Chalmers Partners Architects

01/04/2026

A portion of 2026 so far!

04/01/2026

And just like that, we are back in 2026. Another fantastic year gone, and a fantastic year ahead.

20/08/2025

As a student Angus has excelled at delivering strategic and thought through designs, often melding technology with architecture to provide simple and elegant solutions. ⁠
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Angus is able to produce effective design solutions whilst increasing Chalmers Partners efficiencies significantly. His experience in digital design and documentation is highly valued by the Chalmers Partners team and is implemented across all typographies in the office. ⁠
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14/08/2025

Meet NJ!!⁠
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Having undertaken a career change into architecture, Natasha came to Chalmers Partners Architects with a broad understanding of people and people management. ⁠
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Natasha’s previous role as a registered nurse provides another perspective of stress, management, and client interaction. Her ability to understand empathize with people and the environment they live in is key to dissecting design solutions.⁠
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Natasha is passionate about sub-tropical design, resilient and residential architecture, heritage architecture and is passionate about the pen to paper approach of design and architecture. ⁠
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Natasha is a believer in the power of social architecture as a driver for change in human well-being. With excellent communication skills both verbally and on paper, Natasha provides the human scale design that is often missing in architecture. ⁠
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14/08/2025

The courtyard house is underway! We are quite excited, as this year has started out with some amazing clients and equally amazing residential projects. Including this one - currently named the courtyard house (formally, yet to be named). ⁠
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This is an interesting one. Whilst a large site, the house still has neighbors on two sides. The brief was to create an inward looking space that provided shelter, openness, light and shadow. Most rooms were required to look out onto this space, with the greater build turning its back on the street. For no other reason than to maintain control of the families environment. ⁠
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#2027 .

14/08/2025

How do we work? ⁠
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CPA was established in 2017 as a way to explore and improve the process of design. We established a remote office in early 2018, rode through covid with varying work from home models, and moved to a 4 day work week nearly three years ago. Whilst maintaining our efficient delivery of projects. We wanted to stay small, and have done so. ⁠
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CPA uses a range of tools, from hand sketching, model making, and collaging (both digital and physical) through to AI driven process, which allows us to create quickly.
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Our early schematics start out anywhere from sketches to renders, we then reverse engineer the options with the client, allowing them to direct the project in any way they feel comfortable. This includes testing multiple designs and spatial connections in a virtual environment, or, rolling back to good old butter paper! We use this technology as a graphic representation, meaning we are able to test multiple ideas quickly, allowing our clients to visualize their spaces early in the project.⁠
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This means our design methodology is flexible and can be customized to suit any client and any typology. ⁠
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Feel free to reach out for a chat! ⁠
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12/08/2025

This is Bruce!

Bruce has over twenty years of experience, working on projects from defense contracts, Mixed use developments, hotel and retail, through to large scale modular, and with significant design experience, Bruce is a valued team member. ⁠
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Bruce’s versatility has been honed through on-site experience on projects across the country and modular production factories internationally. Bruce’s front-end project experience working with clients in developing their concepts into buildable designs has proved invaluable to programming and delivery. ⁠
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11/08/2025

11/08/2025

Meet Elvis. ⁠
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With over 25 years experience in the architectural and construction industry and has covered a wide range of roles including; Senior Architectural Technician, Project Manager, Design Manager, Building Designer, Documentation Team Leader, Site Design Coordination and Construction Contract Administration.⁠
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Elvis has obtained skills in the delivery of projects across multiple and diverse disciplines and clients, ranging from private clients, commercial entities (including government), and building contractors alike.⁠
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With a passion for looking to experience new and diverse projects and cultures to broaden his design, construction, and built environment knowledge, Elvis welcomes any challenge with enthusiasm.⁠
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11/08/2025

Bamboo and Shoji. Two products that we (I) have a very soft spot for. This is a slightly different take on Shoji. We have taken the Shoji screen and broken it down into a sort of lantern, behind the bed. ⁠
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Instead of table lamps, the paper screens are boxed out behind and lit, lighting up like a lantern. To replace the globe (or the paper), the panel lifts off for access. ⁠
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10/08/2025

One of our amazing clients has found a dream block of land about 3 hours South-West of Brisbane. The site is constrained, with plenty of granite, a bit of a slope, and quite a bit of forest/bushland. However, we are able to locate and design a small, off grid cabin suitable for up to 6 people. The design consists of a bedroom and kitchen/living and amenities on ground, with a larger communal bunk room on the mezzanine floor above. ⁠