2015 Queensland State Architecture Awards Results
PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
F.D.G Stanley Award for Public Architecture
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons
State Award
Gold Coast Aquatic Centre –Cox Rayner Architects
State Commendations
The Armitage Centre – James Cubitt Architects
Bellbowrie – bureau^proberts
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (NEW)
Robin Dods Awards for Residential Architecture – Houses (New)
Planchonella House – Jesse Bennett Architect Builder
State Award
The Edge – Charles Wright Architects
HOUSE IN NOOSA – MORQ with Tom Vandenberg (Architect of Record)
State Commendations
Davenport / Wilson House – Shane Thompson Architects
Gracemere House – Cox Rayner Architects
Christian Street House – James Russell Architect
Northern Rivers Beach House – refresh*design
Jule House – Claire Humphreys + Kevin O’Brien Architects
Backyard House – JOE ADSETT ARCHITECTS
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS)
Named Awards for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
Drury Street – Marc&Co
State Awards
Sandgate Pier House – Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)
Paddington House – Architectus
State Commendations
West End Cottage – Vokes and Peters (with Owen and Vokes and Peters)
Living Room – aardvarc
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING
Job & Froud Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Silt – bureau^proberts
State Award
M&A – bureau^proberts
State Commendation
Lake Weyba Duplex – Robinson Architects
Arena Apartments – Ellivo Architects
Attewell Street – bureau^proberts
JQ1 – Push
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
R.G. Suter Award for Educational Architecture
The University of Queensland Global Change Institute – HASSELL
State Award
St Sebastian’s Primary School – Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects and Architectus
The University of the Sunshine Coast Collaborative Futures Building – HASSELL
Griffith Health Centre – Cox Rayner Architects in association with Hames Sharley
State Commendations
Sir Samuel Griffith Centre – Cox Rayner Architects
Arethusa College Spring Hill Campus – Ceccato Hall + Associates Architects
Administration and Library, Woorabinda State School – Kevin O’Brien Architects
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE
Beatrice Hutton Award for Commercial Architecture
Triffid – aardvarc
State Commendations
Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Café – Sparks Architects
Royal Flying Doctor Service – Charleville Base – DM2 Architecture
SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Hayes & Scott Award for Small Project Architecture
Frew Park Arena Play Structure – Guymer Bailey Architects
State Commendation
St Vincent de Paul Inala Family Support Centre – Push
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
G.H.M. Addison Award for Interior Architecture
The University of Queensland Global Change Institute – HASSELL
State Award
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital Interior Architecture – Conrad Gargett Lyons
BVN Brisbane Studio – BVN
State Commendation
TRYP on Constance – Shane Denman Architects
Postgraduate Centre for Training Townsville – Architectus
Kent Road – bureau^proberts
ENDURING ARCHITECTURE
Robin Gibson Award for Enduring Architecture
Chapel of St Peter’s Lutheran College, Indooroopilly – Dr Karl Langer
HERITAGE
Don Roderick Award for Heritage
Queensland Rail Roma Street Heritage Building – Stage 1 Stabilization – Architectus with Michael Kennedy Heritage Architect in Association
State Award
Goddard Building Rooftop Expansion – Conrad Gargett
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture
The University of Queensland Global Change Institute – HASSELL
State Award
Sir Samuel Griffith Centre – Cox Rayner Architects
State Commendation
The University of Sunshine Coast Collaborative Futures Building – HASSELL
URBAN DESIGN
Karl Langer Award for Urban Design
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons
State Award
M&A – bureau^proberts
The Australian Institute of Architects Prize for Art & Architecture (QLD)
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – Conrad Gargett Lyons
Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture
Fitzgibbon Community Centre – Richard Kirk Architect
2015 Queensland State Architecture Awards Citations
PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
Gold Coast Aquatic Centre (Cox Rayner Architects) This is a fine piece of public infrastructure sited at the heart of quality waterfront parklands, and incorporates sub-tropical and urban design principles. It addresses Commonwealth Games overlay and legacy planning. Its adaptive re-use of the site’s previous Southport Pool, with retention of key elements, builds on the Coasts’ cultural heritage. Key to the ongoing design success of this public facility will be a quality design management process, with respect to evolving programs and spatial requirements.
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 program by providing a framework for the still forming community to occupy.
The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum (Julianne McAlloon Architects Pty Ltd) The clever use of the ‘tin-shed’ typology provides a surprisingly appropriate exhibition space for this private armour and artillery collection. The restrained interior and stately façade evokes a connection with military imagery. Large openings for cross ventilation and natural sky lighting have created a very efficient building envelope.
The Armitage Centre (James Cubitt Architects) This inventive tilt-up concrete “black box” theatre sensitively embraces the existing adjacent church hall using its brick rear wall as both a container and a historical feature. The west facing tilt-up concrete and glass portion designates the new building’s entry providing an understated backdrop to the heritage brick church hall. The new theatre enriches the current program of theatre facilities and productions available at the Empire precinct, reinventing the architectural significance of the existing church hall.
Australian Institute of Marine Science National Sea Simulator (Cox Rayner Architects in association with Tippett Schrock Architects) AIMS is the new world class marine science research facility. The architects unpack the exceptionally complex functional brief into a compact, cost effective and functional building outcome that sits comfortably within its natural pristine environment.
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.
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) Working between the perspective of a child and the scale of the city, the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital transforms a large and complex piece of health care infrastructure into a series of framed moments which both surprise and delight.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (NEW)
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.
Byron Bay House (Architectus) The Byron Bay House is a very competent architectural addition to a quality rural landscape. Space and light flow well through the articulated two storey timber dwelling. The modern detail and spatial planning is functional and well considered. The capturing of superb view lines from within and the integration of indoor – outdoor relations help achieve a sense of place and belonging.
Miami Hill House (BDA Architecture) A steep, west facing site has informed this very private home arranged around a vertical circulation spine. Living spaces on the upper most level engage with location and climate and seamlessly integrate indoor and outdoor space. Commercial construction methods are crafted to a domestic scale through the use of texture.
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.
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.
Northern Rivers Beach House (refresh*design) This understated elevated residence blends well with its sub-tropical coastal landscape. It exhibits architectural and structural resolution in an innovative way, within a clear functional planning framework. The design management process with this project was well conveyed, and a cost effective exemplar for this constrained site was achieved. The realisation of Stage 2 with its informed site planning, will contribute well to this evolving coastal community.
The Edge (Charles Wright Architects) This house is an impressive response to a difficult site. The robust shell like concrete envelope gives the client privacy and frames the panoramic view. Raw materials and the angular form, which projects the living areas over the hillside, create a commanding presence for the building.
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 on the mid-level in cosy angular spaces that unfold into the forest floor garden and embrace the central courtyard tree.
Planchonella House (Jesse Bennett Architect Builder) Planchonella house is tucked into the rainforest along a ridge edge of Mt Whitfield. The building humbly engages the occupants with the environment. Pockets of space are carefully crafted and detailed, creating places that are both calming and invigorating, with elements of quite delight.
Backyard House (JOE ADSETT ARCHITECTS) The Backyard House is a surprising project. What appears initially as an expensive house opening onto 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.
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 client’s 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 steep sloping site, a west facing outlook and a panoramic view. Nestled into the hill, the building allows for varying levels of inhabitation.
Noosa House (John Burgess Architects) Located above the high dunes fronting Sunshine beach this substantial residence captures the expanse of the north, eastern and southern views along the coast whilst providing a discreet but sleek street frontage. The simple “H” shaped plan provides clarity to the flow between spaces providing views to and from various parts of the home across the private central courtyard and the simple but stylish finishes complement the sense of luxury.
House in Noosa (MORQ) A sublime response to site and place, this cliff side house overlooking Laguna bay weaves its way narrowly between protected mature vegetation. Materiality, detail and execution poetically fuse the house to site becoming at one with it. Internally the spatial experience is one of serenity, calm and delightful restraint.
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 skilfully crafted is a surprising but logical outcome to classic local challenges of screening, privacy, ventilation and shelter.
Ridgeway at Sunrise (Push) This addition creates a new central covered outdoor living room that is protected from the elements while still maintaining a visual connection to the street. The house has a lovely relaxed sensibility and immediately feels like a classic beach house.
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.
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.
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 unit’s 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 firepit engages and mediates between structures and the landscape extends gathering opportunities into the garden.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – MULTIPLE HOUSING
Marina Residences (Sunland Group) Marina Residences challenges the multi-residential typology. Part of a broader masterplan, these twin buildings balance monumental and sculptural qualities at a mid-rise residential scale through the articulation of a clear design purpose and highly resolved detail at a domestic scale, within a landscape that is predominantly floodplain.
Lake Weyba Duplex (Robinson Architects) Lake Weyba Duplex presents a successful solution to what can be a challenging building type. The design utilises its corner site to provide two residences that enjoy a feeling of separation and privacy. The spaces within the building are characterised by natural light, ventilation and a strong connection to the outside. Externally a refined palette of materials presents an attractive and engaging building to the street.
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.
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.
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
Varsity College Junior Learning Centre (Fluid Architecture) This project embodies the client’s vision of learning spaces connected by a semi-enclosed street at a generous scale that encourages collaborative and interactive activities, and has strong permeability and legibility with the existing campus. Playful articulation demonstrates a considered response to location and climate. Future expansion and flexibility is provided for within the building footprint.
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 reduces 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 pallette of an adjacent brick church are playfully abstracted to create delightful contribution to the campus and the broader public domain.
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.
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.
Noosa Flexible Learning Centre (Fulton Trotter Architects) This building offers to disadvantaged secondary students a learning environment distinctly informal and non-institutional. A loose sequence of buildings strung together by a raised timber platform weaving through a pre-existing natural landscape offers a natural alternative to prescribed hierarchical learning.
The University of the Sunshine Coast Collaborative Futures Building (HASSELL) This building is a vibrant new campus building which promotes social engagement and Student activation in a learning landscape. It progresses multiple concepts previously developed in earlier outstanding projects at the university and through early workshopping has challenged and developed new concepts and opportunities, resulting in a popular and elegant structure.
Hymba Yumba Community Hub (Deicke Richards) This school has grown from a strong evocative design response to a highly constrained site lying between a noisy arterial road and a council water reserve. A compact three storey building turns its back to the busy road, opening its active edge to views of a creek and forest beyond. The verandahs and linking stairs on the active edge, frame and connect students to an external ground level play space which facilitates informal assembly.
St. Joseph’s College New Junior Science Centre and GLA Block (Sims White Architects and Kratzmann Architects) This exemplary structure is deftly detailed and memorable in experience within a limited budget. Subtly composed, refined and resolved to deliver a facility that sits seamlessly between an existing larger classroom block and detached residential neighbours. Spaces are enriched with sensitively considered materials and each moment is beautifully articulated.
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.
Administration and Library, Woorabinda State School (Kevin O’Brien Architects) The Woorabinda State School is embedded with knowledge gained from remote working practice. The project reaches out to its community by orientating the building on a new cultural axis and through the creation of a public plaza. The result is a gathering place of practical relevance with cultural meaning.
Griffith Health Centre (Cox Rayner Architects in association with Hames Sharley) Located on a prominent corner of the Gold Coast campus, this large scale project contributes to the maturing and consolidation of the campus. A very complex brief of specialised clinical and learning spaces have been united around a central atrium, creating a new civic space with a strong sense of identity and competently modulating the relationship between public spaces and learning and research facilities.
Daintree Rainforest Observatory(CA Architects Pty Ltd) This cluster of self-sufficient pods provides flexible accommodation and learning spaces that encourage interaction with the environment and other students, utilising communal breezeways which successfully catch the north easterly breezes and provide framed views. The experience will be further enhanced as the site is revegetated.
Good Counsel College – Westwing Block F (Total Project Group Architects) This project included a new library and general learning spaces with a large external walkway which connects the central college area to the street entrance over a steep slope. The classrooms sit neatly under an impressive roof canopy and the building provides a new modern identity for the college.
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 latter a world first. The central atrium provides a calm respite space removed from the hum of an active campus.
COMMERICAL ARCHITECTURE
1MP Company and ADFIS – Service Police Precinct Lavarack Barracks Redevelopment Stage 4 (Conrad Gargett) A quiet strength is expressed in the rational steel framing deployed throughout the site. Robust and naturally ventilated buildings respond to the military values of professionalism and efficiency.
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 protecting 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.
Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Café (Sparks Architects) Bells Reach Sales/Vision Centre and Café is a prefabricated modular building that exhibits a high degree of resolution with regard to constructability, planning and detail and represents a departure from a known typology of the standard sales centre. Elements such as the translucent fabric roof, the quality finishes and external screening treatments contribute to an overall sense of joy and delight.
Royal Flying Doctor Service – Charleville Base (DM2 Architecture) This project includes a varied collection of steel framed buildings providing elegant solutions for aircraft accommodation and offices. Clerestory natural light is provided to the office areas within. The architect embraced a collaborative approach to procurement partnering with a builder to evolve a cost efficient building system that delivered excellent value for money for the client.
SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Frew Park Arena Play Structure (Guymer Bailey Architects) This park adopts uniquely designed play equipment for a variety of user groups. The building forms and materials reference the original historical context of the site. An original design solution that contributes masterfully to the community and responds positively to the context, landscape, and 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.
Grow Your Wealth (9point9 Architects) Grow Your Wealth project is the dramatic transformation of a 1970’s weatherboard high-set residence typology into a boutique commercial building. The architect’s refined and cost-effective manipulation of the old fabric sets a benchmark for future adaptations along the busy arterial road. The contemporary building expression delivers a refreshing corporate image.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
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.
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.
Shaw & Co. (Daarc) Shaw and Co. delivered a skilful adaptation of the original 1925 building and its former industrial character under a small budget. The architect’s design approach establishes casual and playful dialogue between past and present, using a raw and restrained material palette. Within the context of City Lane, Shaw & Co. showcases a positive contribution to the rejuvenation of the CBD’s public domain.
SABA Building (Aspect Architects and Project Managers) The successful redevelopment of this two storey high street building has given a positive and creative framework for the future direction of the CBD. The highly considered interior design has allowed for a diverse collective of tenancies and introduces a new walkway link between Ruthven and Duggan Streets.
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.
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 yet cohesive colour and material palette.
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 building’s new identity.
Postgraduate Centre for Training Townsville (Architectus) Postgraduate Centre for Training, is the training hub for professionals from inland and coastal regions of North Queensland. The architects deliver balanced, refined and innovative conceptual framework with a variety of well integrated spaces along the main circulation spine culminating with full height glazing at the northern end with views of Magnetic Island.
Kent Road (bureau^proberts) The successful 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 are carefully considered with a subtle layering of privacy screens and interwoven planting.
HERITAGE
Archerfield Airport (Shane Thompson Architects) An adaptive reuse of the iconic World War II 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.
Queensland Rail Roma Street Heritage Building – Stage 1 Stabilization (Architectus with Michael Kennedy Heritage Architect in association) An exemplary materials conservation project which has rescued the historically 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.
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.
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, establishes a new benchmark in paediatric healthcare for the State. Innovative clinical procedures housed within legible spatial and formal gestures place the child at the centre of care.
THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS PRIZE FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE (QLD)
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.
