Open House Hobart returns this year with a fresh lineup of buildings never before seen by the public across the weekend of 8–9 November. Highlights include Lisa and Matt’s Place by Rebekah Verrier Architecture and Hamish Saul (2023), Little Brick Cottage by Perversi-Brooks Architects (2023), Kaljuvee House by Esmond Dorney (1952) and Pedder Street by Bence Mulcahy Architects (2023).
In addition to Open House Hobart, a second program will be held in Tasmania’s Southern Midlands between 1–2 November. Among the homes opening their doors are Jordan House by Preston Lane (2024) and Hollow Tree House by Core Collective (2019) and Petit Chateau by James Smith (1837), among others.
Also taking place this month is Sydney Open, a city-wide celebration of architecture that invites visitors into some of the city’s most significant buildings – many of which are typically off-limits to the public. This year’s program, scheduled for 2 November, features a mix of contemporary and historic spaces, including: Bundarra by Smart Design Studio and Those Architects; Parkline Place by Foster and Partners; and The Rocks Former Police Station, designed by colonial architect James Barnet, with alterations by Welsh and Major in 2014.
The five finalists of the Tapestry Design Prize 2025 will have their shortlisted designs woven into tapestry and exhibited at Robin Boyd’s Walsh Street House in South Yarra. The competition, presented by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, invited architects and interior designers, either as individuals or as part of a team, to design a tapestry for a given site. This year’s chosen site is Walsh Street House in Melbourne, designed by Robin Boyd for his family in 1957. Applicants had the opportunity to create designs for five distinct spaces within the residence, with one finalist selected for each space. The 2025 finalists are Jack MacRae (Wilson Architects); Troy Emery and Cox Architecture; N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM and Greenshoot Design; Yvette Coppersmith and Anouska Milstein, and Mouriya Senthilkumar and Ian Tsui.
This Melbourne-based exhibition, running until 28 November, explores the work of emerging architectural practices in Australia by focusing not on completed buildings, but on the distinct parts that shape contemporary practice – drawings, models, photographs, references and ideas. Parts of Practice includes the work of Zuzana and Nicholas, Lineburg Wang, Retallack Thompson, Anthony St John Parsons, Youssofzay Hart, Brunsdon Studio, Office Mi–Ji, Trower Falvo Architects, James Bowman Fletcher, Eldridge Anderson and Prior Barraclough, with design by Maximilian Bufardeci and photography by Ben Hosking.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
