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Taroona House by Candour and Archier
A refined modernist aesthetic and speedy design come together in this prefabrication system aimed at producing better buildings for more people.
ResidentialStitch in time: Willisdene
This renovation of a brick cottage in West Hobart uses materials that will wear with age, creating a harmonious contrast between new and old.
ResidentialA garden room with history: Fusilier Cottage Addition
A Georgian landmark in Hobart’s Battery Point is graced with a surprisingly porous living pavilion that interacts generously with street and garden.
ResidentialSolid touchstone: Goulburn Street Housing
Elegantly yet dramatically increasing inner Hobart’s residential density, Cumulus Studio’s Goulburn Street Housing responds to the heritage context of the streetscape while introducing a new functional and formal typology.
ResidentialSmall but generous: Arthur Circus
A spatial tardis, this surprising and generous addition enlivens an original Georgian cottage in a tightly controlled Hobart heritage precinct.
ResidentialSense of craft: Cascade House
On an internal block in suburban Hobart, architect Ryan Strating’s own family home is at once solid and subtle, cosy and robust, revealing the owner’s love for the making process.
ResidentialA reflective re-invention
A bold extension to a Hobart cottage exploits landscape and reflection to amplify the sense of space and light, and to place the home within its historic context.
ResidentialEmbedded narratives: The Hedberg
Conceived as an “incubator,” the University of Tasmania’s new music school, designed by Liminal Architecture and Woha highlights the university’s important civic and cultural role.
Education, Public / culturalDiffering perspectives: Bridge of Remembrance
On a highly contested site, valued as both a place of memorial and a green space available for the people, DCM has worked with local partners and government to create a symbolic and functional structure that changes with viewpoint, inviting a variety of interpretations.
Landscape / urbanMemories of Mexico: Sisterhood
In Hobart’s Sandy Bay, Melbourne design studio Biasol has created a relaxed and charming interior for a wide range of diners.
Hospitality, InteriorsSounds of nature: House at Otago Bay
A monolithic home by Topology Studio confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views to kunanyi and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.
ResidentialThe new granny flat
Making a case for “right-sized” housing, three secondary dwelling designs illustrate how granny flats are being reinterpreted as site-responsive and sustainable spaces that alleviate contemporary demands on our suburbs.
ResidentialGarden room: Mount Stuart Greenhouse
This addition to a grand early-20th-century home in Hobart reads as a generous garden room, housing a new dining and kitchen space that captures the scale and movement of the nearby cypress tree.
ResidentialSimple wishes: Lansdowne Crescent
A request for increased amenity rather than more square metres was the impetus behind this deceptively compact addition to a period Hobart home by Preston Lane Architects, where shifts in level and volume help create light-filled spaces and a connection to the garden.
ResidentialHillside haven: Mawhera Extension
This bold, minimal addition to a hillside house by Preston Lane Architects makes the most of a relatively modest budget, with the new spaces designed for diverse modes of use.
ResidentialModern dialogue: Longview Avenue Garden Room
Taylor and Hinds Architects’ addition to a 1950s modernist house starts a “conversation” with the original architecture, without compromising the originality and idiosyncrasy of the new.
ResidentialBeach vibes: The Salty Dog Hotel
In Hobart, Brustman + Boyde in collaboration with Pippa Dickson have turned a 1970s beachside motel into a fun and friendly bar and dining space that references Australian coastal vernacular.
Hospitality, InteriorsClarence High School Oval Sports Pavilion
Dock4 Architects has successfully configured this school sports pavilion in suburban Hobart to accommodate a broader community.
Landscape / urbanFusion palate: Frank Restaurant & Bar
Unapologetic and not too serious: Frank Restaurant and Bar, designed by Georgina Freeman Design, is the new kid in Hobart.
Hospitality, InteriorsUp the line: Lagoon House
A landscape of strong horizontal lines with rolling hills inspired the form of this house.
ResidentialFirst house: Preston Lane
Preston Lane Architects’ Daniel Lane revisits Bonnet Hill House, the practice’s first project from 2004.
ResidentialBetween city and sea: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
The simple form of a research building on Hobart’s waterfront belies a complex weft of history, site and program.
Public / culturalDynnyrne Extension
A modest extension by Preston Lane Architects delivers more than “just a few extra rooms”.
ResidentialGlenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)
Room 11 completes its award-winning work at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park in Tasmania.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalMR-I: One cool cat
The coolest ever river-cat starts the quirky MONA experience at the dock in Hobart.
InteriorsFern Tree House (1969) revisited
McGlashan and Everist’s enduring design for a Hobart house.
ResidentialNapoleon Street House
A harbourfront house by Maria Gigney Architects in Battery Point, Hobart.
ResidentialBonnet Hill & Fern Tree houses
Dock4’s pair of small, low-cost houses in Tasmanian bush settings embody the pleasures of experimenting with volume manipulation.
ResidentialDual Court House
A small house extension by BLOXAS injects architectural delight into a standard brick home.
ResidentialClose Quarters
Architect Richard Lee takes a tangled Hobart cottage and weaves it anew back into the fabric of its historic neighbourhood.
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