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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.
ResidentialSounds 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.
ResidentialUp 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.
ResidentialDynnyrne Extension
A modest extension by Preston Lane Architects delivers more than “just a few extra rooms”.
ResidentialFern 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.
ResidentialFort Nelson House (1978) revisited
A Hobart masterpiece by J. H. Esmond Dorney.
ResidentialMount Pleasant
This restoration of a Georgian residence is an exceptional model of sensitive architectural intervention.
ResidentialLittle Big House
This house on Hobart’s Mount Wellington by Room11 proves that “austere” and “playful” aren’t always mutually exclusive.
ResidentialThe Barn
A historic stone barn has been sensitively brought back to life by Maria Gigney Architects.
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