Let's make this birthday one to remember.

85 years old (Born on October 01, 1939)

Happy Birthday Philip Cox, the man who gives shape not just to buildings but entire skylines! From crafting Australia's iconic stadiums—like North Melbourne Stadium and Sydney Football Stadium—to designing homes for circus artists at the National Institute of Circus Arts (perhaps your biggest balancing act yet!), you've truly mastered spaces that thrill both athletes and acrobats alike.

Your creativity leaps continents like a global trapeze artist—from Southeast Asia through China, into Europe, South Africa, and straight across deserts in the Middle East. As one of Sydney School's best-known visionaries: may you keep sketching brilliance—and perhaps consider building yourself an architectural monument made entirely from birthday cakes this year? Cheers!