Christine Kwong
Principal
As Managing Principal of fjcstudio’s Oxford studio, Christine brings over two decades of experience leading complex projects in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Her role as lead architect for the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki – awarded World Building of the Year at the 2013 World Architecture Festival – established her reputation for design excellence and collaborative leadership across diverse cultural and professional contexts.
Christine has led highly complex projects with extensive stakeholder consultation from conception to completion. Projects include: Chemistry Oxford (University of Oxford), University of Auckland Owen G Glenn Business School (NZ), Auckland War Memorial, and Macquarie University Library.
She was personally awarded the NAWIC Australia’s Bovis Lend Lease Future Leaders Award and the Purchase Prize for International Design Competition (Geocentre Mons, Klint Denmark).
She has a proven track record in delivering award-winning refurbishment projects with a sensitive heritage-listed component, as well as residential and mixed use projects.
Recently, Christine completed Reuben College at the University of Oxford, transforming the Radcliffe Science Library into a contemporary graduate college that integrates advanced research facilities with vibrant student spaces. She also delivered Court Place Gardens, a nine-acre redevelopment within Oxford’s Iffley Conservation Area. This scheme replaced outdated student housing with 71 sustainable new dwellings designed around landscaped communal courts, applying Passivhaus principles and reinforcing heritage, ecology and community connections.
Christine promotes a strong relationship between architectural practices and academia, regularly participating as a guest critic, juror and tutor at various universities and institutions.
Key Project Experience
Education
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences & the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford
- Tinbergen Building Refurbishment, University of Oxford
- Chemistry Teaching Laboratory, University of Oxford
- Chemistry Teaching Laboratory II, University of Oxford
- Innovation & Interventional Technologies Building, University of Oxford
- Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR), University of Oxford
- Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Information Building, University of Oxford
- Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford
- New Graduate College, University of Oxford
- Owen G Glenn Business School, University of Auckland
- Macquarie University Library
- School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
Residential
- Court Place Gardens, Oxford
- Student Castle, Oxford
- New Graduate College, University of Oxford
- Wonderland, Central Park (Sydney)
Heritage, Adaptive Reuse & Mixed Use
- Reuben College, University of Oxford
- New Graduate College, University of Oxford
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tãmaki
- Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (Powerhouse Museum)
- Auckland War Memorial Museum: Future Museums Project
- The Mint, Sydney
