Bates Smart

Founded in 1853, Bates Smart possess a strong legacy of innovation in commercial architecture. As architects for MLC Insurance in the 1950s, Bates Smart designed the tallest commercial towers across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. These lightweight structures were cutting-edge projects, leading the way for modernism in Australia. A number of buildings remain today, including Orica House, home to Bates Smart's Melbourne studio and 105 Miller Street, North Sydney, which was completed 60 years ago in 1957. Today Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design and urban design across Australia, with a staff of over 250 in studios in Melbourne and Sydney. Our award-winning projects transform the city fabric and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments. Bates Smart's founders were the innovators of their time, and the practice now leads the debate on how and where we work, meet, live and learn.