The Team

Bates Smart is a citymaking design practice, combining architecture, interior design and urban design to create places and spaces that improve people’s lives. Its team of over 300 across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, take a rigorous, astute and highly collaborative design approach to create architecture defined by quality of thinking and resolution. Bates Smart nurtures and develops every size of project and all its elements, until the details complement and enhance the whole.

Renowned for his impeccable landscape architecture and collaborative approach, Jack Merlo and his team elevate outdoor spaces, where landscape and architecture exist as one. Jack is a highly sought-after partner on high-end multi residential projects, bringing innovative thinking and meticulous execution to the integration of nature into urban environments. Both ordered and organic, each new project is an individual and considered response to the collective vision, creating spaces to be enjoyed for years to come.

CASA delivers exceptional homes in some of Australia’s most desirable locations. Composed of an accomplished team of industry experts and backed by a global institutional funding partner, CASA identifies and partners with best in class architects, designers and builders to help realise each property’s unique vision. With a forward-thinking culture and solid foundation of experience, CASA represents a new focus and desire to create enduring residential spaces that will inspire and celebrate contemporary living at its best.