Crafted Hospitality + Residential Projects Around the World
Architect / Design Director
Mark Bellingan
After nearly a decade at several award-winning practices, architect Mark Bellingan founded Common Architecture in 2014. Since then, the studio has worked across a range of building types — always with an emphasis on design that responds to its context.
Mark brings a strong understanding of the construction process, allowing each project to explore materiality, sustainability, and affordability in practical terms. His approach centres on clarity, restraint, and close collaboration with clients.
The aim is consistent: to create architecture that celebrates the experience of space, and the life within.
Beyond his role at Common Architecture, Mark maintains an active presence in the wider design community as a mentor, educator, and occasional urban explorer.
Leigh Bellingan
Since joining her brother Mark at Common Architecture, Leigh has played a key role in shaping projects that reflect a shared commitment to context, collaboration, and craft.
Leigh leads the interior design work at Common Architecture, where she brings a refined eye for materiality, atmosphere, and spatial rhythm. Trained as both an architect and interior designer, her approach bridges the conceptual and the tactile — ensuring that interiors are not separate from the building, but integral to it.
Leigh’s work is rooted in observation and restraint. She draws on everyday references and regional traditions, assembling spaces that are coherent, well-considered, and quietly expressive. Her focus is on how spaces are lived in — how they age, how they feel, and how they support daily life.