About Hames Sharley

We are among the very best at what we do. AND WE FEEL HONOURED TO DO IT Evidenced by our delivery of multi-award-winning projects across the disciplines of architecture, interior design, urban design, planning, and landscape design. Established in 1976, the practice has studios in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Hames Sharley only believes in opportunities – challenges and issues are only opportunities in waiting. Our portfolio of work is as diverse as it is innovative. With nine portfolios of recognised expertise, our ability to creatively address opportunities is limitless. Our single ownership structure and commitment in our own research, innovation, and development allow us to reinvest in our own knowledge and people. Allowing us to operate truly as one practice, ensuring all our projects receive the best we have to offer, regardless of location. While our history and geographical coverage is important, to maintain relevancy we must be ever-evolving and nimble enough to quickly and constantly apply change. To achieve this, we constantly review and adapt our methodologies. This enables us to provide the most valuable insight into the future needs of the built environment. This requires a relentless application of self- and project reflection coupled with a thirst for new knowledge, points of view, and their combined application. Our core vision is simple. WE ENABLE COMMUNITIES TO FLOURISH We remind ourselves constantly that design requires absolute selflessness to enable the communities we engage with to flourish through our designs. We stand by our principles and challenge preconceived ideas. Our vision is identified through three guiding principles: - Think for tomorrow today - Deliver transformational solutions - Create an exceptional collaborative environment for outstanding people We employ and develop leading professionals in research, sustainability, design, place-creation, and BIM technologies. These experts constantly challenge one another and together develop new and exciting methods of approaching the design and delivery process. Our approach to a unique and innovative methodology has led to long-term relationships based on mutual trust between employees and clients. This repeat business and our continuous involvement in visionary design is a testament to our company’s values and approach. The Hames Sharley Way Creating anything of worth requires the strongest foundation, found through properly articulating the original question. Too often the design process is primarily reactive rather than built from a deep understanding of the opportunity. Hames Sharley recognises the value of collaborating on establishing an absolute understanding of the question. This is achieved through interdisciplinary research and evaluation, often with words and spreadsheets rather than initially with pencils and sketches.   Whilst the design world contains a limitless number of solutions, many questions can be answered decisively following targeted research. This enables greater design innovation to be achieved through equal effort expenditure and a greater probability of delivering more value and more quality. Investment at the beginning of a journey has the greatest impact on the end result. WE THINK. WE RESEARCH. WE INTERPRET. THEN WE CREATE. Hames Sharley believes in reinvesting in its portfolios through research to meet the continuously changing requirements of tomorrow. We do this by taking a relentless daily look at the medium and long-term research-driven possibilities, and probabilities of what human behavioural changes will take place and their resultant effect on the built form of our cities and buildings. CONTEXT = VALUE All projects, regardless of discipline, start with research and an absolute understanding and focus on CONTEXT. CONTEXT is about what a site or opportunity owes its community; CONTEXT is what elevates a solution from functional and pragmatic to connected, authentic, and inspiring.