A letter published in The Mercury, 31 October 2009.
Murray Street offices a delightful design
The building causing such controversy at 10 Murray St is one of Hobart’s best-designed 1960s office buildings. Dirk Bolt, who played a big part in its design, was one of the most prolific and successful design architects of his time.
Bolt is a man of great integrity who inspired many Tasmanian contemporaries, like myself, by his ability at a time when Hobart was developing fast with many fine multi-storey office buildings, and others, being built. This building was a delightful place in which to work, on a very special site, with its column and beam grid, large windows, efficient air conditioning and lighting. For it to be described as “a very poor building” by a fly-in architect is inaccurate and insulting to a very talented architect. It should not be demolished.
Graeme Dean
South Hobart
