atelier apartments & offices
2010 Launceston City Council Heritage Award–Mixed Use
2010 Master Builder Assoc. Award
Atelier Apartments & Offices is an urban mixed use redevelopment incorporating the Birrelli Art, Design and Architecture offices together with residential apartments and car parking.
The original built fabric consists of an early 19th century colonial building set within a context of surrounding medium-density early colonial Georgian and Regency buildings with established trees and landscape elements.
As time progressed towards and into the 20th century the city block interior between Brisbane and Tamar Street has decreased in density, with the built and natural heritage lost forever to large areas of bitumen and cars.
The Tamar street property, like many in Launceston, had become a failed amalgam of extensions and alterations cluttered around the original 1830’s house. An evolution over the last 180 years has seen the 1830’s Tamar Street building with a hipped roof change to a gabled roof with ornate bargeboards, and an odd arrangement of grafted on 1960’s brick offices, garages and an ablutions block.
The redevelopment includes careful renovations to the 1830’s fabric and judicious editing of the worst of the 1960’s additions, recycling the best parts of these old structures, and the creation of spaces and opportunities for the new component parts: a mixed use of offices, roof gardens, car parks and residential units.
Derived from a passion for regenerating heritage buildings in Launceston and the opportunities offered from living in the CBD, Atelier Apartments & Offices has grown from protecting a view down the Tamar Valley to include an injection of mixed-uses and complimentary lifestyles - an advocacy lead by example. Atelier's new design concept based around an old heritage building, demonstrates the potential for modern architecture and heritage renewal in the Launceston CBD.