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Hobart is about an hour from here, Wade, but there is nothing architecturally modern and stunning such as you're showing here. Hobart only has a population of 200,000, and Tasmania is the smallest and now least affluent state of Australia.

In the early colonial years before the 1850's gold rush on the mainland, Tasmania was the food-basket of the nation and so the wealth gained spawned many very impressive Georgian and early Victorian buildings, particularly in the country. Fortunately much of this heritage remains, and now most older buildings (my house, a decidedly ordinary late Victorian country school and schoolmaster's cottage included) come under a strictly enforced heritage act whose object is to preserve as much as possible.

Modern architecture is thus unlikely to ever gain a foothold here as the visual integrity of the olde world surrounds takes planning precedence these days, which some may not agree with of course. Me, I like the old stuff.