The Barbarians: Photograph by Lucia Rossi
Patrick Street: Photograph by Peter Whyte
Patrick Street 02: Photograph by Patrick Whyte
Local multidisciplinary design firm Liminal Spaces has been honoured twice this week; awarded the Australian Business Arts Foundation’s City of Melbourne SME Award (Tas) in conjunction with contemporary Tasmanian opera company IHOS, for their successful partnering on two MONA FOMA productions, Kimisis-Falling Asleep and The Barbarians and being shortlisted for a prestigious Residential Architecture Award at this year’s Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards for Patrick Street Residence.
“The AbaF awards celebrate businesses that show innovative thinking and best practice through their support for the arts and winning the SME award is great recognition of the collaborative processes that we use in our business” said Peta Heffernan, Principal of Liminal Spaces.
“Our collaboration with IHOS commenced in 2009 with Kimisis-Falling Asleep which delighted audiences, critics, MONA FOMA organisers and partners alike in 2010, and elicited a further invitation and commission for The Barbarians performed in January 2012. The partnership has created and delivered high quality contemporary productions accessible to national and international audiences”, she added.
Other accolades Liminal Spaces and IHOS have received for The Barbarians include:
• Nominated: Best Opera in national Helpmann Awards 2012 (announced late Sep 2012)
• Finalist: Event Design in Australian Interior Design Excellence Awards 2012 (announced Nov 2012)
• National Commendation for Installation Design in 2012 Australian Interior Design Awards
• Best of State Commercial Design in 2012 Australian Interior Design Awards.
“Unfortunately the future of IHOS company is in a precarious position with the announcement that its state funding has been cut” lamented Peta. “This award is acknowledgement of the important cultural contribution that partnering can foster and it is critical that Tasmania continues to invest in the creative industries”.
Patrick Street Residence, a restoration and extension project, which respects historic values and qualities combined with contemporary functionality, has been recognised by the Australian Institute of Architects’ national jury for the National Architecture Awards. The project is one of 59 out of 140 state award recipients to be shortlisted for a national award to be announced in Perth on November 1.
“Being shortlisted is further evidence that Tasmanian architects continue to be recognised for their ability to deliver high quality projects on limited budgets” added Peta.
Situated prominently near the top of a steep hill in West Hobart the almost derelict original house was painstakingly repaired. A sensitive restoration extended and preserved its historic position within the street. When receiving the Tasmanian Residential Architecture Award for Alterations and Additions in June, the state jury noted:
The Patrick Street Residence is a clear, refined and complementary addition to a respectfully restored late Federation Queen Anne cottage in West Hobart. Whilst doubling the area of the existing cottage, the addition is discreetly scaled and arranged carefully around the low central spine which continues the line of existing corridor through the length of the building as it seamlessly expands into the living areas and outdoor room. This glass walled courtyard becomes the centrepiece of the home, bathing it in light and introducing a playful ambiguous quality about the threshold to outside. Clever lighting and ventilation strategies combine with calm material choices, considered detailing and quality construction.
