Craig Becconsall

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Founder and Director @ Urban Spark Studio | Urban Design, Placemaking @ Urban Spark Studio
Craig Becconsall's Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia
About Craig Becconsall

Craig is a Director and Founder of Urban Spark Studio, a consultancy that specializes in urban design and masterplanning, strategic advisory, landscape architecture, public realm, placemaking and garden design.He has a Master in Urban Design from UCL - Bartlett School, London, and is an AILA registered Landscape Architect. He has 30 years of international experience in creating quality, exciting, vibrant, and successful places for people.He has delivered integrated masterplanning and open space solutions for some of London’s most complex and high profile mixed use development projects, such as East Village, Elephant Park, Britannia Masterplan, and Perfume Factory. With a strong coordination of Urban Design, built form, Landscape and Place he helps to infuse the wholistic down to detailed. With deliverable and engaged approaches that are creative, fun, people and environmentally authentic.In Melbourne he has helped clients realise value opportunities into strategic sites including Arden, Egate, Frankston, Pakenham and town centre guidance in Wyndham and northern growth areas.With experience across retail mixed use, sports, leisure, social and heath infrastructure leading regeneration and detailed place solutions across both public and private works. National experience including projects in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland, Geelong, Melton, Gippsland and Tasmania.Craig is a collaborator, a facilitator, and a visionary who translates strategy and planning into compelling and feasible opportunities through design. He is passionate about maximizing project potential, managing high quality teams, creating best value outcomes, and engaging with stakeholders and communities. He is also a contributor to industry events and committees with the Committee for Melbourne, the Property Council of Australia, the Urban Development Institute of Australia and Mainstreet Australia.

Craig Becconsall's Current Company Details
Urban Spark Studio

Urban Spark Studio

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Founder and Director @ Urban Spark Studio | Urban Design, Placemaking
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Craig Becconsall Work Experience Details
  • Urban Spark Studio
    Director, Founder
    Urban Spark Studio Aug 2021 - Present
    Urban Design, Development Project Management, Landscape Architecture, Placemaking
  • Urban Spark Ltd
    Director
    Urban Spark Ltd Sep 2013 - Present
    Development Management, Placemaking, DesignWorking with London Home Quaters and Hackney to create and deliver the Britannia Masterplan.
  • Urbis
    Director
    Urbis Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Craig is committed to creating quality, exciting, vibrant and successful places for people. Craig thrives in exceeding the challenges of aligning economics, property and planning through design into compelling opportunities. Craig is a collaborator, place maker and urbanist of international experience with over 20 years in London. He shares insights and contributes to Committee for Melbourne events and future trends and Innovation committees with the Property Council of Australia and Urban Development Institute of Australia.Drawing from a wealth of experience in design, development and project management he translates strategy and planning through vision and feasibility into deliverable detail. Craig is thrilled to be supporting the development and regeneration of key precincts across metropolitan Melbourne, Geelong and regional Victoria with a great team at Urbis.Craig’s energy, creativity and communication style has led him to engage with all levels of government, private and public stakeholders. He is working with leading mixed use developers, government agencies and creative teams in shaping long term viable strategies including some recent opportunities;• Shaping vision, strategy and detail for key mixed use assets over the next 30 years with both GPT and Vicinity. • Commercial feasibility masterplanning for the phased redevelopment of Swinburne University’s core campus sites over the next 15 years. • Urban design and public realm masterplanning for Sunshine Hospital Future Precinct Vision over the next 20 years of change for Western Health and VHHSBA. • Mixed use feasibility testing of strategic opportunities with Lendlease,• Place activation strategies and local economic recovery opportunities with tactical urbanism and vision planning with Wyndham City. • Exciting new public realm infrastructure for several key leisure, training and stadium investment projects with Populous Architects.• A new hotel with De Nova Group for Bendigo.
  • Turley
    Director, Head Of Design South
    Turley Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
    Manchester, Gb
    Planning, Design, Heritage, Economics, Sustainability and Engagement.
  • Peter Brett Associates
    Director Of Design And Regeneration
    Peter Brett Associates Aug 2014 - May 2016
    Reading, Gb
    Placemaking, development and infrastructure feasibility, masterplanning, urban design and public realm
  • Lend Lease
    Project Manager - Urban Design
    Lend Lease 2011 - 2013
    Barangaroo, Nsw, Au
    Heygate Masterplan, Elephant and CastleThe Heygate Masterplan is Lend Lease’s flagship project for the EMEA business. Within a cross-discipline team played a key role in the formation of the vision and masterplanning details supporting the successful approval of the outline application in early 2013. http://www.elephantandcastle.org.uk/http://www.onetheelephant.comhttp://trafalgarplace.com/
  • Lend Lease
    Development Project Manager
    Lend Lease 2008 - 2011
    Barangaroo, Nsw, Au
    Led the development, project and design management for the 10Ha public realm at East Village (formally Athletes Village) for the Olympic Development Authority. Responsible for establishing and managing the public realm vision and masterplanning through design, planning, detailed documentation, into procurement and delivery and all interfaces.http://www.eastvillagelondon.co.uk/
  • Bovis Lend Lease - Lend Lease Projects
    Senior Master Planner
    Bovis Lend Lease - Lend Lease Projects 2006 - 2008
    Masterplanning and Design Director lead for the Urban Design Unit. Managing multi-disciplinary consultant teams to secure high profile regeneration projects for the development business.
  • Edaw
    Associate Director
    Edaw 2001 - 2006
    Responsible for urban design visions and regeneration strategies that led city centre masterplanning and sustainable urban extensions.
  • J & Lgibbons
    Senior Urban Designer
    J & Lgibbons 1999 - 2001
    Senior Urban Designer led the vision and detailed framework strategies for the Pool of London Partnership that helped secure ongoing SRB6 funding vital to the success of the wider local regeneration benefits of ‘More London Bridge’ for Borough, Southwark.
  • Jmla - Urban Design And Masterplanning
    Urban Designer And Landscape Architect
    Jmla - Urban Design And Masterplanning 1993 - 1999
    Design lead and implementation of Public Realm schemes, mixed use town centre regeneration strategies, parkland design and high street redevelopments. Public Realm strategies and construction administration of award winning masterplan.

Craig Becconsall Education Details

  • Ucl - Bartlett School, London
    Ucl - Bartlett School, London
    Urban Design
  • Queensland University Of Technology
    Queensland University Of Technology
    Graduate Diploma In Landscape Architecture
  • Queensland University Of Technology
    Queensland University Of Technology
    Planning And Landscape Architecture

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Craig Becconsall works for Urban Spark Studio

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Craig Becconsall's current role is Founder and Director @ Urban Spark Studio | Urban Design, Placemaking.

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Craig Becconsall attended Ucl - Bartlett School, London, Queensland University Of Technology, Queensland University Of Technology.

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