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This section was more focused on architecture as an extension of the history section, which nowadays is outdated:
This section was more focused on architecture as an extension of the history section, which nowadays is outdated:
==Urban structure==
==Urban structure==
{{wide image|Hobart, Tasmania - Flickr - 3B's (2).jpg|700px|From MONA|align-cap=center}}
{{wide image|Hobart from Mount Wellington Panorama 2.jpg|1100px|The [[Sydney central business district|Sydney CBD]] with the [[Sydney Opera House|Opera House]] and [[Sydney Harbour Bridge|Harbour Bridge]]. Sydney is home to the most high-rise buildings in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sydney – The Skyscraper Center |url=https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/sydney |access-date=2020-07-16 |website=Skyscrapercenter.com |archive-date=1 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101022939/https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/sydney |url-status=live }}</ref>|align-cap=center}}
===Architecture===
===Architecture===
{{See also | Architecture of Australia}}
{{See also | Architecture of Australia}}
[[File:27-33 Hunter Street Hobart 20171120-108.jpg|thumb|Early colonial-era buildings along Hunter Street]]
[[File:27-33 Hunter Street Hobart 20171120-108.jpg|thumb|Early colonial-era buildings along Hunter Street]]
[[File:Campbell Street Hobart Tasmania Australia.jpg|thumb|[[Campbell Street, Hobart|Campbell St]] with [[The Hedberg]]]]
Hobart's architecture is generally very eclectic and reflective of styles from various eras of Australia's history. It is known for its well-preserved [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Victorian architecture|Victorian-era]] lots on a [[Grid plan|colonial grid]] giving the city a distinctly "[[old world]]" feel.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Content-Area Vocabulary Strategies for Language Arts |year=2002 |publisher=Walch Publishing |page=39 |isbn=0-82514337-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://architecthobart.com.au/ |title=History Section |date=2017 |website=Hobart Architect Blog |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023035331/https://architecthobart.com.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref> For locals, this became a source of discomfiture about the city's convict past, but is now a draw card for tourists.<ref>Clark, J. "This Southern Outpost, Hobart 1846–1914" pp. 1</ref>
Hobart's architecture is generally very eclectic and reflective of styles from various eras of Australia's history. It is known for its well-preserved [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Victorian architecture|Victorian-era]] lots on a [[Grid plan|colonial grid]] giving the city a distinctly "[[old world]]" feel.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Content-Area Vocabulary Strategies for Language Arts |year=2002 |publisher=Walch Publishing |page=39 |isbn=0-82514337-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://architecthobart.com.au/ |title=History Section |date=2017 |website=Hobart Architect Blog |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023035331/https://architecthobart.com.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref> For locals, this became a source of discomfiture about the city's convict past, but is now a draw card for tourists.<ref>Clark, J. "This Southern Outpost, Hobart 1846–1914" pp. 1</ref>


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[[File:MacQuarie St. hobart - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|St David's Cathedral, Hobart|St David's]]
[[File:MacQuarie St. hobart - panoramio.jpg|thumb|left|St David's Cathedral, Hobart|St David's]]
[[File:Hobart TAS 7000, Australia - panoramio (8).jpg|thumb|left|[[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool Street]] panorama]]
[[File:Hobart TAS 7000, Australia - panoramio (8).jpg|thumb|left|[[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool Street]] panorama]]
[[File:Holy Hobart - panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[Davey Street, Hobart|Davey Street]] assortment of buildings]]


Government architect [[John Lee Archer]] designed an earlier [[Regency architecture|Regency]]-style [[Parliament House, Hobart|Customs House]] (1840), facing [[Sullivans Cove]]. It was reused as Tasmania's Parliament House, and is now commemorated by a pub bearing the same name (built in 1844) which is frequented by yachtsmen after they complete the [[Sydney to Hobart yacht race]]. He also designed the Engineers Building (1847) later used as the [[Tasmanian Main Line Company]] headquarters. Nearby, the [[Gothic revival]] [[Government House, Hobart|Government House]] building was built in 1857 and is the [[Old Government House, Hobart|third iteration]]. [[Henry Hunter (architect)|Henry Hunter]] was an architect known for churches such as [[St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart|St Mary's Cathedral]] (1898), but he also designed [[Hobart Town Hall]] (1866) inspired by the [[Palazzo Farnese]] on the site of the old Government House.
Government architect [[John Lee Archer]] designed an earlier [[Regency architecture|Regency]]-style [[Parliament House, Hobart|Customs House]] (1840), facing [[Sullivans Cove]]. It was reused as Tasmania's Parliament House, and is now commemorated by a pub bearing the same name (built in 1844) which is frequented by yachtsmen after they complete the [[Sydney to Hobart yacht race]]. He also designed the [[Gothic revival]] Engineers Building (1847) later used as the [[Tasmanian Main Line Company]] headquarters. Nearby are more buildings in the same style, Australia's [[Christ College (University of Tasmania)|oldest tertiary institution]] based in the former Hobart High School from 1848, and the [[Government House, Hobart|Government House]] building was built in 1857 and is the [[Old Government House, Hobart|third iteration]]. [[Henry Hunter (architect)|Henry Hunter]] was an architect known for churches such as [[St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart|St Mary's Cathedral]] (1898), but he also designed [[Hobart Town Hall]] (1866) inspired by the [[Palazzo Farnese]] on the site of the old Government House.


Hobart is home to many historic churches. The Scots Church (formerly known as St Andrew's) was built in [[Bathurst Street, Hobart|Bathurst Street]] from 1834 to 1836, and a small sandstone building within the churchyard was used as the city's first Presbyterian Church. The Salamanca warehouses and the [[Theatre Royal, Hobart|Theatre Royal]] were also constructed in this period. The Greek revival [[St. George's Anglican Church, Battery Point|St George's Anglican Church]] in Battery Point was completed in 1838, and a classical tower designed by [[James Blackburn (architect)|James Blackburn]] (who also designed the [[Holy Trinity Church, Hobart|Holy Trinity Church]]) was added in 1847. St Joseph's was built in 1840 and the [[Davey Street Congregational Church]] in 1857. [[St David's Cathedral, Hobart|St David's Cathedral]], Hobart's first cathedral, was consecrated in 1874.
Hobart is home to many historic churches. The Scots Church (formerly known as St Andrew's) was built in [[Bathurst Street, Hobart|Bathurst Street]] from 1834 to 1836, and a small sandstone building within the churchyard was used as the city's first Presbyterian Church. The Salamanca warehouses and the [[Theatre Royal, Hobart|Theatre Royal]] were also constructed in this period. The Greek revival [[St. George's Anglican Church, Battery Point|St George's Anglican Church]] in Battery Point was completed in 1838, and a classical tower designed by [[James Blackburn (architect)|James Blackburn]] (who also designed the [[Holy Trinity Church, Hobart|Holy Trinity Church]]) was added in 1847. St Joseph's was built in 1840 and the [[Davey Street Congregational Church]] in 1857. [[St David's Cathedral, Hobart|St David's Cathedral]], Hobart's first, was consecrated in 1874. The grand [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne style]] [[Mount Saint Canice]] (1893) sits above Sandy Bay.
[[File:NZ7 2759 (46297862114).jpg|thumb|[[Macquarie Street, Hobart|Macquarie Street]] lined with Victorian and Edwardian architecture]]
[[File:NZ7 2759 (46297862114).jpg|thumb|[[Macquarie Street, Hobart|Macquarie Street]] lined with Victorian and Edwardian architecture]]
[[File:Hobart TAS 7000, Australia - panoramio (7).jpg|thumb|A corner on [[Elizabeth Street Mall|Elizabeth]] and [[Collins Street, Hobart|Collins Street]] with the Wellington Centre to the right]]
[[File:Hobart TAS 7000, Australia - panoramio (7).jpg|thumb|A corner on [[Elizabeth Street Mall|Elizabeth]] and [[Collins Street, Hobart|Collins Street]] with the Wellington Centre to the right]]


By [[architectural competition]], the [[Edwardian Baroque]] [[General Post Office, Hobart|GPO]] was built in 1905, and the [[Hobart City Hall]] was built in 1915 in a [[Federation architecture|Federation warehouse style]] on the former city marketplace.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Geoff |title=City Hall, Hobart |url=http://ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com/2013/04/city-hall-hobart.html |website=On the Convict Trail |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> The [[North Hobart Post Office]] (1913) of a [[John Smith Murdoch]] design is in a colourful [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian style]]. [[List of Art Deco buildings in Tasmania|Art Deco]] would become a well-known style used on such CBD landmarks as the [[T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society|T&G]] building (1938) on [[Murray Street, Hobart|Murray Street]] and the former [[Hydro Tasmania]] (1938) and [[Colonial Mutual|Colonial Mutual Life]] buildings (1936) on [[Elizabeth Street, Hobart|Elizabeth Street]]. The 1939 [[Streamline Moderne]] Riviera Hotel is joined by what remains the tallest building in Tasmania, the [[Wrest Point Casino]] (1973) designed by [[Roy Grounds]] in [[Moderne architecture|Moderne]]. Among the [[List of tallest buildings in Hobart|tallest buildings in Hobart]] were built in this era, such as the [[International Style]] [[MLC Limited|MLC]] building (1958–77), the Empress Towers (1967), the [[Brutalist]] [[NAB House]] (1968) and former [[Reserve Bank of Australia|Reserve Bank]] building (1977), the brown-coloured [[Modern architecture#Asia and Australia|Modernist]] Marine Board building (1972) and Jaffa building (1978), and the Brutalist [[10 Murray Street|State Offices]] (1969) which were demolished in 2018 for the [[Parliament Square, Hobart|Parliament Square]] precinct (which the [[Facadism|adaptive reuse]] ''Tasman Hotel'' is a part of). [[Esmond Dorney|Dorney House]] (1978) on the former [[Mount Nelson, Tasmania|Fort Nelson]] is an example of residential modernism bought by the [[City of Hobart]] for [[Historic house museum|public use]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorney House |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Venues-banners-and-signage/Halls-and-venues/Dorney-House |website=City of Hobart |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> Edith Emery was another architect active during this time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hitch |first1=Georgia |title=The remarkable life of Edith Emery - from prisoner of the Nazis to groundbreaking Tasmanian architect |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-04/edith-emery-architect-doctor-prisoner-legacy/102361834 |access-date=22 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=4 June 2023}}</ref>
By [[architectural competition]], the [[Edwardian Baroque]] [[General Post Office, Hobart|GPO]] was built in 1905, and the [[Hobart City Hall]] was built in 1915 in a [[Federation architecture|Federation warehouse style]] on the former city marketplace.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ritchie |first1=Geoff |title=City Hall, Hobart |url=http://ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com/2013/04/city-hall-hobart.html |website=On the Convict Trail |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> Similarly in redbrick, Victoria House is a tall Gothic warehouse from 1910. The [[North Hobart Post Office]] (1913) of a [[John Smith Murdoch]] design is in a colourful [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian style]]. [[List of Art Deco buildings in Tasmania|Art Deco]] would become a well-known style used on such CBD landmarks as the [[T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society|T&G]] building (1938) on [[Murray Street, Hobart|Murray Street]] and the former [[Hydro Tasmania]] (1938) and [[Colonial Mutual|Colonial Mutual Life]] buildings (1936) on [[Elizabeth Street, Hobart|Elizabeth Street]]. The 1939 [[Streamline Moderne]] Riviera Hotel is joined by what remains the tallest building in Tasmania, the [[Wrest Point Casino]] (1973) designed by [[Roy Grounds]] in [[Moderne architecture|Moderne]]. Among the [[List of tallest buildings in Hobart|tallest buildings in Hobart]] were built in this era, such as the [[International Style]] [[MLC Limited|MLC]] building (1958–77), the Empress Towers (1967), the [[Brutalist]] [[NAB House]] (1968) and former [[Reserve Bank of Australia|Reserve Bank]] building (1977), the brown-coloured [[Modern architecture#Asia and Australia|Modernist]] Marine Board building (1972) and Jaffa building (1978), and the Brutalist [[10 Murray Street|State Offices]] (1969) which were demolished in 2018 for the [[Parliament Square, Hobart|Parliament Square]] precinct (which the [[Facadism|adaptive reuse]] ''Tasman Hotel'' is a part of). [[Esmond Dorney|Dorney House]] (1978) on the former [[Mount Nelson, Tasmania|Fort Nelson]] is an example of residential modernism bought by the [[City of Hobart]] for [[Historic house museum|public use]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorney House |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Venues-banners-and-signage/Halls-and-venues/Dorney-House |website=City of Hobart |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> Edith Emery was another architect active during this time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hitch |first1=Georgia |title=The remarkable life of Edith Emery - from prisoner of the Nazis to groundbreaking Tasmanian architect |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-04/edith-emery-architect-doctor-prisoner-legacy/102361834 |access-date=22 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=4 June 2023}}</ref>


The [[Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart|Hotel Grand Chancellor]] was built in 1987 in what was the Wapping neighbourhood (demolished in the 1960s as [[Urban renewal#Slum clearance|urban renewal]] for the [[Railway Roundabout, Hobart|Railway Roundabout]] and its [[Googie architecture|Googie]] fountain)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lehman |first1=Ros |title=Curious Hobart: What is the history of the old district known as Wapping? |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-16/curious-hobart-what-is-the-history-of-wapping/9261692 |access-date=21 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=16 Jan 2018}}</ref> now features many new bulidings in the precinct, such as the industry-inspired 2001 Federation Concert Hall and [[The Hedberg]] designed in 2013 around [[Conceptual architecture|Conceptualism]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hedberg |url=https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/creative-industries-performing-arts/ |website=Liminal Studio |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> The distinctive shapes of the 2020 K-Block redevelopment of the [[Royal Hobart Hospital]] was based on the street grid and [[Rajah Quilt]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stage 1 K-Block |url=https://www.rhhredevelopment.tas.gov.au/about_k-block |website=RHH Redevelopment |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> Nearby is the [[Menzies Institute for Medical Research|Menzies Institute]] and [[College of Health and Medicine (University of Tasmania)|UTAS]] Medical Science Precinct, which features two 2009 examples of [[experimental architecture|avant-garde]] styles inspired by land-water interplay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Menzies Research Institute and Medical Science |url=https://www.lyonsarch.com.au/project/menzies-research-institute-and-medical-science/ |website=Lyons |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> The [[Myer]] Centre [[Icon Complex]] was completed in 2020 as a replacement for the 1908 [[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool Street]] building which burnt down in 2007, while retaining the façade on Murray. A [[Mövenpick Hotel]] was built in 2021 at the [[Hobart Interchange]] on a site once briefly occupied by the [[Art Nouveau]] Palace Theatre.
The [[Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart|Hotel Grand Chancellor]] was built in 1987 in what was the Wapping neighbourhood (demolished in the 1960s as [[Urban renewal#Slum clearance|urban renewal]] for the [[Railway Roundabout, Hobart|Railway Roundabout]] and its [[Googie architecture|Googie]] fountain)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lehman |first1=Ros |title=Curious Hobart: What is the history of the old district known as Wapping? |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-16/curious-hobart-what-is-the-history-of-wapping/9261692 |access-date=21 June 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=16 Jan 2018}}</ref> now features many new bulidings in the precinct, such as the industry-inspired 2001 Federation Concert Hall and [[The Hedberg]] designed in 2013 around [[Conceptual architecture|Conceptualism]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hedberg |url=https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/creative-industries-performing-arts/ |website=Liminal Studio |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> The distinctive shapes of the 2020 K-Block redevelopment of the [[Royal Hobart Hospital]] was based on the street grid and [[Rajah Quilt]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stage 1 K-Block |url=https://www.rhhredevelopment.tas.gov.au/about_k-block |website=RHH Redevelopment |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> Nearby is the [[Menzies Institute for Medical Research|Menzies Institute]] and [[College of Health and Medicine (University of Tasmania)|UTAS]] Medical Science Precinct, which features two 2009 examples of [[experimental architecture|avant-garde]] styles inspired by land-water interplay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Menzies Research Institute and Medical Science |url=https://www.lyonsarch.com.au/project/menzies-research-institute-and-medical-science/ |website=Lyons |access-date=21 June 2024}}</ref> The [[Myer]] Centre [[Icon Complex]] was completed in 2020 as a replacement for the 1908 [[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool Street]] building which burnt down in 2007, while retaining the façade on Murray. A [[Mövenpick Hotel]] was built in 2021 at the [[Hobart Interchange]] on a site once briefly occupied by the [[Art Nouveau]] Palace Theatre.
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[[Contemporary architecture]] has moved towards a more [[Sustainable architecture|sustainable]] focus, meaning new public and private developments are encouraged by planning<ref>{{cite web |title=Hobart - a sustainable capital |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Sustainable-Hobart/Hobart-a-sustainable-capital-city |website=City of Hobart |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> to pursue [[Green building|energy efficiency]] standards such as [[NABERS]].
[[Contemporary architecture]] has moved towards a more [[Sustainable architecture|sustainable]] focus, meaning new public and private developments are encouraged by planning<ref>{{cite web |title=Hobart - a sustainable capital |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Sustainable-Hobart/Hobart-a-sustainable-capital-city |website=City of Hobart |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> to pursue [[Green building|energy efficiency]] standards such as [[NABERS]].


{{wide image|Derwent River Tasmania panorama.jpg|1000px|Hobart|align-cap=center}}
{{wide image|Hobart from Mount Wellington Panorama 2.jpg|1000px|Hobart on the estuary seen from [[kunanyi]]|align-cap=center}}
===Housing===
===Housing===
Hobart as a city has delivered its housing by various means and forms. For its early history, housing was small-scale but clustered in very small areas. With the development of streets and [[Transport in Hobart|public transport]], such as a [[Rail transport in Tasmania|railway]] in 1876 and Australia's first [[Trams in Hobart|fully-electric tram network]], [[Transit metropolis|further growth of the urban area]] was enabled. [[Streetcar suburb|Inner suburbs]] from this era typically have orderly streets (around planned subdivisions of former agriculture grants inspired by the [[City Beautiful movement]]) with some still-operating shopfronts and narrow lanes replete with small timber and brick cottages, townhouses and small apartment buildings.
Hobart as a city has delivered its housing by various means and forms. For its early history, housing was small-scale but clustered in very small areas. With the development of streets and [[Transport in Hobart|public transport]], such as a [[Rail transport in Tasmania|railway]] in 1876 and Australia's first [[Trams in Hobart|fully-electric tram network]], [[Transit metropolis|further growth of the urban area]] was enabled. [[Streetcar suburb|Inner suburbs]] from this era typically have orderly streets (around planned subdivisions of former agriculture grants inspired by the [[City Beautiful movement]]) with some still-operating shopfronts and narrow lanes replete with small timber and brick cottages, townhouses and small apartment buildings.
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Well, hi.

This section was more focused on architecture as an extension of the history section, which nowadays is outdated:

Urban structure

From MONA

Architecture

See also: Architecture of Australia
Early colonial-era buildings along Hunter Street
Campbell St with The Hedberg

Hobart's architecture is generally very eclectic and reflective of styles from various eras of Australia's history. It is known for its well-preserved Georgian and Victorian-era lots on a colonial grid giving the city a distinctly "old world" feel.[1][2] For locals, this became a source of discomfiture about the city's convict past, but is now a draw card for tourists.[3]

Regions within the city centre contain many of the city's oldest heritage-listed buildings, with the Hope and Anchor Tavern (1807) and Ingle Hall (1811–14) among them. Much of the inner-city, such as Battery Point, is dotted with weatherboard cottages and multistorey houses and terraces. Historic villas and mansions, such as Maylands (1884) also exist in the suburbs. Hobart has a significant body of locally notable buildings, including the Cascade Brewery (1824), the Cascades Female Factory (1828), one of the UNESCO Australian Convict Sites, Hadley's Orient Hotel (1834), which is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Australia, the Theatre Royal (1837), the oldest continually operating theatre in Australia, the Greek revival Lady Franklin Gallery (1843), Australia's first private museum, and the Hobart Synagogue (1845), which is the oldest synagogue in Australia and a rare surviving example of an Egyptian revival synagogue. Kelly's Steps were built in 1839 to provide a short-cut from Battery Point to the warehouse and dockyards district of Salamanca Place.

The TMAG building, built in 1902 as a new Second Empire style Customs House, is situated on Constitution Dock and features the old Bond (1824) and Commisariat Store buildings (1810), the latter of which contributed to Hobart's early street layout when the Hobart Rivulet passed beside it.[4] Away from the mouth of the rivulet was Hunter Island and after 1820 was also used for significant warehousing (which would later become Henry Jones IXL who employed an early use of reinforced concrete in 1911).[5] Hunter Street now houses contemporary uses such as a glass atrium events space, the UTAS centre for the arts and the MACq 01 hotel.

St David's
Liverpool Street panorama
Davey Street assortment of buildings

Government architect John Lee Archer designed an earlier Regency-style Customs House (1840), facing Sullivans Cove. It was reused as Tasmania's Parliament House, and is now commemorated by a pub bearing the same name (built in 1844) which is frequented by yachtsmen after they complete the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. He also designed the Gothic revival Engineers Building (1847) later used as the Tasmanian Main Line Company headquarters. Nearby are more buildings in the same style, Australia's oldest tertiary institution based in the former Hobart High School from 1848, and the Government House building was built in 1857 and is the third iteration. Henry Hunter was an architect known for churches such as St Mary's Cathedral (1898), but he also designed Hobart Town Hall (1866) inspired by the Palazzo Farnese on the site of the old Government House.

Hobart is home to many historic churches. The Scots Church (formerly known as St Andrew's) was built in Bathurst Street from 1834 to 1836, and a small sandstone building within the churchyard was used as the city's first Presbyterian Church. The Salamanca warehouses and the Theatre Royal were also constructed in this period. The Greek revival St George's Anglican Church in Battery Point was completed in 1838, and a classical tower designed by James Blackburn (who also designed the Holy Trinity Church) was added in 1847. St Joseph's was built in 1840 and the Davey Street Congregational Church in 1857. St David's Cathedral, Hobart's first, was consecrated in 1874. The grand Queen Anne style Mount Saint Canice (1893) sits above Sandy Bay.

Macquarie Street lined with Victorian and Edwardian architecture
A corner on Elizabeth and Collins Street with the Wellington Centre to the right

By architectural competition, the Edwardian Baroque GPO was built in 1905, and the Hobart City Hall was built in 1915 in a Federation warehouse style on the former city marketplace.[6] Similarly in redbrick, Victoria House is a tall Gothic warehouse from 1910. The North Hobart Post Office (1913) of a John Smith Murdoch design is in a colourful Edwardian style. Art Deco would become a well-known style used on such CBD landmarks as the T&G building (1938) on Murray Street and the former Hydro Tasmania (1938) and Colonial Mutual Life buildings (1936) on Elizabeth Street. The 1939 Streamline Moderne Riviera Hotel is joined by what remains the tallest building in Tasmania, the Wrest Point Casino (1973) designed by Roy Grounds in Moderne. Among the tallest buildings in Hobart were built in this era, such as the International Style MLC building (1958–77), the Empress Towers (1967), the Brutalist NAB House (1968) and former Reserve Bank building (1977), the brown-coloured Modernist Marine Board building (1972) and Jaffa building (1978), and the Brutalist State Offices (1969) which were demolished in 2018 for the Parliament Square precinct (which the adaptive reuse Tasman Hotel is a part of). Dorney House (1978) on the former Fort Nelson is an example of residential modernism bought by the City of Hobart for public use in 2006.[7] Edith Emery was another architect active during this time.[8]

The Hotel Grand Chancellor was built in 1987 in what was the Wapping neighbourhood (demolished in the 1960s as urban renewal for the Railway Roundabout and its Googie fountain)[9] now features many new bulidings in the precinct, such as the industry-inspired 2001 Federation Concert Hall and The Hedberg designed in 2013 around Conceptualism.[10] The distinctive shapes of the 2020 K-Block redevelopment of the Royal Hobart Hospital was based on the street grid and Rajah Quilt.[11] Nearby is the Menzies Institute and UTAS Medical Science Precinct, which features two 2009 examples of avant-garde styles inspired by land-water interplay.[12] The Myer Centre Icon Complex was completed in 2020 as a replacement for the 1908 Liverpool Street building which burnt down in 2007, while retaining the façade on Murray. A Mövenpick Hotel was built in 2021 at the Hobart Interchange on a site once briefly occupied by the Art Nouveau Palace Theatre.

Contemporary architecture has moved towards a more sustainable focus, meaning new public and private developments are encouraged by planning[13] to pursue energy efficiency standards such as NABERS.

Hobart on the estuary seen from kunanyi

Housing

Hobart as a city has delivered its housing by various means and forms. For its early history, housing was small-scale but clustered in very small areas. With the development of streets and public transport, such as a railway in 1876 and Australia's first fully-electric tram network, further growth of the urban area was enabled. Inner suburbs from this era typically have orderly streets (around planned subdivisions of former agriculture grants inspired by the City Beautiful movement) with some still-operating shopfronts and narrow lanes replete with small timber and brick cottages, townhouses and small apartment buildings.

Social housing was usually organised by private societies and entities as outreach to those in need until crises brought greater attention from government authorities, such as the Homes Act (1919) and Housing Agreement (1945). The Housing Department focused mainly on mixing these with broad-acre suburban estates, which were sometimes expensive to service with adequate infrastructure.[14] Architects such as Margaret Findlay were employed by the public works department. Bungalows were mass-produced in weatherboard and then fibro materials.[15] The 1944 Town and Country Planning Act was the instrument to transfer control of urban housing to municipalities, which automatically resulted in tightly restricted homebuilding in existing urban areas.[16] The advent of the automotive city and the 1965 Hobart Area Transportation Study (which ultimately resulted in cuts to public transport[17][18] and parts of the inner city being converted into parking) further made Hobart a sprawling city. Zoning now applies and specific area plans can also be prepared (with the land use near Hobart's northern suburbs transit corridor under particular focus),[19] though planning reform and new provisions schedules are being prepared.[20] While community and social housing projects do occur in expensive areas (such as 25 apartments on Goulburn Street in 2021),[21] it is still difficult to achieve approval.[22][23]

As of 2024, Hobart is the least dense Australian capital[24] with the highest costs per capita (alongside Sydney) for housing[25] and car-ownership (19.7% cost-to-income in 2024).[26] The median house price of inner Hobart was A$1,026,500 in 2021,[27] which would be 12.8x the region's median household income per year. Of the 76,686 total dwellings in urban Greater Hobart in 2021, only 10% were a flat or apartment and 7.2% semi-detached or terrace.[28] Greater Hobart builds on average 700 new dwellings per year,[29] which equates to between 3–3.5 per 1000 people (lower than the 6–9 of other states),[30] mostly concentrated in the outer suburbs[31] which studies show costs 8x or $75,000 more per each dwelling than infill.[32][33] Rental vacancies have generally been on decline since about 2013 with the rate consistenly under 3% and listings 50.5% lower in southern Tasmania over 11 years. Renting is also typically less protected than other states.[34]

Tenant-oriented housing models may become more common, with a few examples in Hobart such as 2020's all-electric The Commons Hobart where expensive parking mandates were waivered to enable an affordable green lifestyle.[35]

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Coat of arms of Tasmania
Coat of arms
Nicknames: 
  • The Apple Isle;
  • Holiday Isle;
  • Tassie
Motto(s): 
Ubertas et Fidelitas
(Fertility and Faithfulness)
Location of Tasmania in Australia
Location of Tasmania in Australia
Coordinates: 42°S 147°E / 42°S 147°E / -42; 147
Country Australia
Crown colony
as Van Diemen's Land		1825
Responsible government
as Colony of Tasmania		1856
Federation1 January 1901
Australia Act3 March 1986
Capital and largest cityHobart
Government
 • TypeConstitutional monarchy
 • BodyTasmanian Government
 • GovernorBarbara Baker
 • PremierPeter Gutwein (Liberal)
Legislature Parliament of Tasmania

Legislative Council (15 seats)

House of Assembly (25 seats)
Judiciary
Federal representationParliament of Australia
Area
 • Total
90,758 km2 (35,042 sq mi)
 • Land68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi)
 • Water22,357 km2 (8,632 sq mi)
 • Rank7th
Highest elevation
(Mount Ossa)
1,617 m (5,305 ft)
Population
 (September 2020)[36]
 • Total
Increase541,071
 • Rank6th
  • Rank4th
Demonyms
  • Tasmanian;
  • Taswegian (colloquial)[37]
Time zoneUTC+10:00 (AEST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+11:00 (AEDT)
Postal code
TAS
ISO 3166 codeAU-TAS
GSP year2019–20
GSP ($A million)Increase$32,102[38] (8th)
GSP per capitaDecrease$59,779 (7th)
HDI (2019)Increase0.914[39] (8th)
Websitewww.tas.gov.au
Symbols
BirdYellow wattlebird (unofficial)
(Anthochaera paradoxa)[41]
FlowerTasmanian blue gum
(Eucalyptus globulus)[42]
MammalTasmanian devil
(Sarcophilus harrisii)[40]
PlantLeatherwood (unofficial)
(Eucryphia lucida)[43]
Colour(s)Bottle Green (PMS 342), Yellow (PMS 114), & Maroon (PMS 194)[44]
     
MineralCrocoite
(PbCrO4)[45]
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