Lovell Chen

Lovell Chen is a multi-disciplinary practice with more than 40 years’ experience in architecture and heritage. Whether we are designing a new building or adapting an existing heritage structure, undertaking conservation works or assessing a heritage landscape, developing a master plan or carrying out detailed research, providing conservation management advice or thinking through a strategic direction for the managed change of a heritage place — our approach is imaginative, practical, informed and responsive.

We work collaboratively, with clients and project team members, to deliver a truly integrated service. Strategic thinking, design skills, research and experience are combined with a passion for heritage places and the built environment. We find solutions, intelligent creative cost-effective solutions that respond to client ambitions, site constraints, environmental conditions and statutory requirements.

Much of our work focuses on the integration of the old and the new, and this is reflected in the range of services we offer:

— Architecture

— Conservation works

— Building presentation

— Passive House

— Strategic + master planning

— Heritage advice + appraisals

— Heritage management planning

— Heritage studies

— Infrastructure

— Approvals + appeals

— Heritage asset management

— Landscape

— Site interpretation

Sustainability is at the heart of our architectural and heritage practice. We see sustainability as a connector between history and the future, and we believe that without considering the future of natural, social and economic resources together, any response lacks resilience. It is an achievable ambition to design new buildings to use no more than 10% of normal energy consumption and to take heritage buildings off-grid. Innovative approaches such as Passive House, which we integrate into our design as standard, make this an attainable reality.

In our work we seek to create connections based on respectful interactions that listen to and consider First Peoples perspectives and the stories of traditional custodians of Country. We seek to hold space for these stories, connect with ancient landscapes and demonstrate for them a continued connection to Country.

Services: Architecture
Sectors: Education, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural, Residential, Heritage, Infrastructure
Company Lovell Chen
Instagram @lovellchen
Phone 03 9667 0...
Locations East Melbourne, VIC
Services Architecture

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