June 2017

128 APAC / June 2017 , Lucas Stapleton Johnson is a firmof Sydney-based architects which specialises in restoring, adapting, and adding to heritage buildings, as well as heritage advice and conservation planning. Consultant Clive Lucas provides a fascinating insight into the firm’s work. A Wonderful Heritage Lucas Stapleton Johnson was established in 1970. We are a medium sized practice which includes architects, traditional and CAD draughtsmen, heritage planners and advisors and support staff. We also design new buildings in historic contexts. Lucas Stapleton Johnson are architects and heritage advisors for heritage-listed buildings and other places of historical and architectural note. These can range from small houses and gardens to major public building complexes. Our approach begins with understanding the nature and history of the place. We design, document for construction, and arrange building and landscape work on behalf of our clients, most often adaptations and additions. We also provide advice and write reports on appropriate actions for significant places, e.g. conservation management plans and heritage impact statements. We work independently as well as in collaboration with other design firms and consultants for major projects. The work of Lucas Stapleton Johnson embraces most of Sydney’s large landmark historic buildings, as well as inter-state and overseas projects. We have been involved with six of the eleven Australian Convict Sites entered on the World Heritage List in 2010. We have also been involved in many houses and some of the smallest projects architects could be asked to do (plaques, headstones, gates, etc.). Awards The practice has received over 50 awards from the Australian Institute of Architects (formerly Royal Australian Institute of Architects) for outstanding architecture. These include: • 7 Greenway Awards for restoration in NSW; • 9 Lachlan Macquarie Awards for the best conservation project nationally; • 3 Building Owners’ and Managers’ Association (BOMA, now Australian Property Institute) Awards; • 1 Sulman Medal; • 1 Lloyd Rees Award and; • 1 Burley Griffin Award. We’ve also received Local Government Awards in Ku-ring- gai, Willoughby, Woollahra, Hawkesbury, Wingecarribee and City of Sydney. Amongst our most recent awards are: • 2012 AIA Lachlan Macquarie Award for Swifts, Darling Point; • 2013 AIA Architecture Award for entrance domes at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney and; • 2013 Wingecarribee Shire and National Trust awards for Sir Donald Bradman’s Boyhood House at Bowral NSW (see photo in the slide show above); • 2015 National Trust Award for Centennial Fountain, Parramatta and; • 2015 AIA Architecture Award (Conservation) for Bronte House, Bronte (see photo in Gallery). Publications for sale We have four publications, produced by Ian Stapleton with Maisy Stapleton, Clive Lucas and Ian Evans providing expert guidance for the care and maintenance of Australian buildings. Each is priced at $39.95 (incl. GST). You can pick up the books in person (by arrangement) at our office at Suite 101/191 Clarence Street, Sydney or if by express post, add $10.00 to the purchase price. ‘How to Restore the Old Aussie House’ contains expert advice from one of Australiaʹs top conservation architects. Illustrated with over 180 detailed sketches and photographs and covering all components of old buildings. This is a new, revised and enlarged edition with two new chapters. ‘Australian House Styles’ is the definitive guide to styles of houses built in Australia from 1788 to the present. Illustrated with 63 detailed sketches. The text & drawings combine authority and authenticity with sharp social comment & a wry sense of humour. ‘Colour Schemes for old Australian Houses’ is the first guide to painting & decorating old houses in authentic traditional colour schemes. A ʹpaint‐by‐ numbersʹ book, illustrated with sketches of types of houses and interiors built in Australia between 1820 & the 1940s. Colour schemes from this book, collected by paint scrapes on old houses throughout Australia, have changed the face of Australian towns, suburbs and the countryside. ‘More Colour Schemes for old Australian Houses’ is a new and revised edition of the second colour scheme guide first published in 1992. This authoritative guide to painting & decorating old houses, using traditional colours in the traditional manner, is illustrated with sketches of types of houses and interiors built in Australia between 1820 and the 1940s. Company: Lucas Stapleton Johnson & Partners Pty. Ltd Name: Clive Lucas Email: [email protected] Web Address: www.lsjarchitects.com Address: LSJ Heritage Planning and Architecture Suite 101, Level 1, 191 Clarence Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Telephone: +61 2 9357 4811 1702AP53