Sharpen your pencils and join Patricia Hopwood-Wade for an inspiring urban sketching session, exploring the elegance of Georgian architecture! You’ll learn how to capture quirky doors, elegant windows, and balance proportions while creating your own Georgian-inspired masterpiece. Even better, it all happens inside the Oatlands Supreme Court House (1827)—a rare heritage gem. Whether you’re a […]
Housing has become a key issue in Australia, with housing availability and affordability becoming increasingly challenging. SPECULATE III: Housing Futures presents ideas developed by students from the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Tasmania for multi-residential housing in Hobart to provide more diverse housing typologies closer to the city and services. These […]
Join experts in historical research to learn how to dive into the archives and explore your house’s story. Hosted by Dr Imogen Wegman from the Family History Program at the University of Tasmania, in collaboration with the State Library and Archives of Tasmania.
A Q&A on how architects and developers work together to deliver better housing. Affordable housing is often seen as a challenge, but it’s also a shared opportunity. 1+2 Architecture and The Young Group come together to explore how their different perspectives, priorities, and skillsets can align to deliver high-quality, cost-effective housing that serves real community […]
We need your help to support a great cause. The Sheltered Ground Exhibition + Silent Auction is back in 2025, raising funds for the Hobart Women’s Shelter. Come along, bid, and help celebrate creativity and community. The event is organised by the Tasmanian Emerging Architects and Graduates Network (EmAGN), with all proceeds going directly to […]
Take a one hour guided walking tour of Hobart after dark through the eyes of a lighting professional. Learn how the lighting we add to our city impacts the way we use it and the environment around us.
Reflect on our city with creative eyes in an informal sketching and watercolour session with architect and artist Ian Johnson. This session takes place outside Brooke Street Pier, providing many different outlooks across the Derwent River, through to Salamanca and up to kunanyi/Mt Wellington.
Beneath the inconspicuous Bank Arcade are the remains of Hobart’s oldest known building. Join owner John Short for a stickybeak of the layers of this historic site, and hear the tales of previous owners through photographs, artwork and archaeology. If only these walls could talk.
This abandoned zoo once housed a wide variety of animals including lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, monkeys and polar bears, and is most notably remembered as the home of the last captive thylacine (died 1936). Wander amongst the remains of old animal enclosures at this fascinating site.