Australian modern architecture specialist Philip Goad recently addressed a conference of architectural historians in Launceston, lauding the virtues of Tasmanian design as well as questioning plans to tall high rise.
The Professor from the University of Melbourne told the ABC that Tasmania leads the way with recycling heritage buildings, however questioned proposals to build high ‘when current architecture is focussing on sustainability’.
You can hear the interview via the ABC blog, where Goad explains how ‘even Henty House in Launceston had some redeemable qualities as a fine example of late modernism’.
Henty House. Image: Build Launceston
