About Us

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2022 Finalist - Greater Brisbane - Women In Business -  : The Community Dedication and Social Justice Award  

2021 Women's College Community Alumna Award

2020  Griffith Australia Day Award

Canon Garland Memorial Medallion - Service to the enduring legacy of ANZAC Day 

Australian Government Business and Community Partnership Award

Telstra Business Women Awards Past Nominee - Social Justice

Queensland State Government Development Tribunal Referee 

Women Chiefs of Enterprises International - Executive Qld Commitee Member + President Elect

Registered Architect in Queensland and Western Australia, 

National examiner for the Australian Accreditation Council of Architects

State examiner for the registration exams for Architects in Queensland.

Inaugural graduate of the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass from the University of Newcastle. 2001

Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) - University of Queensland 1999

Professional Member of Australia Institute of Architects, Living Futures Institute of Australia, Association of Consulting Architects Australia + Australian Architecture Association.

In 2019, Suzanne launched into solo practice after 15 years as Director of BOSANQUET FOLEY  Architects. The practice had over 400 commissions covering a diverse range of projects of various scale and budgets, from high rise apartment refurbishments  to beautifully crafted retail concept stores and bars, multi million dollar houses, small domestic renovations to temporary art installations, events and festivals. 

Suzanne's work has been widely published and awarded, both locally and internationally.  

Her work has taken her to Europe, Asia, UK and America.

Suzanne has previously worked with Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore + Fremantle, WA) to deliver luxury houses and resorts for very high profile clients throughout Australia. This included the Hayman Island Redevelopment in Queensland.

Suzanne worked with POPULOUS (formerly HOK Sport) delivering Suncorp Stadium, Taipei Arena, Nanjing Sports Park, Eden Park (NZ), and Stadium Australia. She was expert consultant for the Herzog De Meuron's "Birdnest" Stadium at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Wembley Stadium.

This culminates in 25 years experience of diverse and complex building types, project delivery and clients.

Suzanne is a mother of four teenage boys imbuing her with immense empathy for the workings of a home and people.  

Suzanne Bosanquet has been a practising architect since 2001,  but  her passion for the built environment, design and art began as a child.  Both her grandfathers heralded from  Australian timber saw-milling and sugar farming industries. and hence Suzanne  spent many hours of her childhood tinkering in sheds, either making furniture or playing with machines. If she wasn't in the shed, she was busy drawing  or playing in the fields and tending to her very own flower and veggie garden.  Growing up on a working farm in Far North Queensland provided Suzanne  with an understanding of the interconnectednes of all things particularly  people with the land and the environment, and the importance of sustainable practice.

Suzanne attended boarding school in Brisbane and studied architecture at the University of Queensland, graduating with honours and a University Prize for her final year thesis on Australian Gold Medallist architect Gabriel Poole's  Building Systems for Houses. This thesis explored the development of housing systems that focused on being affordable, responsive to the environment through passive design and working with standard sizes of materials to minimise waste on site during construction. 

Suzanne has lectured architecture, urban design and interior design at the University of Queensland and QUT and taught numerous school aged children through specific workshops and art programs.

She appeared on Shark Tank Australia, Series 1  (2014)for a product for teenage boys - STINK BROTHERS - a natural spray deodorant. This experience led to the involvement in entrepreneur mentorships and the Australian Communication Council.

Suzanne also engages in pro bono work focusing on vulnerable children and families  at risk of homelessness for Micah Projects, Communify, and Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Foundation

Suzanne is the immediate past president (2019) of the Woolloongabba Business Association, a volunteer position, which she has held since 2012.