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Small in scale, the addition offsets a restrained brick shell with a whimsical vaulted ceiling. Artworks (L–R): Josey Kidd-Crowe, unknown.

Harriet’s House by So: Architecture

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The home has been carefully adapted to exploit the flexibility of the cottage format.

Modest simplicity: Ryde Street House

Bence Mulcahy

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.

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The brief was for new works and furniture to be distinctly modern but visually quiet and complementary.

Stripping back layers: Hollow Tree House

Core Collective Architects restored a colonial-era house in regional Tasmania, meticulously preserving Georgian details.

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New layers, including window seats, shelves and linings, have been added to the living spaces.

Intertwining 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.

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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.

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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.

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On a sheltered headland, nestled among the native vegetation, the newly designed addition recedes into the site.

Apollo 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.

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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.

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In the living room, a window seat looks over the “blessed ancient landscape” through broad, multipaned windows that can completely slide away.

Tribute 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.

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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.

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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”.

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A sky-lit entry has been added on the western edge.

The Barn

A historic stone barn has been sensitively brought back to life by Maria Gigney Architects.

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