LIMINAL Studio

15/10/2026

Meet Chloe.

With a background in industrial design, she brings creative thinking to every project, from furniture and object design to material curation.

At LIMINAL, she works across our disciplines, applying her natural inquisitive nature to explore innovative and sustainable materials, helping us translate design ideas into material reality. Chloe is also a wonderful storyteller, who shares our values and aspirations, and she plays a key role in the development of our narratives.

Outside the Studio, Chloe is the Founder of Off With The Pixies Studio, where she transforms reclaimed oyster shells into new biomaterials for the built environment. She works at the intersection of materials science, design, and storytelling, drawing inspiration from nature to solve problems in a way that is innovative and impactful.

Chloe’s work is rooted in curiosity - about materials, about possibility, about what happens when design meets nature.

We are delighted to have her on our team.

📸 by Natasha Mulhall Photography

18/09/2026

Cosgrove High School Revitalisation: A Learning Environments Australasia Learning Tour - another opportunity is coming through EMPOWER!

Recently, with the team at Cosgrove High School, we opened the doors of the new Revitalisation Project for a Learning Environments Tas Chapter Learning Tour. Our LIMINAL Co-Director Peta shared the design narrative - a project shaped by genuine collaboration with students, educators, and the school community.

Importantly, the spaces are shaped by the people who inhabit them. The students who activate these spaces every day were partners in their creation - their needs, their ideas, their presence giving them agency in their own learning.

The revitalisation is complete, but the work continues. Every day, students move through these spaces, making them their own. Educators adapt the environments to new needs. The campus continues to evolve, shaped by the people who inhabit it.

This is the result of genuine collaboration - not a one-time design moment, but an ongoing relationship between people and place.

Read the full story: https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/cosgrove-high-school-learning-tour/



Learning Environments Australasia
Australian Institute of Architects
Design Institute of Australia
Tasmanian Government
Cosgrove High School

Revitalising Cosgrove High School: A Learning Environments Australaisa Learning Tour Educators, architects, designers and community members gathered at Cosgrove High School for a Learning Tour, hosted by the Tasmanian Chapter, where our LIMINAL Co-Director Peta walked delegates through our design na...

14/08/2026

We're Hiring: Finance Administrator/Bookkeeper

We are looking for an experienced and highly organised finance professional to join our small, close-knit team at LIMINAL Studio.

Working approximately 15 hours per week, you’ll take responsibility for the day-to-day bookkeeping, payroll and financial administration of our bespoke architecture and design practice.

Critical details:
- Certificate IV in Bookkeeping/Accounting minimum
- Minimum 3 years' finance administration and bookkeeping experience
- High proficiency in Xero, Microsoft Excel, and ATO portals
- Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and follow through
- Based in Hobart . Nipaluna

This is a trusted and valued role at the heart of our small business, helping to keep the Studio financially organised, informed and running smoothly.

Visit the link below for more details and application requirements:
https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/we-are-hiring-finance-administrator-bookkeeper/

Applications due 24 August 2026.

We are looking for an experienced and highly organised finance professional to support the financial administration of our architecture and design studio. FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR | BOOKKEEPER (PART-TIME)Approximately 15 hours per week. Hobart . Nipaluna  

07/08/2026

The launch of CHURCH marks the completion of the Geelong Arts Centre redevelopment, transforming a cherished heritage landmark into a vibrant new home for creativity, performance and community.

As the final piece of the precinct, CHURCH demonstrates how thoughtful, restrained design can unlock new possibilities within existing heritage fabric. Rather than competing with the original building, the architectural insertion works lightly within it, creating a versatile performance space that honours the past while supporting future generations of artists and audiences.

We're incredibly grateful to have been part of the team that helped bring this vision to life, alongside an exceptional group of collaborators.

Read more about the project and our approach here:

The launch of CHURCH marks the completion of the Geelong Arts Centre redevelopment, transforming a cherished heritage landmark into a vibrant new home for creativity, performance and community.

24/07/2026

HERITAGE + CONTINUITY

Our approach to heritage begins by understanding and respecting the stories that came before, revealing that narrative and responding to this through a contemporary lens. Creating new chapters on Country while acknowledging and respecting the past, creating a cultural continuum.

In designing the Hedberg, conceived in collaboration with WOHA Architects, preservation wasn't about recreating or mimicking the past.

Our approach to site storytelling through methods of conservation, reuse, interpretation, and revelation.

Not ignoring what was once there, but letting it speak alongside what's new.

The Hedberg won the Roy Sharrington Smith Award for Heritage at the 2022 Tasmanian Architecture Awards as well as many National and International accolades.

Image 1: Through our interlocking design of the concrete panels, we were able to insert lower-value recycled materials from the archaeological dig into the external facade providing activating the facade at human scale level - reinterpreting materiality.

Image 2: What was once the external wall of the heritage-listed Theatre Royal, previously cluttered with a utilitarian metal sheeted stairwell and mechanical units that hung off the wall facing a carpark, is now restored. Breathing space and opportunities for the stories of the past to infiltrate the new foyers have been created. The heritage wall is celebrated by enabling its expression to be uninterrupted across the three levels of foyers.

Image 3: Recycled bricks from the site embedded in the Foyer concrete finish, tracing the footprints of the site’s habitation of the past.

Join our co-director Peta Heffernan, for the session ‘Demystifying Your Heritage Toolkit’, to hear more about our approach, along with esteemed heritage experts in the built environment for the AIA Heritage Series – a professional development program exploring and integrating heritage processes, heritage conservation, heritage services and the lifecycle of a project, and demystifying your heritage toolkit

Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbsKnr_Z

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography



Australian Institute of Architects

22/07/2026

Every now and then a project reminds us that architecture is less about creating buildings and more about creating the conditions for people to thrive.

Buildings don’t change schools. People do. But good buildings can certainly help.

It’s rewarding to see the Cosgrove High School Revitalisation featured in last weekend's Sunday Tasmanian, written by Sue Bailey. The project is the product of many minds and many hands, and would not be possible without the tireless collaborative contributions of the Department for Education, Children and Young People, the Cosgrove High School leadership team, students, staff and the wider school community, our consultant team, contractors, makers, suppliers, and everyone who shared the ambition, patience and persistence to bring it to life.

Even more rewarding is seeing students make the spaces their own.

More on the project can be found via the link: https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/cosgrove-high-school-revitalisation/

Our collaborators include:
The Department for Education, Children and Young People
The Cosgrove School Community
Vos Construction & Joinery
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

07/07/2026

NAIDOC Week 2026: Fifty Years of Truth Telling and Design Evolution.

This year’s theme marks a moment to reflect on truth telling, cultural strength, leadership, creativity, and the generations who have carried NAIDOC forward for the last 50 years.

For LIMINAL, it is also a moment to reflect on our own journey since 2011, and how our transdisciplinary approach to architecture, design, the broader environment and storytelling has deepened through continual engagement with and learning from First Nations peoples.

We are inspired by interconnected knowledge systems evolved over more than 65,000 years, where nothing stands in isolation and the creative charge fuelled by the cohesion of multiple disciplines underpins innovation.

We are storytelling people. Our First Nations peoples are our mentors.

For more on stewardship reflections, visit: https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/naidoc-week-2026/

15/05/2026

Another project complete and ready to pass to the community...

We are pleased to share the completion of the Cosgrove High School Revitalisation, a project close to our hearts, and one we are thrilled to see come to life for the students, educators, staff and leadership team who helped shaped this ambitious project.

Investment in thoughtful architecture and design is never just investment in buildings providing walls and a roof. It is investment in education outcomes, community wellbeing, civic pride and the long term social value that comes from places people genuinely want to inhabit and care for.

Emerging from a deeply collaborative masterplanning journey with the Cosgrove 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, traditional and contemporary education models, and a steep and challenging site through a unifying architectural gesture that enables universal accessibility and movement across campus.

We are grateful to the Department for Education, Children and Young People for having the vision to pursue this project, the team at Cosgrove High School for developing the aspirations that have shaped the result, Vos Construction + Joinery for their collaboration and shared belief in the outcomes we were striving for, and the consultant team who made delivery possible.

We are looking forward to seeing the next generation of stories, ideas and futures unfold within these spaces.

A meaningful project shaped by many voices and generous collaboration.

Click the link for more on our collaborators and the project: https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/cosgrove-high-school-revitalisation/

Photography by Dianna Snape Photography

Note the procurement method was a traditional lump sum contract, where the architect is Superintendent throughout construction delivery. This result would not have been achievable via a Design and Construct (D+C) method.

ArchitectureAu Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Australian Institute of Architects Cosgrove High School Jeremy Rockliff Vos Group Inspiring Place Design Institute of Australia Design Matters Victoria Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania

01/04/2026

EVENT: Parlour Hobart Autumn Salon

We are delighted to have Peta Heffernan, co-director of LIMINAL Studio in conversation with architect and urban designer Raquel Rodorigo for the first time as part of the Parlour Conversation Series, convened by Nicky Adams.

Peta and Raquel bring fascinating experiences on large public projects and share commitments to developing quality, inventive, and inclusive environments for community - fostering cultural expression and community interaction.

This is a special Salon: the last at the Brickworks Design Studio, who have been fantastic hosts since 2017. Come along for excellent conversation and to farewell the Design Studio.

Thursday 9 April, 6–8pm
Brickworks Design Studio, 7-9 Franklin Wharf, Hobart

RSVP: https://parlour.org.au/seasonal-salon/2026-hobart-autumn-salon-heffernan-rodorigo/

We hope to see you there!

Stay in the LIMINAL loop: https://www.liminalstudio.com.au/news/

06/03/2026

Light is more than seeing.

It shapes how we feel in a space, influences our health and wellbeing, and transforms spaces from static form into living experiences. In a performance venue like the Hedberg, light becomes another collaborator - setting mood, guiding movement, weaving intricate worlds.

Southern Lighting supplied the majority of fittings that bring the Hedberg to life, understanding that each fixture plays an important role in the spatial narrative.

From ideation through to completion, projects like this are shaped by countless hands - suppliers, fabricators, installers, and makers who bring vision into being.

We're grateful to work with collaborators who understand that light is never just functional. It's emotional, physiological, theatrical.




📍 Hedberg, nipaluna/Hobart