MONA (Museum of Old & New Art) by Fender Katsalidis was among the 23 architectural projects awarded prizes and commendations at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2012 Tasmanian Architecture Awards.

Announced by the Governor, Peter Underwood, Fender Katsalidis took home the People’s Choice Prize and the Alan C Walker Award for Public Architecture for the MONA gallery.

“MONA is a place of mystery, exploration and wonder - unconventional, unpredictable, where the visitor can feel comfortably lost amongst extraordinary art,” the jury noted.

“Carved into a peninsular of Hobart’s Moorilla Estate, MONA’s waffle concrete and Corten steel container will weather inexorably into the landscape. Planning of gallery chamber and level interconnections is deliberately unconventional, eschewing a programmed circulation strategy for individual journeys of discovery.”

MONA — Museum of Old & New Art. Image by Brett Boardman

The Shearer’s Quarters by John Wardle Architects received the Esmond Dorney Award for Residential Architecture along with the Colorbond® Award for Steel Architecture for ‘the inspiring experience that awaits those ‘shearers’ lucky enough to stay over’.

The Shearer’s Quarters by John Wardle Architects. Image by Trevor Mein.

The Roy Sharrington Smith Award for Heritage went to 42 Goulburn Street Hobart by Circa Morris-Nunn for its ‘exemplary conservation and adaptation’ of the former Bulls Head Hotel (circa 1828) into two unique apartments, where the modern additions are ‘nicely balanced with the original patinated surfaces to give a richness that is hard to achieve’.

42 Goulburn Street Hobart by Circa Morris-Nunn. Image by Jonathan Wherrett

Patrick Street Residence by Liminal Spaces was recognised with the Residential Architecture - Alterations and Additions Award for its ‘clear, refined and complementary addition to a respectfully restored late Federation Queen Anne cottage in West Hobart’.

Patrick Street Residence by Liminal Spaces. Image by Peter Whyte Photography

Preston Lane Architects received the Small Project Architecture Award for their Basement project ‘which transformed an uninspiring subterranean storage area into a highly flexible boardroom, office and function space that is rich in sensory experience’.

Hobart restaurant Garagistes by Paul Johnston Architects was honoured with the Interior Architecture Award, where the ‘industrial character of the original garage is enhanced through the retention of the singular volume with minimal insertions’.

The Enduring Architecture Award went to the ‘sensitive and elegant’ Former Reserve Bank Building, 111 Macquarie Street Hobart designed by the Commonwealth Department of Works.

The James Blackburn Triennial Prize for the best residential project over the last three years went to Trial Bay House by HBV Architects as ‘an outstanding example of complex and sophisticated residential architecture,’ where ‘materiality and detailing are highly considered and consequently, the house is spatially interesting, yet calm’.

Architecture & Design Team

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