Out and about
Living Building Challenge Design Competition : ILLUMANATE
Kai Chen is joining the judging panel for the Living Building Challenge Design Competition, which is run by the Living Future Institute of Australia in partnership with Development Victoria. It’s an ideas competition for a real building on a real site — a repurposed heritage building.
Living Future Institute of Australia
November 2023
ICOMOS GA2023 post-symposium tour
Peter Lovell and Michelle Stevenson of Museums Victoria led ICOMOS GA2023 delegates through our award-winning Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade as part of the post-GA Cultural Landscapes of Victoria experience.
September 2023
ICOMOS GA2023 Scientific Symposium
Associate Meighen Katz presented her paper Attitude Problem: Vulnerability, Risk & the Retention of Dangerous Heritage at the ICOMOS GA2023 Scientific Symposium in Sydney, as part of the Resilience theme.
7 September 2023
ICOMOS GA2023 Scientific Symposium
Lovell Chen associate Bob McDougall and team members Owen Evans Good and Angus Grant presented their paper Building on the Past: Reframing Life Cycle Analysis for Heritage Practice at the ICOMOS GA2023 Scientific Symposium in Sydney, as part of the Heritage as Sustainability programme.
5 September 2023
EastEnders community organisation
In August Peter Lovell gave a talk on Wesley Place to EastEnders, the residents/community organisation representing the area bounded by Bourke, Spring, LaTrobe and Swanston streets in Melbourne’s CBD.
August 2023
Australian Institute of Architects : Heritage HIIT Series
The June AIA bootcamp CPD webinar in the Heritage HIIT series (for non-heritage architects), was entitled Heritage Awards Showcase — Touring Time and Topology. Lovell Chen associate principal Suzanne Zahra presented the ANU Birch Building with Emma Ludwig from Hassell. Other presenters : Peter Tonkin (Tonkin Zulaikha Greer), Peta Heffernan (Liminal Studio) andDinah Mujati (Hocking Heritage + Architecture) … members.architecture.com.au
An Australian Institute of Architects event
13 June 2023
CPD Webinar : Heritage Buildings and Sustainability
Mecca Events
Anne-Marie Treweeke led a panel discussion on the relationship between heritage buildings and sustainable building outcomes. Alan Croker (Design 5), Geoff Warn (With_Architecture Studio) and Paul Jones (OMA) presented case studies of significant heritage projects.
meccaevents.com.au >
13 June 2023
ACAHUCH x ICOMOS GA2023 x LOVELL CHEN : Heritage changes — or does it?
A panel discussion, chaired by Adam Mornement — challenging current assumptions of heritage practice and considering it in relation to other disciplines, reflecting views from a range of perspectives: community, society, environment, climate change, first nations, anthropology and more.
Wed 22 March 2023, MSD, the University of Melbourne
Watch on YouTube >
MSD, the University of Melbourne : Measured Drawings & Digital Heritage
Lovell Chen associates Maxwell Bracher and Bob McDougall are guest lecturers for the Melbourne School of Design course on measured drawings and documentation of heritage.
8 March 2023
ACAHUCH Symposium : Parklife 2022
Lovell Chen senior associate Michael Cook and associate Anna Hyland (pictured) presented at ACAHUCH’s symposium on Parkville, Melbourne. Topic: Reconsidering what we choose to keep from two centuries of European urbanism in Parkville (and how we keep it)
acahuch.msd.unimelb.edu.au >
4 November 2022
ABC Radio : from the Dome Promenade
Peter Lovell joined ABC presenter Virginia Trioli in a live broadcast from the newly opened Dome Promenade at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne … a listener event.
ABC Radio Melbourne: Mornings
Friday 28 October
Open House Bendigo 2022 : Bendigo Solders’ Memorial Institute
Milica Tumbas led a guided tour of the Bendigo Soldiers’ Memorial Institute.
Open House Melbourne >
23 October 2022
AIRAH Building Physics Forum 2022
Lovell Chen’s Milica Tumbas and Tina Tam presented at this year’s forum in Sydney.
www.airah.org.au >
12 October 2022
Art x Architecture IN SITU Audio Tour : Old Quad
A self-guided audio tour of the Old Quad building at the University of Melbourne by Peter Lovell. Plus exhibition curator Zena Cumpston introduces Emu Sky, an installation in the quadrangle. Part of the campus tour series.
Old Quad + Emu Sky
ongoing … available at msd.unimelb.edu.au >
It’s not complicated: Sustainability in conservation and adaptation
by Kai Chen, Anne-Marie Treweeke and Milica Tumbas
originally published in Architecture Australia issue: Jul/Aug 2022 … DOWNLOAD >
republished : Architecture AU >
Melbourne University Boat Shed
in Good Design + Heritage … issue 07
Office of the Victorian Government Architect … download >
undated
Jewel Box house
in At Home with Heritage: a considered approach to renovating your house
Heritage Council of Victoria online guide … news >
May 2021
Jewel Box house
in WISH magazine, published by The Australian
Building a Legacy, by Lisa Green … news >
April 2021
Trades Hall, Melbourne
The Age
Kai Chen and Stuart Hanafin interviewed
published 5 March 2021
Profile: Lovell Chen
in Architecture Australia, by Peter Raisbeck … download >
March/April 2021
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat
The story of the restoration works …
Commissioned by Ballarat City Council for Ballarat Heritage Festival …
Made by Ingot Media
Peter Lovell Interviewed : March 2021
Available on YouTube >