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Harriet’s House by So: Architecture
Surprising and joyful , this one-room addition to a compact Georgian cottage is the outcome of a six-year-long conversation and collaboration between architect and client.
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.
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.
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.
ResidentialModest simplicity: Ryde Street House
The careful reconfiguring of a modest 1900s worker’s cottage in Hobart enables a young family to remain in the community they love without compromising on character, amenity or garden space.
ResidentialStripping back layers: Hollow Tree House
Core Collective Architects restored a colonial-era house in regional Tasmania, meticulously preserving Georgian details.
ResidentialIntertwining past and present: Bozen’s Cottage
A dexterous restoration of a Georgian cottage in a historic Tasmanian village is executed in timber and mild steel – materials that pay tribute to the past and the story of those who have lived there.
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.
ResidentialApollo Bay House by Dock4
This addition to a Bruny Island bush shack by Dock4 cleverly exaggerates the existing roof form to create volume, drama and a dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
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.
ResidentialTribute to a world-wanderer: Captain Kelly’s Cottage
Through a forensic and addictive process of discovery, John Wardle Architects has painstakingly added to and restored this cliffside cottage on Bruny Island with “humble deference” to its history and the world-wanderer who called it home.
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.
ResidentialDynnyrne Extension
A modest extension by Preston Lane Architects delivers more than “just a few extra rooms”.
ResidentialThe Barn
A historic stone barn has been sensitively brought back to life by Maria Gigney Architects.
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