Fulton Trotter is a well-respected firm with an identifiable history and continuity of design standard. We’ve been around for a long time mainly because we service our clients thoroughly and we do quality work. Many of our younger staff members have approached us for employment on the basis of the regard with which we are held in the wider architectural community.

Bruce Hawley

Bruce Hawley RAIA

Position

Senior Associate

Office

Tweed

Qualifications

Diploma of Architecture (QUT 1982)

Registrations

Chartered Architect, NSW
Registered Architect, Qld

Specialisations

Nurturing a wide variety of project types through from inception to handover.

Affiliations

Member of the Australian Institute of Architects

Work history

2008 – present    Senior Associate, Fulton Trotter Architects
1993 – 2008    Associate, Fulton Trotter Architects
1987 – 1993    Architect, Fulton Gilmour Trotter Moss
1986 – 1987    Architect, Clifford Tee & Gale Architects, London
1979 – 1986    Architect/Student, Robin Spencer & Associates Architects, Brisbane
1976 – 1979    Student, Bligh Jessup Bretnall & Partners Architects, Bernard Ryan Architect, Barry Morris Architect

Who am I …

A humble journeyman architect with no pretensions to greatness. Just a gift for doing what any good architect should—that is, to leave this world in a better state than when they came in to it.

Home

Is on the point of Banora Point, and embodies all the things I grew up with as a kid. Plus it’s on a river and overlooking the ocean.

Significant others

Long-suffering wife, Kim. Two active teenage sons. One lazy cat. Visiting wildlife, which torments the cat.

Why I do what I do

It is what I always wanted to do.

When I decided to be an architect …

As a skinny kid growing up in an old “Queenslander” house in inner suburban Brisbane, complete with mango trees.

If I wasn’t an architect, I’d be …

Drawing stuff. 

What else I do …

Assist with whatever sporting/academic/music/boating activities my sons are involved in.

I did that!?

Gave my family the opportunity to grow up in the best part of the best country.

I wish I’d designed …

Sydney Team
Six or eight friends for dinner on weekends enjoying Naomi’s great cooking.

My gangs

The parents of other kids involved in my sons’ sporting/academic/music/boating activities.

My heroes

My parents, for giving me and my brothers the best opportunities they could afford.

AKA

Bruiser

Signature quote

Don’t Panic