Photography Trevor Mein

The Shearer's Quarters, Tasmania by John Wardle Architects has been named Australian House of the Year in the Houses Awards 2012.

The house also won the New House under 200m2 category, the jury calling it “an ambitious house that compels us to reflect on the inherent beauty of living”.

Photography Trevor Mein via Houses Awards

“Set within a historic farming property in Tasmania, it is both a working farm building and a place of retreat. While this might seem like a contradictory pattern of day-to-day inhabitation, here it has been effortlessly reconciled,” they commented.

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