Thirty projects from across Brisbane were honoured at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2014 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards announced tonight at special ceremony held at the Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre.
Queensland 2014 State Awards Jury Director, Liam Proberts, presented 30 Regional Commendations to projects spanning a range of sizes and purposes, which now progress to the Queensland State Architecture Awards, announced in Brisbane on 20 June
The winners of the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year, House of the Year and an Enduring Architecture Prize were also announced.
The John Dalton Award for Building of the Year went to UQ Advanced Engineering Building by Richard Kirk Architect and HASSELL (Joint Venture) in addition to receiving two Regional Commendations for Public Architecture and Interior Architecture.
‘The UQ Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), a collaboration of Richard Kirk Architect and HASSELL exquisitely embodies a significant benchmark in sustainability within a complex building program of research, teaching and learning. AEB expertly embraces setting and place and has created an exemplar of engagement with renewable resources and local industry.
‘The project provides teaching, research and laboratory facilities either side of a five storey timber clad, elongated central atrium with a double glazed roof. The axis terminates in an expressive timber trussed off-form concrete lecture theatre with the lake setting as backdrop. Thoroughly considered and exquisitely detailed,’ the jury said.
Highgate Hill House by Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects was awarded the Brisbane House of the Year.
‘A sublime piece of architecture, expressed through intricate detailing that is seamlessly engaged with an ironically humble brief. A visceral experience of occupation is manifest through a series of spatially modest but poetically executed rooms. A bespoke, controlled garden and a sequence of outdoor living zones complete the project,’ reported the jury.
The jury nominated and awarded a special Enduring Architecture Prize to AH Job and RP Froud for their 1960 project Torbreck, Queensland’s first multi-storey home unit development.
Regional Commendations:
| Architectural Project | Architectural Practice | Architectural Category | Location |
| 55 Elizabeth Street | BVN Donovan Hill | Commercial Architecture | Brisbane |
| New Farm Arbour | Owen and Vokes and Peters | Heritage | New Farm |
| RNA Industrial Pavilion Redevelopment | Cox Rayner Architects | Heritage | Bowen Hills |
| Brisbane City Hall Restoration Project | Tanner Kibble Denton Architects and GHD Architects in Association (TannerGHD) | Heritage | Brisbane |
| Murphy Pipe and Civil | Marc&Co Architects Baber Studio and Jarosz Design | Interior Architecture | Albion |
| UQ Advanced Engineering Building | Richard Kirk Architect HASSELL Joint Venture | Interior Architecture | St Lucia |
| UQ Chemistry Building Level 8 | m3architecture | Interior Architecture | St Lucia |
| Ergon Energy Workplace | BVN Donovan Hill | Interior Architecture | Fortitude Valley |
| the kenmore | kp architects | Interior Architecture | Brisbane |
| A&R Plastic Surgery | Base Architecture | Interior Architecture | Auchenflower |
| Australian Taxation Office Elizabeth Street | HASSELL | Interior Architecture | Brisbane |
| UQ Michie Building Extension | Wilson Architects | Public Architecture | St Lucia |
| Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital Upgrade | Hames Sharley | Public Architecture | Coopers Plains |
| UQ Advanced Engineering Building | Richard Kirk Architect HASSELL Joint Venture | Public Architecture | St Lucia |
| UQ Dayboro Vet | Owen and Vokes and Peters | Public Architecture | Dayboro |
| St Peter’s Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre | Phillips Smith Conwell Architects | Public Architecture | Indooroopilly |
| Dakabin Animal Shelter | Brand + Slater Architects | Public Architecture | Dakabin |
| Centre for Advanced Imaging | John Wardle Architects + Wilson Architects Architects in Association | Public Architecture | St Lucia |
| Indooroopilly Residence | Kieron Gait Architects | Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) | Indooroopilly |
| West End Tower | Owen and Vokes and Peters | Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) | West End |
| In-Between Room | Phorm Architecture+Design | Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) | Brisbane |
| Highgate Hill House | Twofold Studio & Cox Rayner Architects | Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) | Highgate Hill |
| Point Lookout Beach Shack | Marc&Co Architects | Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) | Point Lookout |
| Oxlade Drive House | James Russell Architect | Residential Architecture – Houses – (New) | New Farm |
| Courtyard Residence | Blueprint Architects | Residential Architecture – Houses – (New) | Rochedale |
| Bonney Lane Affordable Housing | Cox Rayner Architects | Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing | Fortitude Valley |
| Baroona Road Mixed Use Redevelopment | Shane Thompson Architects | Small Project Architecture | Rosalie |
| PARC Pavilion | BVN Donovan Hill | Small Project Architecture | Fortitude Valley |
| Studio 217 | Amalie Wright & Richard Buchanan | Small Project Architecture | Spring Hill |
| Griffith University Nathan Campus Revitalisation | Cox Rayner Architects | Urban Design | Nathan |
Brisbane Jury Coordinator and Juror Elizabeth Anderson (Hayes Anderson Lynch Architects Pty Ltd) along with Jury Chairs Paul Worroll (Reddog Architects Pty Ltd), Kevin O’Brien (Kevin O’Brien Architects), Shaun Lockyer (Shaun Lockyer Architects), Fiona Gardiner (Heritage Branch, Department Environment and Heritage Protection) and Jurors Paul Butterworth (Paul Butterworth Architect), Anna Chamberlin (Push Architects), Peter Dawson (Architectus Brisbane Pty Ltd), Ray Giarola (Giarola Architects), Michael Hartwich (Wilson Architects), Stephen Long (Architectus Brisbane Pty Ltd), Rebecca Moore (Conrad Gargett Riddel Ancher Mortlock Woolley), Scott Peabody (Arqus Design Pty Ltd), Gavan Ranger (Ranger Design P/L) and George Taran (Multi Span Australia Pty Ltd ) assisted the 2014 State Awards Jury Director, Liam Proberts, (bureau^proberts), State Awards Deputy Director, Paul Uhlmann (Paul Uhlmann Architects), and State Jurors Catherine Baudet (Ferrier Baudet Architects), Mark Jones (Architectus Brisbane) and Paul Curran (PUSH) with selecting the worthy recipients of Regional Commendations, the Brisbane Enduring Architecture Prize, the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year and the Brisbane House of the Year.