
Creating spaces
for people
Our Vision
Striving for an enduring legacy through a sustainable practice, we are driven by integrity, insight and authenticity.
Our passion lies in creating spaces of belonging guided by unwavering ethical standards. We maintain a commitment to keeping people at the centre of everything we do.

Our values
Resolute Integrity
Intrinsically Trustworthy
Deeply Insightful
Our integrity sets the foundation of all our relationships; with clients, collaborators, consultants, suppliers and our own crew.
We deliver on our promises and exceed your expectations by balancing your clients’ needs against your commercial, regulatory and environmental parameters.
We provide market-leading insights and inspired solutions based on our extensive design knowledge, long-standing industry experience and astute intuition.
Inherently Ethical
& Human-centric
Incredibly Passionate
Genuinely Authentic
We are highly principled and entirely committed to always championing the people who will experience our designs – to achieve the best possible outcome for the life of the project.
We invest time to understand your motivations – and what your clients want and need – so we can co-create meaningful spaces and places, together.
We nurture curious and supportive environments so that everyone can contribute their unique skills and perspectives – and continually ask questions – as part of our collaborative process.


Our approach
We strive to design better places for people, and to design projects across diverse sectors and typologies that deliver real, meaningful and longlasting value to our clients, and importantly, our clients’ customers. We aim to be a sustainable business with the collaborative culture of a family, so that we uphold and instill values that respect and celebrate our family community of crew, colleagues and collaborators.

Our Studio
We are on a journey towards prosperity for people and planet, and we continue to remain curious, innovate, listen, evolve, explore flexibility and freedom of choice, and measure our efforts by the core principle active and effective collaboration.
Our principals, Riccardo Rizzalli and Rowan Hukins have a combined 50 plus years of experience in the design and delivery of projects for a range of the best Corporate and Private sector developers.
Riccardo had a long and successful career at Mirvac, culminating in dual roles of National Design Lead and Development Executive for the Queensland development business. Riccardo is a highly accomplished Architect and Urban Designer and has been responsible for a large number of significant residential projects across Australia and internationally.
Having been trained initially in small practice and then progressed through to large commercial practice with Mirvac Design, Rowan has gained unique and significant experience creating architecture and place that maximises economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Collectively the studios leverage their significant experience and history as members of integrated design teams within some of Australia’s premier property developers to deliver outcomes focused on people while still achieving our clients goals and building brand reputation through the communities and places we design.

Our recognition
Gainsborough Greens Land Lease Community
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2023 Property Council's National Retirement Living Awards - Halcyon Greens - Best Land Lease Community Development
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2021 Urban Developer - Halcyon Greens - Development of the Year, Retirement, Aged Care and Seniors Living
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2020 UDIA QLD Winner - Halcyon Greens - Seniors Living
Vision Land Lease Community
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2016 UDIA Qld Winner - Vision by Halcyon - Seniors Living
Glades Land Lease Community
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2018 HIA Queensland Winner – Halcyon Glades – Specialised Housing
Chermside Affordable Housing
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PCA Queensland 2024 Development of the Year
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PCA Best Affordable Housing Development 2024
Nirimba Land Lease Community
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2022 UDIA QLD Winner - Halcyon Nirimba - Seniors Living
Berwick Land Lease Community
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Residential Park of the Year - 2023 VicParks Awards
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