Tasmanian Architecture Awards 2019
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Ancanthe (Lady Franklin Museum), Lenah Valley
The 2019 Tasmanian Architecture Awards provide
a glimpse of how architects, owners and developers are evolving and adapting our
built environment to meet changing needs.
Heritage is again well represented across
all categories, whether the place is on the Tasmanian Heritage Register, a
local heritage list, or in a heritage precinct.
In the Urban Design category, the
landscaping and amenities works at Ancanthe
Park in the Hobart suburb of Lenah Valley has been entered. Lady Franklin’s
classical Grecian temple still sits proudly in the park, however the surrounding
landscaping and improvements to amenities is a marked contrast to the
rudimentary bus shelter and amenity block that has served visitors to the site
in the past. “The bus shelter has moved from its original location to create a
waiting area inside the park which blends in with its surrounding of the Lady
Franklin Museum. The new buildings have been well received and widely used by
diverse groups. The form, materials and location compliment the cultural and
historical significance of the site and make it a successful addition to the
park fabric.”
Past winner MONA has again been nominated
for Public Architecture, this time for the addition of Pharos, a pavilion
that houses a collection of four major works by James Turrell. “Pharos was
designed as a continuation of the museum’s ethos of discovering one’s own
journey through the subterranean spaces, constantly punctuated with surprises.”
Home
owners can explore plenty of entries that demonstrate good design in adapting
old places in the Heritage Architecture Category and the Residential
Alterations and Additions Category. Amongst the entries are the Mount
Stuart Greehouse where the addition to a 1900 Federation-Italianate home
was conceived as a greenhouse to address the owners desire to live “engulfed by
a garden”; Trappers
and Burt which has transformed a Federation Arts and Crafts home for contemporary
living; and examples of letting in light and warmth to old buildings in the French
Street Addition, Lime
Avenue Residence, Lansdowne
Extension and Floodlight
House entries.
The creative solutions to adapt industrial spaces for
residential use presented in the Bock wareHouse
and Last
Workshop entries provide more food for thought.
The Awards will be announced on 6 July
2019, but in the interim you can preview all the entries here or for those in Hobart
head to Awards exhibition at the Brooke Street Pier (lower level). While you
are exploring good design, vote for your favourite entry to be in the running
for the People’s
Choice Prize.
The Tasmanian Heritage Council is a proud sponsor of the Tasmanian Architecture Awards.