A Forever Home on the East Coast at St Helens — and a national award-winner. Fysh Place took the 2026 HIA Australian GreenSmart Multi Dwelling Development title, one of three national titles Zanetto Builders won at the 2026 HIA Australian GreenSmart Awards. Proof that a small coastal town is no barrier to a build done properly.
The brief
The owners expected building in a small town like St Helens to be the hard part — the distance, the logistics, the trades. The brief was to deliver a considered custom home to the same standard we’d hold in the city, without the location becoming the story. From the very first meeting — owners, architect and builder in the same room — the job was to make a regional build feel routine, and the owners later described feeling completely at ease from that first conversation.
The build
Designed with Cumulus and delivered by our team under build manager Isaac, Fysh Place answers the realities of an East Coast site — exposure, access and coastal detailing — with the planning and site discipline that keep a regional build on track. The contract process was kept smooth and transparent, with open, honest communication from the start — the same open-book approach we bring to every project. And the owners’ verdict on Isaac says everything about how the site was run: he cared about their home as if it were his own.
The result
What the owners had braced for as challenging simply wasn’t. Denise’s review below tells it directly: the team she expected to struggle in a small coastal town turned out to be a dream team — committed, open, honest and genuinely caring — and St Helens now has a beautiful custom home that everyone involved should be proud of. Photographed by Tassie Visuals, Fysh Place stands as the answer to anyone who assumes building on the East Coast means compromise.
See more of our work on the East Coast and at St Helens, or how we approach a custom home anywhere in Tasmania.
