Created By: University of Tasmania
Location: Tamar Street/York Street/City Park
Year: 1896/2001
Architect: (2001 addition) Richard Leplastrier and David Travalia
Style: (original) Neo-Romanesque;,(addition): Modernist/Regionalist
Notes: 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.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Launceston Architecture A
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