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Crafted Hospitality + Residential Projects Around the World
Mark Bellingan
After nearly a decade at several award-winning practices, architect Mark Bellingan founded Common Architecture in 2014. Since then, the studio has worked across a range of building types — always with an emphasis on design that responds to its context.
Mark brings a strong understanding of the construction process, allowing each project to explore materiality, sustainability, and affordability in practical terms. His approach centres on clarity, restraint, and close collaboration with clients.
Leigh Bellingan
Since joining her brother Mark at Common Architecture, Leigh has played a key role in shaping projects that reflect a shared commitment to context, collaboration, and craft.
Leigh leads the interior design work at Common Architecture, where she brings a refined eye for materiality, atmosphere, and spatial rhythm. Trained as both an architect and interior designer, her approach bridges the conceptual and the tactile — ensuring that interiors are not separate from the building, but integral to it.
Let’s talk about your project
Every project begins with a question, a need, or an idea. We start by listening — to the client and to the place.
Then we test possibilities against what matters: how it will be used, what the site allows, and what the budget requires.
We work with what already exists; the brief, the context, the constraints, to find what fits. Drawing on tradition and typology, we favour the familiar over the fashionable.
Design is a shared process.
We bring structure and clarity; but the project is always yours.
Define. Align. Design.
A rhythm, not a formula.