Consultant Profile

Oceanarc is intentionally structured as a principal-led practice, providing clients with direct senior involvement throughout every commission.

• Architecture: Principal-led architectural services across residential, commercial, civic and institutional projects.
• Planning & Project Advisory: Strategic advice, feasibility, approvals, stakeholder engagement, project definition and master planning.
• Building Consultancy: Building assessments, heritage, remediation, sustainability, code compliance, fire upgrades and expert advice.
• Project Leadership & Delivery: Integration of clients, consultants, contractors and authorities through all stages of delivery.

Paul Anthony Jones is an architect and practice director with more than twenty-five years of metropolitan, regional and international experience. His work spans residential, commercial, industrial, educational and civic projects, combining architectural design with planning, project advisory and building consultancy.

Paul established Oceanarc in Byron Bay, a principal-led practice that assembles specialist collaborators according to the needs of each commission. Paul is a registered architect with the NSW Architects Registration Board and a registered Design Practitioner (Architect, Class 2 medium rise) with the NSW Building Commission.

• 2022 — Registration, Design & Building Practitioners Act 2020 — Architectural
• 1996 — Registration with the NSW Architects Registration Board
• 1991 — Bachelor of Architecture with Honours, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• 1988 — Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Sydney
• 1982 — Associate Diploma in the Arts, Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, Lismore

Aukett Associates Architects, London (now Aukett Swanke) · Denton Corker Marshall Architects, Melbourne · Graham Ormsby Heritage Architects, Sydney · ESPAD & AT Systems Architects, Tokyo · Thompson Adsett Architects, Lismore

• Large-scale mixed-use redevelopment, Battersea Power Station precinct, Battersea, London
• Commercial multistorey projects, Tokyo, including international urban design and national opera house design competitions
• Private high-end residential projects, Byron Bay
• Commercial and industrial developments within the Northern Rivers
• Byron Shire Council, Mullumbimby Civic Hall redevelopment
• NSW Department of Education, school facilities projects
• NSW TAFE, education building additions and upgrades
• Nepean Hospital, overall artwork and wayfinding installation, with BVN, artist Nicola Moss and curators Creative Road
• Lismore Court House, building additions and upgrade, for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice