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Senior Associates

Chris Exner

Chris Exner

Senior Associate, Melbourne

As an architect with more than 15 years experience, Chris has contributed his skills to a range of different projects and is especially valued for his ability to successfully manage design teams. 

Chris' ability to design challenging projects and to work as a team player are significant factors in the practice attracting a number of repeat clients who choose to continue working with the studio on multiple projects.

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Stuart Marsland

Stuart Marsland

Senior Associate, Melbourne

As a senior associate, Stuart's role is to constantly push the boundaries in design and detailing, creating cleaner, more efficient, rigorous and elegant solutions on challenging sites.

Stuart's passion for high quality dense urban design was born out of training at the Metropolitan University of Manchester in the UK, just as the city was going through its post-industrial regeneration.

Prior to joining the practice in 2006, Stuart worked in London on large commercial and residential projects where clients included the London Underground. Throughout this period, Stuart created innovative designs and expanded sites, maximising their yield.

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Tessa Roulston

Tessa Roulston

Senior Associate - Interiors, Melbourne

Tessa has broad experience in leading and delivering high quality, large and small scale projects.  Tessa's versatility has seen her involved in projects within the multi-residential, mixed-use, commercial, hospitality, recreational and industrial sectors in Australia and overseas.

Tessa has a strong commitment to innovative design and product quality, from conception through to construction and site delivery. Throughout her career, her passion for design has earned her several awards for outstanding commercial design.

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Associates

Felicity Barraclough

Felicity Barraclough

Associate, Melbourne

Felicity joined the practice in 2004 and her associate position is secured by her capacity to develop cutting edge design, together with her confident skills as both a team player and a leader.

Contributing to the creative output of the practice, Felicity particularly excels in the development of multi-residential projects, exploring ideas about pattern and modularisation, that result in appealing designs. She focuses on a strong concept while being mindful of the practicalities inherent in large scale projects.

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Kylie Caruana

Kylie Caruana

Associate, Melbourne

Kylie has over ten years architecture experience.  An innovative designer with a contemporary design outlook, her passion for delivering high quality architecture has successfully contributed to commercial, retail and residential buildings. 

Continually striving to achieve a higher level within architecture, Kylie offers clients a fresh approach, environmentally and socially sustainable designs and an attractive and appealing design response. 

Confident and approachable, her strong leadership skills bring out the best in the people she works with.  Her capacity to continually look for alternative solutions to problems and her intimate knowledge of construction technologies, make her an asset on any project.

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Clementine Inglis

Clementine Inglis

Associate - Interiors, Melbourne

Prior to joining the practice Clementine worked in Italy, where she was employed by internationally acclaimed designers, Claudio Bellini and Design Continuum and in Australia, for other leading commercial design practices.

With her local and international design experience, Clementine's contribution to the practice complements and further enhances the team's highly sophisticated and innovative design direction. Clementine completed a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where she received the Design Institute of Australia award for her thesis on the spatial qualities of light and dark.

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Belinda Nincevic

Belinda Nincevic

Associate, Melbourne

Belinda‘s skill designing contemporary, high quality, architectural solutions adds value to any project.

Her diverse experience on large scale projects, including multi-residential, commercial and institutional has allowed her to develop critical skills while fostering a capacity for innovation in the application of new concepts.

Belinda's dedication and professionalism is supported by a methodological project approach to all her work.

Her tutoring affiliations at Melbourne University further demonstrate her commitment to the profession and encouragement of students studying in the field.

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Roberta Tessarolo

Roberta Tessarolo

Associate - Interiors, Melbourne

Roberta's interior design experience has seen her work on a diverse range of projects, both internationally and locally. Her portfolio includes hospitality fit-outs, commercial and government developments, along with small, medium and large scale residential developments.

Her overall project experience, starting from schematic design through to final completion, provides a sound knowledge of project processes. Roberta enjoys the challenge of innovative and unique design and exploring spatial environments. 

Roberta has undertaken a Green Star accreditation course designed to keep staff across environmentally sustainable design in the design and construction process.  She endeavours to implement ESD initiatives across all project sectors.

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David Thompson

David Thompson

Associate, Melbourne

David has worked in Australia and the UK on architectural projects across diverse sectors, including conservation, healthcare, education, rail and residential.

Completed works include major refurbishment projects as part of London's £10 billion, five-year investment program to improve London's transport system where David carried out the role of design and documentation architect. He has also led consultant teams on major refurbishment projects for the University of East London and London School of Economics.

David is passionate and committed to delivering high quality design that responds to the site, local vernacular and environmental issues.

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Nick Williams

Nick Williams

Associate, Melbourne

With over 15 years experience, Nick has been involved in a wide variety of projects; from residential, educational and institutional, to retail and commercial. This has given him broad experience, particularly in the documentation and delivery of multi-level residential projects.

Nick draws inspiration from the Rationalists of last century and attributes his attention to detail to a never-ending quest for perfection.

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Managing Principals

Kim Lowman

Kim Lowman

Managing Principal

As well as being involved in the studio's architectural design and development processes, Kim is a driving force behind its reputation for outstanding client service.  Kim understands that a clear and concise understanding of property is vital to achieving architectural integrity, excellence and project endurance.

Kim obtained his architecture degree from the University of Melbourne and completed a Graduate Diploma in Property from RMIT.  Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kim has more than 25 years experience designing multi-residential, mixed use and commercial projects throughout Australia and the Asian region.

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Shane Rothe

Shane Rothe

Managing Principal

As a founding partner and Managing Principal of the practice, Shane is heavily involved in all aspects of the architectural design and production process.

Shane is consistently inspired and driven to accomplish excellence in architecture. He is solutions driven and closely involved in all projects managed by the studio. 

Shane is immensely proud of the breadth, success and quality of the practice and even prouder of the contribution the team makes to the evolution and appearance of the community's built environments and interior spaces.  

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Principals

Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown

Principal, Brisbane

Jeff brings a broad range of architectural experience from project work in the UK and Australia.  He is equally proficient designing individual luxury homes, as he is mixed-used residential and commercial buildings. 

Jeff is particularly experienced project directing and leading design teams on major master planning and feasibility studies for private sector developers and government clients.  His skills base and innovative approach to providing workable solutions to all levels of design, ensure a clearly defined and communicable vision for all projects.

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Chris Hayton

Chris Hayton

Principal, Melbourne

As a Principal, Chris shares the studio's passion for excellence in architectural design. He believes good design is the product of an intelligent response to the building programme, the site and environmental issues (Chris leads the sustainability division of the practice).

Subsequent to graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Chris has 20 years experience working on major projects in Australia and Europe. Fully conversant with all aspects of the architectural process, he has specific skills in building design and managing design teams.

Also the leader of our sustainability division, Chris has led large, multi-disciplinary teams for major residential, commercial and industrial developments in Australia.  

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Nigel Hobart

Nigel Hobart

Principal, Melbourne

As a Principal, Nigel takes responsibility for providing a comprehensive architectural service across his share of projects, as well as managing the business side of the practice to ensure seamless service delivery for all clients.

Prior to joining the studio in early 2007, Nigel was a client of ROTHELOWMAN with the Becton Property Group for almost four years.  This ‘client-side' perspective that Nigel brings to the practice gives him a unique, direct insight into client needs and expectations.

Nigel has a Bachelor of Economics and MBA from the University of Queensland.

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Simon White

Simon White

Principal, Brisbane

Simon's architectural experience has been gleaned in Australia and the UK and he has substantial experience developing innovative design solutions across a range of commercial and institutional development types.

Simon's design approach, popular with clients, is to seek to simplify the building process in a collaborative and creative way.  He has personally won several design awards and strives to deliver memorable and unique built forms that excite the user and function successfully.

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Associate Principals

Angelo Pignalosa

Angelo Pignalosa

Associate Principal, Melbourne

Angelo takes pride in the studio's passion for innovative and practical design and ongoing commitment to exceeding client expectations.

Angelo shares the vision to focus on design excellence within feasibility guidelines. He also believes that communication and experience, backed by technical knowledge, are essential to providing a successful brief and project outcome.

Building on a foundation of experience, Angelo regards each new project as an opportunity for cohesive solutions and collaborative learning. Angelo welcomes the challenges and opportunities inherent in every design project and seeks to create excellent built environments.

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Andrew Wales

Andrew Wales

Associate Principal - Interiors, Melbourne

Andrew has built a reputation for balancing the often conflicting aspirations of design excellence with commercial reality.  He believes inspired design is the product of a thoughtful and consistent response to the project brief, the building and a thorough understanding of amenity and client expectations.

With over 25 years experience working on dozens of major hotel projects in Australia, Andrew is fully conversant with all aspects of the architectural process and has specific skills in the design of hotel interiors.  Together with his extensive commercial interiors experience, Andrew has an enviable breadth of industry knowledge.

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