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September 18, 2008
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is undergoing redevelopment. It is part of a plan to redevelop and revitalise the Hobart wharf area.
The Museum/Art Gallery plan is by Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW), in partnership with Tasmanian architects, Terroir, and if it goes ahead as planned, then it will be an interesting piece of postmodern architecture in Australia.
The architects approach has not been the modernist one of pulling everything down and building on ground zero; or trying to pull together the various components into some kind of visual unity. The plan sets the different buildings apart and emphasises their differences.
The result is a lively collection or ensemble of disparate architectural styles -- from the domesticity of the 1813 Private Secretary's Cottage to the grand Victoriana of the former Customs House -- arranged around a series of strikingly modern open plazas. The ensemble is designed to function coherently for the first time.
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