Our strategies always respect the existing fabric and seek to reuse, adapt & balance contemporary needs with conservation values.
We provide full architectural services
across a range of project and development types. Concept design, scope of works, space planning, construction drawings, work specifications & contract administration.
We provide advice and management planning for heritage buildings and places.
Heritage and fabric assessments, reuse options, place management.
Statements of heritage impact, archival recording, heritage and fabric assessments.
Interpretation communicates ideas, information and knowledge about locations, the natural world or historic places in a way which helps visitors to make sense of their environment.
Stephen is a heritage conservation architect with 45 years in practice. Working on a wide range of ecclesiastical buildings, he
developed a working understanding of traditional building materials and working techniques. Through his undergraduate years
at UNSW he developed and was nurtured in the historic appreciation of our built heritage, the architectural styles and tastes
represented in details and finishes. His thesis supervisor and professor wrote 'A country's architecture is a near-perfect record
of its history. Every building captures in physical form the climate and resources of a country's geography, the social,
economic, technological and political conditions of its society and the moral, philosophical, aesthetic and spiritual values of its
people. Every building records, describes and explains the time and the place in which it was built'. His post graduate studies
and practice in heritage conservation has enhanced his capacity to read places, landscapes and the built fabric that defines
them.
His passion with heritage and doing physical conservation work, was one of the drivers bringing him to Tasmania in 2018 from
the Hunter Valley in NSW. He still maintains professional ties in NSW, acting as heritage advisor to Mid Coast Council in Taree.
Formerly he consulted as the Heritage Advisor to Kempsey Council for some 16 years and Port Macquarie for 23 years. These
cutting edge consultancy roles not only developed his working knowledge of heritage legislation, but his diagnostic ability in
rapidly identifying detail and physical faults and failings of the buildings he was attending and also appreciating the finer points
of them in order to communicate these to others.
With a plethora of policies and guidelines to consider within the heritage approval and reporting process, our role as your appointed consultant, is to provide you with clarity and practical tailored solutions for your project.
Our in-depth technical experience and understanding of governance , documentation and modelling over an array of diverse and comprehensive projects, enables us to deliver clients sustainable, cost effective and environmentally sound solutions.
Heritage Property Sales
Conservation Architect and Heritage Sales Specialist for Circa Heritage and Lifestyle Real Estate Agents
Licence # 3679
Stephen developed an interest in real estate development, particularly adaptive reuse and repurposing of traditional buildings and places, as well as designing and guiding development within heritage sensitive contexts and places, identifying the potential impacts of such development.
Stephen has also participated in mentoring programmes around developing property through options and using value adding strategies in property investment. He has owned heritage listed buildings and one within a heritage conservation area, so fully understands the implications of ownership, management and the maintenance needs of heritage property.
As a property agent, Stephen brings a wealth of technical and practical experience in assessing heritage and lifestyle property and assisting owner vendors in presenting their property and conveying the historic and ambient qualities of them to the right potential purchasers.
Stephen loves speaking with a diverse range of people and honed his public speaking skills as an Area Convener in Toastmasters International.
He has also been involved with volunteer heritage conservation works on cultural icons in Slovenia and Albania, as well as some local work at the World Heritage sites of Woolmers, and Brickendon at Longford in Tasmania.
With diverse and eclectic interests, widely travelled yet fully grounded in Tasmania and the rich history and tapestry of food, produce, environment and lifestyle this place has to reveal and offer, Stephen truly understands why people want to come here, stay and immerse themselves as he has done.
He would love to assist other people to find their piece of this unique place.
