Chris Cole Architect is an award winning architectural practice focused on residential, and resort projects across Australia-Pacific. With offices in Sydney, Australia and Fiji, principal architect Chris Cole, brings a modernist sensibility with a progressive and sustainable handcrafted quality to your project.
Chris Cole started his own architectural practice in 2000 focused on unique residential and medium density projects in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Chris then spent a number of years based in Fiji where he worked on the seven star Laucala, Island Resort (Red Bull), as the Project Architect on the Pacific Village at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China and doing voluntary work for displaced Fijians in local villages.
Along the way Chris has picked up a number of awards:
Whilst running a full time architectural practice, Chris also holds a part-time Design Studio tutoring position at the University of NSW, in the Faculty of the Built Environment.
Prior to taking up architecture, Chris spent much of the 1980s working as freelance cameraman and camera assistant, where he gained an appreciation of the craft of cinema lighting and the collaborative film-making process. This was a period of great vitality, passion and innovation in the film industry, qualities that Chris highly values and seeks to bring to his architectural practice today.