COURT HOUSE BY ARCHIER
The small country town of Yackandandah in north-east Victoria is located at the confluence of two creeks. The area’s Traditional Custodians were dispossessed by European settlement, which was spurred during the mid-nineteenth century by a gold rush, and the town’s population quickly swelled to a high of 3,000 in 1862 (today, the population is around 2,000). This brief surge left a built legacy of weatherboard shopfronts that remain today, lining the main street and anchored by a pub at each end, the whole nestled into a valley surrounded by picturesque hills.
Chris Gilbert, a founding director of architecture practice Archier, grew up in Yack (as it’s
