultation and consultant coordination.
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Brett Anstis
Brett Anstis
Design ArchitectPeople like Brett see the bigger picture. An architect with a career spanning South Africa and South East Queensland, Brett specialises in large-scale housing and integrated development. He has designed homes and master planned communities, combining elements of urban design, landscape and architecture to create new neighbourhoods.
Brett trained at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg under the likes of Ora Joubert and Peter Rich amongst others.
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Amanda Evans
Amanda Evans
Senior AdministratorAmanda has valuable administrative experience, excellent organisational and multi-tasking abilities. She possesses strong interpersonal skills and has the ability to work well in a team and autonomously. Having a sense of humour, an open mind and a flexible approach to office daily life ensure the smooth operation of our creative and energetic studio.
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Peter Petrou
Peter Petrou
Documentation Manager NSWPeter is a Senior Architectural Draftsman with over 12 years’ experience working in Australia. He has spent majority of his time delivering all phases from sketch design, DA & Construction documentation including consultant coordination.
Having been trained from a small private practice early on in his career and the progressed to Mirvac Design working for a large corporate company and working on Retail, Commercial, Residential High rise apartments and Masterplanned communities.
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Rowan Hukins
Rowan Hukins
DirectorRowan is an architect with 20 years of experience working in Australia. He has spent the majority of this time delivering the full spectrum of residential projects from bespoke one-off home design, to unit developments, through to entire master planned communities of 1000 plus dwellings.
Having been trained initially in small practice and then progressed through to large commercial practice with Mirvac Design, Rowan has gained unique and significant experience creating architecture and place that maximises economic, social and environmental outcomes.
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Jacob Hutson
Jacob Hutson
Director + Visual Artist + Photographer + Drone Pilot + Coffee Obsessive.Jacob Hutson is the kind of person who can turn his hand to almost anything. With almost 23 years in the visual design industry, he has worked in a diverse range of fields from advertising, print production, television animation, computer game art lead to creating architectural and marketing imagery.
Jacob has extensive experience producing a variety of visual media for project marketing, architectural graphics, competition bids, corporate and commercial clients and is an accomplished professional photographer. He is also the chief pilot and photographer for the studio’s CASA commercial drone licence (ReOC).
His broad experience provides him the ability to add value to any project and visualise its potential through a comprehensive range of visual means.
Talk to Jacob about visualising, marketing or photographing your next project.
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Tony D’Andrea
Tony D’Andrea
Project ArchitectProject Architect and passagemaker. Tony is a registered architect in the Australia and the United Kingdom, with national and international project experience. His focus is in residential and retail store design, project management and project delivery. His design philosophy embraces the idea of ‘re-use and re-assessment’ of the existing built condition.
Tony’s project management approach pursues positive communication and quality execution of detail. Successful residential and high end retail work require one to readily anticipate obstacles and to foster a productive working relationship between clients and builders.
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Benjamin Perkins
Benjamin Perkins
Architectural StudentBenjamin’s passion for design is centred in the human experience. He is deeply intrigued in the fundamentals of design and aspires to take a holistic viewpoint in everything he does.
As a student graduate, Benjamin collaborates with the senior team members along all stages of design. He brings a keenness to be challenged and a skill set in computer graphics and 3D modelling to the team.
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Amy Beths
Amy Beths
Amy is currently an interior design student in her final year of study. Her study has sparked a keen interest in sustainable design and vision for a viable future using design.Bringing enthusiasm and strong attention to detail the DC8 team, Amy engages with all stages of the design process. Amy enjoys taking an active part in exploring the potential of commercial and residential projects and delivering a considered outcome. Sustainability and human-centric design motivate Amy to create well thought out designs that are an agency to better everyday lives. -
Adam Grzes
Adam Grzes
CAD TechnicianAdam is a well regarded building designer and documenter with over 20 years experience in the delivery of retail and residential projects.
He has undertaken both documentation and administration roles for a number of national retail clients, implementing their roll out programs for the development, construction and refurbishment of various restaurants and shopping centre tenancies in QLD and NSW.
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Leeann Wedlake
Leeann Wedlake
Business ManagerLeeann’s role as business manager is to support and work in consultation with the Directors in ensuring that the management of the practice is professional and allows all employees to achieve the business vision, values and objectives. A key outcome of the role is that the business systems are strongly aligned to the business strategy, with systems being enablers and supporters of the strategy. A large part of Leeann’s role as the BM is to ensure that the day-to-day operational management of DC8 STUDIO is effective with particular focus on Crew, IT, Finance and Administration.
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Marianne McKenzie
Marianne McKenzie
DirectorPeople with that rare ability to combine vision and detail are hard to find. Marianne is one of them. With over 30 years experience in interior design, Marianne has delivered a broad range of projects in London, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia. In addition, she has completed postgraduate studies and holds a Master of Project Management. She is an accredited GBCA Greenstar Professional and occasional lecturer/tutor at QUT in Interior Design studies.
Her 14 years experience at Mirvac concentrated on spatial planning and strategic management. At DC8, Marianne has led the interior design of housing, hospitality and commercial projects. She also specialises in contract administration, with the successful delivery of a number of ALDI stores in Queensland and New South Wales.
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Lachlan Walker
Lachlan Walker
DirectorA passionate traveller, Lachlan is one of those people who’s always looking forward. With a long career focussed on architectural project delivery, he can see the end goal and navigate the best way to get there. He has managed and co-ordinated large multi-disciplinary delivery teams working to tight programs and budget constraints. Lachlan has successfully delivered a diverse range of project types and scales from small domestic to $500m developments. He has recently been responsible for the delivery of projects such as Ephraim Island, Tennyson Riverside, ALDI stores and several retail developments.
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Our Crew
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Riccardo Rizzalli
Riccardo Rizzalli
DirectorMeet Riccardo and you’ll discover he’s one of those people that adds value to the project from the moment he joins the team. He has more than 20 years’ experience as an architect and has held senior design positions in a number of practices, culminating in his role as Queensland Practice Director and National Design Director for Mirvac Design.
Now as a Director and Co-Founder of DC8 Studio, Riccardo continues to provide innovative and considered design solutions for many large and complex projects throughout Australia. His architectural and high level corporate experience has provided him with a unique skill set that is invaluable to DC8 and our clients.
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Kirsti Stock
Kirsti Stock
CAD TechnicianKirsti has over 20 years experience in architectural drafting and specialising in Interior documentation. She has an extensive background on a range of projects in New Zealand, London, and Australia. Her specialty and passion is residential, with a wealth of knowledge on high-end and multi-residential projects.
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Noa Tranter
Noa Tranter
Project Co-ordinatorNoa has spent 5 years working in Urban Design and major projects in Local Government since graduating his degree in Architecture/Law at the University of New South Wales. In this time he has developed skills in resolving complex programs with numerous competing stakeholder interests in addition to an intimate understanding of the workings of Local Government.
Noa has been involved in the ground work for the redevelopment of key land holdings including preliminary feasibility, site master planning, consultation and consultant coordination.
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Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Interior DesignerKara has highly developed skills and a commitment to interior design, accomplished through years of experience in interior design and documentation, in a variety of complex residential, commercial and retail projects, both here and overseas.
Her attention to detail, strong design skills and thoroughness add value to every project she is involved in. Self-motivated, she has exceptional interpersonal and client service skills. Kara’s strong computer-based skills ensure an efficient design approach in her work methodology and a coordinated process throughout her projects.
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Genevieve Vella
Genevieve Vella
Project ArchitectGenevieve is a graduate architect from the University of Queensland with four years’ experience working in the design industry. Working while completing her studies has given her an intimate and holistic view of the operation and processes of DC8 Studio and the profession as a whole. She has had experience working, as part of a team, on a large range of building scales and delivery stages with a varied collection of clients and consultants.
Genevieve has a passion for thoughtful and integrated design responses which are unique to each project and location. Gen is a creative visualiser, bringing her architectural design bent to 3D modeling.
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Moe Shahin
Moe Shahin
Architectural GraduateMoe’s interests focus on design translation and the transformation of conceptual ideas into pragmatic built forms. The scope and richness of this translation process is a constituent Moe enjoys working collaboratively with both clients and colleagues to achieve. His investment in the architectural production process enables him to offer holistic design outputs and project efficiencies.
By approaching every project as an open learning process, Moe endeavors to deliver architecture that is both responsive and meaningful in both inter and intra-disciplinary contexts. Moe firmly believes that good buildings and spaces should be an everyday commodity for cities and their people.
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Ron Prisk
Ron Prisk
Senior DesignerRon brings to DC8 Studio his 20 years’ experience as Senior Designer for a wide range of project types including mixed use, commercial, retail, high and medium density residential developments, integrated housing and one off houses. Ron works closely with clients, consultants and authorities to ensure the best design outcome for all stakeholders, within time constraints and budget. Ron believes that buildings should have a sense of authenticity and integrity through a direct response to climate, place, function, materiality and structure.
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Amy Beths
Amy Beths
Amy is currently an interior design student in her final year of study. Her study has sparked a keen interest in sustainable design and vision for a viable future using design.Bringing enthusiasm and strong attention to detail the DC8 team, Amy engages with all stages of the design process. Amy enjoys taking an active part in exploring the potential of commercial and residential projects and delivering a considered outcome. Sustainability and human-centric design motivate Amy to create well thought out designs that are an agency to better everyday lives. -
Peter Petrou
Peter Petrou
Documentation Manager NSWPeter is a Senior Architectural Draftsman with over 12 years’ experience working in Australia. He has spent majority of his time delivering all phases from sketch design, DA & Construction documentation including consultant coordination.
Having been trained from a small private practice early on in his career and the progressed to Mirvac Design working for a large corporate company and working on Retail, Commercial, Residential High rise apartments and Masterplanned communities.
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Rowan Hukins
Rowan Hukins
DirectorRowan is an architect with 20 years of experience working in Australia. He has spent the majority of this time delivering the full spectrum of residential projects from bespoke one-off home design, to unit developments, through to entire master planned communities of 1000 plus dwellings.
Having been trained initially in small practice and then progressed through to large commercial practice with Mirvac Design, Rowan has gained unique and significant experience creating architecture and place that maximises economic, social and environmental outcomes.
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Jacob Hutson
Jacob Hutson
Director + Visual Artist + Photographer + Drone Pilot + Coffee Obsessive.Jacob Hutson is the kind of person who can turn his hand to almost anything. With almost 23 years in the visual design industry, he has worked in a diverse range of fields from advertising, print production, television animation, computer game art lead to creating architectural and marketing imagery.
Jacob has extensive experience producing a variety of visual media for project marketing, architectural graphics, competition bids, corporate and commercial clients and is an accomplished professional photographer. He is also the chief pilot and photographer for the studio’s CASA commercial drone licence (ReOC).
His broad experience provides him the ability to add value to any project and visualise its potential through a comprehensive range of visual means.
Talk to Jacob about visualising, marketing or photographing your next project.
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Lachlan Walker
Lachlan Walker
DirectorA passionate traveller, Lachlan is one of those people who’s always looking forward. With a long career focussed on architectural project delivery, he can see the end goal and navigate the best way to get there. He has managed and co-ordinated large multi-disciplinary delivery teams working to tight programs and budget constraints. Lachlan has successfully delivered a diverse range of project types and scales from small domestic to $500m developments. He has recently been responsible for the delivery of projects such as Ephraim Island, Tennyson Riverside, ALDI stores and several retail developments.
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Amanda Evans
Amanda Evans
Senior AdministratorAmanda has valuable administrative experience, excellent organisational and multi-tasking abilities. She possesses strong interpersonal skills and has the ability to work well in a team and autonomously. Having a sense of humour, an open mind and a flexible approach to office daily life ensure the smooth operation of our creative and energetic studio.
-
Benjamin Perkins
Benjamin Perkins
Architectural StudentBenjamin’s passion for design is centred in the human experience. He is deeply intrigued in the fundamentals of design and aspires to take a holistic viewpoint in everything he does.
As a student graduate, Benjamin collaborates with the senior team members along all stages of design. He brings a keenness to be challenged and a skill set in computer graphics and 3D modelling to the team.
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Leeann Wedlake
Leeann Wedlake
Business ManagerLeeann’s role as business manager is to support and work in consultation with the Directors in ensuring that the management of the practice is professional and allows all employees to achieve the business vision, values and objectives. A key outcome of the role is that the business systems are strongly aligned to the business strategy, with systems being enablers and supporters of the strategy. A large part of Leeann’s role as the BM is to ensure that the day-to-day operational management of DC8 STUDIO is effective with particular focus on Crew, IT, Finance and Administration.
-
Tony D’Andrea
Tony D’Andrea
Project ArchitectProject Architect and passagemaker. Tony is a registered architect in the Australia and the United Kingdom, with national and international project experience. His focus is in residential and retail store design, project management and project delivery. His design philosophy embraces the idea of ‘re-use and re-assessment’ of the existing built condition.
Tony’s project management approach pursues positive communication and quality execution of detail. Successful residential and high end retail work require one to readily anticipate obstacles and to foster a productive working relationship between clients and builders.
-
Adam Grzes
Adam Grzes
CAD TechnicianAdam is a well regarded building designer and documenter with over 20 years experience in the delivery of retail and residential projects.
He has undertaken both documentation and administration roles for a number of national retail clients, implementing their roll out programs for the development, construction and refurbishment of various restaurants and shopping centre tenancies in QLD and NSW.
-
Marianne McKenzie
Marianne McKenzie
DirectorPeople with that rare ability to combine vision and detail are hard to find. Marianne is one of them. With over 30 years experience in interior design, Marianne has delivered a broad range of projects in London, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia. In addition, she has completed postgraduate studies and holds a Master of Project Management. She is an accredited GBCA Greenstar Professional and occasional lecturer/tutor at QUT in Interior Design studies.
Her 14 years experience at Mirvac concentrated on spatial planning and strategic management. At DC8, Marianne has led the interior design of housing, hospitality and commercial projects. She also specialises in contract administration, with the successful delivery of a number of ALDI stores in Queensland and New South Wales.
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Brett Anstis
Brett Anstis
Design ArchitectPeople like Brett see the bigger picture. An architect with a career spanning South Africa and South East Queensland, Brett specialises in large-scale housing and integrated development. He has designed homes and master planned communities, combining elements of urban design, landscape and architecture to create new neighbourhoods.
Brett trained at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg under the likes of Ora Joubert and Peter Rich amongst others.
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Our Crew
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Noa Tranter
Noa Tranter
Project Co-ordinatorNoa has spent 5 years working in Urban Design and major projects in Local Government since graduating his degree in Architecture/Law at the University of New South Wales. In this time he has developed skills in resolving complex programs with numerous competing stakeholder interests in addition to an intimate understanding of the workings of Local Government.
Noa has been involved in the ground work for the redevelopment of key land holdings including preliminary feasibility, site master planning, consultation and consultant coordination.
-
Moe Shahin
Moe Shahin
Architectural GraduateMoe’s interests focus on design translation and the transformation of conceptual ideas into pragmatic built forms. The scope and richness of this translation process is a constituent Moe enjoys working collaboratively with both clients and colleagues to achieve. His investment in the architectural production process enables him to offer holistic design outputs and project efficiencies.
By approaching every project as an open learning process, Moe endeavors to deliver architecture that is both responsive and meaningful in both inter and intra-disciplinary contexts. Moe firmly believes that good buildings and spaces should be an everyday commodity for cities and their people.
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Genevieve Vella
Genevieve Vella
Project ArchitectGenevieve is a graduate architect from the University of Queensland with four years’ experience working in the design industry. Working while completing her studies has given her an intimate and holistic view of the operation and processes of DC8 Studio and the profession as a whole. She has had experience working, as part of a team, on a large range of building scales and delivery stages with a varied collection of clients and consultants.
Genevieve has a passion for thoughtful and integrated design responses which are unique to each project and location. Gen is a creative visualiser, bringing her architectural design bent to 3D modeling.
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Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Interior DesignerKara has highly developed skills and a commitment to interior design, accomplished through years of experience in interior design and documentation, in a variety of complex residential, commercial and retail projects, both here and overseas.
Her attention to detail, strong design skills and thoroughness add value to every project she is involved in. Self-motivated, she has exceptional interpersonal and client service skills. Kara’s strong computer-based skills ensure an efficient design approach in her work methodology and a coordinated process throughout her projects.
-
Riccardo Rizzalli
Riccardo Rizzalli
DirectorMeet Riccardo and you’ll discover he’s one of those people that adds value to the project from the moment he joins the team. He has more than 20 years’ experience as an architect and has held senior design positions in a number of practices, culminating in his role as Queensland Practice Director and National Design Director for Mirvac Design.
Now as a Director and Co-Founder of DC8 Studio, Riccardo continues to provide innovative and considered design solutions for many large and complex projects throughout Australia. His architectural and high level corporate experience has provided him with a unique skill set that is invaluable to DC8 and our clients.
-
Ron Prisk
Ron Prisk
Senior DesignerRon brings to DC8 Studio his 20 years’ experience as Senior Designer for a wide range of project types including mixed use, commercial, retail, high and medium density residential developments, integrated housing and one off houses. Ron works closely with clients, consultants and authorities to ensure the best design outcome for all stakeholders, within time constraints and budget. Ron believes that buildings should have a sense of authenticity and integrity through a direct response to climate, place, function, materiality and structure.
-
Kirsti Stock
Kirsti Stock
CAD TechnicianKirsti has over 20 years experience in architectural drafting and specialising in Interior documentation. She has an extensive background on a range of projects in New Zealand, London, and Australia. Her specialty and passion is residential, with a wealth of knowledge on high-end and multi-residential projects.
-
Marianne McKenzie
Marianne McKenzie
DirectorPeople with that rare ability to combine vision and detail are hard to find. Marianne is one of them. With over 30 years experience in interior design, Marianne has delivered a broad range of projects in London, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia. In addition, she has completed postgraduate studies and holds a Master of Project Management. She is an accredited GBCA Greenstar Professional and occasional lecturer/tutor at QUT in Interior Design studies.
Her 14 years experience at Mirvac concentrated on spatial planning and strategic management. At DC8, Marianne has led the interior design of housing, hospitality and commercial projects. She also specialises in contract administration, with the successful delivery of a number of ALDI stores in Queensland and New South Wales.
-
Benjamin Perkins
Benjamin Perkins
Architectural StudentBenjamin’s passion for design is centred in the human experience. He is deeply intrigued in the fundamentals of design and aspires to take a holistic viewpoint in everything he does.
As a student graduate, Benjamin collaborates with the senior team members along all stages of design. He brings a keenness to be challenged and a skill set in computer graphics and 3D modelling to the team.
-
Peter Petrou
Peter Petrou
Documentation Manager NSWPeter is a Senior Architectural Draftsman with over 12 years’ experience working in Australia. He has spent majority of his time delivering all phases from sketch design, DA & Construction documentation including consultant coordination.
Having been trained from a small private practice early on in his career and the progressed to Mirvac Design working for a large corporate company and working on Retail, Commercial, Residential High rise apartments and Masterplanned communities.
-
Leeann Wedlake
Leeann Wedlake
Business ManagerLeeann’s role as business manager is to support and work in consultation with the Directors in ensuring that the management of the practice is professional and allows all employees to achieve the business vision, values and objectives. A key outcome of the role is that the business systems are strongly aligned to the business strategy, with systems being enablers and supporters of the strategy. A large part of Leeann’s role as the BM is to ensure that the day-to-day operational management of DC8 STUDIO is effective with particular focus on Crew, IT, Finance and Administration.
-
Tony D’Andrea
Tony D’Andrea
Project ArchitectProject Architect and passagemaker. Tony is a registered architect in the Australia and the United Kingdom, with national and international project experience. His focus is in residential and retail store design, project management and project delivery. His design philosophy embraces the idea of ‘re-use and re-assessment’ of the existing built condition.
Tony’s project management approach pursues positive communication and quality execution of detail. Successful residential and high end retail work require one to readily anticipate obstacles and to foster a productive working relationship between clients and builders.
-
Amanda Evans
Amanda Evans
Senior AdministratorAmanda has valuable administrative experience, excellent organisational and multi-tasking abilities. She possesses strong interpersonal skills and has the ability to work well in a team and autonomously. Having a sense of humour, an open mind and a flexible approach to office daily life ensure the smooth operation of our creative and energetic studio.
-
Adam Grzes
Adam Grzes
CAD TechnicianAdam is a well regarded building designer and documenter with over 20 years experience in the delivery of retail and residential projects.
He has undertaken both documentation and administration roles for a number of national retail clients, implementing their roll out programs for the development, construction and refurbishment of various restaurants and shopping centre tenancies in QLD and NSW.
-
Jacob Hutson
Jacob Hutson
Director + Visual Artist + Photographer + Drone Pilot + Coffee Obsessive.Jacob Hutson is the kind of person who can turn his hand to almost anything. With almost 23 years in the visual design industry, he has worked in a diverse range of fields from advertising, print production, television animation, computer game art lead to creating architectural and marketing imagery.
Jacob has extensive experience producing a variety of visual media for project marketing, architectural graphics, competition bids, corporate and commercial clients and is an accomplished professional photographer. He is also the chief pilot and photographer for the studio’s CASA commercial drone licence (ReOC).
His broad experience provides him the ability to add value to any project and visualise its potential through a comprehensive range of visual means.
Talk to Jacob about visualising, marketing or photographing your next project.
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Lachlan Walker
Lachlan Walker
DirectorA passionate traveller, Lachlan is one of those people who’s always looking forward. With a long career focussed on architectural project delivery, he can see the end goal and navigate the best way to get there. He has managed and co-ordinated large multi-disciplinary delivery teams working to tight programs and budget constraints. Lachlan has successfully delivered a diverse range of project types and scales from small domestic to $500m developments. He has recently been responsible for the delivery of projects such as Ephraim Island, Tennyson Riverside, ALDI stores and several retail developments.
-
Brett Anstis
Brett Anstis
Design ArchitectPeople like Brett see the bigger picture. An architect with a career spanning South Africa and South East Queensland, Brett specialises in large-scale housing and integrated development. He has designed homes and master planned communities, combining elements of urban design, landscape and architecture to create new neighbourhoods.
Brett trained at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg under the likes of Ora Joubert and Peter Rich amongst others.
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Rowan Hukins
Rowan Hukins
DirectorRowan is an architect with 20 years of experience working in Australia. He has spent the majority of this time delivering the full spectrum of residential projects from bespoke one-off home design, to unit developments, through to entire master planned communities of 1000 plus dwellings.
Having been trained initially in small practice and then progressed through to large commercial practice with Mirvac Design, Rowan has gained unique and significant experience creating architecture and place that maximises economic, social and environmental outcomes.
-
Amy Beths
Amy Beths
Amy is currently an interior design student in her final year of study. Her study has sparked a keen interest in sustainable design and vision for a viable future using design.Bringing enthusiasm and strong attention to detail the DC8 team, Amy engages with all stages of the design process. Amy enjoys taking an active part in exploring the potential of commercial and residential projects and delivering a considered outcome. Sustainability and human-centric design motivate Amy to create well thought out designs that are an agency to better everyday lives.