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McGregor Coxall

Landscape Architecture & Urban Design

Deborah Brooks - Office Manager

Deborah has an extensive background in office management roles for small-medium and multinational companies across a wide range of industries including banking and finance, FMCG, construction, hospitality, recruitment, IT, defence and manufacturing.  In 2000, she began consulting independently as an office manager, providing assistance and business support services to high-level finance  and government executives and innovative design firms. Blending a resourceful, proactive approach and exceptional organisational skills, Deborah is responsible for achieving best practice in the finance and administration aspects of McGregor Coxall.

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.

Joe Rowling - Senior Urban Designer

Professional Diploma in Architecture, University of Westminster, London, 2007 Masters of Urban Design, Edinburgh College of Art, 2003 Bachelor of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, 2001

expertise

Urban Design, Master Planning, ESD, Community Consultation


Joe is a UK qualified Architect with postgraduate qualifications in Urban Design from Edinburgh College of Art. Joe has professional experience in both the private and public sectors.  Joe leads the urban design team and his experience includes formulation of public domain planning policy guidance, development of large scale master planning commissions and design of a range of residential and education buildings. His recent work has focused on large scale regeneration using the Biocity Studio principles and public housing where he has led a public consultation programme and the establishment of clienting frameworks for public sector organisations. He produces sustainable place based masterplans and urban design frameworks created from tailored analytical methodologies. He is adept at analysis of existing urban conditions to inform design codes that create high quality sustainable urban conditions.

Luke McDermott - Senior Landscape Architect

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) University of New South Wales, 2001

expertise

Landscape architecture, Urban Design, Project Management, Street Design, Cycle Networks


Luke is a Landscape Architect with professional experience in community collaboration projects, open space master planning and design of the public domain including road layout, cycle networks, residential apartments and parks. He has a keen interest in renewable energy and ecologically sustainable development, the later being the topic of his undergraduate thesis. Luke is skilled at team based collaboration and is the office IT manager.  He has experience managing large, complex urban projects on CAD across multiple files and teams.  This experience includes extensive coordination with government clients and consultants.

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.

Francisco Allard - Graduate Landscape Architect

Masters of Landscape Architecture

Francisco graduated with a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where he worked on projects which explored landscape urbanism, process based design, the integration of ecological systems and the understanding of infrastucture. 

Francisco has gained professional experience in architecture and urban design in South America, his experience ranges from private to public projects of different scales, dealing with both large urban intervention and bespoke residential design with a focus on sustainable development.  His work on the design of contemporary new urban public spaces that generates social, economical and environmental impacts make Francisco an asset to the team.