Tasmanian Architecture Award Winners

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Sustainable Architecture Award Isabel and Elsie. Christopher Clinton Architect with Core Collective Architects. Photo Adam Gibson.

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Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions). Balfour Terrace – Cumulus Studio. Image: Anjie Blair

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Heritage Architecture Roy Sharrington Smith Award. The Homestead Renewal at Wybalenna – Taylor and Hinds Architects with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. Image: Adam Gibson

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Small Project Architecture Peter Willmott Award. Named Award. The Ablutions at Wybalenna – Taylor and Hinds Architects with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. Image: Adam Gibson

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Enduring Award. View gallery Dorney House at Fort Nelson – Esmond Dorney. Image: Chris Shurman

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Barry McNeill Award for Sustainable Architecture. The Forest. Woods Bagot. Photo Peter Bennetts

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SWT Blyth Student Award. Jack Rose – The Archive.

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The State’s Best New Architecture Unveiled

Tasmania’s most outstanding new architecture has been revealed in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2026 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. The 31 awarded projects represent the cutting edge in architectural innovation from the state’s sharpest design minds.

The winners for 2026 (detailed on the following pages of this media release) act as a roadmap to the new building projects that are shaping Tasmania’s contemporary built environment. The Australian Institute of Architects is the country’s peak body for architecture, and the Tasmanian Architecture Awards are the state’s premier design awards.

Australian Institute of Architects 2026 Tasmanian Architecture Awards Jury Chair, Martin Stephenson, explained the commonalities in this year’s award winners.

“The Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Architecture Awards recognise projects making significant contributions to Tasmania’s built environment and community. Winners range from exceptional examples of complex adaptive reuse and reduced embodied carbon, to projects which are significant not for what is added but for what is removed — seeking meaningful and compelling truth-telling and reconciliation through subtraction and revelation,” said Stephenson.

“Notable across many of the projects is the respect for existing buildings and a careful and restrained approach to conservation and integration of the new. Whether it be a significant civic building extension or a reinterpretation of the humble Tasmanian Shack, a clear theme of respect for physical and social history prevails in this year’s entries and highlights what outstanding architecture can achieve.”

Each year, the winning projects in the Tasmanian Architecture Awards are selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts and leaders. A comprehensive in-person, on-site judging process by the jury determines the winners of the Awards, which were announced on Saturday, 30th May.

This year, the jury included:

• Martin Stephenson RAIA | Rosevear Stephenson (Jury Chair)

• Kate Symons RAIA | Studio Ilk Architecture & Interiors

• Maddie Sewell RAIA | Up to Something

• Felix Blackman RAIA | BE-Architects

• Dr Julian Worrall RAIA | University of Tasmania – Architecture & Design School

The 2026 Tasmanian Architecture Award Winners are as follows:

For more information and detail of all the Award Winners go to Archetecture.com

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