Cottee Parker are an Australian Architectural practice established in 1989 in Brisbane. Offices are in their home city, at the hub of Australia’s fastest growing region, and in Melbourne. The firm operates extensively and successfully across a broad range of architectural disciplines in inner city, urban, provincial and rural environments, both nationally and internationally. The board and directors are competent, confident growth managers with specialist experience across many architectural disciplines and they are committed to manage the business sustainably to make a lasting, positive and significant contribution to architecture and design.
Within the disciplined business framework of operations that ensures critical deadlines and outcomes are achieved the Cottee Parker design approach is practical, skilful and sensitive. It combines professional intellect, learning, and creativity with consultative and creative dialogue to enable opportunities, define constraints, and progress the best designs to full expression.
The company provides responsible, appealing, innovative architectural solutions and realistic, workable designs that add value to client interests and enhance broader community outcomes.
Upper West Side, Melbourne
Australia’s Largest New Multi-Residential Project is Underway
The Cottee Parker designed Upper West Side occupies almost half a city block at the western end of Melbourne’s CBD. With 4 apartment towers of 30 to 50 storeys, this high profile project fronting Lonsdale, Spencer and Little Bourke Streets is set to become a highly visible landmark.
The ground level interface is appropriate to Melbourne, activated with retail facilities and a stimulating combination of streets, lanes and arcades. Above, rich and dynamic facades express clear individual identities for each of the 4 towers while providing a strong coherence to the collective.
The towers address all of the streets with apartments, (a mix of studio to 2 bedroom layouts), with predominantly recessed terraces, some extending to further articulate the facades. Car parking has been contained to the inside of the podium and to two basement levels.
The podium rooftop includes over 4,000m2 of landscaped space and the project will be a minimum 4 Star Green Star development for owners Far East Consortium.
Building the Education Revolution
2010 - 21 Educational Facilities Set to Open
Cottee Parker’s role in the ambitious 2009 Schools infrastructure roll out by Federal and State Government bodies is close to successful completion.
We have been able to achieve unique solutions for school communities within existing campuses in an extremely fast tracked design & build process. Our ability to provide clear, well thought out design solutions has been instrumental in the delivery of purposeful spaces and structures to a very demanding programme. Through the creative use of readily available cladding types and expressive structural elements, our design team has achieved a dynamic palette of building solutions providing students with vastly upgraded learning spaces that serve the wider community as well.
At the Sunshine Coast South and Moreton Bay East in Queensland, the following projects are under construction and to be finished by late 2010.
Pallara State School, Mt Ommaney Special School,
Dayboro State School, Lawnton State School,
Nashville State School, Norris Road State School,
Narangba State School, Kurwongbah State School,
Petrie State School, Bray Park State School,
Strathpine State School, Strathpine West State School,
Redcliffe Special School, Wamuran State School,
Burpengary State School, Burpengary Meadows State School,
Morayfield East State School, Sacred Heart School, Darra.
