About Windust
Windust is an architecture and strategic advisory practice operating at the intersection of development, design and delivery. Our background is in architecture and our clients engage us to help them make better property and project decisions.
What We Do
We work at the early stages of projects, helping clients define what to do, test whether it works, and structure a clear path forward.
We help clients avoid costly mistakes, unlock better development outcomes, save months of wrong direction work, and improve project returns and certainty.
When you engage Windust, you work directly with Anthony, not a junior team. That means clearer advice, and no one second guessing what was said in a meeting.
We also take selected residential projects through design and delivery, applying the same standards and commercial thinking we bring to advisory work
Why Windust
Early Influence
We get involved before decisions are locked in. Where the greatest impact on outcome, cost and risk is still possible.
Strategic and delivery depth
Most advisors don’t have delivery experience. Most architects don’t operate at the strategic level. We bridge both, and that’s where we create value.
Direct access to Anthony
When you engage Windust, you work directly with Anthony. Clearer advice, with no information lost between meetings and junior staff.
The Problem We Solve
The key insight: most problems are locked in before design even begins. Clients face cost uncertainty, approvals complexity, stakeholder complexity and financial and delivery risk.
- — Unclear project direction
- — Too many options and conflicting advice
- — Uncertainty around cost, feasibility and risk
- — Poor alignment between consultants and stakeholders
- — Projects that stall, change direction or underperform
Who We Work For
Private clients making significant property decisions
Upgraders/ right sizers
Boutique property developers
Family offices
Organisations
NFPs
Anthony Windust
Founder and Managing Director | Registered Architect
After 20 years across architecture, construction and development, Anthony has developed a strong instinct for what is genuinely possible within a project. He gets involved early, not just to protect the outcome, but to shape it.
Before founding Windust, Anthony contributed to $850M+ in built work across major Melbourne architectural practices. These spanned large-scale residential, institutional and mixed-use developments in Australia and internationally, including on-site in Beijing, China.
He has worked closely with developers, consultants and builders across all phases of projects, from early feasibility through procurement and construction. This breadth of experience underpins a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to advisory work, and supporting selected projects through to delivery.
- Registered Architect
- Victorian Government Construction Supply Register
- Australian Institute of Architects member
- Architeam Member
Experience
Large-scale residential, institutional and mixed-use project delivery across major Melbourne practices, spanning concept design through construction administration.
Worked closely with developers across feasibility, procurement and delivery. Deep understanding of the commercial pressures and decision points that shape project outcomes.
Direct experience navigating Melbourne Water, Building Authorities, Heritage and CitiPower across complex planning and compliance environments.
On-site delivery in Beijing, China. Exposure to large-scale international construction, procurement and stakeholder management across cultural and regulatory contexts.
Founded Windust to bring strategic advice to clients at the earliest stage, before decisions are locked in and when the right guidance has the greatest impact.
Areas We Service
Based in South Melbourne, we work across metropolitan Melbourne and beyond. From inner-city projects to regional Victoria and the Surf Coast.
- Malvern
- South Yarra
- Albert Park
- Camberwell
- Brighton
- Toorak
- Prahran
- Armadale
- Kew
- Kew East
- St Kilda
- Port Melbourne
- Hawthorn
- Malvern East
- Hawthorn East
- East Melbourne
- Caulfield
- Elwood
- Hampton
- Richmond
- Sandringham
- BlackRock
- South Melbourne
- Glen Iris
- Middle Park
- Elsternwick
- Cremorne
- Surrey Hills
- Canterbury
- Mornington Peninsula
- Carlton
- Fitzroy
- Northcote
- Bayside
- Surf Coast
- Country Victoria
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