The 2014 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards were announced on Friday 16 May at Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane. From the sixty-two projects entered, twenty-nine have been honoured and will now progress to the state Queensland Architecture Awards, to be announced in Brisbane on 20 June 2014.
On this year’s jury were: Paul Worroll (co-chair, Reddog Architects), Kevin O’Brien (co-chair, Kevin O’Brien Architects), Elizabeth Anderson (Hayes Anderson Lynch Architects), Shaun Lockyer (Shaun Lockyer Architects), Fiona Gardiner (Heritage Branch, Department Environment and Heritage Protection), Paul Butterworth (Paul Butterworth Architect), Anna Chamberlin (Push Architects), Peter Dawson (Architectus Brisbane), Ray Giarola (Giarola Architects), Michael Hartwich (Wilson Architects), Stephen Long (Architectus Brisbane), Rebecca Moore (Conrad Gargett Riddel Ancher Mortlock Woolley), Scott Peabody (Arqus Design), Gavan Ranger (Ranger Design), George Taran (Multi Span Australia), Liam Proberts of bureau^proberts (state awards jury director), Paul Uhlmann (Paul Uhlmann Architects), Catherine Baudet (Ferrier Baudet Architects), Mark Jones (Architectus Brisbane) and Paul Curran (PUSH).
The John Dalton Award for Building of the Year
UQ Advanced Engineering Building by Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell (Joint Venture). Image:
Peter Bennetts
Jury Comment: The UQ Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), a collaboration of Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell exquisitely embodies a significant benchmark in sustainability within a complex building program of research, teaching and learning. AEB expertly embraces setting and place and has created an exemplar of engagement with renewable resources and local industry. The project provides teaching, research and laboratory facilities either side of a five storey timber clad, elongated central atrium with a double glazed roof. The axis terminates in an expressive timber trussed off-form concrete lecture theatre with the lake setting as backdrop. Thoroughly considered and exquisitely detailed.
House of the Year
Highgate Hill House by Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects.
Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
Highgate Hill House (Highgate Hill) – Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects
Jury Comment: A sublime piece of architecture, expressed through intricate detailing that is seamlessly engaged with an ironically humble brief. A visceral experience of occupation is manifest through a series of spatially modest but poetically executed rooms. A bespoke, controlled garden and a sequence of outdoor living zones complete the project.
Enduring Architecture Prize
Torbrek, 1960 (Highgate Hill) – AH Job and RP Froud
Regional Commendations
Commercial
55 Elizabeth Street (Brisbane) – BVN Donovan Hill
Heritage
Brisbane City Hall Restoration Project (Brisbane) – Tanner Kibble Denton Architects and GHD Architects in Association (TannerGHD)
New Farm Arbour (New Farm) – Owen and Vokes and Peters
RNA Industrial Pavilion Redevelopment (Bowen Hills) – Cox Rayner Architects
Interior
A&R Plastic Surgery by Base Architecture.
Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
A&R Plastic Surgery (Auchenflower) – Base Architecture
Australian Taxation Office Elizabeth Street (Brisbane) – Hassell
Ergon Energy Workplace (Fortitude Valley) – BVN Donovan Hill
Murphy Pipe and Civil (Albion) – Marc & Co Architects, Baber Studio and Jarosz Design
The Kenmore (Brisbane) – KP Architects
UQ Advanced Engineering Building (St Lucia) – Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell (Joint Venture)
UQ Chemistry Building Level 8 (St Lucia) – m3architecture
Public
Dakabin Animal Shelter by Brand + Slater Architects.
Image: Daniel Yu
Centre for Advanced Imaging (St Lucia) – John Wardle Architects + Wilson Architects, Architects in Association
Dakabin Animal Shelter (Dakabin) – Brand + Slater Architects
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital Upgrade (Cooper Plains) – Hames Sharley
St Peter’s Lutheran College Performing Arts Centre (Indooroopilly) – Phillips Smith Conwell Architects
UQ Advanced Engineering Building (St Lucia) – Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell (joint venture)
UQ Dayboro Vet (Dayboro) – Owen and Vokes and Peters
UQ Michie Building Extension – Wilson Architects
Residential – Houses (Alterations and Additions)
In-Between Room by Phorm Architecture+Design.
Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
Highgate Hill House (Highgate Hill) – Twofold Studio & Cox Rayner Architects
In-Between Room (Brisbane) – Phorm Architecture + Design
Indooroopilly Residence (Indooroopilly) – Kieron Gait Architects
Point Lookout Beach Shack (Point Lookout) – Marc & Co Architects
West End Tower (West End) – Owen and Vokes and Peters
Residential – Houses (New)
Courtyard Residence (Rochedale) – Blueprint Architects
Oxlade Drive House (New Farm) – James Russell Architect
Residential – Multiple Housing
Bonney Lane Affordable Housing by Cox Rayner Architects.
Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
Bonney Lane Affordable Housing (Fortitude Valley) – Cox Rayner Architects
Small Project
Baroona Road Mixed Use Redevelopment (Rosalie) – Shane Thompson Architects
PARC Pavilion (Fortitude Valley) – BVN Donovan Hill
Studio 217 (Spring Hill) – Amalie Wright & Richard Buchanan
Urban Design
Griffith University Nathan Campus Revitalisation (Nathan) – Cox Rayner Architects
