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McGregor Coxall

Landscape Architecture & Urban Design



Philip Coxall - Director

Horticultural Diploma Ryde College 1976 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Canberra University 1987

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Master Planning, Park Design, Project Management


Philip has more than twenty years international experience in landscape architecture, urban design and planning. Philip has worked on a broad range of projects in Australia, England, and Asia. His expertise lies in managing the design of large scale, complex projects from concept to the resolution of the finest details. Philip thrives on challenge and rode a bicycle on a solo trek across the Sahara
Desert.


Adrian McGregor - Managing Director

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Canberra, 1988 Certificate Horticulture, Gold Coast Tafe 1994

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Master Planning, Project Management


The founding principal of McGregor Coxall has over twenty years international experience working, teaching and writing about landscape architecture, urban design and the environment. He has worked in Canada and the UK completing projects spanning six nations. Adrian’s expertise lies in combining development feasibility, culture and ecology with a passion for design, to create sustainable places in the built and natural environments. His design and mediation skills have been successfully applied to many complex projects bringing communities, authorities and developers together. Adrian has lectured and written many articles on landscape architecture, cities and the environment. Most recently he has helped establish the Urban Design Alliance, UDAL in NSW.


Larissa Ward - Senior Landscape Architect

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) University of Canberra, 1998

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Master Planning, Project Management


Larissa is a Landscape Architect with professional experience in community collaboration projects, open space master planning and design of public facilities. She has a keen interest in horticulture and ecologically sustainable design. Larissa is skilled at team based collaboration and uses her experience in computer aided drafting and 3D animation to support McGregor Coxall design team.


Christian Borchert - Architect/Urban Designer

Diplom Ingenieur Architecture technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany, 2001 Studies of Architecture and Photography at the Escuela de bellas artes Seville, Spain, 1997

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Master Planning, Graphic Design


Christian is a German educated Architect with professional experience in a wide range of urban design and planning. His experience includes large scale urban master planning and the design of urban and landscape projects. His work has extended to feasibility studies of urban development projects including planning and spatial design studies for employment, residential and leisure buildings. His speciality is working at the interface of architecture and open space, integrating buildings with their environments. He has a keen interest in preparing visualisations of spatial concepts either as computer generated 3D models or hand renderings.


Kristina Frizen - Landscape Architect

Diplom Ingenieur Landscape Architecture University of Applied Science Erfurt, Germany, 2003 Landscape Gardener, 1997

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Master Planning


Kristina is a German educated Landscape Architect with professional experience in international landscape design, documentation and competitions. Her experience includes urban design and landscape projects, feasibility studies of urban development projects, city park design, residential landscape design and documentation. She has a keen interest in horticulture and garden heritage and draws on her experience in these fields to support the McGregor Coxall design team.


Jack Qian - Designer

Bachelor of Design, University of New South Wales - College of Fine Arts 2007

expertise

Urban Design, Graphic Design, Visualisation


Jack’s expertise is in exploring design in all its avenues. His studies range from textile to industrial and jewellery design. Having completed formal study at the University of New South Wales - College of Fine Arts in Sydney, he has a Bachelor of Design majoring in Environmental/spatial and Graphic design. Jack also practised as a freelance designer, working with a diverse range of clients from the entertainment, catering, IT, media and architectural industries. His current interest lie in exploring the relationship between sustainability and design at a broad level from detailed objects, urban spaces and ultimately city form. Jack brings a unique ability to McGregor Coxall with his multidisciplinary approach, 2D/3D computing skills and design sensibility. 


Georg Petzold - Landscape Architect

Diplom Ingenieur Landscape Architecture Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany, 2004

expertise

Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Master Planning


Georg Petzold is a German educated and trained landscape architect. Prior to relocating to Australia Georg worked on a number of large scale projects in both Germany and Austria at the design and documentation level. His work in Australia has ranged from projects in China to construction documentation of the external work for the competition winning National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Georg’s design capabilities extend from macro scale down to fine grain detailing. His passion is to ensure consistency in the design process so that the end product is true to the design philosophy.


Julia Manrique - Graduate Urban Designer, Architect

Bachelor Degree of Architecture

Julia is a Spanish Architect with professional experience in urban design and urban planning. She has studied Architecture in Barcelona, Spain, where she has gained professional experience in urban planning and urban design. Julia has worked for three years at a Spanish architecture firm that specialises in urban planning and design. She is interested in new urban design tools and methods that help regenerate urban areas to improve living conditions and environments for citizens.


Mark Haycox - Associate Director

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons) RMIT Melbourne/University of British Colombia, Canada, 1992 Graduate Diploma in Management, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, 2004 Executive Leadership Program, Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza, 2010 Bachelor of Applied Science, Horticulture (partial), Burnley College, University of Melbourne, 1987

With more than twenty years experience of working in the built environment as an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect, Mark manages the McGregor Coxall Melbourne Studio.  Before joining McGregor Coxall in 2011, Mark has worked more than 10 years with VicUrban and prior to that, with DCM.  In these roles, he has worked with many of Australia’s leading private sector developers, at all levels of Government and within many areas of the community to deliver internationally recognised environmentally responsive public realm projects.  His expertise lies in leading multidisciplinary teams in all aspects of the design process. Mark’s experience ranges from award winning landscape, public realm, civic and community based projects through to commercial buildings, high and medium density residential and retail developments.


Sandra Loughland - Office Manager and Customer Service

With over twenty years experience working in small-medium scale office and business management in addition to employment with construction firms, government and the retail sector, Sandra brings a wealth of knowledge to her role as office and accounts manager at McGregor Coxall. This background includes over ten years directing and office managing a Sydney based interior design and pool construction business, in addition to two years managing accounts for a medium scale glass manufacturer. With her exceptional organisational abilities, Sandra co-ordinates the financial, logistic and managerial aspects of the Sydney and Melbourne McGregor Coxall offices. Her resourceful and efficient approach underpins the business side of the company and ensures effective management of all projects created by the design studio.


Ann Deng - Graduate Landscape Architect

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons), University of New South Wales 2010

Ann completed her Landscape Architecture Degree in 2010 with Honours and was also nominated for the 2010 HASSELL Travelling Scholarship. In her role as a Graduate Landscape Architect at McGregor Coxall she is working on multiple projects with a high degree of complexity. She contributes highly efficient drafting skills as well as high level analysis, design and project managerial abilities which she developed whilst working in several Sydney-based government as well as commercial design firms. Ann is also fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, enabling her to liase effectively with China-based clients. She is passionate about designing meaningful urban spaces that balance sustainability, aesthetics and functionality, and brings this approach as well as an exceptionally collaborative style to the McGregor Coxall design team. 


Luciano Resende - ICT System Administrator

Advanced Diploma in Network Security, Australian College of Technology, Sydney, 2010 Diploma of System Administration, Central College, Sydney 2008 Small Business Management (Finance and Management), SEBRAE, Sao Paulo, 2005 Microsoft Certification System Administrator, Bras figueiredo, Sao Paulo, 2002 Bachelor of Computer Science (partial), UNIP Universidade Paulista, Sao Paulo, 2004

With over 16 years experience as a network and system administrator, Luciano ensures that the McGregor Coxall infrastructure effectively supports the design studios with the most advanced and efficient networks, hardware and software. Through his work with a large scale manufacturer in San Paolo, Brazil for over nine years as well as with several large and medium scale Australian firms over the last five years, Luciano has also developed high level analytical, systems design and problem solving skills which enable him to plan and implement exceptional solutions. His role involves ensuring the smooth running of the computer systems between the Sydney and Melbourne offices as well as enabling McGregor Coxall to interface seamlessly with the various systems utilised by clients and sub-consultants. This he achieves together with a highly supportive and approachable manner.


Michael Cowdy - Senior Urban Designer

Masters of Urban Design, Newcastle University 2006 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield 2003

As a Senior Urban Designer with over 5 years experience in the industry, Michael exhibits strong, well rounded skills in project leadership, strategic master planning and detailed master planning.  Before joining McGregor Coxall in 2011, Michael previously led both local and international projects for two large-scale multi-disciplinary design firms based in Sydney and the UK.  His wealth of experience includes project managing the UK’s River Tyne North Bank development framework, collaborating as a key designer on a mixed-use entertainment city masterplan in Doha, Qatar as well as a waterfront regeneration site in Harbin, China.  More broadly, he is also experienced in city centre regeneration schemes, residential master plans and aged care master plans.


Peta Miskovich - Student Landscape Architect

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of New South Wales, 2009 - Present

Peta is currently studying Landscape Architecture at the University of New South Wales. She has a keen interest in the role of urban design and landscape architecture in the development of healthier, social and ecologically sustainable public spaces. Peta is also one of the Student Landscape Ambassadors for UNSW.


Stephanie Bailey - Student Landscape Architect

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of New South Wales, 2009 - Present

Stephanie is currently studying Landscape Architecture at the University of New South Wales. She has a keen interest in the role of urban design and landscape architecture in the development of healthier, social and ecologically sustainable public spaces. Currently, Stephanie is one of the Landscape Ambassadors for UNSW.