Open Practice: MANA & Futago
Level 2, 81 Salamanca Place, Battery Point
MANA is a recently established architectural studio founded by three friends with a shared wealth of experience across diverse sectors—including residential, multi-residential, education, hospitality, and commercial fit-outs. Driven by curiosity and collaboration, we believe in creating architecture that is generous in spirit and responsive to both individual and collective needs. Our work embraces a sense of playfulness and joy, reflecting our commitment to thoughtful, human-centred design.
MANA shares a studio with Futago, a graphic design firm responsible for the branding and identity of Open House Hobart. The fit-out was designed by INTERIA in collaboration with Futago over 10 years ago.
Salamanca was known as New Wharf, one of the world’s largest whaling ports in the 1800s. Convicts quarried sandstone from the cliffs below Battery Point to build the warehouses originally used to store whaling products, wool, and grain. These historic buildings now contain a variety of hospitality venues, bespoke art stores, and galleries activating the pedestrian realm, with studios and businesses occupying the levels above. A vibrant and inspiring location for an architectural and graphic design studio!
Open: Thursday 6 November, 4:30pm-6pm
Note: MANA’s studio is above Salamanca shops Tiger ina Papera and Lime Design Studio. Enter a lobby and alight the staircase up to level 2.
Locations
Hobart
Salamanca
Building Type
Retail and Offices
Architectural Periods
Colonial
Contemporary (2001-current)
Feature
Open Practice
Accessibility
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Share your pics of your favourite places and the stories that go with them on Instagram or Facebook, using the hashtags #oh_hobart and #oh_southernmidlands to enter this year’s photo competition. Stay tuned for a host of prizes.
![Open House Hobart and the Emerging Architects and Graduates Network (EmAGN) Tasmania @emagn_tas would like to thank everyone who kindly bid in this year's annual Sheltered [Ground] Silent Auction.
We watched the last-minute bidding war on some items (looking at your chair, @other_furniture_) with absolute glee; because, together, you helped raise over $8000 for the Hobart Women's Shelter @hobartwomensshelter. Legends. THANK YOU!!
If you missed out on an item, but you'd still like to support HWS, please head to the link in bio to make a donation. Your financial help plays a critical role in supporting service delivery and therapeutic programs, and fund strategic projects such as building long-term homes. Such programs provide opportunities for women and children to lead independent and fulfilling lives.
Finally, congratulations to those who outbid everyone else – enjoy your beautiful pieces, knowing there's a string of jealous individuals who missed out. Don't worry! We'll do it all again next year.
Image: Isabel and Elsie, prototype houses for Hobart Women's Shelter, by Christopher Clinton Architect @christopher__clinton with Core Collective Architects @core_collective | Photographer: Nina Hamilton @nina.hamilton.photo](https://openhousehobart.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)