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Graeme McIndoe

BArch (Hons) MA Urban Design FNZIA
graeme@mcindoeurban.co.nz

Graeme is a founding director of Wellington-based McIndoe Urban. He has particular experience in campus and waterfront planning, design briefing, guidance and review, and consultation and workshop planning and facilitation.
Key appointments include: Chair of the Christchurch City Council Heritage Advisory Team (HAT) for the Christchurch Town Hall; Chair of TAG on the Wellington waterfront; Chair of the Nelson/Tasman Urban Design Panel; Member of the Auckland Waterfront TAG; Member of the Auckland Urban Design Panel; Advisor to the MfE on the NZ Urban Design Protocol; Advisor to WCC on all public housing projects; Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design at the VUW School of Architecture; Advisor to the Minister for the Environment on the RMA Stage 2 as a member of the Urban TAG; Ministry of Justice’s Leaders Group of the National Taskforce for Community Violence Prevention (2005/2006); Principal co-author of The Value of Urban Design: The economic, environmental and social benefits of urban design; and, Author of the MfE’s Urban Design Toolkit.

Matthew Wenden

MAUD (Dist), MArch, BAS (Arch), LEED AP ND
matt@mcindoeurban.co.nz

Matt is a Senior Associate at Wellington-based McIndoe Urban Limited. He is a qualified Urban Designer with particular experience in city strategy and masterplanning. Matt has delivered projects across the Middle East, Africa, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Matt is a former Lead Urban Designer at Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners) based in London. His specialisation was leading and delivering large scale integrated masterplan projects for both public and private sectors. These projects ranged from detailed masterplanning for a new city (140sq.km) in Nigeria, masterplanning for housing development growth areas in Dubai, spatial planning for Kuwait and campus planning for Herriot Watt University in the UK.

Andrew Burns

BArch MA Urban Design (Dist) MRTPI FRSA
andrew@mcindoeurban.co.nz

Andrew is a director at McIndoe Urban with particular expertise is in town and city centre regeneration, city strategy and masterplanning. He was appointed by the UK Government to advise Design Council CABE on urban expansion strategies and housing growth for the south east of England. He co-authored By Design: Urban Design in the Planning System (DETR 2000), was principal co-author of the online refresh of Creating Successful Masterplans (CABE) and co-authored the Auckland Design Manual (ADM). He has practiced as an urban designer in UK, Ireland, China, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the Middle East, South Africa and Kenya.
In NZ Andrew, is a member of the Auckland Urban Design Panel and an External Examiner at Victoria University School of Architecture. Recent major projects include the Petone Spatial Plan, the Shelly Bay Masterplan, the Christchurch Retail Precinct Masterplan for CERA, the Massey University and Food HQ Campus Plan, the UCOL Campus Plan and feasibility studies for Wellington’s Civic Square. 

Danbie Bong

BAS (Arch)
danbie@mcindoeurban.co.nz

Danbie is a recent Architectural Undergraduate with a special interest in Urban Design. She is currently an Urban Design Assistant at Wellington-based McIndoe Urban Limited.

Danbie has worked with McIndoe Urban on large scale masterplanning projects and work for significant planning of new local and town centres.

Danbie is architecturally trained, having completed a Bachelor of Architectural Studies through Victoria University of Wellington. She is also a current academic tutor in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington.

Chris McDonald

BBSc BArch (Hons) MArch PhD
chris@mcindoeurban.co.nz

Chris is an Associate Director at McIndoe Urban. He is a registered Architect and a qualified Urban Designer and in 2016 completed the Commissioner Training Foundation Course. He holds a PhD in Planning History from the University of New South Wales and Master’s Degrees in Architecture and City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a member of the Urban Design Advisory Group which oversaw preparation of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol. 
Chris was member of the Heritage Advisory Team for the restoration of Government House in Wellington. He is one of the principal authors of The Value of Urban Design, an internationally recognised study on the benefits of good urban design. During a two-year secondment to the City of Melbourne, Chris coordinated urban design review for the central city and provided urban design input to a range of strategic policy and planning initiatives. He was one of the principal authors of Public Melbourne, the city’s Urban Design Strategy.