PROJECTS

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.

The State Library of Queensland has become one of Australia’s most cherished public living rooms. We asked several people with different connections to the library to reflect on their experiences of the building and its spaces.

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.

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.

In a tiny Central Queensland town, an elliptical rampart structure built from local stone celebrates a 100-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton and creates a distinguished landmark for palaeontological tourism in the region.

On Rockhampton’s riverbank, a new art museum designed by local and national practices in partnership connects the city’s architectural heritage with contemporary art and culture.

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.

At JCU’s Townsville campus, a creative collective has come together to produce an academic and social hub amplified by the seamless integration of art and architecture.

The design for Australia’s largest regional art gallery encompasses convivial interiors to attract a broad audience, while its bold exterior repeats the motif used by ARM in previous structures for the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct.

Two architectural practices continue their ongoing partnership in this rejuvenation of the “Opera House of the Outback,” showing admiration and respect for the original 1980s structure while enriching the visitor experience and delivering conceptually rigorous work to the region.

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

Mon Repos Turtle Centre by Kirk navigates firm constraints to create a focal point for research and conservation.

Through inventive tectonics, Wilson Architects has overlaid a picturesque landscape experience with allusions to an earlier settler culture.

Bud Brannigan Architects’ building for a fish hatchery and interpretation centre in Karumba, Queensland is a poetic and uncompromising celebration of the town’s industrial legacy.

Cox Architecture’s Waltzing Matilda Centre is a tribute to the community of Winton, embedded in the rugged landscape that inspired the ballad to which it is dedicated.

Working within tight budgetary constraints, Bark Design Architects’ Curra Community Hall elegantly reinterprets a regional typology to create a flexible and memorable space for a small rural community.

In its award-winning redevelopment of a much-loved Carrara golf course, Shiro Architects has crafted a “silent and self-assured” building that points to the Bauhaus and the heroes of modernist architecture.

Sheona Thomson considers the lasting impact of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games venues on communities, “where arguably infrastructure is playing catch-up to growth.”

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.

PHAB Architects has revived a former condensed milk factory in Toogoolawah, Queensland through considered restoration and contemporary gestures.

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

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

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

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

The collaborative research laboratory by Wilson Architects and Donovan Hill.

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

Cox Rayner Architects imprints the tectonic force of the landscape into the walls of a Queensland outback museum.

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

Malcolm Middleton Architects and AECOM add a human dimension to civic infrastructure.

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