2015 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards Results

Major Awards

John Dalton Award for Building of the Year
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons

House of the Year
Jule House – Claire Humphreys + Kevin O’Brien Architects

Regional Commendations

Urban Design 

  • M&A – bureau^proberts
  • Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons

Heritage 

  • Archerfield Airport – Shane Thompson Architects
  • Queensland Rail Roma Street Heritage Building – Stage 1 Stabilization – Architectus with Michael Kennedy Heritage Architect in association
  • Goddard Building Rooftop Expansion – Conrad Gargett

Art & Architecture 

  • Bellbowrie -bureau^proberts
  • Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital -Conrad Gargett Lyons

Interior Architecture 

  • Archerfield Airport – Shane Thompson Architects
  • Redchip Lawyers Fitout – Ellivo Architects
  • Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons
  • BVN Brisbane Studio – BVN
  • TRYP on Constance – Shane Denman Architects
  • Kent Road – bureau^proberts
  • The University of Queensland Global Change Institute – HASSELL (QLD)

Small Project Architecture 

  • Frew Park Arena Play Structure – Guymer Bailey Architects
  • St Vincent de Paul Inala Family Support Centre – Push

Residential Architecture –  Houses (Alterations and  Additions) 

  • Shutter House – Baber Studio
  • Drury Street – Marc&Co
  • Paddington House – Architectus
  • Sandgate Pier House – Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)
  • West End Cottage – Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)
  • Living Room -Aardvarc

Residential Architecture – Houses (New) 

  • Davenport / Wilson House – Shane Thompson Architects
  • Gracemere House – Cox Rayner Architects
  • Christian Street House – James Russell Architect
  • Paddington Residence – Ellivo Architects
  • Jule House – Claire Humphreys + Kevin O’Brien Architects
  • Backyard House   – JOE ADSETT ARCHITECTS

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing 

  • Arena Apartments – Ellivo Architects
  • M&A – bureau^proberts
  • Attewell Street – bureau^proberts
  • Silt – bureau^proberts
  • Cornerstone Living – Stage A – idearchitecture
  • JQ1 – Push

Educational Architecture 

  • Sir Samuel Griffith Centre – Cox Rayner Architects
  • St Sebastian’s Primary School – Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Architectus
  • Arethusa College Spring Hill Campus – Ceccato Hall + Associates  Architects
  • General Learning Wellers Hill State School – Kevin O’Brien Architects
  • Ambrose Treacy College Stage A: Edmund Rice Building Refurbishment – Fulton Trotter Architects
  • The University of Queensland Global Change Institute – HASSELL

Commercial Architecture 

  • 15 Green Square Close – Cottee Parker Architects
  • Triffid – Aardvarc

Public Architecture 

  • Fitzgibbon Community Centre – Richard Kirk Architect
  • Bellbowrie – bureau^proberts
  • Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons

 

Jury Citations

 

Urban Design


M&A
(bureau^proberts) A pedestrian laneway is carved through an urban block to enhance permeability and offer a new destination within the Fortitude Valley scene.  Art installations, materiality and vibrant colour are employed to create a place with a unique identity threaded into its context.

 

 

 

Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
(Conrad Gargett Lyons) Solving complex problems of urban design and architectural scale, The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane establishes a new benchmark in pediatric healthcare for the State of Queensland through innovative clinical procedures housed within legible spatial and formal gestures that place the child at the centre of care.

 

 

 

The Avro (Hayes Anderson Lynch Architects) Situated at the eastern entrance to Bulimba’s Oxford Street The Avro is a mixed-use development that maintains and extends the existing high-street typology. Working with neighbouring landholders the project team has implemented site strategies that, once achieved, should benefit the public realm beyond the bounds of the site.

Heritage

 

Goddard Building Rooftop Expansion
(Conrad Gargett) A skilfully crafted and lovingly detailed jewel, this project respects its historical context and cleverly satisfies its brief. Meticulous consideration of every gesture, from grand to the most minute, delivers an innovative, surprisingly sustainable and adaptive addition to the family of the Great Court.

 

 

 

3  2  1 – The Bess Street Brick Cottages
(Henri van Riet Architect Pty Ltd) These small 1880s brick cottages were crumbling before being conserved and adapted as a single residence. The project was expanded to include work on a neighbouring cottage and adds richness to the suburban context. Burra Charter principles have been followed with the new rear extensions being differentiated through materials and detailing.

 

 

 

University of Queensland Forgan Smith Building Level 1 Teaching Space Refurbishment
(DM2 Architecture) This refurbishment sensitively and completely reinvigorates a forlorn corner of the Forgan Smith Building by cleverly re-purposing outmoded teaching spaces and activating the circulation and gathering spaces which surround them, whilst resolving significant waterproofing issues and therefore prolonging the life of the campus’s signature building

 

 

 

Queensland Rail Roma Street Heritage Building – Stage 1 Stabilization
(Architectus with Michael Kennedy Heritage Architect in Association) This is an exemplary materials conservation project which has rescued the historical important, but neglected, 1875 station terminal building. Research and painstaking work has led to original materials and architectural detailing being reinstated. Using highly skilled craftsmen a hidden gem has been revealed within the railway station complex.

 

 

 

Archerfield Airport
(Shane Thompson Architects) An adaptive reuse of the iconic World War 11 airport building which converts living quarters to offices. The original form of the building is laid bare in the robust detailing of the openings and finishes which contrast with the sleek sophistication of the new office fit out.

 

Art & Architecture

 

Frew Park Arena Play Structure

(Guymer Bailey Architects) The Frew Park play area stood out from the other parks with its theme of a deconstructed arena, with the use of angled precast concrete panels and exposed steelwork structure. Artworks by a local graffiti artist applied on surfaces at various locations, take cues from the relevant site and demographic context complementing the deconstruction theme.

 

 

 

M&A
(bureau^proberts) M & A is a creative approach to client’s brief for an inner city mixed use building.By introducing a new laneway that ties in with the existing street fabric opportunities were opened up for integrated artwork embedded in the facades. The artworks were presented as integral to the building façade and work successfully in terms of giving the building a unique identity.

 

 

 

Bellbowrie
(bureau^proberts) The Bellbowrie public pool building was a delightful find in a suburban scene. The artwork consists of brick motifs referencing local flowering gum with abstract representation, and seemingly integral with the entire building structure with perfect proportions of the vertical and horizontal plane, making the building a miniature artwork.

 

 

 

Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
(Conrad Gargett Lyons) Exemplary in its unwavering philosophy of integrating art into every aspect of its fabric, function and ethos, this building is a gallery, a canvas, and a theatre, whose focus is to bring delight and diversion to the lives of sick children and the people who care for them.

 

 

Interior Architecture

 

Mahoney Lawyers Office
(Ellivo Architects) This office space draws on influences of organic forms coupled with river vistas as a reference for its material palate. The use of considered geometric patterns and a definitive colour palette derived from these influences, aids the spatial orientation and hierarchy for its’ occupants, resulting in a rich series of spaces.

 

 

 

Archerfield Airport
(Shane Thompson Architects) This project celebrates the adaptive re-use of the original heritage built form in a sensitive manner, revealing opportunity in existing spaces and structure. The result is an interior office fit out that allows the reading of the existing fabric and grain of the original planning and construction. This allows the new fit out to defer to and highlight the original layers of workmanship and materials.

 

 

 

Arethusa College Spring Hill Campus
(Ceccato Hall + Associates  Architects) The project exemplifies an honest, robust, flexible strategy demonstrating its ability to withstand harsh treatment and provide a resilient learning environment. Student study spaces and activity areas are designed for adaptability and exhibit a juxtaposition of moments for both dynamic interaction and rest, providing opportunity for varied learning experiences.

 

 

 

Potter Library Refurbishment  All Hallows’ School
(Fulton Trotter Architects) Reflecting the design philosophy of Place, Pedagogy and Narrative the project re-engages the library with the city and school surrounds. Planning focuses on vibrant, visual connections and flexibility in spaces, allowing students opportunities to utilize the library in unique ways individual to their needs.

 

 

 

Redchip Lawyers Fitout
(Ellivo Architects) A well-considered design resolution formulated around a series of layered spaces and material textures reflecting the client’s modest but sophisticated values. Adaptable elements of various spaces allow the occupants different experiences while maintaining connection to exterior vistas.  The central gathering space cements the public / private spatial connection and allows for varied staff and client interaction.

 

 

 

Corrs Chambers Westgarth  Brisbane
(Bates Smart) Located in a signature high-rise building with expansive city views, the Corrs Chambers anchors itself in a national identity with references to the local context inspired by the Great Barrier Reef. A collaborative open plan work environment brings a new cultural dynamic to the formal legal work ethic. Tranquil colours and detailed texture patterning provides an impressive atmosphere of excellence and sophistication.

 

 

 

University of Queensland Forgan Smith Building Level 1 Teaching Space Refurbishment
(DM2 Architecture) The refurbished teaching space considered re-orientation of the formal lecture hall, increasing teacher student connection through enhanced sightline criteria and acoustic treatments. Student entrances and associated classrooms spaces merge together with open plan waiting areas and circulation corridors bounded by glass walls providing appropriate light transfusion and views.

 

 

 

Bupa National Cricket Centre
(TVS architects) The internal spaces of this building strike a harmonious balance between function and form. Through the use of natural light, a considered material palate and careful arrangement of spaces a comfortable, durable and functional facility has been created, which will continue to be an asset and enhance future generations of cricket athletes and professionals.

 

 

 

Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
(Conrad Gargett Lyons) Centred around the metaphor of a living tree with trunks/atria and branches/spaces , the internal spaces of this state of the art children’s hospital achieves sensory stimulation for its’ patients through the use of colour, light, materials and integrated art features which distract the users from the intended functional purpose for their visit.

 

 

 

Silt
(bureau^proberts) The planning of this apartment allows for rationalised internal spaces which provide opportunities for varying levels of connection to external spaces. This interesting design strategy is achieved by blurring the threshold between inside and outside and through the selection of a natural palate of materials which reflect elements of the local external environment.

 

 

 

Queensland Transport and Main Roads Customer Service Centre: Lissner Street Toowong
(MODE) Re-inventing the typical government prescribed service centre design model, this project demonstrates that carefully considered humanistic design strategies which incorporates both place and user specific design themes. The resulting space breaks down the barriers between client and service staff resulting in a positive experience for all occupants.

 

 

 

Corso North Lakes
(PDT Architects) The building provides a strategic alliance integrating community facilities with commercial business. The overlapping and varied spatial accommodation arrangements seek to harmonize the different user groups together.  The interior spatial layout, colours and textures embody local cultural and historic metaphors, generating a sense of ownership by local residence and inspiring future growth.

 

 

 

BVN Brisbane Studio
(BVN) A space has been created that represents the ideas and values of its’ occupants through a literal demonstration of their work process. The use of public space that is both meeting and circulation, has resulted in a collection of unique habitable spaces unified by a raw aesthetic contrasted by a subtle but cohesive colour and material palate.

 

 

 

Grosvenor Apartment
(Cox Rayner Architects) An insightful re-planning of internal spaces within this apartment, with particular consideration given to enhancing city and river views, scale and a complimentary material palate has formed a highly detailed and considered space which exudes casual opulence.

 

 

 

TRYP on Constance
(Shane Denman Architects) TRYP Hotel is derived from its site’s layered past. Peeling the building off the boundary exposes the original structure providing opportunities for amenity to the hotel suites while walls are used as a canvas providing unique views.  Continuity of art integration results in effective reference to the site’s past within the buildings new identity.

 

 

 

The Charming Squire
(Collins and Turner in collaboration with Baber Studio and D’Occhio) Depicting the key concepts of honesty, simplicity and warmth, the project delivers a suite of distinct yet related spaces with richness and simplicity in detail. Base building elements are expressly celebrated with softer finishes overlaid at a tactile level. The project provides a unique street address in the continuation of the Grey Street program.

 

 

 

Ambrose Treacy College Stage A: Edmund Rice Building Refurbishment
(Fulton Trotter Architects) The upgrade and expansion of school teaching facilities carefully considers the planning balance between pragmatic teaching space infused with innovative playful colours. Opening up existing internal corridors has simplified classroom connections providing increased spatial efficiency for  light filled locker areas, student display walls and additional amenities.

 

 

 

Indooroopilly House
(RealSpace Creative) Indooroopilly House explores a gradual unfolding of interior spaces in a narrative that celebrates the site context. The project’s planning encourages multiple opportunities for social interaction and engagement. Material selection is on a natural palette with particular attention paid to tactile qualities.

 

 

 

The Point
(Brand & Slater Architects) An example of a successful interaction between internal spaces and external views through the use of raised platforms, operable fenestration enabling internal spaces to merge with outside spaces. A series of various seating options and a geometrical material palette identify different areas within the space allowing separation without walls enhancing vistas.

 

 

 

Kent Road
(bureau^proberts) The successfully upgrade of a typical Queensland home, harnesses emerging trends to evolve its historic relevance and engage with popular culture. The interior layout multiplies in an abundance of seamlessly interchangeable spaces which inspire a variety of user experiences and enhance the daily desires of momentary lifestyle activities. Each experience reveals a harmonious atmosphere of surprise with layered sliding walls, soft curtain screens and tranquil colours, never lacking in purpose.

 

 

 

The University of Queensland Global Change Institute
(HASSELL) The building has a natural affinity to the educational message of the global exchange. Anchored in its local historic context, its spatial layout centres around opportunities for passive ventilation, natural light and internal vegetation. The fragile balance of the natural environment is controlled and measured through computer driven operable facade screens. Open plan work areas carefully considered a subtle layering of privacy screens with interwoven planting.

 

 

Small Project Architecture

 

Frew Park Arena Play Structure
(Guymer Bailey Architects) This park adopts unique designed play equipment for a variety of user groups. The building forms and materials reference the original historical context of the site. This is an original design solution that contributes positively to the community and responds positively to the context, landscape, and the past.

 

 

 

St Vincent de Paul Inala Family Support Centre
(Push) This modest linear extension generates new life into this solid post war housing commission house. A clever sectional arrangement provides flexibility, volume and light for its new community use. Externally this sectional arrangement is both responsive day and night via its lit acrylic parapet that addresses Main Street.

 

Residential Architecture –  Houses (Alterations and  Additions)

 

Shutter House
(Baber Studio) The western orientation to views and garden turns necessity into a virtue, resulting in a deliberately modest of scale but dynamic piece of architecture.  An eaveless non-­‐Brisbane form, joyfully detailed and skillfully crafted is a surprising but logical outcome to classic local challenges of screening, privacy, ventilation and shelter.

 

 

 

Kent Road
(bureau^proberts) A stunningly detailed scheme with a very restrained palate of materials has allowed the original house to merge with the extension seamlessly. It requires a sophisticated level of refinement and skill to achieve and it results into space that can transform from light to dark and shades in-between.

 

 

 

Windus House
(Shane Thompson Architects) A modest edit to an existing intact cottage transforms the program and engages the living spaces to the garden realm. A reflective garden room speaks to the extension from its place under an established Jacaranda – an informant for the scheme.

 

 

 

Lutwyche Bungalow
(Push) A modest post war house has been skillfully enhanced with a new autonomous wing linking to a serene rear garden. The upper level enjoys expansive views, and is a private retreat space. The lower level is a finely crafted, warm and delightful living space overlooking a sunny northern courtyard space linked back to the existing house through an efficient service realm.

 

 

 

Casa Maca 3
(Cox Rayner Architects) Restrained and contained within the existing heavy weight envelope of the existing building, the typical “Straddy Shack” is inserted to create the quintessential holiday home. Reconfiguring the main living area to the top level takes advantage of a stunning outlook towards Point Lookout and the ocean beyond.

 

Tennis Avenue Additions
(DM2 Architecture) The project is characterized by the ingenious reuse of materials and forms, creating a program-­‐rich extension constrained by existing natural and imposed conditions.  An exciting entry area is framed by old and new turning the discovery of this confidently detailed house into a spatially interesting experience.

 

 

 

Bristol Street Edit
(Phorm Architecture+Design) This project’s intentions as a contemporary compliment to an existing older program in typology and form, successfully creates a sequence of delightful spaces. Remedying  previous edits without subtracting from the existing program has been skillfully managed resulting in flexible and joyous spaces for a family to re-engage with living back in Brisbane.

 

 

 

Drury Street
(Marc&Co) The familiar process of entering a traditional renovated house hints at a competent job only to ascend to a revelation of design skills of the highest order matched by exceptional craftsmanship, as one proceeds farther in.  A restrained brick and timber material palette and confident tectonics create an exceptional piece of architecture.

 

 

 

Nat and Gerrys back deck

(Biscoe Wilson Architects) A napkin sketch in a coffee shop began a wonderful collaboration to rework the rear edge of an intact Queenslander to re-­‐orient living space and  provide a deck to mediate between house and the landscape. The project is modest in scale but transformative in enabling existing space and new to seamlessly blend with elegance and charm.

 

 

 

Paddington House
(Architectus) An extremely sophisticated scheme that resists the urge to immediately open up to the view, but rather layers the space to allow the landscape to reveal itself. Each space is considered individually as well as part of a collective whole within the horizontal and vertical dimension.

 

 

 

Red Hill house
(Blueprint Architects) A purposely modest brief has resulted in a comfortable compact dwelling showing the architects’   respect for the existing building and willingness to experiment within these present boundaries. Convincing and quirky detailing has created a project with strong character giving the living spaces views and privacy at the same time.

 

 

 

Herston Residence
(Kieron Gait Architects) A difficult site demanding significant earthworks. A strong concrete -­‐ dark brick -­‐ white timber and black steel material palette remarkable for domestic application is used for the new elements. Ingenious façade detailing, rich in its possibilities of ventilation, screening and sheltering and crisp in appearance shows significant design competence.

 

 

 

Taringa Pavilion
(Nielsen Workshop & Morgan Jenkins Architecture) Sculpturally beautiful from the street, this pavilion is a joy to occupy . The pavilion respects the existing home but defines the outdoor living space as the centre of the home, with each element and each material functioning on multiple levels to enable the occupant to live almost exclusively outdoors.

 

 

 

Sandgate Pier House
(Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)) This project connects a grand house with a rear garden, encourages viewing to the sea from the rear living edge and mansard level viewing deck and acknowledges the role of architecture as contributor to the streetscape. The new rear edge compliments existing spaces and delightfully introduces a series of well-crafted and intimate public and private spaces.

 

 

 

West End Cottage
(Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)) A beautifully simple black and white cottage with a picturesque pitched roof and a  crafted  brick chimney. However, the most compelling aspect is how the planning of a small architectural outcome can manage a large family units lifestyle within an existing typology that is common within Brisbane.

 

 

 

Living Room
(Aardvarc) Finely crafted concrete elements and exquisite detailing underpin this elegant outdoor living realm with an agenda of low maintenance and quiet repose. The green roof is home to native bees, with living rooms quietly and deferentially making a place in the garden. A fire pit engages and mediates between structures and the landscape extending gathering opportunities into the garden.

 

 

Ryan Street House
(Tim Bennetton Architects) A resort-­‐like tropical oasis unfolds upon entering this flood-­‐prone unassuming suburban residence. Interesting visual and physical connections tie old and new together, creating the specific character of this house emphasized by surprising planning decisions, confidently detailed building elements and lush landscaping.

 

 

 

Warburton Street Extension
(Medek Architecture) A holistic understanding of the site context and programmatic challenges informed this project involving the placement of a new building alongside an existing older house. Garden separates, a bridge connects the pair and offers new scale and form to the site while being mindful of privacy, connection and the existing landscape.

Residential Architecture –  Houses (New) 

Gilgandra Street Residence
(TVS architects) This small lot house is entered by stair to the middle level, which affords views to the treed park to the south and to the sunny pool area and sloping garden to the north. The central study is glazed for acoustic privacy while maintaining light and visual openness.

 

Davenport / Wilson House
(Shane Thompson Architects) This crafted house deftly engages with its semi-rural site at all scales. An extruded timber form encapsulates a series of unfolding rooms either side of an anchoring fireplace. An excellent example of how a well-designed house can have a sense of generosity that belies its size.

 

 

 

Gracemere House
(Cox Rayner Architects) The Gracemere house deftly climbs a narrow site, pausing to create a series of outdoor spaces meshed into the house via a network of indoor and outdoor circulation routes. The simple material palette masks the house’s thorough provision of poetic qualities embedded within the rituals of family life.

 

 

 

Christian Street House
(James Russell Architect) Christian Street House continues the architect’s experimentation with the courtyard plan as a device for immersing inhabitants in Brisbane’s benign climate. Twin gables cap a village of rooms exquisitely assembled in concrete, brick and timber. Dwelling becomes infused with a drama anchored to earth and sky.

 

 

 

Robe
(Base Architecture) The L-shaped plan of Robe frames an external space that acts as a hub for family life. Thoughtful consideration has been given to enhancing the daily life of a young family, with the house creating a lively environment animated by natural light and a splash of bold colour.

 

 

 

Paddington Residence
(Ellivo Architects) A simple concrete and steel house grafted onto a steep inner city small lot site. Working within the constraints of the block a strong polarity is set up between the cool garden beneath an ancient Camphor Laurel, and a dramatic cityscape beyond. The interiors are consistent and dramatic.

 

Owen
(Tim Stewart Architects) This bold house is planned around a new ground plane constructed on the side of a steep inner city block, by cutting into the hillside and building over the garage. The result is a series of dramatic indoor and outdoor spaces and a generosity of space and light.

 

 

 

Jule House
(Claire Humphreys + Kevin O’Brien Architects) A cave-like entry stair gives a surprising arrival up into this courtyard house, while an even more mysterious upper attic storey is hidden in plain sight. The client lives at the mid-level in cosy angular spaces that unfold into the forest floor garden and embrace the central courtyard tree.

 

 

 

Backyard House
(JOE ADSETT ARCHITECTS) The Backyard House is a surprising project. What appears initially as an expensive house opening to a generous site, is actually an intelligent model for infill housing on compact sites, achieved for an affordable price. The simple planning diagram gains finesse through thoughtful detailing and skilful spatial manipulation.

 

 

 

Tarcoola
(Base Architecture) This complex corner site offers surprising diagonal river views. From the sunken entry courtyard the house fans out between sandstone blade walls giving each room a distinctive outlook. Green roof terrace, green wall and stone surrounds to the glass-walled pool step the building into its bush landscape.

 

 

 

New Farm House
(John Walsh Architects Pty Ltd) The New Farm House is thoughtfully responsive to both the character of its eclectic setting, and to its climatic context. Principles established over the length of the architect’s career have produced an original and coherent approach. Voluminous spaces beneath high-pitched, top-lit roofs defy the dwelling’s outwardly modest scale.

 

 

 

Indooroopilly House
(RealSpace Creative) This is a grand house whose generous open volumes lead through to spectacular riverfront views. Immaculate joinery and spectacular stone finishes enhance beautiful furniture and light fittings. The sequential symmetrical plan is designed with memories of Persian architecture and touches of arts and crafts detail, including original Taliesin lamps.

 

 

 

St. Lucia House
(Tim Bennetton Architects) This L-shaped house wraps around a northern swimming pool with living and lower bedroom spaces opening across a suburban gully to a large southern yard. This is an economical family house designed for relaxed subtropical living. The project demonstrates well-considered and effective detailing of both architectural and landscape elements.

Pullenvale House
(Arkhefield) A strong form with a rich material pallet, this semi-rural house hides and then reveals the dramatic views over the rolling hills beyond. Clear efficient planning structures a series of zones that enable flexible family living that directly engages with the landscape at all times.

Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing

Tallowwood
(idearchitecture) A Logan Central Affordable Housing Demonstration Project conceived for the northern gateway to the Logan Central Master Plan Core Area, Tallowwood establishes new affordable housing within the ‘urban living precinct’ of Logan Central and forms part of a catalyst of opportunities to build on and deliver a vibrant, culturally diverse urban centre.

 

 

 

St Paul’s Bardon Residential Aged Care Apartments
(ThomsonAdsett) Defined by lifestyle rather than care needs, this new concept in aged care buildings provides two storeys of residential units along with ground floor communal facilities. With its materials and massing relating to the surrounding context, the new building responds sensitively to the adjacent residential precinct.

 

 

 

Arena Apartments
(Ellivo Architects) Arena Apartments is a multi-tower development in South Brisbane. Defined podium and tower elements twist and offset, breaking building mass and generating a central courtyard for both tenant and public use. Simple planning gestures are employed to afford a pleasant North-Eastern aspect to the majority of units.

 

 

 

Urbanedge
(ROTHELOWMAN) Urbanedge is a masterplanned, residential apartment development of 380 apartments, comprising three multi storey buildings with subtly different architectural characteristics. By increasing building height and minimising footprint the design allows for greater street engagement, residential common areas and increased public permeability as well as capturing distant views.

 

 

 

M&A
(bureau^proberts) M&A is a high density tower development in Fortitude Valley. Eschewing the common mega-block development pattern of the area, M&A successfully embraces cross block links and pedestrian laneways as public space. With a compact and efficient program, M&A employs simple gestures to enliven lower price point urban apartments.

 

 

 

Attewell Street
(bureau^proberts) Attewell Street is a small townhouse development at the rear of an existing residence in Nundah.  Elements of the existing house’s architectural character have been interpreted in a contemporary way and the project proves that quality architecture can be achieved in this budget driven sector of the housing market.

 

 

 

Silt
(bureau^proberts) The relationship between Architect and Client has resulted in a unique and confident piece of architecture, immaculately detailed and built to create a memorable experience. Comprised of seven single level apartments, its unique formation responds well to its iconic surroundings. Effectively addressing the brief, the building creates a visual and emotional connection to the river and park.

 

 

 

waterton
(idearchitecture) Waterton represents a contemporary revision of the traditional ‘6 pack’ development. Working with the topography of the site, a series of 6 split levels are employed to provide a generous spatial experience to efficiently planned townhouse apartments.

 

 

 

Austin
(ROTHELOWMAN) Austin is a mixed use development at the culmination of Fish Lane at South Brisbane. Responding to this highly urbanised setting, Austin successfully focuses on a pedestrian scale ground plane and hospitality tenancies. The rooftop terrace provides generous open space within a precinct allowing near total site cover.

 

 

 

Depper
(Base Architecture) Located in in the inner city suburb of St Lucia, Depper is a multi-residential development of 15 apartments. The stepped building form reduces the bulk and scale to the street and maximizes views over St Lucia and the city, with large openings providing good indoor-outdoor connection.

 

Water Street Stage 1
(bureau^proberts) Close to services and transport and embracing the notion of high density living, this multi-stage development will provide a new residential hub for Brisbane. The form is derived from a structure that is logical in arranging spaces and services that allow aspect light and ventilation and the facilities have been positioned to accommodate future stages.

 

 

 

Cornerstone Living – Stage A
(idearchitecture)Comprising affordable housing amidst public spaces and amenities, this development addresses an important sector of affordable housing in Queensland. Through efficient building design and cost-effective construction the development successfully integrates unique affordable housing amidst public spaces and amenities within a diversified assortment of building types to form an exceptional master planned community.

 

 

 

JQ1
(Push) Located in the Kelvin Grove Urban Village precinct, JQ1 is a refreshing response to an apartment building brief that is commonplace in the inner suburbs of Brisbane.

 

This project succeeds in creating a building that breaks the mould visually and also in a number of important functional aspects.

Educational Architecture

Kelvin Grove State College-Flying Start Building
Biscoe Wilson Architects

 

An innovative structural strategy developed by the architects has allowed the school to expand on a challenging site. New wide, deep balconies provide breakout spaces with delightful views to the city beyond.

 

 

 

Sir Samuel Griffith Centre
Cox Rayner Architects

 

Sir Samuel Griffith Centre denotes a new arrival point on the Nathan Campus of Griffith University. The elongated plan skilfully combines circulation and break-out spaces in a generous naturally ventilated volume simultaneously minimising mixed-mode conditioned workspaces. A strategy that reducing energy demands and engages directly with the sub-tropical environment.

 

 

 

St Sebastian’s Primary School
Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Architectus

 

This project forms part of a Master Plan that will redefine St Sebastian’s Primary School. Hugging the northern boundary the building provides a delightful series of spaces that cleverly redefine a central open space. The gable forms and material pallet of an adjacent brick church are playfully abstracted to create delightful contribution to the campus and the broader public domain.

 

 

 

Potter Library Refurbishment  All Hallows’ School
Fulton Trotter Architects

 

A bold interior that embraces contemporary pedagogies for library environments, the Potter Library Refurbishment creates a variety of flexible learning and study spaces using a playful colour palette. Motifs such as “Circle of Mercy” reference the long, important history of the school.

 

 

 

Arethusa College Spring Hill Campus
Ceccato Hall + Associates  Architects

 

A robust architectural response to a challenging brief, Arethusa College Spring Hill provides well considered educational spaces for vulnerable and disenfranchised young people. The complexities of security, safety and surveillance have been handled with sensitivity creating a humane learning environment.

 

 

 

General Learning Wellers Hill State School
Kevin O’Brien Architects

 

This paired back building reframes landscape experiences from the intimate garden to the distant views of Mt Cootha. Generous circulation spaces and deeply shaded window reveals appear carved from a thick protective mass. A reductive approach to detail and structure has delivered a cost effective project whilst providing moments of delight.

 

 

 

Bupa National Cricket Centre
TVS architects

 

A thoughtful configuration of spaces for cricketing athletes, The National Cricket Centre cleverly deals with a technically complex brief on a constrained site.

 

 

 

Ambrose Treacy College Stage A: Edmund Rice Building Refurbishment
Fulton Trotter Architects

 

Bold colours animate new classroom spaces in this important heritage asset. Storage and services “pods” have been cleverly inserted as room dividers into the existing fabric whilst maintaining a sense of the original volumes.

 

 

 

Trade Training Centre_St Augustines College  Augustine Heights
Macksey Rush Architects

 

A highly functional building that inserts itself an “object” in an existing open. Served and servant spaces are clearly articulated. The external material palette cleverly references the context whilst creating a unique identity.

 

 

 

Padua College Science and Arts
ABM Architects

 

The new science and arts centre provides Padua College with robust, highly functional teaching spaces. A system of generously proportioned stairs and ramps cleverly connects new and old creating spaces for casual interaction.

 

 

 

Wellbeing Centre_St Augustines College  Augustine Heights
Macksey Rush Architects

 

A robust yet playful addition to the campus, this modest structure allows for seamless indoor and outdoor sports training. The clad primary roof structure provides a delightful ceiling-scape, whilst splashes of lime green reference nearby tennis courts animating the interior and facade.

 

 

 

Cruci – Loreto College
ThomsonAdsett

 

The Cruci building forms a new gateway to Loreto College Coorparoo. Embracing the subtropical climate, circulation spaces are expanded to create intimate spaces for outdoor learning wrapped in a playful undulating screen.

 

 

 

The University of Queensland Global Change Institute
HASSELL

 

The Global Change Institute demonstrates the architect and client’s commitment to best practice environmental design. A rich material palette of recycled timbers and repurposed carpets contrast exposed geopolymer structural precast concrete soffits – the later a world first. The central atrium provides a calm respite space removed from the hum of an active campus

 

 

 

Caboolture Hospital Education & Skills Centre
Peddle Thorp

 

 

 

The Education & Skills Centre forms the centrepiece of a new master plan for Caboolture Hospital. Roofing materials seamlessly wrap and warp to become walls, allowing the abstract form to read as a singular form from below and above.

Commercial Architecture

NIOA National Headquarters
(ARTAS Architects) A complex and multi-functional building design that has blurred the boundaries beween corporate, sales and industrial facilities. The bold building forms reflect the business profile and provide it with a strong architectural presence in an industrial context.

 

 

 

15 Green Square Close
(Cottee Parker Architects) This 12 storey fringe commercial building yields maximum efficiencies for its client and users but most importantly it’s highly responsive to its tough context.

 

 

 

Architectural relief is achieved through a series of elements. A large awning defines the podium while projecting pedestrians. Overhanging slab and highly patterned spandrels within the tower animate while shading its occupants.

 

 

 

Triffid
(Aardvarc) “A large and menacing plant” this building isn’t, but a small insertion in the streetscape treated with passion and confident detailing. A crafted place for music entertainment with a courtyard positioned alongside a World War Two hanger that makes a positive contribution to this fast changing environment.

 

 

 

The Avro
(Hayes Anderson Lynch Architects) The topography of the site was explored as an opportunity to layer the building uses, as well as a strategy to activating both street frontages. Future pedestrian and vehicular connections to a neighbouring site strengthen the buildings presence and importance to this prominent corner site.

 

 

 

Brisbane Airport BNE Service Centre
(ThomsonAdsett) The position of the buildings allows high visibility and successfully solves the problem of car and pedestrian separation associated with the conflicting uses of a service station, fast food drive-thrus and a food court. Folded roof shapes that translate into the food court ceiling effectively define this service centre.

Public Architecture

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
(Richard Kirk Architect) Located on the threshold between residential development and regenerated bushland the Fitzgibbon Community Centre functions as a gateway structure and civic marker through its form and materiality. The flexible plan addresses both its setting and programme by providing a framework for the still forming community to occupy.

 

 

 

R.Q.Y.S Recycle Visitors Centre
(Robin Spencer Architects Pty. Ltd.) An existing building, earmarked for demolition, is taken apart; inventively transported by a flotilla of barges from The Port of Brisbane to the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron at Manly and repurposed to serve the long term administrative, corporate and celebratory needs of Brisbane’s sailing fraternity.

 

 

 

Bellbowrie
(bureau^proberts) A suburban pool facility responding to the client’s elevated concerns around flooding and overland flow.  The architecture creates a dramatic arrival path and vantage points for activities overlooking the pool and lawn. The building appropriates the endemic materials of the context to become its most expressive elements.

 

Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
(Conrad Gargett Lyons) Solving complex problems of urban design and architectural scale, The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane establishes a new benchmark in paediatric healthcare for the State of Queensland through innovative clinical procedures housed within legible spatial and formal gestures that place the child at the centre of care.