Urbanistica was established in 2000 by founding member, Principal Paul Mazza, in collaboration with Charles Lee and Joanne Wong. Since then the practice has undertaken a variety of commissions for owners, developers and investors throughout metropolitan Sydney, country New South Wales, New Zealand and China.
We work in collaboration with our sister office in Melbourne, BMA Architects led by Principal Bill Mitsoulas.
Our practice areas encompass a wide range of project types. Some of the projects we have worked on recently include:
- Luxury Waterfront Residence redevelopment
- Boutique Dual Occupancy development
- Medium density infill development
- Residential Warehouse Conversion
- Child Care facility
- Commercial/ Retail
- Aged Care facility and Over 55's housing
- Hospitality
- Hotel refurbishment and redevelopment
Our Services include;
- Architectural Design & Documentation
- Urban Design & Planning Feasibility
- Interior Design, Fitout Services
- Consulting & Feasibility Studies
- Project Management
The design philosophy of Urbanistica is a holistic and site specific architectural response to each project.
Our approach to every commission is to thoroughly understand the client's objectives, work with each site's individual characteristics (location/orientation/topography/social significance) and collaborate with the local (or state) planning authority to achieve a creative, sustainable, and commercially enhanced design outcome.
We continue to successfully help clients;
- Realize the opportunities of living in an architecturally design housing for all sectors of community
- Achieve superior outcomes through creative and unique architectural design
- Promote sustainable living & affordable housing through well considered solutions.
- Re-adapt heritage planning constraints to maximize residential development opportunities
- Balance creative design with commercial objectives and planning authority requirements
- Gain recognition for individual residential and commercial projects