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Carefully planned playgrounds can be key urban infrastructure that serves the whole community.

Bradbury Park Play Scape by Alcorn Middleton

Alcorn Middleton Architecture

The agility of its small practice enabled Alcorn Middleton to assemble a collaborative design team to win a competition for a local playground; the outcome is an experientially rich piece of active urban infrastructure for the whole community.

Public / cultural
New Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

New Farm Neighbourhood Centre by Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

Vokes and Peters with Zuzana and Nicholas

With its alterations and additions to an inner-suburban Brisbane Queenslander, a local design team created spaces that work together like an ensemble cast to encourage human habitation and celebrate the community’s daily routines.

Public / cultural
Unlike the structure it has replaced, the new pavilion is permeable, preserving sightlines and ease of movement.

Riverside Green by Hassell

Ostensibly a simple sequence of spaces, Riverside Green is a skilfully designed facility in Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands that is adaptable enough to allow the public to curate its own urban experience.

Public / cultural
The collaborators have taken advantage of the overhead railway line to create a lush, shady sanctuary in the middle of subtropical Brisbane.

Tactical urbanism: Fish Lane

Richards & Spence, Aria Property Group

A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.

Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Angled handrails on the front stairs add an unlikely sense of flamboyance and reframe the building’s forecourt as a plaza that invites public gatherings.

The cosmopolitan and the local: Milani Gallery and Studios

Vokes and Peters has refurbished a warehouse in Brisbane’s West End, incorporating the character of the subtropical context.

Public / cultural
The Anna Meares Velodrome, completed in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, is part of the wider Sleeman Sports Complex in Brisbane.

A parametric quest: Anna Meares Velodrome

Cox Architecture has harnessed the full potential of parametric design to create a “taut and elegant” velodrome at Brisbane’s Sleeman Sports Complex, inspired by the speed, precision and expertise of track cycling.

Public / cultural
Lush, tropical vegetation is fast enveloping the steel arbour in the Secret Garden.

Lady Cilento Hospital landscapes

For Brisbane’s new Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Conrad Gargett created an impressive suite of rooftop gardens full of drama and novelty.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital occupies a prominent site in South Bank, Brisbane and serves as an urban counterpoint to the CBD.

Urban vigour: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital

Brisbane’s new children’s hospital by Conrad Gargett Lyons is a powerful work of city making.

Health, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
The Advanced Engineering Building, viewed from the north, showing the glazed volume housing the studios.

Advanced Engineering Building

An new integrated teaching and research facility at University of Queensland.

Education, Public / cultural
Original marble surfaces, plasterwork and oak joinery.

Brisbane City Hall

One of Queensland’s most important heritage buildings, reborn by Tanner GHD in Association.

Interiors, Public / cultural
The 8-storey, 40-metre-tall TRI building.

Translational Research Institute

The collaborative research laboratory by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill.

Health, Interiors, Public / cultural
ABC Brisbane headquarters by Richard Kirk Architect.

ABC Brisbane

Richard Kirk’s design of the new ABC headquarters in Brisbane makes it a cultural landmark.

Commercial, Public / cultural
Courtrooms are brought to the edge of the building to show transparency.

Brisbane Supreme and District Courts

Architectus and Guymer Bailey Architects boldly express ideas of justice and openness.

Public / cultural
St Vincent de Paul Inala Family Support Centre by Push.

St Vincent de Paul Inala support centre

Push creates a beacon of light, both metaphorically and physically, for underprivileged people.

Public / cultural
The entrance is flanked by two existing inclined concrete “buttresses.” A canopy appears supported by five columns.

Nudgee College Tierney Auditorium

M3architecture brings pattern to the fore in Brisbane.

Education, Public / cultural