Heritage conservation projects recognised in 2024 WA Heritage Awards

The winners of the 2024 Western Australian Heritage Awards have been introduced, recognising tasks which can be setting new requirements in heritage conservation and adaptive reuse throughout the state.

The Wearne Hostel in Cottesloe by Griffiths Architects earned the distinguished Gerry Gauntlet Award for Conservation or Adaptive Reuse of a State Registered Place. The hostel, as soon as often known as the Ministering Kids’s League Convalescent Dwelling, was inbuilt 1897 to supply care to individuals recovering from sickness. The constructing was initially designed by architect Percy William Harrison within the Federation Queen Anne type and encompasses a Cottesloe limestone facade, intricate verandahs and timbered gables. “Latest conservation efforts have revitalised Wearne Hostel as a significant a part of Cottesloe’s heritage, meticulously restoring parts such because the distinctive “pepperpot” roof and climate vane,” commented the jury.

Ascot Kilns (former Bristile Kilns), Belmont, by Hocking Heritage and Structure was counseled within the Conservation or Adaptive Reuse of a State Registered Place class.

Elsewhere within the awards, Tomich Home by Mark Jeavons Architect with Ohlo Studio, and Trade Resort, Pinjarra by Hunt Architects collectively acquired the award for Conservation or Adaptive Reuse of a Native Heritage Place.

Initially designed by architect Iwan Iwanoff in 1971, Tomich Home underwent vital but delicate restoration works to deal with structural points. The jury lauded the mission for rigorously harmonising “a Nineteen Eighties extension with Iwanoff’s type, utilizing supplies and particulars sympathetic to his imaginative and prescient.” The mission has garnered substantial acclaim this 12 months, having earned the Julius Elischer Award for Inside Structure on the Australian Institute of Architects 2024 WA Structure Awards and an award for Home in a Heritage Context on the 2024 Homes Awards.

Hunt Architects had been praised by the jury for mixing heritage conservation with up to date design in its restoration of the 1866 Trade Resort. After a number of years of neglect following its closure in 2008, the resort was bought by the Shire of Murray in 2012 with the goal to revive the historic constructing – one of many oldest within the Peel area – to its former glory. The jury applauded the apply for making a balanced area, as seen within the “preservation of conventional timber and masonry parts, and the addition of recent steel-framed options.”

The opposite class winners might be considered on-line.