List of Art Deco buildings in Tasmania
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{{Unreferenced, date=September 2008 This list of Art Deco buildings in Tasmania includes historically significant
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
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Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
is a loose term, that may include: *Interwar Free Classicism (Deco Free Classicism): using classical motifs largely as decoration, in a very stylised or abstracted manner, with little reference to the norms of the classical language *Jazz Moderne ig-Zag Moderne No particular classical references. Angular lines and vertical emphasis. Somewhat related to ‘Skyscraper Gothic’. *
Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...
: No particular classical references. Curved lines and horizontal emphasis. Related to the ‘streamlining’ of contemporary forms of transport.


Office and commercial buildings

* Commonwealth Bank Building, Hobart, Elizabeth Street,
Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
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Hobart Mercury Building Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
, Hobart * Hydro-Electric Commission Building, Davey Street, Hobart * Prudential Insurance Building, Elizabeth Street, Hobart *
T&G Insurance Building The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland – where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate its ...
, Hobart *
Original Myer Building Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works. The modern idea of originality is according to some scholars tied to Romanticism, by a notion ...
, Liverpool Street, Hobart (Destroyed By fire 22 September 2007) * Former Government Printer, 2-4 Salamanca Place, Hobart * Holyman House, corner of Brisbane and George Street, Launceston * Hotel Charles (Old Launceston General Hospital), Launceston * Park Hotel, Invermay Road, Launceston * Former Tasmania Savings Bank, Invermay Road, Launceston * Holmes Building, corner Brisbane and Charles Street, Launceston * Duncan House, Launceston * Princess Theatre, Launceston * Alfred Harrap Building, corner of Tamar and Cimitier Street, Launceston * Shepherds Bakery, corner Quadrant and St John Street, Launceston * Medibank House (Launceston Gas Company), St John Street, Launceston * Lucks Corner, corner Patterson and George Street, Launceston *
Star Theatre A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth make ...
(St Vincent De Pauls), Invermay Road, Launceston * Rapson Tyre Factory, west end of Gleadow Street, Invermay, Launceston * Deacons Corner, corner Lytton Street and Invermay Road, Invermay, Launceston * Legacy House, Launceston


Institutional buildings

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Royal Hobart Hospital The Royal Hobart Hospital is a public hospital in the Hobart CBD, Tasmania, Australia. The hospital also functions as a teaching hospital in co-operation with the University of Tasmania. The hospital's research facilities are known as the Roya ...
, Hobart
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Buildings and structures in Tasmania Art Deco buildings