What We Do
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Lucas Stapleton Johnson & Partners 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.).

Projects

SAP Heritage Guidelines

Name: SAP Heritage Management Guidelines Location: Sydney Anglican Diocese, New South Wales Within the Sydney Diocese, there...

Hawkesbury Timber Slab Barns

Name: Hawkesbury Timber Slab Barns Location: Hawkesbury local government area, New South Wales The Hawkesbury River and...

Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace

Name: Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Location: Military Road, Cremorne, New South Wales North Sydney Council, at the...

Parramatta CBD Opportunity Sites

Name: Parramatta CBD Opportunity Sites Location: Parramatta, New South Wales Parramatta, being the second township to be...

Enmore Post Office

Name: Enmore Post Office Location: Enmore, Sydney, New South Wales Constructed in 1895 to a design by...

Willoughby Heritage Study

Name: Willoughby Heritage Study Review Location: Naremburn, Castlecrag and other locations, New South Wales LSJ undertook an...

Woolloomooloo Murals Project

Name: Woolloomooloo Murals Project Location: Woolloomooloo Viaduct, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales The Woolloomooloo Murals Project was conceived...

Carisbrook

Name: Carisbrook Location: Linley Point Reserve, Lane Cove, New South Wales The State heritage listed Carisbrook is...

Sydney Law School

Name: Sydney Law School Location: University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales Following the completion of the...

Union Inn Site

Name: Union Inn Site Location: Regatta Park, Emu Plains, New South Wales Constructed between 1854 and 1858...

Who We Are

Lucas Stapleton Johnson & Partners is a firm of Sydney-based architects and heritage consultants which specialise in restoring, adapting, and adding to heritage buildings, providing heritage advice and conservation planning, and obtaining development approvals. We also design new buildings in historic contexts.

Directors

  • Sean Johnson B.A,Dip.Arch., MSc.(Arch.Cons.), RAIA
    Registered Architect No. 4728, Nominated Architect
    Reg. Design Prac No. DEP0001499
  • Kate DennyB.A., M.Herit.Cons

We are a medium sized practice which includes architects, traditional and CAD draughtsmen, heritage planners and advisers and support staff.
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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
  • 1 Burley Griffin Award
  • We’ve also received Local Government Awards in Ku-ring-gai, Willoughby, Woollahra, Hawkesbury, Wingecarribee and City of Sydney.

Notable awards include:

  • 2012 AIA Lachlan Macquarie Award for Swifts, Darling Point,
  • 2013 AIA Architecture Award for entrance domes at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
  • 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
  • 2015 AIA Architecture Award (Conservation) for Bronte House, Bronte (see photo in Gallery)
  • 2018 National Trust Highly Commended for Waverley Cemetery Gates, Bronte
  • 2018 National Trust Highly Commended for Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House