Bates Smart

With significant experience in leading large architectural and consultant teams, Julian works with clients from the earliest stages of a project through to completion. He has extensive experience across commercial, residential, educational, infrastructure and urban design projects from the Melbourne studio.

Using innovation as a tool for success, Julian works to turn complex briefs into built forms, bringing clients’ ideas and aspirations to life with user-focused architecture that is humanistic, contextually responsive, sustainable and flexible.

Julian led the team on Sydney’s $1.5 billion Crown Hotel development at Barangaroo and, prior to joining Bates Smart in 2007, he lived in London where he worked on some of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects such as King’s Cross Station, Paddington Crossrail.