Australia & SE Asia

Dynamic, urban retail environments are creating exciting destinations around Australia and Southeast Asia. By leveraging our excellent working relationships with numerous local associate architects, we bring the best of commercial design from around the world and translate it to the countries’ unique cultures and locations.

Featured Projects
Siam Paragon
This world-class retail and entertainment complex sits at the intersection of two of Bangkok’s busiest train lines and adjacent to a lush tropical garden. With a facade that references Thailand’s ancient and rich cultural heritage, the design marries the traditional with the modern to create a progressive development that will set a new precedent for future mixed-use centers in the region.
Queens Plaza
In Brisbane, Australia, this high-end retail center on a major thoroughfare provides Queensland’s residents, who formerly went to Sydney and Melbourne to shop, with a stunning new retail destination of their own. The center, which features glass columns and domed ceilings, has successfully attracted a range of luxury tenants both from nearby locations and new to the area.
The Grand Indonesia
The historic Hotel Indonesia, located at Jakarta’s most recognized intersection, centers a 16.5-acre world-class development combining luxury residential, retail, and office facilities in an urban garden setting. Each of these components is balanced in a complex mixed-use configuration that strengthens connections but also provides each component with a sense of independent vitality.
Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre
Located just east of the Melbourne Central Business District, this new retail center boasts 75 retailers, a bowling lounge, cinemas, and the only IKEA store in Victoria, Australia. Anchored in part by a supermarket, this center provides a model for development worldwide in terms of its unique configuration and untraditional anchors.
Chadstone Addition
Melbourne’s Chadstone Centre is one of Australia’s largest regional shopping centers and one of the region’s highest revenue-producing retail properties. To sustain this exceptional growth and stay competitive in the market, a master-planned expansion program turned the center into a 1.45 million-SF award winner featuring a new two-level fashion district at the center’s southern end.
Norm Garden AIA NCARB, Senior Vice President
“People in countries throughout Southeast Asia and Australia have always treated shopping as a social activity, preferring to spend time with family and friends and seeking out leisure opportunities as ways of socializing. We respond to those needs with design that creates a social environment, with convenient access to pedestrian pathways and nearby development, and by integrating a range of other uses like residential and leisure to help make retail a natural extension of shoppers’ busy lives.”