Bruce established Townsend + Associates in Canberra in 1993 with his wife Catherine, and designed the Street Theatre and the ANCA Artists’ Studios, amongst many other finely crafted residential and commercial commissions. Bruce received a Robin Boyd commendation for Eagle-Gascoigne House (1998) and the Canberra Medallion for Fowler House (1999). He is followed by the Designcraft showroom and factory.