Bay ofFires Lodge

Reached only on foot, at the end of a two-day walk up Tasmania's north-east coast, two long timber-and-glass pavilions sit on a hilltop forty metres above the sea, the only structure on twenty kilometres of white sand and lichen-orange granite. Local architect and bushwalker Ken Latona designed the lodge to be carried in rather than built up — every board of Tasmanian hardwood and plantation pine was helicoptered or hand-carried to the site, and the finished building runs on solar power with its own composting and water systems. Guests sleep in twin-share rooms and gather each evening in a shared living area with an open fire and a library looking out over the water, the day's walking distance the only thing separating this room from the last. The land is Aboriginal country of deep significance, and the walk is framed around that history as much as the coastline. It has picked up multiple design and tourism awards since opening, less for scale than for how lightly it sits on a genuinely wild stretch of coast.