External works at ONE40 William Street — a major mixed-use commercial development in Perth's historic core — are complete.

The scheme includes an underground metro station, a new office tower and the restoration and refurbishment of three historic buildings and an historic façade.

Lovell Chen was responsible for survey, documentation and administration of works to the former Baird Building (c. 1905), the Globe Hotel (1883) and the Wellington Building (1910). We oversaw the partial reconstruction of the retained façade to the Mitchell Building — a two-storey commercial building completed in 1913, which was dismantled and stored during construction of the metro station beneath William Street.

We have now commenced restoration works on the interiors
of the heritage buildings.

Lovell Chen to establish a full-time office in Perth

We plan to provide a range of architectural and heritage consulting services in Western Australia. Further details will follow soon. In the meantime, enquiries regarding work in WA can be directed to the Melbourne office.

Tel. 03 9667 0800 or email us at enquiry@lovellchen.com.au
or contact Alice Steedman in Perth at steedman@iprimus.com.au

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Proposals for the redevelopment of the Canberra Brickworks site at Yarralumla have been unveiled by the ACT Land Development Agency. They were prepared by Sydney practice Hill Thalis in association with Lovell Chen, and build on a revised Conservation Management Plan we prepared earlier this year.

The proposals include a scheme to adapt the brickworks as an exhibition and conference centre, with the surrounding land developed as public parks and housing. An upgraded driveway to the nearby governor-general's premises, land for embassies and commercial development are also included.

The Canberra Brickworks was established in 1913 to manufacture the bricks needed for the building of Australia's then-new national capital. The brickworks ran intermittently until 1976. Earlier this year, Lovell Chen prepared a revised CMP for the brickworks site and a strategy for its adaptive reuse (see News December 2009).

The proposals are on public exhibition.

Pictured is a public plaza between the refurbished kilns — one of a number of proposals for the adaptation of the brickworks.

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The Lovell Chen-designed extension to the historic Melbourne University Boat Club, located on the south bank of the Yarra River opposite Federation Square in central Melbourne, has commenced on site.

The two-storey boat club is a weatherboard structure with a square stair tower and belvedere to its east. It was designed by A.S. Eggleston and completed in 1908.

The two-storey gable-roof addition comprises a ground level boat store with a mezzanine and open-plan club room above. The extension is clad in dark-stained ironbark and has a rectangular picture window at first floor level. The project is due for completion early in 2011.

Pictured is a perspective of the extension's north elevation.

A row of boathouses, rowing clubs and boat-building workshops has been a consistent feature of the south bank of the Yarra River near Princess Bridge since the 1860s.

Boathouses

Adam Mornement, heritage consultant with Lovell Chen, is the author of Boathouses, an illustrated history of boathouses around the world from the mid 18th century to the present. It's published by Frances Lincoln, London (May 2010) and distributed in Australia by Thames & Hudson.

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