Philip’s design leadership has ensured numerous design competition wins and design awards underpinning the successful growth of the Bates Smart Sydney studio over the past 15 years.

He is an expert in urban renewal and has helped shape Sydney’s architecture, transport and public domain, setting the course for the city’s successful development as it faces unprecedented growth. Key projects include Sydney 2050, the city’s vision plan to knit together supertall and transport development, the transformation of Macquarie Park, a Strategic Centre in the State Government’s ‘A Plan for Growing Sydney,’ as well as a vision plan for the renewal of Circular Quay, an essential downtown public space and transit node on Sydney Harbour.