The Great Cobar Museum recognised among significant restoration project

From Notre Dame to outback NSW, four restoration projects worth knowing about, by Georgia Hicks, ABC News, 29th May 2024.

The Great Cobar Museum has been recognised as one of four significant restoration projects by Anthony Burke, Professor of Architecture at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and host of Restoration Australia.

In the article titled “From Notre Dame to outback NSW, four restoration projects worth knowing about”, Georgia Hicks writes:

For Burke, the Great Cobar Museum is also a good demonstration of architects valuing history over the allure of trying something new or fresh.

"This is the kind of project though you could have expected them to go, 'Oh, look it's a sort of an autonomous 1900s building, it's good, not great, we could probably build a funky new thing down the road here instead'.

"They actually just said, 'No, let's not do that. Let's work with what we've got.' and for all the right principles of not just adaptive reuse, but also working sustainably with what we have."

Read more about the article here and visit the project page here.