Design Tasmania

Launceston Architecture A

Design Tasmania

Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia

Created By: University of Tasmania

Information

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.

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