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Brendan Gaffney

Director

Brendan graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) in 1990. Prior to joining COX in 1997, he worked abroad with firms including Chapman Taylor Partners and Wickham Van Eyck in London, before returning to Australia to work for Daryl Jackson Architects. He was appointed as a Director of COX in 2007, representing the Brisbane Studio on the Board of Management.

A diverse designer, Brendan has experience spanning master planning, public and cultural buildings, sports, commercial, and high-density residential. He has worked as project leader and design architect on many projects of international significance, including the PA Hospital, New Farm Powerhouse Centre for the Arts, New Farm Riverwalk, Cairns Cityport North Master Plan, the Brisbane Convention Exhibition Centre Grey St Expansion, Newstead River Park Masterplan (now Gasworks) and the new South Bank 2050 Vision Masterplan.

Brendan has delivered multiple ferry transport nodes in Brisbane, notably the Flood Recovery Terminals on the Brisbane River. He also specialises in residential developments, working on Allisee for Stockland, Hamilton Harbour for Leighton-Devine, Newstead Central for Metro P/L, and Peter Doherty Drive Stage 1 & 2 for Leighton & Stockwell. He is Project Director for Brunswick and Co., one of Brisbane’s first true Build-to-Rent projects.

With a long-standing passion for sports architecture and the significant role these facilities play in civic life, Brendan has worked on multiple notable sporting facilities, including the business case design and master plan for Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Redlands Coast Regional Sports and Recreation Precinct, GCRC Indoor Sports Centre Expansion, and Murrarie International Cycle Park.

Believing the city is our greatest cultural achievement, Brendan has a passion for collaboration, ensuring every project explores the potentials of urban connectivity, legibility, civic face, and activation. Brendan views cities as ‘a mosaic of projects,’ each with the ability to enhance the civic experience and unlock change.

Brendan’s diverse experience is an asset for clients. He recognises that the learnings we take from different project typologies have unexpected crossovers, and that when we pull all those divergent strands together, we make each project, regardless of sector, conceptually stronger.

 

New South Wales
Associate

Anne-Lise Li Sik

South Australia
Associate Director

Kate Russo

Western Australia
Associate

Tim Seals

Victoria
Associate

Michelle James

Queensland
Associate

Leon McBride

New South Wales
Associate

Imad Khan

Victoria
Associate

Michael Shore

New South Wales
Associate Director

Kate Macdonald

Victoria
Director

Stuart Harper

New South Wales
Associate

Milan Kalapis

Queensland
Associate Director

Ali Farmer

New South Wales
Director

Russell Lee

Queensland
Associate

Robert Callanan

Victoria
Associate

Wesley Perrott

Victoria
Director

Eliza Suffren

New South Wales
Consulting Partner

John Richardson

Australian Capital Territory
Associate

Jae Lim

New South Wales
Associate

Nathan Antico

Victoria
Associate

James Allison

Victoria
National Design Technology Lead: Strategy

Matt Austin

Queensland
Associate

Nuraishikin Salleh

Western Australia
Director

Matthew Batchelor

Western Australia
Chief Information Officer

Moreno Sartorello

New South Wales
Associate

Lei Li

South Australia
Associate

Jennifer Drake

Queensland
Associate Director

Michelle Mitchell

South Australia
Associate Director

Gianni Francisco

South Australia
Director

Adam Hannon

New South Wales
Associate Director

Rory Brady

New Zealand
Design Lead

James Sekoranja

Victoria
Associate

Stuart Murchison

Western Australia
Associate Director

Amanda Ainslie

New South Wales
Associate

Lydia Vegas

Victoria
Associate

Andrew Mayne

Victoria
Director

Pete Sullivan

Western Australia
Senior Interior Designer

Dominique Tiller

Victoria
Associate

Naomi Evans

New South Wales
Director

Ian Connolly

New South Wales
Associate

Andrew Hosking

Victoria
Associate

Klara Graszkiewicz

Queensland
Senior Associate

Steven Harth

Victoria
Senior Associate

Matthew Findlay

Queensland
Director

Kellie Newman

South Australia
Associate

Kirsty Fraser

New South Wales
National Design Technology Lead: Operations

Brad Sonter

Western Australia
Associate

Hesti Nienaber

Australian Capital Territory
Senior Architect

Paul Millwood

Victoria
Director

Philip Rowe

Australian Capital Territory
Director

Nugroho Utomo

Victoria
Senior Associate

John Hayball

Victoria
Associate

Michael Ferreyra

Australian Capital Territory
Associate

Alex Gorecki

Queensland
National BIM Coordinator

Ashley Beckett

Queensland
Senior Associate

Shane Horswill

Victoria
Head of Research

Dr Jacqueline Baker

Victoria
Associate

Zen Lee

Western Australia
Associate

Christopher Wescombe

Australian Capital Territory
Director

Robert Morton

Queensland
Associate

Remy Chard

Queensland
Senior Team Leader

Justin Bennett

Western Australia
Senior Associate

Joshua Bulloch

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Leesa Bennett

New South Wales
Director

Brooke Lloyd

Victoria
Associate

Jared Smith

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Katie McKenna

Western Australia
Director

Bret White

Australian Capital Territory
Associate

Connie Martiniello

Victoria
Director

Andrew Tucker

Queensland
Director

Richard Coulson

Victoria
Director

Simon Haussegger

New South Wales
Associate

Brendan Nolan

South Australia
Associate

Cassie Wilson

Queensland
Associate

Vesna Lazarevic

New South Wales
Director

John Ferendinos

New Zealand
Studio Lead

Zoe Taylor

New South Wales
Associate

Matthew Bolton

Victoria
Associate

Maisie Williams

Victoria
Associate

Florencia Gariglio

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Helen Kuo

Queensland
Director

Tim Morgan

Victoria
Senior Associate

Alex Purdon

Western Australia
Associate Director

Christopher Foy

Victoria
Senior Associate

Amy Nelson

Western Australia
Director

Greg Howlett

South Australia
Associate

Mee Kyong Kim

Australian Capital Territory
Senior Associate

Belinda Barnes

Victoria
Senior Associate

David Henderson

Victoria
Principal Consultant

Jonathan Gardiner

Victoria
Associate

Tommy Miller

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Alex York

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Shirin Adorbehi

Victoria
Senior Associate

Johannes Lupolo-Chan

Victoria
Associate

Noushin Atrvash

Queensland
Associate

Karen Appleyard

New South Wales
Associate

Anna Brown

Queensland
Director

Brendan Gaffney

Queensland
Director

Christina Na-Heon Cho

New South Wales
Associate

Diana Lou

Victoria
Associate Director

Marc Raszewski

Victoria
Associate

Amos Dahlitz

New South Wales
Director

Lachlan Abercrombie

Western Australia
Director

Mark Hainsworth

Australian Capital Territory
Director

Ronan Moss

Victoria
Associate

Elizabeth Stonehouse

Queensland
Head of Insights and Marketing

Cliff Nichols

New South Wales
Associate Director

Ingrid Kelly

Victoria
Director

Christina Prodromou

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Anthony Crozier

Victoria
Associate

Mark McKenna

New South Wales
Lead Designer

Rob Strang

Victoria
Associate Director

Anthea Leyden

Australian Capital Territory
Director

Ian Smith

New South Wales
Associate

Michael Lam

Victoria
Senior Associate

Shjaan Versey

Queensland
Senior Associate

Bastiaan Kolff

Western Australia
Project Architect

John Lee

New South Wales
Associate Director

Mark Davey

New South Wales
Director

David Holm

New South Wales
Director

Alex Small

New South Wales
Associate

Chris Tran

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Barnaby Hartford-Davis

New South Wales
Director

Satvir Mand

Australian Capital Territory
Associate Director

Gerard O’Connell

Victoria
Principal Consultant

Ian Sutter

Victoria
Associate

Costa Papadopoulos

New South Wales
Associate

Cristian Gonzalez Diaz

Western Australia
Director

Steve Woodland

Queensland
Associate Director

Paul Focic

National Head of Sustainability

Dr Matthias Irger

Victoria
Senior Associate

James Park

Victoria
Director

Sam Lock

Australian Capital Territory
Senior Architect

Andy Kwan

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Cristian Rojas

New South Wales
Associate

Andy Medhurst

Victoria
Associate

Jayshree Magan

New South Wales
Director

Joe Agius

South Australia
Director

Zoë King

South Australia
Associate

Brendan Le Var

Queensland
Senior Associate

Carol Brubaker

Victoria
Senior Associate

Ignacio De Mena

Victoria
Senior Associate

Graham French

New South Wales
Director

Felipe Miranda

Australian Capital Territory
Director

Karen Clutson

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Shohan Somasundaram

Australian Capital Territory
Senior Associate

Vanessa Judge

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Samantha Ellinson

New Zealand
Director

Chris Millman

Western Australia
Senior Associate

Andrew Rogerson

Western Australia
Director

Fernando Faugno

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Vicente Castro

New South Wales
Associate

Josh Bhalla

Victoria
Associate Director

Søren Fischer

New South Wales
Senior Associate

Chris Collignon

Victoria
Director

Alastair Richardson

Victoria
Associate

William Cassell

Victoria
Director

Patrick Ness

Victoria
Director

Paul Curry

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Director

Ramin Jahromi

Queensland
Senior Interior Designer

Steve Hunter

Queensland
Associate

Spyros Barberis

Victoria
Associate

Daniel Colaneri

Victoria
Associate Director

Amanda Barker

Victoria
Director

Andrew Hayes

New South Wales
Associate

Andrew Butler

New South Wales
Associate Director

Michael Grave

Queensland
Senior Team Leader

Kim Huat Tan

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