Heritage Grants | How can we help?
As an owner of a heritage property, you may be interested in applying for financial assistance to help undertake works or prepare documentation to help provide you guidance in making decisions. The Heritage Council of Western Australia (HWCA) runs an annual Heritage Grants Program to support owners of State Heritage places undertake conservation works or […]
Air Drain – Mind the Gap
Not the most thrilling topic of conversations but nevertheless an important one that needs to be had when it comes to working with old buildings. The principles are simple, the solution is simple (on paper), but the realities and practicalities when dealing with buildability, cost, and sensitivity of adjacent building fabric is a tricky one. […]
Adam Tan – Student Internship
We are pleased to welcome Adam Tan who is joining us on a student internship program over the next three months. Adam is currently studying a Masters in Architecture at Curtin University and looking to expand his professional experience over the Summer break. He is from Penang in Malaysia where he completed his undergraduate degree […]
Development Approval – Former Hospital at Fremantle Prison
This project is progressing well with Development Approval granted last week for a suite of much needed conservation works. Nothing too onerous in terms of planning as conservation is always supported and indeed encouraged but is nevertheless in the detail. The majority of the works involve urgent repairs to the timber verandah structure and tackling […]
Fremantle Prison Hospital – What is a CMS?
Dar Studio has recently prepared a Conservation Management Strategy (CMS) for the former hospital building at Fremantle Prison. Without wanting to blow one’s trumpet too hard this is not a bad start for our first commission of such an important document. My natural Yorkshire instinct is to use a negative adjective to describe what […]
Dar Studio – A Brand New Start
Dar Studio is borne from my diverse experiences in the practice of architecture and heritage, which have laid the foundations to create a practice specialising in the fields of conservation and regeneration mixed with contemporary design. My vision for Dar Studio is for it to be a practice acknowledged for good design, centered on a […]