Launceston Architecture A Preview

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Vertical Retort

Location: Willis StreetYear: 1932Style: Industrial FunctionalNote the brick structure with steel bracing and especially how 'COOK WITH GAS' can be read on the upper wall due to placement of gaps in the brickwork

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Milledge Lane

Location: 112 Cimitiere StreetYear: 2019Architect: LXNBuilder: Fairbrother P/LStyle: Neo-Modernist/PostmodernistNotes: Designed to complement The Corner Store (next Stop), a slightly Venturi-esque treatment of openings and brickwork on the building, plus creation of a small laneway environment follows older local and global urban precedents.

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The Corner Store

Location: corner Cimitiere Street and Tamar StreetYear: 2016Architect: LXNBuilder: Cowan BuildingStyle: Neo-Modernist/PostmodernistNotes: A commercial/retail development, drawing on local industrial and commercial precedents (Including Harrap building - the next Stop)

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Albert Harrap & Son P/L

Location: corner Cimitiere Street and Tamar StreetYear: 1931Architect: Colin PhilpBuilder: Hinman, Wright & ManserStyle: Art Deco/Brick Expressionist/Notes: Plans are currently being prepared to adaptively reuse this building as a hotel, retaining the perimeter walls and building a tower behind. Look at local Launceston media (Examiner newspaper) for details.

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Hotel Verge

Location: Cimitiere Street/Tamar StreetYear: 2020Architect: Cumulus StudioStyle: Modernist/RegionalistNotes: Brickwork references Harraps opposite, but employing faceted façade elements to break up its monolithic bulk.

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Albert Hall

Location: corner Cimitiere Street and Tamar Street/City ParkYear: 1891 (original building), 2025 (renovation/extension)Architect: John Duncan (original building), Terroir (renovation/extension)Builder: John Farmillo (original building), SHAPE (renovation/extension)Style: Neo-Classical/French Renaissance Revival (original building)Notes: Original building constructed for the Tasmanian exhibition of 1891-2 (compare to the Melbourne Exhibition Building of 1880). The same architect also did Duck Reach Power Station in Cataract Gorge. Renovation/extension replaces an earlier structure to connect a new entry, foyer, cafe and ancillary spaces facing City Park.

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City Park Cottage

Location: Tamar Street/City ParkYear: 1887Architect: Corrie and NorthStyle: Arts & Crafts/Queen AnneNotes: Possibly based on the gatekeepers lodge at Kew Gardens, London. An example of a rusticated domestic style that influenced Federation architecture in Australia

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Monkey Enclosure Pavilion

Location: City ParkYear: 2014Style: Australian/Japanese RegionalistNotes: A shelter for viewing snow monkeys (a gift from Ikeda, Japan) on the former site of the city's zoo. The viewing shelter abstracts a blend of local and Japanese vernacular timber architecture.

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John Hart Conservatory

Location: City ParkYear: 1932Architect: T.F. RowlandStyle: Art Deco/Spanish MissionNotes: modelled on Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory, Melbourne (and there's also a very similar building you can visit if you're on Bass Highway going through Sassafras)

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Jubilee Fountain

Location: City ParkYear: 1897Manufacturer: Walter Macfarlane & CoStyle: Gothic RevivalNotes: A prefabricated cast iron structure, manufactured by Walter Macfarlane & Co in Glasgow, Scotland, for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

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Design Tasmania

Location: Tamar Street/York Street/City ParkYear: 1896/2001Architect: (2001 addition) Richard Leplastrier and David TravaliaStyle: (original) Neo-Romanesque;,(addition): Modernist/RegionalistNotes: The original building started life as Price Memorial Hall, an eclectic façade composition combining a Palladian entry surround with double colonnade and archway, and a main façade broken into triangulated pediments. The addition draws on local, Japanese and Scandinavian precedents with timber screening contrasting with mass concrete supports and curved ceilings/roofs.

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Finney's Building

Location: 16 Brisbane StreetYear: 1930Architect: Frank HeywardBuilder: Hinman, Wright & ManserStyle: Art Deco/Neo-ClassicalNotes: Note the eclecticism of this façade - from the Tuscan columns around the entry to the internally triangulated balcony with french windows.

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Duncan House

Location: 45 Brisbane StreetYear: 1934Architect: Colin PhilpBuilder: J & T GunnStyle: Art Deco/GothickNotes: Note the symmetrical composition and combination of free Gothic (Gothick) references and dynamic Art Deco elements

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Earl's Court

Location: 51 Brisbane StreetYear: 1956Style: ModernistNotes: Arcade and strip of shopfronts, with a composed façade of vertical rectilinear windows and grid pattern surface

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Princess Theatre

Location: 55/57 Brisbane StreetYear: 1939Architect: Charles Neville HollishedBuilder:Style: Art DecoNotes: The present façade is an alteration to the original 1911 building. The building's Art Deco style was very popular in theatres in the 1920s and 1930s, evoking the glamour of the stage and screen and the dynamism of the modern(e) age. Charles Hollished previously worked on Broadway theatres with the architect Thomas Lamb.

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ANZ Building

Location: corner Brisbane Street and George StreetYear: c.1980Style: BrutalistNotes: A ordered composition of precast concrete panels, each containing a window with rounded corners, with entries below demarcated by the bank of panels being interrupted by vertical concrete blades.

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Holyman House

Location: corner Brisbane Street and George StreetYear: 1936Architect: Roy Sharrington Smith and H. EastBuilder: J & T GunnStyle: Art Deco/Streamlined ModerneNotes: The aerodynamic design relates to the buildings original owners the Holyman brothers who were pioneers in local aviation.

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Luck's Corner

Location: Corner Paterson Street and George StreetYear: 1937Architect: Roy Sharrington Smith and H. EastBuilder: GJ LuckStyle: Art Deco/Streamlined ModerneNotes: A simple but elegant composition to round a commercial corner, incorporating signage as an integral part of the design.

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Holy Trinity Anglican Church

Location: corner George Street and Cameron StreetYear: 1902Architect: Alexander NorthStyle: Gothic RevivalNotes: on the site of an earlier church by James Blackburn built in 1842 (this church still includes stained glass windows from that church, imported from England)

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AMP Building

Location: 66 Cameron StreetYear: 1892Architect: Corrie and NorthBuilder: J & T GunnStyle: Neo-RomanesqueNotes: Constructed of a mixture of imported Victorian bluestone and local sandstone

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Post Office

Location: corner Cameron Street and St John StreetYear: 1890Architect: Government Architect/Corrie and NorthBuilder: James Hill/J & T GunnStyle: Neo-Romanesque/Queen AnneNotes: The clock tower was added in 1908. Note the relief carvings over the main entrance and their representation of local flora (eucalyptus leaves), prefiguring elements that would become 'Federation' style

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Johnstone & Wilmot Store

Location: corner Cimitiere Street and St John StreetYear: 1842Style: Warehouse vernacularNotes: Established as a warehouse and general store, influenced by English and Dutch colonial warehouse architecture.

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Custom House

Location: 87-89 EsplanadeYear: 1888Architect: WW Eldridge (Government Architect)Builder: J & T GunnStyle: Renaissance RevivalNotes: Established to collect revenue from Tasmania's mining industries, and designed (in grander style and larger scale than the former Custom House (a couple of Stops along from here) to reflect the wealth of these industries in its palatial colonnade and façade.

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Pumping Station

Location: corner St John Street and EsplanadeYear: 1967Architect: Don Goldsworthy: City Architect's Dept Style: Expressionist/ModernistNotes: An inventive little structure, the main building being a decagon in plan, integrating functional and decorative elements. A later addition adds a Postmodernist barrel vault to the riverfront side.

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Esplanade Mill/Storehouse

Location: corner Esplanade and Shields StreetYear: 1882/1910 onwardsStyle: Warehouse Vernacular/FunctionalNotes: A mixture of simple utilitarian/functional structures, with later 20th century additions blending with earlier 19th century buildings.

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Old Custom House

Location: corner William Street and George StreetYear: 1838Architect: John Lee ArcherStyle: Neo-ClassicalNotes: A small but elegant colonnade forms the original front for the building, one of the few buildings in Launceston by renowned colonial architect John Lee Archer.

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Boag's Brewery Malt House

Location: William StreetYear: 1881Architect: Corrie and NorthBuilder: J & T GunnStyle: Arts & Crafts/Queen AnneNotes: Drawing on the traditional architecture of the British oast house, a conical roof sits above and behind a façade of blank brick arches and ellipses.

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Boag's Brewery (Various Additions)

Location: William Street/Tamar StreetYear: variousStyle: Warehouse Functional, Modernist/Brutalist, PostmodernistNotes: Look at the Tamar/William street frontages of Boag's brewery, comparing the mixture of Victoria-era warehouse, Modernism/Brutalism and Postmodernism and how they relate to successive expansions of the brewery in different eras and stylistic idioms.