In profile: Hayball's managing director, Tom Jordan
NAME: Tom Jordan
POSITION: Managing director
COMPANY: Hayball (architecture, interior design, urban design)
OFFICE LOCATION: Melbourne, Sydney
- How long have you been in the industry?
30 years.
- What’s happening in the area you specialise in?
As a design director I’m involved in the multi-residential sector, with projects in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. There’s a significant re-emergence here of owner/occupier demand for larger apartments, primarily local buyers but also offshore.
- Describe the most interesting commercial property you have worked on?
Trillium Residents Club, which is more than just a building. With leisure facilities for residents in a new suburb north of Melbourne, the club is contributing to a new community as it takes shape. The design program was diverse, and as a project it has a very strong yet elegant architectural response that we held a strong vision for, and we survived a demanding process to see it get through.
- What are the ingredients to being successful in your job?
Having the best people possible you can get around you.
- What aspects of your role do you enjoy the most?
The combination of projects being realised, and seeing the practice flourish.
- Where would you invest a spare $750,000?
I’d be looking at commercial and residential property.
- Which football team do you support?
- What’s your favourite app or techno gadget?
At work, I’m never far from Nearmap [geospatial map technology]. Away from the practice, it’s Navionics, for electronic nautical charting.
- How do you use social media?
I am increasingly using LinkedIn to stay in touch with business associates. As a company, Hayball maintains a presence on LinkedIn and Twitter. We’re also gaining a strong following on Instagram, which is a platform I’m really enjoying.
