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Candour is a set of parametric prefabricated components tailored to architects with the intention of making prefabrication more accessible.

Taroona House by Candour and Archier

Candour and Archier

A refined modernist aesthetic and speedy design come together in this prefabrication system aimed at producing better buildings for more people.

Residential
A kitchen in black oriented strand board (OSB) adds texture and tonal contrast to the white brick wall and light-filled courtyard opposite.

Stitch 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.

Residential
The garden room addition to the Georgian-era cottage embraces its prominent setting.

A garden room with history: Fusilier Cottage Addition

Bence Mulcahy

A Georgian landmark in Hobart’s Battery Point is graced with a surprisingly porous living pavilion that interacts generously with street and garden.

Residential
Although the client profile was not defined at the design phase, the site offers direct access to a range of amenities and services, and the apartments are suitable for diverse users.

Solid 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.

Residential
A play in floor levels maximizes ceiling height and separates old from new.

Small but generous: Arthur Circus

A spatial tardis, this surprising and generous addition enlivens an original Georgian cottage in a tightly controlled Hobart heritage precinct.

Residential
The house balances openness and enclosure, framing views of ridgelines and kunanyi/Mount Wellington.

Sense 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.

Residential
A monochromatic backdrop in the kitchen enlivens the dramatic granite island bench.

A 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.

Residential
The contemporary facade is suggestive of a stage curtain, casting the people and spaces as performers within the cityscape.

Embedded 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 / cultural
The bridge’s aerofoil edge references wartime forms, subtly speaking to the memory of military ships and planes.

Differing 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 / urban
Fresh from a trip to Tulum, on the coast of Mexico, Jean-Pierre Biasol felt that the relaxed and charming interiors he had experienced on his holiday could be inspiration for this eatery.

Memories of Mexico: Sisterhood

Biasol

In Hobart’s Sandy Bay, Melbourne design studio Biasol has created a relaxed and charming interior for a wide range of diners.

Hospitality, Interiors
Thanks to the active repopulation of the ground with local vegetation, the neighbouring reserve will seem to flow into the yard in time.

Sounds 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.

Residential
Erskineville Creature transforms an existing rear garage into a compact granny flat with carport beneath.

The 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.

Residential
The kitchen benchtop and sink are wrapped in burnished brass that will patina with use.

Garden room: Mount Stuart Greenhouse

Bence Mulcahy

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.

Residential
Aligned with a shift in floor level, a narrow skylight marks the point at which the addition and existing house adjoin. Artwork: Jai Vasicek.

Simple 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.

Residential
An engaged column caps off an integrated window seat and delineates two cosy sitting spaces looking over Sandy Bay.

Hillside 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.

Residential
Blackwood veneer joinery and timber flooring and furniture accentuate the house’s white walls.

Modern 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.

Residential
The designers have made small moves to create a playful space that captures and reflects the beachfront light.

Beach vibes: The Salty Dog Hotel

Brustman + Boyde , Pippa Dickson

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, Interiors
The pavilion is often surrounded by a sea of colourful family tents during sporting events.

Clarence High School Oval Sports Pavilion

Dock4 Architects has successfully configured this school sports pavilion in suburban Hobart to accommodate a broader community.

Landscape / urban
A wrought-iron cage encloses a long timber table.

Fusion 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, Interiors
At the front, a thick timber skin is carved into with deep reveals and angled glazing, orienting the dweller to distinctive views within and beyond the site.

Up the line: Lagoon House

A landscape of strong horizontal lines with rolling hills inspired the form of this house.

Residential
The design is specific to the harsh microclimate of the hilltop, weighing panoramic views against privacy for daily living.

First house: Preston Lane

Preston Lane Architects’ Daniel Lane revisits Bonnet Hill House, the practice’s first project from 2004.

Residential
The new home of the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies assumes a prominent position on Hobart’s waterfront.

Between 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 / cultural
The upper deck of the existing house has been “stretched” and wrapped in a veil of timber slats, making space for extra rooms below.

Dynnyrne Extension

A modest extension by Preston Lane Architects delivers more than “just a few extra rooms”.

Residential
The simple and elemental pavilion at Wilkinsons Point, delivered as part of Stage Two, juts out into the bay.

Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)

Room 11 completes its award-winning work at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park in Tasmania.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
A punn on “cattle class,” an MR-1-branded cow looks out from the rear deck.

MR-I: One cool cat

The coolest ever river-cat starts the quirky MONA experience at the dock in Hobart.

Interiors
The house was designed in the aftermath of the 1967 bushfires.

Fern Tree House (1969) revisited

McGlashan and Everist’s enduring design for a Hobart house.

Residential
The “gem” of the house is a small box containing a private office.

Napoleon Street House

A harbourfront house by Maria Gigney Architects in Battery Point, Hobart.

Residential
Bonnet Hill House: A cement-sheet-clad box in South Hobart.

Bonnet Hill & Fern Tree houses

Dock4’s pair of small, low-cost houses in Tasmanian bush settings embody the pleasures of experimenting with volume manipulation.

Residential
The extension wraps around a north-facing garden court.

Dual Court House

A small house extension by BLOXAS injects architectural delight into a standard brick home.

Residential
The northern facade opens up to the garden and light.

Close Quarters

Architect Richard Lee takes a tangled Hobart cottage and weaves it anew back into the fabric of its historic neighbourhood.

Residential