Lucy O’Driscoll
“Great venues don’t just host events — they reflect who we are. Designing for sport and culture means creating spaces that celebrate identity, spark pride, and bring communities together.”
As Sector Lead for Sports and Culture, Lucy O’Driscoll brings a rare blend of strategic thinking, design clarity, and collaborative leadership to the most complex and experience-rich places we create. She passionately shapes the future of public life by designing places that unite people — to compete, perform, celebrate, and connect.
Lucy’s career, shaped by high-performance design across education, culture, and innovation precincts, now focuses on places that host our collective passions — stadiums, performance venues and civic spaces. She deeply understands both front- and back-of-house relationships, ensuring these environments not only function but also elevate every experience for patrons, performers, and operators.
Lucy designs with empathy, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to impact. She is widely regarded for her ability to shape strong, purposeful briefs and navigate diverse stakeholder landscapes with empathy and precision. Lucy leads with curiosity, champions clarity at every process stage, and forges powerful partnerships that underpin ambitious, enduring outcomes.
She passionately creates places that welcome and unite — places that capture a crowd’s energy, a moment’s intimacy, or a community’s shared pride. For Lucy, a project’s success is measured not only by its performance but also by the stories it enables and the legacy it leaves behind.
Key projects
- The University of Queensland Student Central, Brisbane, Australia
- Coomera Civic Hub, Coomera, Australia
- Brisbane Racing Club, Eagle Farm Grandstand, Brisbane, Australia
- University of Queensland, Health & Recreation Centre, Brisbane, Australia
- Usher Institute, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
- Mithras Student Village, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Brighton University Business School, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Australian Federal Police (AFP) Forensic & Data Centre, Canberra, Australia
- University of New South Wales, Electrical Engineering Building, Sydney, Australia
- The Science Place, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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