17 December 2018

Another year is coming to a close so it’s time to wish all our members a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year filled with laughter and joy with those you love. It’s been a huge year for the Chapter delivering close to 400 events across QLD and our many programs and engaging with upwards of 4000 people within the design community. A big thank you goes out to all our volunteers and partners whose support ensures we can deliver great events including CPD, Awards and networking.

Change is always occurring as we test new ideas, and respond to member needs. 2019 will be no different as we look to continuously improve. The Regional Awards events will be reinstated as a shortlisting event and work is being done with regional representatives to plan these events in line with regional member needs. The State Awards looks to be bigger and better than ever with a great venue to be announced early next year. Our Brisbane Metro Events include an Art and Architecture series, including partnering with the Maud Street Photo Gallery in February to celebrate the John Gollings “History of The Built World” exhibition in February and an Art and Architecture Exhibition at the Chapter in March showcasing artists RW Allen and Jane du Rand.

The second half of the year will include our Out There Speaker Series to showcase the QLD Architecture Award winners and a Regional Symposium in Cairns planned for October. There is absolutely every reason to get involved with the Chapter next year and celebrate our QLD Architectural community.

Last but not least we finished the year with our annual Christmas Party co-Hosted with EmAGN last Thursday. What a fabulous night filled with laughter, music including a great performance by Student member Osman Jarel, good conversation, some questionable dance skills as the night progressed and a stand out team costume of fabulous Christmas Lobsters. You can check out the photos here.

Merry Christmas from all of the team at the Chapter. Please note that the team will be off on our end of year team building lunch on Friday 21st December, , and we will see you on the 7th of January 2019

Cheers

 

Mell Greenall

Executive Director, QLD Chapter

 

 

13 November 2018

 

Its that time of year when we put a call out for members to get actively involved in Committees and Chapter Council! If you are interested in nominating for a Chapter Council position for 2019/2020 you can do so online here. Nominations must be completed by Friday 16^th November.

We are also looking for members in the regional hubs to help represent their region on our 2019 Regional Affairs Committee,. This committee assists the Chapter in delivering CPD and events in each of our regions as well as deliver on advocacy specific to each region. If you would like to get involved please contact Madelynn in the office via EMAIL.

We are actively encouraging members to get involved in the current Brisbane City Council Online Design Forum. This online forum is looking to define “what elements of the building, site and streetscape of Queenslanders and other traditional designs are valued; what levels of protection are needed for different styles and in what circumstances, as well as the extent of change to these buildings is acceptable”. Make sure you jump online via the Councils website and have your say HERE.

Christmas is just around the corner, and that means our Annual Institute and EmAGN Christmas party is nearly here! This year is shaping up to be fantastic, we have booked the Triffid exclusively for a night of architectural festivity and the band is gearing up to get us all on the dance floor so now all we need is YOU! Tickets are $30 and include all drinks and food, plus we have prizes on the night for best individual and team Christmas outfits, as well as a photo competition for the best images highlighting the life of an architect.

 

When: Thursday 14^th December

Where: The Triffid, Fortitude Valley

Time: 6pm onwards

Cost: $30 all inclusive

BOOK HERE

 

Cheers

Mell Greenall

QLD Chapter Executive Director 

 

 

 

3 September 2018

 

Volunteers Needed 
We are looking for some wonderful members to be involved in our Student Portfolio night. We need experienced architects to be part of our portfolio speed dating panel to critique and help students refine their portfolios. This is a fun night, with aspiring student architects wanting to learn from you how they can put their best foot forward when looking for work. If you can help out on the Gold Coast on the 19th of September from 5.30pm onwards, or Brisbane on the 9th of October from 5.30pm onwards, then please let us know!

Click here for more details.

Call for 2019 regional Jurors
If you would love to see behind the scenes of the 2019 award entries, meet the architects and clients and help us find the next round of award winning projects, then why not nominate as a regional juror? Courtney is on hand to answer any questions you may have about what is involved and you can find more information HERE 

Regional Road show events
A big thank you to everyone that has supported the regional road show events to date.

Cairns Members; Please take the time to fill out your event planning survey sent out by Courtney. Your responses will help ensure we can deliver an event format and involve speakers from those award winning projects that are of interest to you. You can access the survey HERE or give Courtney a call on (07) 3828 4106 if you would rather provide feedback over the phone.

Toowoomba Members; We are excited to confirm your speakers for next months event as Sandy Cavill for “The Stores” by Sandy Cavill and Jasper Brown Architects and Scott Chapal for the “JK Murray Library” by DWP architects. Tickets are currently on sale HERE and We look forward to seeing you next month for a great event.

Large Practice Forum
The next installment of our large practice forum will be held at the chapter on the 18th of this month with the topic of Ethical Procurement. Tickets are strictly limited and can be booked HERE

 

Cheers

Mell Greenall

QLD Chapter Executive Director 

 

 

 

 

This week I would like to stress the importance of attending our upcoming workshops on Project Bank Accounts (PBA’s) being held on August 8^th. These sessions are aimed at specifically discussing how the new legislation will impact on Architects working in superintendent or head consultant roles, where the contract is between 1 to 10 million dollars. Whilst PBA’s are currently restricted to government projects this year, it is important to realise that they will be rolled out to private sector projects from March 2019 and has the potential to significantly impact on how members manage their roles as superintendents and head consultants.

 

The workshops will run for 2 hours, and attendance is capped at 15 per session to ensure the conversation is personalised and able to answer specific questions around obligations and legalities. If you feel that you will be impacted by this legislation from next year onwards then I strongly recommend you attend to ensure you can adequately prepare for the change. You can book into a workshop time here.

 

On a lighter note, Paul and I will be endeavouring to produce a video chat update once a month on our activities. you can view the first one on the Chapters Facebook page. We hope that this will be a more informal insight into the activities of the Chapter and allow you to ask questions or make suggestions.

 

It’s also not too late to attend this weeks “Out There Speaker Series” event on Thursday. This week we will hear from Anna O’Gorman and the North Shore Pavilion,  Guymer Bailey Architects in Collaboration Norman Richards Building Design + Interiors for the Mary Cain Cross Scenic Reserve and BVN for the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre. You can purchase a ticket here.

 

Monday 23 July 2018

 

Mell Greenall

QLD Chapter Executive Director

 

Hi All

We have been working on several government submissions around non-conforming building products and the “Building Confidence” Shergold Weir report. In collaboration with the national team we have submitted a formal response to the Permanent labelling of ACP product Discussion Paper which can be read here and will this week submit a letter to Minster de Brenni supporting the 24 recommendations in the Shergold Weir report and asking him to commit to implementing the recommendations within QLD regulation and legislative frameworks. In addition this week Paul and myself will meet with MP Michael Hart Shadow Minister for Housing and Public Works as well as MP Andrew Powell Shadow Minster for Infrastructure and planning as part of the Chapters commitment to building relationships with both sides of government. For those that haven’t read the Shergold Weir report you can do so here .

Tomorrow we are hosting a lunch time Practice forum for any architects involved in government work. The speakers include

• Harry Venmans, Executive Director of  Building Construction and Maintenance
• Logan Timms, Executive Director of  Building Industry and Policy and Maintenance  and
• Mike Essery, Acting Director of  Building Industry and Policy.

The forum will cover Govt procurement and pipelines, non-conforming building products and the Building industry fair payment act. There are still tickets available to attend and this is a great opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback, good bad or other wise to government regarding current policy and regulation. You can buy tickets here.

Don’t forget this week we kick off with the first night of our “Out There” speaker series. Thursday nights presenters include the architects behind ‘The Stores’ Cavill Architects in conjunction with Jasper Brown Architects, ‘The Science Place’ by Hassell and ‘Stradbroke House’ By Tim Bennetton Architects in association with Gabrielle Poole. We are very happy to announce that Gabrielle Poole will be joining us on Thursday to present alongside Tim Bennetton. This is an excellent opportunity to hear from this years named awards winners and the stories that led them to their designs. You can purchase tickets here.

Last but by no means least we have released tickets for our Regional Roadshow Events, the first of which is Townsville on August 10th, followed by the Sunshine Coast on August 17th and Central QLD (Rockhampton) on August 24th. Paul, Courtney and myself will be attending these events so it will be a great opportunity to let us know how to best meet the needs of members in these regions, along with hearing some great presentations from 2 award winning architects.

you can purchase tickets here:

North QLD
Sunshine Coast
Central QLD

 

 

The 2018 QLD State Awards night was held on Friday night at the QT Hotel and what a night it turned out to be! A huge congratulations to all our Named Award and Award winners as well as those commended, this is a big achievement in what was a hotly contested field of 174 entries. It should also be noted that the best dressed winner went to Bruce Wolfe and his Hot Pink flamingo suit, which was most definitely more then a “pop” of pink. Congratulations must also go to our QUT SONA team who won the people’s choice for the student art installation. Their beautiful piece titled “wave” was a thought provoking piece on change. Keep an eye on the Chapters Facebook and Instagram pages as we will be posting photos from the night over the coming week.

 

The full results are as follows:

Commercial Architecture

Beatrice Hutton Award – The Stores, Cavill Architects in Association with Jasper Brown Architects

Award – Robina Market Hall Redevelopment, The Buchan Group

Commendation – 88 Limestone, Gibson Architects

 

Educational Architecture

Jennifer Taylor Award – The Science Place HASSELL

Award – The Centenary Library, Anglican Church Grammar School, Brand + Slater Architects Pty Ltd

Award – The Springfield Anglican College – Year 1 Classrooms, Architecture Kōen

Commendation – Griffith University Aquatic Centre, Conrad Gargett

Commendation – JK Murray Library Extension & Refurbishment, dwp | design worldwide partnership

 

Enduring Architecture

Robin Gibson Award – Townsville Courts of Law – Edmund Sheppard Building

Hall, Phillips & Wilson Architects Pty Ltd

 

Heritage

Commendation – 259 Queen Street Main Lobby Refurbishment, Cox Architecture + Ruth Woods Architect

 

Interior Architecture

GHM Addison Award – Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre, BVN

Award – Headricks Lane, SP Studio

Award – Marchetti & Optiko, Cameron & Co

Commendation – 1 William Street, Woods Bagot

Commendation – NAB Place, Woods Bagot

 

Public Architecture

FDG Stanley Award – Blackwater Aquatic Centre, Liquid Blu Architects

Award – Curra Community Hall, Bark Design Architects Award – les wilson barramundi discovery centre, bud brannigan architects

Commendation: Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre, BVN

Commendation: Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Guymer Bailey Architects

 

Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Elina Mottram Award – Gibbon St, Cavill Architects

Award – Camp Hill Cottage, Owen Architecture

Award – One Room Tower, phorm architecture + design with Silvia Micheli & Antony Moulis

Award – Yeronga House, Tim Bennetton Architects

Commendation – Milton Residence, m3architecture

Commendation – Yarrawonga, Counterpoint Architecture

 

Residential Architecture – Houses (New)

Robin Dods Award – Stradbroke House, Tim Bennetton Architects with Gabriel Poole

Award – Carpenter-Hall House, Russell Hall Architects P/L

Award – Tarragindi Steel House, Bligh Graham Architects

Award – V House, Shaun Lockyer Architects

Commendation – Avonlea, Robinson Architects

Commendation – tinbeerwah house, teeland architects

 

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Job & Froud Award – M3565 Main Beach, Virginia Kerridge Architect

Award – Abian, Wood Marsh Architecture with Sunland Group

Award – Oxley + Stirling, Elenberg Fraser

Award – Spire Residences, John Wardle Architects

Commendation – Kailani Beach Houses, Andrew Bock Architecture

 

Small Project Architecture

Hayes & Scott Award – Northshore Pavilion, Anna O’Gorman Architect

Award – Ryan Street Library, Jonathan Goh Architect

Commendation – Dinosaur Canyon Outpost, Cox Architecture

Commendation – UQ Architecture School Entry, m3architecture

 

Sustainable Architecture

Harry Marks Award – Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve, Guymer Bailey Architects

Award – Blackwater Aquatic Centre, Liquid Blu Architects

Award – The Science Place, HASSELL

Commendation – Yeronga House, Tim Bennetton Architects

 

Urban Design

Karl Langer Award – Parklands, AAA – Arkhefield, ARM and Archipelago Architects

Award – Beerwah Tower Green, Bark Design Architects

Commendation – Centenary Lakes Nature Play, PAWA Architecture + LandPlan

Commendation – The Link, Lat27

 

COLORBOND®

Award – Gold Coast Sports Precinct, BVN

 

Art & Architecture

The Australian Institute of Architects Art & Architecture Prize (Qld) – Corps a’ Corps at the IMA Coutyard, Artist: Celine Condorelli, Architect: Dirk Yates (Speculative Architecture), Landscape Designer: Pete Shields

Cheers

Mell Greenall

Executive Director, QLD

Australian Institute of Architecture

11 June 2018

The Easter long weekend is just around the corner so I hope you all take the time to spend with friends and family. It’s far too easy to get caught up in the pressure of “life” and its various deadlines and commitments, So I hope you can all take advantage of a few days off to relax and enjoy some down time.

It was wonderful to celebrate the Presidents Honour’s event on Friday night, 120 members and VIPS came along for a fun night very much focused on the social side of bringing members together. We would like to once again congratulate our newly appointed Fellows and Life Fellows, and our various prize winners.

Fellows

• Sandra Browne FRAIA
• Jeffrey Briant FRAIA

Life Fellows:

• Bruce Medek LFRAIA
• Shane Thompson LFRAIA
• Richard Kirk LFRAIA

 

We also celebrated our student achievements, with both the Board of Architects Prize and the QIA medallion winners being announced.

Sue Savage presented the 2017 Board of Architects Prize winners as follows:

Hamish Lonergan – UQ

Catherine Hua – QUT

Courtney Villegas – Griffith

Samara Hayes – BOND

 

The Institute QIA Medallion was awarded as follows:

Hamish Lonergan – UQ

Greta Walker – QUT

Benjamin Campbell – Griffith

Sarah Kukkiriza Ndagire – BOND

 

AWS presented Christina Cho as The Queensland recipient of the 2018 Emerging Architect Prize

The presidents prize for 2017 went to 2 very deserving winners:

Richard Stringer

Richard has long been interested in architectural photography and in 1966 held his first exhibition Queensland Background. In 1967 he commenced practice as an architectural photographer and has been commissioned by leading Queensland architects to record their work. Richard has embarked on a continuing commitment to record the landscape, architecture and industrial archaeology of QLD. His photographs have been the subjects of numerous exhibitions as well as regular exhibitions in commercial galleries. In 2013, the Queensland Art Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of his work.

Richard has provided photographs for many books that sit on bookshelves of Architects across the country, and Collaborators over the years include his wife Marguerite, Janet Hogan, Dianne Byrne, Judith McKay, Howard Tanner and Robert Riddel.

You will find the work of the first recipient of this year’s president’s prize in the archives and on the walls of many of Queensland’s top practices- he is the very definition of an expert in his field- architect and architectural photographer Richard Stringer, life fellow of the Institute.

 

EmAGN QLD

EmAGN are is the Emerging Architects and Graduate Network in QLD, who organise diverse events that promote the rich mix of social, political, cultural and sometimes controversial topics in the QLD Design environment. The small but dedicated committee have worked hard to promote architecture to the wider creative and cultural community , whilst promoting the benefits of cross disciplinary professional relationships that will benefit the development of Queensland’s built environment.

EmAGN is a crucial element of the Queensland chapter, their innovative speaker series include “New Build” a three part series bringing together a panel of young professionals from architecture, builders, planners and related sectors to share experiences and build a sense of community and support. The “Value” series has created a platform our early career architects to share their work and gain invaluable experience presenting to a broader audience. EmAGN also make ongoing contributions to the success of the PALS program through events such as Regi frustration, supporting early career architects prepare for their board registration exams and interviews.

The world of the recent graduate in architecture is challenging in many ways. The body of knowledge, the complexities of practice and working with clients for the first time.

Luckily there is EmAGN , recipient of 2018 President’s prize. EmAGN gives a voice to early career architects and help ensure that their needs are supported by the institute, contributing to the Chapters goals of creating an inclusive and welcoming community for all architects.

 

 

Cheers

Mell Greenall

QLD Chapter Executive Director

As we approach Easter, for those of you looking for the last of your CPD points we have some great CPD occurring to help ensure you meet the board requirements:

Brisbane: Wednesday 21^st – Architecture in Bushfires

Toowoomba: Wednesday 21^st – Building Acoustic Fundamentals

Sunshine Coast: Thursday 22^nd – Architech

Gold Coast: Tuesday 27^th – Practice forum Succession Planning and Insurances

 

Those members based in Brisbane I would encourage you to participate in the Brisbane City Council, Plan your Brisbane online “have your say” and follow up survey. The initiative is looking to see what Brisbane residents want in regards to the local built environment. Whilst the portal is aimed at the general public, its important that as Architects we have a voice and with close to 1600 members based in the Brisbane metro area, this would ensure a strong design voice in the online submissions. The Chapter will also be making a formal submission to the Council in regards to the “Plan Your Brisbane” initiative. You can access the online portal here

 

Lastly this Friday is the Presidents Honours event, and our final opportunity to thank outgoing President Bruce Wolfe for his contribution to Chapter Council and the QLD architecture community over the last two years. There are a limited number of tickets left and I would encourage you to come along to what will be a great night of celebration. To book your tickets Click Here

 

Cheers

Mell Greenall

QLD Chapter Executive Director