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Louise St John Kennedy (born 1950) has been an Australian architect based in Perth, Western Australia, and has practiced across Australia and America. Louise has a degree in Psychology from the University of Western Australia in 1970) and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne in1978. [1] She continues to practice in Claremont, Western Australia, now as a Building Designer, Interior Designer and Landscape Designer.
As a student at Melbourne University she worked for a period for Graeme Gunn, and after graduating worked for a period with John Taylor Architect and Builder in South Yarra. Whilst a student she completed a two home renovations for herself, but her first commissioned project came from The Age cartoonist John Spooner to refit his office in Malvern.
After moving back to Perth to work with Robert Cann, St John Kennedy commenced practice in 1981 with the construction of her own house in Rupert Street, Subiaco. Upon completion this house was awarded a commendation in the WA RAIA awards, the first female to receive this honour. It was followed shortly after by the Limestone Residence, Hynes Road Dalkeith and the Mount Street Gallery Workshops and Residence, Fremantle. Both projects received RAIA awards.
After receiving the Robin Boyd award from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1984, St John Kennedy completed a large body of work, mainly residential, hospitality and retail, across Western Australia. She has been the architect for Giorgio Armani retail projects throughout Australia.
Her academic involvement includes lecturing on Women in Architecture at UWA School of Architecture, the first course on Women in Architecture in Australia. She jointly founded Women in Architecture in Western Australia. She reviewed the Civil and Criminal justice system in WA for the Law Reform Commission and was a founder internationally of the investigation of architectural psychology in law and courts. St John Kennedy also founded Hay River wines in Mount Barker, one of the first vineyards in south west Western Australia.
In 1984, St John Kennedy won the Robin Boyd Award for residential architecture for the Downes-Stoney residence in East Perth. She was the first female recipient of the award and the first Western Australian recipient of the award. She has won numerous other awards, including the Bunnings Timber award 1988, the Fremantle Award 1983, and her work has been widely published. [1]
Louise St John Kennedy was a founding member of the Australian Architecture Association. She was the first woman appointed to both the Architects Board of Western Australia, and the Chapter Council of the RAIA WA. She was appointed to the Architect's Board of Western Australia Accreditation Committee to review Schools of Architecture at Universities in Western Australia. She was an examiner for the Architect's Board of Western Australia. She was a founding board member of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and served on the board at LandCorp, [2] the Western Australian Land Authority, as well as initiating their Design and Sustainability department. [1]
Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe. Cottesloe was named for Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, a prominent Tory politician and the brother of Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle for whom the city of Fremantle was named. The nearby suburb of Swanbourne was named for the Fremantle family seat, Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire.
Peppermint Grove is an affluent western suburb of Perth, Western Australia on the north bank of the Swan River at Freshwater Bay. Its local government area, the smallest in the country, is the Shire of Peppermint Grove. The suburb was named after the Swan River peppermint trees lining many streets. The suburb has long been associated with Western Australia's wealthiest and oldest families. Their prosperity is reflected in the many historical houses in the area, such as The Cliffe and the Federation Queen Anne style St Just. Colin Barnett, a former Premier of Western Australia, dubbed the suburb "Monaco of WA" due to its small size and concentration of wealth. It is also known as millionaire’s row and had the highest income of any suburb in Australia in 2022.
Godfrey Blow is a British-born contemporary artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. A painter whose work is inspired by myths and mythical landscapes, he founded the Perth Stuckists in 2003.
The Army Museum of Western Australia is a museum located in an historic artillery barracks on Burt Street in Fremantle, Western Australia. The museum was established in 1977 and has three Victoria Crosses on display.
Mosman Park is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia on the north bank of the Swan River in the local government area of the Town of Mosman Park. It was historically known as Buckland Hill (1889–1909), then Cottesloe Beach (1909–1930) and again Buckland Hill (1930–1937). From 1937 it was named Mosman Park, derived from Mosman in Sydney, the birthplace of Richard Yeldon, a member of the Buckland Hill Road Board. Mosman Park is now considered an affluent suburb, but prior to the 1970s was one of Perth's major industrial centres.
George Thomas Temple-Poole was a British architect and public servant, primarily known for his work in Western Australia from 1885.
St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls is an Australian independent non-selective Anglican single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Mosman Park, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. In addition, the school provides co-educational early learning education to both girls and boys.
Old Perth Fire Station is located at 25 Murray Street, at its intersection with Irwin Street, in Perth, Western Australia.
William Thomas Leighton (1905–1990) was a Western Australian architect, well known for his Art Deco and Inter-War Functionalist style of civic, commercial and domestic buildings.
Howlett and Bailey Architects was founded by Jeffrey Howlett and Donald Bailey in 1960, in Perth, Western Australia. They received numerous design awards and commendations from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and won the competition for the Reserve Bank of Australia Building in Canberra in 1962. Their designs combined Modern style and Classical rationale, which resulted in ordered and axial aspects. Howlett and Baileys Architects’s major projects included the Public Suite, the Beatty Park Pool kiosk and Manager’s house, and the two Australian landmarks the Council House (1962) and the Perth Concert Hall (1973). Howlett and Bailey Architects merged with Cox Architects in 1995 to create Cox Howlett & Bailey Architects. In 1998 the company merged with Forbes & Fitzhardinge Woodland to form Cox Howlett & Bailey Woodland Architects, which still practices today.
Kenneth Frank Charles Woolley, BArch, Hon DSc Arch Sydney LFRAIA, FTSE, was an Australian architect. In a career spanning 60 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing with Pettit and Sevitt, four time Wilkinson Award-winning architect, including three times for his own house, the first being the 1962 Woolley House in Mosman, and his longstanding partnership with Sydney Ancher and Bryce Mortlock. He is regarded as being a prominent figure in the development of the Sydney School movement and Australian vernacular building.
John Bramston Russell Oldham (1907–1999) at Subiaco, Western Australia) was a landscape architect in Western Australia. Oldham, a pioneer of landscape architecture in Australia, and his journalist wife Ray were founding members of the National Trust (WA) and were prominent in the fight to save some of WA’s heritage buildings during the 1960s and 1970s.
Hillson Beasley was an English-trained architect who relocated to Australia, executing his major buildings in Melbourne (1886–96) and Perth (1896–1917). In his later career he was the Principal Architect of Western Australia's Public Works Department and designed many notable public buildings, including the Government House ballroom (1899), Parliament House, Perth (1900-1904), Fremantle Post Office (1907) and the old Perth Technical School (1910).
Michael Francis Cavanagh was an Australian architect, primarily known for his work in Western Australia from 1895 to the late 1930s.
Margaret Lillian Pitt Morison was an Australian architect active in the 20th century. She was the first female architect member in Western Australia. As a practitioner, educator and historian, she made important contributions to Australian architecture during the 19th and 20th most prominently in Western Australia.
Cameron Chisholm Nicol (CCN) is an Australian multi-disciplinary architecture practice. Established in Perth in 1884 by James William Wright, the firm has operated continuously in Western Australia since that time. The Brisbane office was opened in 1986. The two offices are no longer linked, and operate as separate entities.
Kenneth Charles Duncan (1898–1983) was born 13 April 1898. He was a modernist architect, active in Australia from before World War I until the 1970s making a long and valued contribution to architectural practice especially in Western Australia.
Annie Dorrington was an Australian artist who was known for her wildflower paintings and watercolours. She is also one of the designers of the Australian flag.
Reginald Summerhayes (1897–1965) was a Western Australian architect, Military Cross recipient, and president of the Royal Institute of Architects of Western Australia. Summerhayes designed a range of Perth 20th century landmarks, including the Perth Dental Hospital, Lake Karrinyup Country Club, the Colonial Mutual Insurance building in St Georges Terrace, and the bell tower of Loreto Convent, Claremont – relocated to William Street in 1992.
The western suburbs are an informally defined group of suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located west of the city's central business district and north of the Swan River. The western suburbs are well known for high incomes, high house prices, riverfront mansions, private schools and proximity to ocean beaches.
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