Search Results for “federation square” – heritage.city by james lesh

Federation Square heritage council submission

14 December 2018 admin Comment

The Heritage Council of Victoria is accepting public submissions for a potential heritage listing of Federation Square. Here’s my response.

Lecture on Fed Square: Public Space, Community and Heritage in Melbourne

4 September 2023 admin Comment

On 20 December 2017, the Victorian State Government and Apple Corporation announced plans for a flagship Apple store for Melbourne’s leading public space: Federation Square. The proposal involved the demolition of an original building on the civic square and its replacement by a generic complex. There was an immediate public backlash against the Apple proposal to enter this public space (which had been managed by a government-owned private company). A new advocacy group called Citizens for Melbourne established a campaign called ‘Our City, Our Square’. A key strand of the campaign involved nominating Federation Square for a state heritage listing,

Award for Public Space and Cultural Heritage Advocacy At Fed Square

14 July 2020 admin Awards, Comment

In early 2018, I co-founded Citizens for Melbourne and we launched the ‘Our City, Our Square – for Fed Square, not Apple Square’ campaign. Our team was awarded The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media (Advocacy Award), Victorian Architecture Awards, Australian Institute of Architects, 2020.

How can a place be heritage-listed after 17 years? What it means for Melbourne’s Fed Square

27 August 2019 admin Comment

Federation Square in Melbourne has been listed on the Victorian state heritage register just 17 years after its completion. The push for heritage status was provoked by the now-abandoned Apple store proposal for the city centre site. Heritage considerations will now guide this important public space, widely known as Fed Square, as it evolves now and over future generations.

Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection

10 August 2018 admin Comment

The proposed redesign of Federation Square includes demolishing the iconic Yarra building for an Apple store.

Apple store has no place in the people’s square

19 February 2018 admin Comment

FEDERATION Square CEO Jonathan Tribe told us in these pages that the square faces significant challenges. Apparently, its buildings are deteriorating, its visitor numbers are in free fall and its visitor experience is old-fashioned.

Apple is exploiting the power of its brand to claim an important part of our city

20 December 2017 admin Comment

Five days before Christmas, news has dropped that a section of Federation Square has been given to Apple for its flagship Melbourne store. The Yarra Building will be demolished, and its tenants, including the Koorie Heritage Trust, relocated to make way for a globally familiar glass cube design.

Values-Based Heritage Conservation: Historical Origins and Future Directions

14 September 2023 admin Comment

The Burra Charter and its values-based model is embraced within Australian heritage conservation. For policymaker Max Bourke, it forms ‘the ethical basis for a contemporary “philosophy” of Australian conservation practice [becoming] a sort of “bible”’. Historian Graeme Davison reflects, The Tablets of the Law handed down from Burra have now been translated, like a colonial Book of Leviticus, into the values-based model and an ever-expanding grey literature of heritage statutes, conservation reports, management protocols, and tribunal rulings that are, today, the multi-million-dollar industry of urban conservation management. The entrenchment of values-based heritage means the heritage industry – comprised of consultants and