Q: Tell us a bit about yourself

Bob, one of the Third.i Co-Founders, and I actually went to school together and lived together after school. I essentially had a front-row seat in watching Third.i come to life with Bob, Ron and Luke. I had worked in the Technology industry for over 10 years and completed a Master of Finance but I always just had a passion for construction. In 2015, I encouraged Third.i to check out the UK market and bring what they were doing in Australia into a new marketplace. That’s when I came on board with Third.i as the Director of Development UK. We’ve been slowly building our business over here ever since. 

Q: What is your role?

To be successful, especially in a new market, I believe having the right people and the right team is the key. We want to help our team develop and encourage them to excel so I help manage the relationships within our supply team and also make sure that our team over here have the best possible chance to succeed in delivering what Third.i stands for. I make sure our team has everything they need to perform to the best of their abilities and make sure our supply team has all the information they need to progress together as one. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about your role?

The 2022 UK conference this year was a significant moment for me, it was the first time we had all the Third.i founders in a room all at once discussing how we push forward the UK business but also the Australian business. That was quite inspirational and moving for our Third.i UK team. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about Graphite Square?

It’s a collective of aspects really, one of the proudest moments is seeing the business plan be executed to the letter following what was a difficult transaction and the fact that Graphite Square was first discussed via Zoom. I love seeing that construction has started and watching the project come to life. 

Q: What is your favourite Third.i moment so far?

Being on site in the past few weeks and seeing our sales results so far at Graphite Square has been incredible! The best part of my job is all working closely on an idea, which has ended up being Graphite Square. It’s been very rewarding seeing that come to life so far. 

Q: Who do you love working with the most? 

It’s been a collective effort working on Third.i, our Third.i UK team and consultants have been incredible to work with. 

Q: What are you looking forward to in the next 6-12 months with Third.i and with Graphite Square? 

With Third.i, we’ve got some really exciting things coming up that we’ve been working on, which means that we’re about to grow significantly. We’re excited to grow our team and the Third.i brand over the coming months. With Graphite Square, I’m excited to just watch the project come out of the ground as we’re at the stage where we get to see all the physical elements of the project come together.

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself

I’ve been in the industry for over 20 years, I started my career over in London and moved across to Singapore thereafter with Savills and built up their international sales business across Asia Pacific. I then moved to Australia with Crown Group where I got to know Luke and built a relationship there. I started with DisplaySweet in 2018 where I got to work with Third.i a lot more closely before moving back to Singapore during the beginning of the pandemic. The Third.i Co-Founders and I began talking about a UK expansion and the birth of Graphite Square, which is then when I was brought on as the Head of Business Development Asia & UK at Third.i, operating out of Singapore. 

Q: What is your role?

I look after the sales and marketing sides of the business, working with the agents across the UK, Asia Pacific and Middle East. My day begins liaising with the Asia Pacific teams before liaising with the Middle Eastern and UK teams in the afternoon. I work very closely with the Third.i Co-Founders based in London and also spend a lot of time with clients here in Singapore for possible investment opportunities in Australia and the UK. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about your role?

It’s seeing a project come to life, especially something like Graphite Square where I’ve worked on it right from day one. I’ve loved seeing the success of the project since launching in November 2021 and seeing it be crowned the fastest-selling Zone 1, London Scheme project, it’s very rewarding. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about Graphite Square?

We’re building a community at Graphite Square, it’s more than just a development. Where Graphite Square is situated, it’s a part of the revitalisation of the area. It’s great to be able to work across a project for our buyers and the local community. Seeing construction chugging along and seeing the project come to life after working on it for so long is also an incredible feeling as well. 

Q: What is your favourite Third.i moment so far?

The success of the sales we’ve seen at Graphite Square, it’s a testament to all of our hard work that has gone into the project and creating a legacy for the area. Breaking ground on Graphite Square and seeing everyone there on site back in July was also really rewarding, to see something we had been working on for so long begin to come to life. 

Q: Who do you love working with the most? 

I love working with our little UK team, we all work together really well and it’s super dynamic. 

Q: What are you looking forward to in the next 6-12 months with Third.i and with Graphite Square? 

For me, it’s seeing more UK projects come online and growing the development portfolio as well as growing into more international markets. I also can’t wait to see the finished product at Graphite Square and seeing everything we worked on and walking through the project will also be incredible.

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself

I founded Ben Adams Architects in 2010 and since then, we have grown across a range of sectors and developed an award-winning portfolio of projects. We often work with the challenges of existing buildings and constrained urban sites to add character and desirability. I have also taught architecture as a tutor and a critic at Cambridge University, The Architectural Association, Central St Martins and L’Ecole Speciale d’Architecture. Here at Ben Adams Architects, we design elegant, contextual and energy-efficient architecture that balances function with ingenuity and delight. Our buildings are just the beginning of the story. 

Q: What is your role?

I divide my time between guiding the overall design direction of the practice, generating new business, and R&D to provide a pivotal link between the studio’s design ethos, client requirements, and future possibilities. To tell the stories of everyday life, architecture must be generous enough to accommodate the full range of possibilities. Patterns of life, work, and leisure can change very quickly. Our work demonstrates an approach that is contextual yet visionary, appropriate yet inspired. Our built portfolio demonstrates an ability to design buildings that fulfil clients’ immediate needs, but also provide enough flexibility to grow and evolve.

Q: What was the role with Third.i and what was the vision behind Third.i’s project brief?

Graphite Square is really the memorable place to live, it’s generous and has 360 degree views of the city skyline. It’s definitely central London, so close to all amenities you could ever want but it’s also incredibly peaceful. I think those qualities in a project are quite inspiring for a building like this when you can bring the town and country together in one site.

Q: What is your favourite aspect of the project?

My favourite part of the building is the ground plane on the outside of the building before you even go inside, there’s an openness and a generosity that we can make happen, it’s rare to make that sort of change in a city. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about your role?

It’s an honour to make something rare and something new in the city, and Graphite Square is no exception. I’ve loved every minute spent on working on this project and I love that I get to do this again across our portfolio of clients. 

Q: What are you looking forward to seeing with Graphite Square and working with Third.i?

I’m excited to see the project come to life, seeing such a unique product in the heart of London that we helped design and seeing that be brought to fruition for all to see if quite exciting. 

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself

The Property Agency was founded around 18 years ago and it was created on the basis that the property industry was one of the largest industries and had a lack of specialist agencies to support. We saw a gap to go ahead and bring large advertorial and marketing expertise to the market and 18 years later we are servicing some of Australia’s largest projects. I had experience running large multinational advertising agencies, working within one for numerous years and helping build another with an international partner, I felt that I was looking for something bigger and more exciting and that’s when I thought of The Property Agency. 

Q: What is your role?

My primary role here is to form a relationship with and collaborate with the best property companies in Australia, like Third.i. I help them create a vision for their projects and how we can connect those projects with the desires and aspirations of Australia. Once we figure out what that connection is between the buyer’s desires and the developers abilities, we can go ahead and map out a course of action that tells a story and a lifestyle for each individual project. 

Q: What was the role with Third.i and what was the vision behind Third.i’s project brief?

Third.i came to us and said they had this project in London with a brief to make it as desirable to our different target buyer groups as possible. We bought a new level of expertise to the project, using unique, Australian marketing techniques to how we would market Graphite Square. We thought of the story behind Graphite Square and the history of the area to market a true destination, rich in values where they can write their own stories. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect of the project?

I love the fact that the project is being done by Third.i and that we’ve got that entrepreneurial, Australian spirit embedded within the project and that it’s more than a place to live, we are turning it into a place to be. We believe people buy lifestyles, not just residences so I love the lifestyle that’s on offer at Graphite Square. 

Q: What is your favourite aspect about your role?

The fact that we get to create the face, the brand and the public identity of a destination, wherever that might be. I love that we help to create brands and a legacy that people will be forever proud of that will last long after we’re all gone. 

Q: What are you looking forward to seeing with Graphite Square and working with Third.i?

What we always look forward to when a project is completed, seeing the pride and enjoyment when people start moving in and saying the vision we helped create is now a dream come true. It’s very rewarding when we sell the dream and that dream has now become a reality.