PHOTO: The Great Cobar Museum was one of the main buildings Cobar residents wanted to see revitalised. Photo: supplied.
Cobar is making strides as a pioneer in architectural design in remote Australia. The town was recently featured in the Architecture AU magazine as a pacemaker for how to fan the social flame in small towns with innovative architectural design.
The Cobar Shire Council started working closely with the Sydney-based architecture firm Dunn Hillam in 2018.
Co-founder of Dunn Hillam Ashley Dunn said that the work his architecture firm has done in Cobar was only possible through successful collaboration with the council and residents.
“We asked the locals to help us understand what the existing community networks are which areas might need some help, and what’s missing.
“It doesn’t cost any more money to listen carefully to what the community needs.”
Mr Dunn said that in the past 25 years around half of their work has been in regional areas, such as Gilgandra, Gunnedah, and national parks in the Northern Territory…