The winner of the 2025 Tasmanian Architecture Awards People's Choice is...
Dill Pickle Club by Workshop Architecture @workshop_architecture .
Thank you to all who voted. Here are the winning voters:
FIRST PRIZE: a Waverley Mills Blanket valued at up to $300 AUD – won by Josh Gatehouse. @waverleymills
SECOND PRIZE: a pair of Blundstone Boots, voucher valued at up to $250 AUD – wo(r)n by Sam McQueeney. @blundstone
THIRD PRIZE: a Dulux Paint voucher valued at $200 AUD from our friends at Dulux – won by Mason. @duluxaus
FOURTH PRIZE: 'Australian House: The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture since 1981’, recommended retail price $120.00 AUD – won by Gillian Edminston.
Winners will also be notified by email.
Pictured: Dill Pickle Club | Architect: @workshop_architecture | Builder: Anstie Constructions Pty Ltd @anstieconstructions | Traditional Land Owners: The people of the kanamaluka of tyerrernotepanner/lutruwita | Photographer: Matt Sansom @m_a_sansom
#contemporaryarchitecture #architecture #architects #architecturedesign #AustralianArchitecture #AustralianArchitects #25ChapterArchitectureAwards #TasmanianArchitecture #Tasmania #Hobart
design studio_street view… museum of weather practice studio gaining momentum #rmit #rmitarchitecture #practicestudio #designstudio #architecture #design #education #streetview
Bunjil Wellbeing Place_ Outside. We are very proud to have this project shortlisted in both the Victorian Architecture Awards (regional prize) and the Australian Interior Design Awards (public design). A welcoming mixed use medical, allied health and wellbeing facility for the Bendigo District Aboriginal Corporation on Dja Dja Wurrung Country
designed with @billardleece
built by @awnicholsonptyltd
photos by @peterbbennetts
#aboriginalhealth
#bdac
#djadjawurrungcountry
#vicarchitectureawards
#australianinteriordesignawards
Bunjil Wellbeing Place_ Detail. We are very proud to have this project shortlisted in both the Victorian Architecture Awards (regional prize) and the Australian Interior Design Awards (public design). A welcoming mixed use medical, allied health and wellbeing facility for the Bendigo District Aboriginal Corporation on Dja Dja Wurrung Country
designed with @billardleece
built by @awnicholsonptyltd
photos by @peterbbennetts
#aboriginalhealth
#bdac
#djadjawurrungcountry
#vicarchitectureawards
#australianinteriordesignawards
Bunjil Wellbeing Place_ Inside. We are very proud to have this project shortlisted in both the Victorian Architecture Awards (regional prize) and the Australian Interior Design Awards (public design). A welcoming mixed use medical, allied health and wellbeing facility for the Bendigo District Aboriginal Corporation on Dja Dja Wurrung Country
designed with @billardleece
built by @awnicholsonptyltd
photos by @peterbbennetts
#aboriginalhealth
#bdac
#djadjawurrungcountry
#vicarchitectureawards
#australianinteriordesignawards
Led by Workshop Architecture, Dill Pickle Club is Tasmania’s first listening bar, located on the first floor of a 1960s commercial building in Launceston.
The ceiling design stands out – existing trusses are fully clad, delivering both acoustic and visual benefits. Dark Tasmanian blackwood draws on the muted brutalism of Eastern Bloc socialist modernism, while a mustard-coloured floor, brass bar fittings and twentieth-century musical artefacts lend a bold mid-century overtone.
With an eclectic collection of vinyl classics on heavy rotation, the space delivers on its promise of an enchanting, suspended moment, a floating world captured within a night-time space as life moves to its own rhythm below and referencing the ephemeral hedonism of Japan’s pre-WWII pleasure districts depicted in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World.
👉🏽 Read more inside issue 108, available now (link in bio).
~feat @dill.pickle.club
~architecture @workshop_architecture
~text @ellielouhere
~photos @m_a_sansom
We are again grateful to RMIT for the opportunity to run a design studio in their Master of Architecture program this semester. Before the outcomes of our Museum of Weather reboot hit our feed, we wanted to share the work of our Major Project students from semester 2, 2025.
The first project, ‘42’, combined ambitious speculation, rigorous inquiry, and vivid imagining. Roberto Conde considered the early stages of human settlement on Mars, bringing together investigations of advanced technology, a spiritual and communal spatial imperative and the mitigation of extreme environmental forces within a closed economy.
The result was neither hi tech or sci-fi, a reflection on architectural culture or Martian vernacular; rather, it was a unique, intriguing product of all of these things. An architecture for extremes of environment and/or location, for whatever frontiers we can still find (and with the deterioration of our climate, of frontiers that are coming to us).
Carlos Daza on the other hand, offered a project that was an embodiment of joy, a full-throated expression of the city as a project of creative renewal. Set on the former site of the Little Saigon Market in Footscray, he challenged associations of urban youth with crime and fear, offering instead a riotous optimism of music, theatre and art.
A reconfigurable container park – combining market stalls, street performance and art studios - forms an entry plaza to a theatre, rooftop bar and accommodation for a suite of creative residencies. Wound around this building, and unspooling from it, is a ribbon of perforated metal that traces access ramps and provides the perimeter to the ensemble. This gesture, ‘The Embrace’, is the name of the project and a declaration of its positive intent.
Images:
42: View of Accommodation and Community Centre
42: Section through Accommodation and Community Centre
42: Interior showing community facility
42: View of Horticultural Facility
The Embrace: Birds-eye view of plaza during a market
The Embrace: View of plaza during a concert
The Embrace: View of theatre from Leeds Street
The Embrace: Interior of ‘in the round’ type theatre
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#rmitarchitecture
Here's something to energise your Friday. Completion visit to Parkhill Primary School with their rather vibrant new rebound wall. A great collaboration with @fooks____ together with the delightful construction team from @atg_building_success
We'll be back with professional shots later this year.
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#PARK
#schooldesign
#workshoparch
With the Carlise River bushfire now contained and the threat to communities within the Otway Ranges lessening, we wanted to share a recently completed project within that beautiful forest park. An entry arch to the Forrest Mountain Bike Trails, it is a neat demonstration of our design process - a field of ideas and references that we bring to projects regardless of scale or complexity.
The double image of Cheviot Tunnel’s entry and exit, lifting David Lynch’s curtain in the forest, the transparent thinness of an empty billboard becoming more solid when seen obliquely, the arch glances across all of these references rather than setting itself on one. Threshold, moment and depth, all together.
The recent fires and the heatwaves that created and fed them, along with the unease of what February may bring, gives the arch’s contrasting colours of charred and raw timber an unintended effect. What was meant to edify the beauty of bushfire’s cyclical colours now seems a sombre testament to our failed stewardship, of this land and its creatures.
Project Photography: Fred Kroh
Other images:
Cheviot Tunnel, Yea
Still from Twin Peaks, entrance to the Black Lodge
Empty billboard
Area in recovery from bushfire, Forrest Mountain Bike Trails
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#forrestmtb
#forrest
#FORR
#workshoparch
#fotokroh
william barak_resting place… being in the yarra valley on this day it seemed fitting to pay respects to william barak at the coranderrk aboriginal cemetery… acknowledge, mourn and reflect but then and only then look forward and celebrate #williambarak #coranderrk #alwayswasalwayswillbe
With their entwinement of physical presence and conceptual content, the works of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson have long been an influence on our practice.
Presence is also the name of the extensive Eliasson exhibition currently showing at GOMA in Brisbane. For this show the collection work Riverbed has been reinstalled, this time exhibited alongside his photographs of Icelandic glaciers. Taken in 1999 and again in 2019, Eliasson explains that this riverbed is the landscape of glacial retreat evidenced in the pairs of photographs. Simultaneously compelling, playful and mournful, Riverbed captures the artist’s idea of presence; being present - physically and thoughtfully - to the work is also to spool outward towards our larger situation, encompassing its wonders and its tragedies.
Works:
Presence, 2025
Riverbed, 2014
The Glacier Melt Series, 1999, 2019
Beauty, 1993
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#olafureliasson
#goma
#presence
#qagoma
