Linette Salbashian is a registered NSW Architect and Principal of SALBASHIAN ARCHITECTS.  She has 15 years of experience in Australian residential architecture, having worked on boutique, large-scale, complex and high-end projects, and has seen first-hand what clients are looking for through many years of working in the residential property development industry.

She has had hands-on experience with understanding customer challenges and prototyping ideas to provide solutions as part of her involvement in the design and innovation teams at Mirvac, an award-winning property development company. This included working as an architect on complex residential projects and being an integral part of launching Australia’s first ever underground urban farm. Find out more about the launch here.

Linette is a registered NSW design practitioner in architectural works for Class 2 type of buildings such as apartments and certain types of townhouses.

This registration and title is given to NSW registered architects who have had at least 5-10 years of experience specifically in Class 2 buildings. From July 2021, you require a class 2 design practitioner to provide regulated drawings to authorities for approvals.

Linette graduated with a Masters in Architecture from the University of Technology, Sydney, completed studies in entrepreneurship and innovation, and received the UTS BUILD scholarship to travel and conduct research in China.

She has tutored and lectured at the university, she is regularly invited to design reviews in the architecture school, and project reviews in the business school for innovation and entrepreneurship. She is also a mentor to students as part of the UTS Professional Mentoring program.

 Mission

SALBASHIAN ARCHITECTS, based on the North Shore of Sydney, is a boutique design studio that has come out of the 2019 global pandemic, a time where many may have lost their connections to others due to lockdowns and travel bans. This pandemic has highlighted the pre-existing human condition of the need for emotional connection between people and place and the desire of having a sense of belonging and intimacy. Many may also have lost the connection to themselves due to sharing the same space with one another most of the day, with less privacy and time to nurture their own selves.

A new type of housing is emerging

Now that we have gone through the pandemic together, issues such as the desire for human connection, more privacy, flexible working, better health, wellness, rest, sustainability, convenience and purpose will become even more important than ever. I believe this is changing the housing industry and will result in a new type of housing to emerge.

SALBASHIAN ARCHITECTS is on a mission to bridge the gap of human isolation to connectedness through architectural design.

The global pandemic has created a permanent mark on the way we live our lives and inhabit our homes. At SALBASHIAN ARCHITECTS, we continue to study how the socio-economic context affects human behaviour and alters the requirements for housing.

Design Approach

• Creating a functional and beautiful home that can reflect your individuality, a home which would become an extension of yourself during big transitions in your life, such as downsizing from your current home, buying your first home, or adding more kids and pets to your family.

• Providing a contemporary, fresh and on-trend living experience so that you can enjoy with members of the house or entertain family and friends who visit.

• Creating spaces which incorporate your daily activities and family rituals to match your current lifestyle and future goals, and to reflect on changes occurring in society such as post-pandemic living requirements.

• Designing for light, air and thermal comfort

• Maximising storage solutions

• Incorporating the surrounding context, such as trees, fauna, local street materials, textures, neighbourhood history for a cohesive design concept.

• Increasing the value of your home to borrow against or sell in the future

• Creating a legacy home to be passed down to the next generation and kept in your family for future years to come.