2015 Central Queensland Regional Architecture Awards Results


J.W. Wilson Award for Building of the Year
Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment

Regional Commendations

  • Burnett Youth Learning Centre Trade & Technologies Building – Medek Architecture

  • Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment – Woods Bagot in collaboration with Billard Leece Partnership

  • Gumly Gumly – Tomas O’Malley Architect

  • Hamilton Island Residence – Sprout Architects

Jury Citations

Empire Apartments
(Cottee Parker Architects) The functional program evolved out of finely tuned market research to optimise a diverse offering of retail, hotel and apartments. The project incorporates sub-tropical and urban design responses that activates the Riverside street frontage, and offers unique, well researched and tailored architectural solutions for each functional aspect of the project.

Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment
(Woods Bagot in collaboration with Billard Leece Partnership) The Mackay Base Hospital is the result of a considered process of engagement.  Complex decanting issues are influential in the result which sees the creation of a central public spine, connecting the building to landscape and reducing signage.  This project also challenges the typology of hospital administration space.

Burnett Youth Learning Centre Trade & Technologies Building
(Medek Architecture) This de-institutionalised shed delivers a valuable social and educational facility whereby the architecture directly affects the users’ vocational outcomes. Simple and economic, this climatically responsive building is a result of clever design strategies, well prioritised expenditure and robust and honest detailing.

Gumly Gumly
(Tomas O’Malley Architect)  An assembly of spaces that revolve around an outdoor living room, providing a sheltered focal space carved out of a ‘cube’. The interiors are sensitively crafted out of timber, the living spaces awash with natural light and sea breezes, and the planning carefully informed by the clients living patterns.

Hamilton Island Residence
(Sprout Architects) The product of remote working practices and a process spanning seven years, the Hamilton Island Residence juggles; the challenges of island construction, a steeply sloping site, a west facing outlook and a panoramic view.    Nestled into the hill, the building allows for varying levels of inhabitation.