The St Lukes Building | TERROIR

The St Lukes Building | TERROIR | Photographer: Adam Gibson

2025 National Architecture Awards Program

The St Lukes Building | TERROIR

Traditional Land Owners

People of kanamaluka

Year
2025
Chapter

Tasmania

Category
Commercial Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
Builder
Fairbrother
Photographer
Adam Gibson
Dave Groves
Media summary

St.LukesHealth’s new Launceston headquarters is an expression of their vision for Tasmania to be “the healthiest island in the world”, and is the most sustainable and carbon positive office development in Tasmania.

The retained former industrial buildings attenuate the development to a pedestrian scale at street level. The existing structures are a statement regarding the fundamental importance of re-using what’s possible in any new project.

At the urban scale, the building is a simple form conducive to its unique mass timber construction system. A landscaped “outdoor room” to the upper levels connects to the broader landscape around Launceston.

At only half the carbon of a typical multi-story building, the building makes a significant reduction in construction related carbon emissions. Remarkably, the volume of timber utilised took less than 6 hours of time to grow the timber, if it were grown in an area equal to that of Tasmania’s managed forests.

Project Practice Team

Scott Balmforth, Design Architect
Dave McPeak, Project Lead
Quinn Revell, Graduate of Architecture
Hamish Saul, Student

Project Consultant and Construction Team

Commercial Project Delivery, Project Manager
Gandy & Roberts, Structural, Civil and Hydraulic Engineer
Timber Design Studio, Timber Designer
Engineering Solutions Tasmania, Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
WSP, Fire Engineer
Lee Tyers Building Surveyors, Building Surveyor
Integral Consulting Engineers, ESD Consultant
Noise Vibration Consulting, Acoustic Consultant
Studio Semaphore, Wayfinding
IND Engineering, Façade Engineer
Playstreet, Landscape Consultant

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