About Us
Our promise
We deliver tailored, design-led solutions that align with your project objectives while balancing innovation, planning strategy, sustainability, functionality, and commercial feasibility.
From early site analysis through to approvals and delivery, we maintain clear communication at every stage and strive to create outcomes that exceed expectations, strengthen place, and deliver lasting value.
What We Do
We offer the following key services. All of our services are designed to help you achieve your goals. We will listen to you and ensure that your demands are represented in our ideas and designs, whether it is for aesthetics, practicality, or financial concerns.
Urban Design
Strategic frameworks that shape liveable, efficient, and future-ready urban environments. We focus on creating strong spatial structure, identity, and long-term urban value.
Planning
End-to-end support for Development Applications, structure plans, and council approvals. We navigate planning frameworks to improve approval certainty and project outcomes.
Built Form Design
Context-driven, functional, and contemporary building design tailored to site conditions, land use, and planning requirements. We focus on delivering design outcomes that balance aesthetics, performance, and feasibility.
Development Advisory
Strategic support for landowners, developers, and investors through feasibility studies, site analysis, yield optimisation, and planning strategy. We help unlock development potential and reduce approval risk.
Interior & Spatial Design
Interior environments designed in alignment with architectural intent, user experience, and development outcomes.
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Our Approach
Every project at SGL DESIGN is guided by three core principles:
✔ Strategic Thinking – aligning design outcomes with planning frameworks and development objectives
✔ Design Quality – creating functional, contextual and enduring places
✔ Commercial Clarity – ensuring feasibility, efficiency and value creation across all stages
We believe successful projects are not only well-designed—they are well-positioned, well-planned, and well-executed.
Why SGL DESIGN
✔ Integrated urban design, planning, built form & strategy
✔ Strong understanding of WA urban design, planning systems and building regulations
✔ Developer-focused thinking
✔ Experience across metropolitan and regional Western Australia
✔ End-to-end project delivery capability
Meet our Team
Kandasugam (Kanda) Murugesan
Founder & Principal | Urban Designer | Planner
Kanda is a multidisciplinary urban designer with extensive experience across urban design, planning, and built form design…
Leena Bakshi
Research & Social Planning Consultant
Leena is an experienced researcher, academic, and social planning professional with expertise in urban research, community engagement, multicultural inclusion….
Gordon Chong Yen Hung
Associate
Gordon has extensive experience across multi-residential, commercial, mixed-use, and interior projects, contributing to both design development…
Samikshya Kandel
Urban Design & Architectural Assistant
Samikshya is an urban design professional and graduate architect with experience across residential, commercial, and institutional projects…
Thinley Namgyal
Designer & Visualisation Specialist
Thinley is an architectural designer with experience in building documentation and 3D visualisation across residential, hospitality, and mixed-use developments…
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