The Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards were presented on Friday 11 May at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Four-Room Cottage by Owen and Vokes and River Quay by Arkhefield received the two major awards. Queensland State Awards jury director Michael Raynor presented Four-Room Cottage with the House of the Year award and River Quay with the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year.
The name Four-Room Cottage refers to the old workers’ cottages of Brisbane’s inner suburbs. Typically, they were four equally sized rooms arranged around a central corridor, with a pyramid roof and a verandah.
“Deftly crafted joinery, ingenious devices and unexpected light shafts complete this small but richly layered house,” noted the jury. “[It is an] inspired translation of a tradional four-room cottage into a six-room one, with a perimeter circulation spine providing access to multiple service spaces, kitchen and external rooms which devolves into a series of garden terraces.”
South Bank’s River Quay is a premier restaurant precinct integrated with new public open space along the Brisbane River. The buildings are an extension of the broader landscape strategies and the building forms reinforce the fluid movement lines, creating a series of layered protective edges to the River Quay.
The jury commented, “River Quay is a commercial success both due to the quality of restaurants it has attracted and to the diversity of dining experiences it offers within a distinct and cohesive overall collective. It generates intimate scale for dining and civic scale through its soaring roofscapes … [it] materially and spatially enriches its river and gardens setting.”
Thirty-two other projects were awarded Regional Commendations. Categories and commendations are as follows:
Art & Architecture
St Leo’s College Entry by Ferrier Baudet Architects
My Own Private Neon Oasis by Donovan Hill
St John Ambulance by Tonic
Commercial Architecture
Eatons Hill Hotel and Function Centre by KP Architects
River Quay by Arkhefield
Heritage
Windsor Stone Cottage by Owen and Vokes
Interior Architecture
Harveys Bistro by Riddel Architecture
QUT Library Upgrade Kelvin Grove by Peddle Thorp Architects and James Cubitt Architects
385 St Pauls Terrace by Reddog Architects
Mansergh Shaw Level 5, The University of Queensland by m3architecture
Stokehouse by Arkhefield
Esquire Restaurant by Hassell
Queensland University of Technology H Block by Suters Architects
Public Architecture
The David Theile Olympic Swimming Pool, The University of Queensland by m3architecture
Marist College Science Centre, Ashgrove by bureau^proberts
Residential Architecture – Houses
Flinders by Base Architecture
Karboora by O’Neill Architecture
Chelmer Pool House by Owen and Vokes
Rosalie Residence by Richard Kirk Architect
Highgate Hill House by Jeremy Salmon Architects
Fig Tree Pocket House 2 by Plazibat & Jemmott Architects
Satou House by Arkhefield
Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing
Pier at Waterfront Newstead by Mirvac Design
Fitzgibbon Core Apartments by Arkhefield
King’s College Centenary Building by Wilson Architects
Small Project Architecture
Four Room Cottage by Owen and Vokes
Mountford Road House by Shaun Lockyer Architects
National School Pride, Canon Hill State School by Donovan Hill
Super Whatnot by Mar&Co in collaboration with Nielsen Workshop
28 Smith on Raff by Gilda Donegan Architect
Sustainable Architecture
385 St Pauls Terrace by Reddog Architects
Sheepstation Gully Environmental Learning Centre by SKM-S2F
Urban Design
Cross River Rail Detailed Feasibility Study by Hassell
River Quay by Arkhefield and Cardno S.P.L.A.T.
