PROJECTS

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

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.

This renovation of a brick cottage in West Hobart uses materials that will wear with age, creating a harmonious contrast between new and old.

Undeterred by the dual challenges of the global financial crisis and geographical separation, the four co-founders of Cumulus Studio took full swing at their first residential project: a family house in Launceston, built on the site of a former tennis court.

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

A new farmhouse on a sheep farm on Tasmania’s Bruny Island is at once humble and refined, offering a contemporary response to life in a rural landscape.

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.

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

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.

On Tasmania’s North Bruny, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.

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.

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.

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

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.

In one of the oldest structures in Tasmania, Partners Hill has created a mixed-use space, and a home, that honours the building’s varied historical program, while equipping it thoughtfully for 21st century life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Architects Liz Walsh and Alex Nielsen have transformed a tiny Tasmanian flat into a “deft box of tricks,” a cleverly crafted guest space looking out to the Derwent River.

Built as an escape from everyday life, this off-grid cabin by Maguire and Devine Architects celebrates the Tasmanian landscape and is a reminder of simple pleasures.

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.

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.

Often in life, everything happens all at once – and this was the case for Fiona Winzar of Fred Architecture, who twelve years ago started her own architectural practice while pregnant with her baby, Agnes. Fiona reflects on the first project that began this new chapter of her life, Eyelid House.

With a simple, calm form nestled into the dramatic landscape of southern Tasmania, this “forever house” embraces sustainable design principles.

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.

This beachside home by Stuart Tanner Architects is precise without being overly fussy, facilitating a relaxed lifestyle with a measured sense of order and grandeur.

The pragmatic is mixed with the poetic, as precast concrete, steel and glass come together to form this robust holiday house perched on the Tasmanian coast.

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