Whether you're planning a renovation, building a new home, or simply need expert guidance, finding the right architect is an essential first step. We've curated a list of top Melbourne architects in 2026, known for their residential design expertise, creative vision, and collaborative approach.
From heritage terrace restorations to bold, modern new builds, these Melbourne-based architecture studios understand the city's unique urban fabric, planning requirements, and lifestyle needs. Browse their standout projects, explore their design thinking, and connect with a Melbourne architect who can help you create a home that feels distinctly yours.
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Kirsten Johnstone Architects
At Kirsten Johnstone Architecture, we craft thoughtful, enriched spaces. We listen to our clients. We respond with consideration and integrity. We design each project with experience and understanding. We deliver beautiful architecture.
Led by director Kirsten Johnstone, we are proud of our excellent client relationships and the delivery of high-quality projects that exceed expectations. Our team is collaborative, agile and versatile; able to achieve excellent client-centred outcomes.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Workplace
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Eckersley Architects
Eckersley Architects' lies in thoughtful, responsive spaces that balance the considerations of people and place. They're committed to creating spaces that last a lifetime and leave a lifelong impact on their users, by prioritising aesthetics, functionality, energy efficiency and livability in a holistic approach. Exceptional craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail are achieved through a close collaborative process with clients.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Commercial, Multi-residential & Residential
Style of Work: Eckersley Architects' expertise lies in crafting spaces that leave a lasting impact, embracing a thoughtful and responsive approach to both people and site. They take a holistic approach with all their projects, considering not just the aesthetics of a home but also its function, energy efficiency, and overall liveability.
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Ashley O'Neill Architects
Ashley O'Neill Architects specialise in architecture and interior design across residential, commercial, and hospitality sectors, focusing on small to medium-scale projects. With a strong emphasis on considered design and functionality, the practice delivers bespoke spaces that reflect the unique needs and identity of each client, ensuring every project is tailored, refined, and enduring.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial & Hospitality
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Tom Robertson Architects
Tom Robertson Architects is a Melbourne-based practice focused on residential projects. We create spaces that bring joy through collaboration and considered design.
From listening to clients and learning about context, we respond with unique and enduring architecture. Our approach reflects the spaces we create: open, practical and seamless.
Collaboration also informs the way our practice works. Our team contributes diverse skills, experiences and perspectives to every endeavour with shared enthusiasm. The result is a portfolio of contemporary architecture we proudly put our name to, and places our clients love.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Workplace & Multi-residential
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AM Architecture
AM Architecture, based in Prahran, Melbourne, is an architecture and interior design practice, with a focus on curating crafted solutions. Their projects are the culmination of a natural evolution from site, environment, and client aspirations. AM Architecture seeks to deliver unique projects, whilst maintaining their commitment to functional, refined and inspiring spaces.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential & Commercial
Style of Work: They are a design driven practice that produce elegant and crafted solutions, developing organically from the site, its environment and the client’s needs and aspirations. In every project they look for opportunities to build these things into unique outcomes that are functional, refined and inspiring.
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Chan Architecture
Chan Architecture is a Melbourne architectural studio specialising in residential renovations, extensions and new builds. Founded in 2007 by Anthony Chan, the
practice has grown into a highly regarded design studio known for tailoring each home to suit the personality and lifestyle of their clients.
Our mission is to design beautiful, unique and functional homes that genuinely reflect each client’s lifestyle and personality, creating spaces where people feel at ease the moment they arrive through thoughtful design, meticulous detail and a collaborative, client-centred process.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Hospitality, Workplace, Multi-residential & Commercial
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Taouk Architects
Taouk architects is a boutique and dynamic architectural practice highly regarded for its unique approach to each project and its responsiveness to the needs and expectations of its clients. Comprising of a passionate team architects, the key emphasis is in residential design, specialising in contemporary homes and multi residential projects. With a strong design philosophy and key understanding of the marketplace. taouk architects focuses on striving for architectural excellence, whilst priding itself on creating design solutions which encompass both form and function to achieve high quality architecture and intelligent living. Offering a full range of services from conception to handover, services can be tailored to suit the needs of individual clients.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-Residential
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mcmahon and nerlich
mcmahon and nerlich is an award-winning architecture and design studio based in South Melbourne, known for creating thoughtful, enduring spaces that respond deeply to people, place, and context. Working across architecture, interiors, and urban design, the studio brings a holistic approach to every project, balancing design excellence with functionality, sustainability, and long-term liveability. Our work is grounded in a deep understanding of site. We believe every project should emerge from its surroundings, shaped by careful listening, rigorous design thinking, and an appreciation for the unique narratives that define each place. We see design as practical discipline and crafted art, reflecting a commitment to responsive architecture, meaningful collaboration, and spaces that resonate
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Workplace, Public/Civic
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BENT Architecture
Bent Architecture is a Melbourne-based practice crafting thoughtful, site-responsive homes that balance rigour with warmth. Our work explores the intersection of architecture, landscape and everyday life, often through careful adaptation and extension. We favour honest, tactile materials and a collaborative design process that draws out each client’s unique brief. The result is architecture that feels grounded, enduring and quietly expressive, shaped by people and place.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Multi-residential, Workplace, Retail, Public/Civic, Urban Design, Landscape Design
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Merrylees Architecture
Merrylees Architecture & Interiors is a Melbourne-based studio specialising in residential architecture. We create beautiful, unique spaces, born out of a modern design philosophy melded with the individual character of our clients. Our work aims to transform the personal story into a physical space that will inspire the people who experience it for years to come.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-Residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Public/Civic
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FIGR Architecture
Founded by Adi Atic and Michael Artemenko, FIGR is an award-winning architecture studio that thrives on dialogue, curiosity, and craft. Their approach is rooted in a collaborative and transparent design process, where every project is shaped through open conversation, attention to context, and respect for constraints such as budget, compliance, and construction complexity. The FIGR team values the sensory dimension of architecture, aiming to craft spaces that are not only visually compelling but experientially rich. Personal, precise, and deeply engaged, FIGR delivers architecture that resonates on both emotional and practical levels, responding to each brief with clarity, refinement, and intent.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential - New Build, Residential - Renovation, Interior Design
Style of Work: FIGR is a design-focused, award-winning studio known for sensory, refined architecture shaped through open collaboration and grounded in thoughtful constraints.
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Samuel Architecture
Samuel Architecture is an Architecture and Interior Design practice based in Melbourne. Our mission is to deliver meaningful spaces, well designed buildings and outstanding customer service for people who require professional expertise and guidance on their Architecture and Interiors journey. Our process is driven by going above and beyond to understand our client's needs and goals. No two projects are ever the same. This is why Samuel Architecture draws on 15 years of experience at the highest possible industry level which consistently delivers the best solutions and outcomes for our clients.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Workplace
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Bower Architecture & Interiors *
Founded in 2005 by Chema and Anna, Bower Architecture & Interiors is a Melbourne-based practice dedicated to designing expressive, sustainable homes that enrich daily life. Drawing inspiration from clients, nature, and the meaningful details of everyday moments, Bower crafts architecture that is both beautiful and deeply personal. Guided by a calm and empathetic process, the studio brings light, warmth, and clarity to each project; delivering spaces that feel effortless yet intentional. With a passionate and collaborative team of nine, Bower champions a people-first approach grounded in creativity, integrity, and care.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential - New Build, Residential - Renovation, Interior Design
Style of Work: Bower Architecture & Interiors creates expressive, light-filled homes that blend sustainability, natural materials, and thoughtful detail to reflect each client’s story and surroundings.
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Mancini Made *
Mancini Made is a Melbourne-based construction company renowned for building architecturally designed, meticulously crafted homes, townhouses, and apartments. Founded on a passion for design and precision, the family-run studio blends architectural understanding with construction excellence, offering both in-house design-build services and seamless collaboration with external architects. With over 200 projects delivered in the last decade, Mancini Made has built a reputation for its uncompromising attention to detail, refined workmanship, and commitment to realizing bold, contemporary design. Whether translating complex architectural plans or crafting elegant forms from the ground up, the Mancini Made process is defined by clarity, collaboration, and care.
Scope of Services: Construction, Architecture & Design-Build Services
Types of Built Projects: Residential – New Build, Multi-Residential (Townhouses & Apartments), Custom Homes
Style of Work: Mancini Made delivers precision-built, architecturally driven homes defined by contemporary design, refined craftsmanship, and seamless integration between architecture and construction.
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FYC *
Founded by Fei Chau, FYC Architects is a dynamic Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio dedicated to crafting thoughtful, bespoke design solutions. Drawing on Fei’s extensive experience both locally and internationally, the studio approaches each project with attentiveness, collaboration, and a refined eye for detail. With a focus on working closely with clients, consultants, and builders, FYC Architects shapes enduring spaces that respond to the unique challenges of inner urban sites while celebrating the individuality of each brief. Their diverse portfolio spans residential, commercial, and retail spaces; each designed to be functional, timeless, and joyful to inhabit.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential – New Build, Multi-Residential, Interior Design, Commercial, Retail
Style of Work: FYC Architects delivers bespoke, context-responsive architecture shaped through collaboration, careful observation, and a commitment to refined, enduring design.
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Enclave Architects
Enclave Architects is a Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio specialising in refined residential projects. With over 20 years of combined global experience across Australia, Europe and the Middle East, the team brings a culturally informed and technically rigorous approach to design. The studio creates calm, timeless spaces defined by light, proportion and material clarity. Each project is client-led, translating individual lifestyles into thoughtful, buildable architecture that responds to site, budget and context—balancing innovation with restraint to deliver residential projects that feel enduring and deeply lived in.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-Residential, Hospitaity
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Terrain Nine Design Studio *
Based in Melbourne, Terrain Nine Design Studio is an architecture and interior design practice known for transforming complex visions into functional, innovative, and refined realities. Established in 2021 by Director Sumedh Shinde, the studio has quickly garnered recognition for its precise, forward-thinking designs that harmonize soft minimalism, modern elements, and timeless lines, all imbued with a sense of warmth and charm. Their workspace, aptly named the "House of Terrain 9," is a testament to their design philosophy. Located in South Melbourne, this moody, atmospheric studio seamlessly blends modern and heritage features, creating an inviting environment that showcases their expertise in both commercial and residential projects.
Scope of Services: Architecture, Interior Design, Concept Design, Design Development, Town Planning Drawings, Building Permit Drawings, Construction Documentation
Types of Built Projects: Residential (New Builds, Renovations/Extensions), Commercial Spaces, Custom Homes
Style of Work: Terrain Nine crafts spaces that balance minimalist charm with practicality, resulting in purposeful environments that reflect both creativity and thoughtful consideration. Their designs are characterized by a harmonious blend of modern aesthetics and heritage elements, creating spaces that are both timeless and contemporary.
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Aktis Architects
Aktis Architects is a Melbourne-based architectural practice focused on thoughtful, well-crafted design. The practice works across various project types and scales. It values clarity of concept, careful material selection and a considered response to context.
Aktis operates as a collaborative practice, allowing close involvement with clients and consultants throughout the design process. Projects are developed through dialogue, careful research and iterative design, ensuring that each outcome responds to its brief, site and users while maintaining a strong architectural identity.
The studio approaches each project as an opportunity to create spaces that are functional, enduring and quietly expressive shaped by constraint, materiality and the lived experience of the people who occupy it.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Build Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Workplace, Retail, Public/Civic
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Emma Tulloch Architects *
Emma Tulloch Architects is a boutique Melbourne-based studio known for its design-focused approach to residential and commercial architecture. Specialising in single and multi-residential projects, the studio creates considered, beautifully detailed spaces that reflect a deep understanding of site, light, and longevity. Passionate about delivering places their clients can love and grow within, the studio works closely with a diverse range of clients to craft architecture that is both timeless and responsive. Their work balances aesthetic clarity with opportunities for spatial evolution over time.
Scope of Services: Architecture and Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Single Residential, Multi-Residential, Commercial
Style of Work: Emma Tulloch Architects designs light-filled, context-aware spaces defined by thoughtful planning and refined detailing. Their work emphasises longevity, adaptability, and the emotional experience of space.
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Telha Clarke Architecture & Design
Telha Clarke Architecture & Design is a Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio. Founded by Stuart Telha and Tim Clarke, our 23 architects and interior designers work across residential, multi-residential, hospitality and student accommodation.
Our work sits at the intersection of context, materiality and lived experience. We are guided by three principles: design integrity, where each project is crafted with rigour and individuality; innovation, embracing technology while maintaining human-centred creativity; and enhanced living, prioritising wellbeing and the way people experience space.
Each project translates that understanding into spaces with purpose, material richness and enduring beauty.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Workplace, Retail
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Hindley & Co Architecture & Interior Design
Hindley & Co is an award-winning Melbourne-based architecture and interior design studio specialising in sculpturally inspired and quietly exceptional high-end projects.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential
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Ardo Architecture
Ardo is a Melbourne based architecture and interiors studio led by Ash Roberts, focused on designing refined, highly personal homes. The practice is grounded in a clear understanding of how people live, creating spaces that feel both effortless and enduring. Each project is approached as a considered response to its context - balancing clarity, materiality, and restraint with a quiet warmth. Ardo’s work reflects a commitment to timeless design, where careful planning and resolved detailing come together to shape homes that elevate everyday life.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Workplace
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DiMase Architects
DiMase Architects is a design studio based in Fitzroy North. We deliver practical, thoughtful projects that enhance people's lives, with a strong focus on service and creating healthy, restorative spaces. Engaged with our local and architectural communities, we value collaboration and connection.
Our work sits at the intersection of people and the environment. We advocate for good design and respond actively to climate change, learning continuously to evolve our practice. Since 2002, we have grown into a progressive, well-structured studio, providing tailored services that respond to each client's needs, aspirations, and context.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial
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Edition Office
Edition Office is an architecture studio encompassing cultural, social and technological research, enabling exploration of material expression, form and spatial practice. The experiential qualities of our work enable projects which re-articulate relationships between communities and place. Our buildings enhance and enable connections and interfaces which provoke, question and enrich both occupants and the public realm. Edition Office work across a wide array of typologies and scale, including residential, institutional, commercial, education, urban design and interiors.
Scope of Services: Architecture
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Public/Civic
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Green Sheep Collective
Green Sheep Collective is a Melbourne-based, carbon-neutral architecture practice specialising in highly resolved, sustainable homes and renovations. We create enduring, comfortable spaces that respond thoughtfully to climate, context, and the way people live.
Our process is collaborative, transparent and grounded in rigorous early decision-making, bringing clarity to cost, performance and design from the outset. They work closely with their clients, drawing on their values and lived experience to shape homes that resolve complex functional, spatial and energy challenges.
Respectful of people, community and environment, their work minimises impact while enriching everyday life.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Landscape Design
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Joseph Galati Architecture
Joseph Galati architecture is a design focused practice, with a considered approach to the creation of beautiful architecture, respectful of environment, cultural significance, client brief, and functionality.
With over 20 years of architectural experience, Joseph Galati architecture seeks to create an inspired space, with sustained longevity, respectful to its immediate natural and urban setting. the practice embodies a comprehensive approach over the life of each project,with architectural services including feasibility study, schematic design, town planning documentation, design development, building permit documentation, interior design, landscape design and project management.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Workplace
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Karavasil Architects
Karavasil Architects is a multidisciplinary studio specialising in architecture and interior design. With a research-led, process-driven approach, the practice creates immersive spaces that connect people, brands, and place.
Led by Georgina Karavasil Papargiris and Vicki Karavasil, the studio draws on decades of experience delivering award-winning projects across residential, commercial, hospitality, retail, education, and health sectors.
The practice takes a collaborative, people-centric approach and rather than following a fixed style, it focuses on tailored, context-driven outcomes. Grounded in functionality, material exploration, and sustainability, its work is designed to be meaningful, enduring, and deeply connected to its users.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Workplace, Retail, Public/Civic
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Mihaly Slocombe
Mihaly Slocombe designs spaces that elevate everyday life: architecture that feels bright, purposeful and alive. From warm and welcoming family homes to spacious schools and spirited sports pavilions, their spaces nurture connection, wellbeing and joy for all who pass through.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Public/Civic. Education
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MRTN Architects
MRTN Architects is a residential architecture practice with studios in Melbourne and Sydney. Designing homes in the City, Country and the Coast.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential
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Plico Design Studio
Plico Design Studio is an Architecture, Interior Design, and Heritage Research company based in Port Melbourne. They specialise in adapting historical places and contexts to create spaces which respond to contemporary use.
Multidisciplinary, Plico Design Studio work across residential (existing and new builds), commercial (including education and healthcare), and public projects. Their projects aim to minimise carbon footprint whilst responding to clients' needs. They recognise heritage as an enabler of sustainability, and contribute to the circular economy in salvaging materials and repurposing these in their work.
Versatile, you'll find Plico Design Studio at Zoos Victoria, Heritage Sites, Solar Farms, veterinarian and medical clinics, educational institutions, churches, gyms, and in suburban and regional homes across Australia
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Commercial, Hospitality, Workplace, Retail, Public/Civic, Urban Design, Landscape Design
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Studio Cobe
Studio Cobe is a Melbourne-based practice designing warm, enduring and rigorous architecture and interiors. Our architecture is detailed and refined, with welcoming, light-filled interiors tailored to everyday life, gathering and shared experiences.
Embracing a rich, textural palette of high-quality natural materials, our buildings and spaces are imbued with atmosphere and energy.
Cohesive, balanced and connected to their environments, our buildings carefully frame the landscape and capture seasonal light, sounds and smells. A strong consideration for sustainability ensures our architecture and interiors endure.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Workplace
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Terra!
TERRA! is a Melbourne-based sustainable architecture practice delivering thoughtful, high-performance design with a strong environmental focus. Led by internationally experienced architects and backed by Certified Passivhaus Designer expertise, we combine global knowledge with a local understanding of climate, place and lifestyle. Our work centres on creating beautiful, efficient and resilient buildings that minimise energy use, enhance wellbeing and stand the test of time. From carefully crafted homes to innovative commercial spaces, TERRA! is committed to shaping a more sustainable built environment for Australia’s future.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Multi-residential, Workplace
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Three Hat Buildings
Three Hat Buildings is a residential architecture practice that works with homeowners before key decisions are locked in.
Led by an architect and former builder, the practice focuses on testing ideas early, aligning design with cost and construction from the outset. This thinking is also explored in Alexander's book Find Your Way Home, which looks at where projects go wrong and how better decisions are made early.
The result is work that is not only well designed, but practical, buildable and carefully considered for how it will perform over time.
Scope of Services: Architecture
Types of Built Projects: Residential
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True Story
What’s our story? We’re Dan Gayfer and Lewis Marash, the building and interior designers behind True Story.
Our philosophy is simple. We listen. Listen to your hopes, needs and desires and then design a home that will not only make your heart sing, but will meet your budget as well.
We value what is best for you and that doesn’t always mean bigger is better. We’re open, honest and transparent. And, being a boutique studio, we collaborate on every part of your project together.
Seeing the smiles on your faces as the finished project draws closer is one of the joys of what we do. As is developing friendships that will last for much longer than the duration of the build. Because relationships are what we’re all about. If they are easy, collaborative and fun, amazing design outcomes follow.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Retail
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UrbanID
With studios in Melbourne and Ballarat, UrbanID delivers residential, mixed-use, retail, civic, heritage and adaptive reuse projects.
They provide architectural and interior design services from early concept and feasibility through to full contract documentation and construction oversight.
UrbanID approach buildings and interiors as a single, integrated discipline — creating environments that are functional, durable and shaped by how people actually use space, with a view to long-term adaptability.
For single and multi-dwelling residential clients, UrbanID design purposeful, finely resolved environments that prioritise internal volume, sensory quality, curated natural light and material integrity. In heritage and adaptive reuse projects, they balance contemporary needs while revealing layers of history.
Scope of Services: Architecture & Interior Design
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Frequently Asked Questions
1.How much does an architect cost in Melbourne?
Architect fees in Melbourne typically range from 8–15% of the total construction cost for a full-service engagement, though this varies based on project complexity, scope, and the studio you work with. Some architects also offer fixed-fee or hourly arrangements for smaller projects like consultations or concept designs.
2.Do I need an architect for a renovation?
Not always - but for anything structural, heritage-listed, or complex, an architect adds significant value. They'll navigate council permits, maximise your site's potential, and help you avoid costly mistakes. For straightforward cosmetic updates, a draftsperson may suffice.
3.How do I choose the right architect in Melbourne?
Start by reviewing portfolios to find a style that resonates with you, then consider their experience with projects similar to yours - whether that's a heritage terrace, a knockdown rebuild, or a rear extension. A good working relationship matters too, so don't skip the initial consultation.
4.How long does the design and approval process take?
For a typical residential project in Melbourne, expect around 3–6 months from initial design through to planning permit approval, depending on your council and project complexity. Construction documentation and tendering can add another 2–4 months before a builder breaks ground.
5.What's the difference between an architect and a draftsperson?
Architects are university-trained and registered professionals who bring strategic design thinking, problem-solving, and project oversight to the table. Draftspersons produce technical drawings but generally don't offer the same depth of design expertise. For complex or high-value projects, an architect is usually worth the investment.
6.Do Melbourne architects handle council permits?
Yes - most full-service architecture firms manage the planning and building permit process on your behalf. They understand local council requirements across Melbourne's various municipalities, which can make a real difference in getting approvals through smoothly.
7.Can an architect help me build sustainably?
Absolutely. Many Melbourne architects specialise in passive solar design, cross-ventilation, thermal mass, and low-carbon materials. If sustainability is a priority, mention it upfront so you can find a studio with proven expertise in that space.
