LIMINAL ARCHITECTURE | Cosgrove High School Revitalisation Complete
Posted 15 May 2026
Emerging from a deeply collaborative masterplanning journey with the school community, the project reimagines the campus as a culturally safe, inclusive and supportive environment that fosters connection, curiosity and belonging.
Images: Dianna Snape
We are excited to share the completion of the Cosgrove High School Revitalisation - a project close to our hearts, and shaped by the belief that learning environments can do more than just function well. They can inspire curiosity, connection and possibility.
The revitalisation of Cosgrove High School emerges from a deeply collaborative masterplanning journey shaped through Discovery Workshops with the school community.
The project reimagines the campus as a culturally safe, inclusive and supportive environment that fosters connection, curiosity and belonging.
The design explores bridging as both concept and lived experience. Bridging indoor and outdoor learning. Bridging traditional and contemporary education models. Bridging a steep and challenging site through a unifying architectural gesture that enables universal accessibility and movement across the campus.
The building, defined by its ochre infused earthy palette, responds to the natural topography, offering a new chapter on Country and creating a node within the continuous link from kunanyi to timtumili minanya, further amplified through graphics embedded within the concrete walls. Culturally safe spaces include a prayer room, self-regulation and independent learning nooks, yarning circles, edible and native gardens responding to the school’s multicultural community, and reflection spaces, all designed with passive supervision and care.
The redevelopment introduces progressive learning environments for Year 10, supporting evidence informed teaching and fluid transitions between explicit, guided and independent learning. For the first time, the school now includes fit for purpose music and drama studios, a hospitality and wellbeing hub where hands on learning cultivates employment ready skills, and a cultural centre seamlessly connected to the outdoors, enabling cultural festivities and broader community participation.
Developed in collaboration with AJ King and Inspiring Place, the project deepens connection to Country through narrative, materiality and journey. Cultural spaces, hospitality offerings, creative arts spaces and edible gardens create opportunities for gathering, learning and exchange, cultivating a connected and vibrant campus for both the school and wider community.
A meaningful project shaped by many voices, generous collaboration and a shared belief in the transformative potential of education and place.
Our collaborators include:
The Department for Education, Children and Young People
The Cosgrove School Community
Education Specialist Julia Atkin
Documentation Collaborators Taut Architecture
Landscape Architects Inspiring Place
Country Storyteller AJ King
Cultural Advisor Leroy Hart
Planning Era Advisory
Universal Accessibility Consultant Equality Building
Lee Tyers Building Surveyors
Quantity Surveyors WT Partnership
Services Engineers Cova
Aldanmark Engineers
Sustainability Consultant Introba
Acoustic Design AEN Advisory and Design Services
Safyre Consulting Fire Safety Engineering
Safety Design Aware365
Graphic Designer Envelope Group
Refer to the Tasmanian Government's media release here.
