Michael Collie

Demaine Partnership Pty Ltd

Demaine Partnership was founded in 1938 by Robert Demaine, FRIBA, MRAIA. Our practice provides full architecture, master planning, interior design, programming, building analysis and health planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors across a range of sectors including education, commercial, club, resort, aged care, retirement and residential design. We are committed to the production of high quality architecture. We interpret this objective in the broadest possible way to encompass far more than aesthetic criteria, also to considering issues of fitness for purpose, sustainability, durability and innovation. Our philosophy centres on technical and design excellence. Technical priorities include process management from briefing to final handover and beyond. We place particular emphasis on meeting all the budget and schedule objectives of our projects. Our Directors, together with a team of Architects and Interior Designers, are involved in the supervision and design of each project from the initial stages of planning through construction and post-construction. We believe that good design emerges from accurately meeting our clients requirements. We achieve this through intensive dialogue, which continues throughout the building design and implementation process. We add further value to this process through independent research. We look for better solutions, and a number of patent applications for building technologies are testament to this commitment. We also engage in debate in seeking new solutions to both emerging and existing building programs. Our design solutions are driven by the specifics of the brief, not a predetermined design style. We seek to create structures that fit with their environment, are functional, carefully crafted and aesthetically pleasing. Our work has gained recognition through peer review and awards, but more importantly through ongoing, long term relationships with our valued clients.