Sheona is a Senior Lecturer in architecture in the School of Design, and the Teaching and Learning Director in the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering at QUT. She coordinates units in design and sustainability, architecture culture and space, and collaborative design. She holds qualifications in architecture from the University of Queensland and in education from Queensland University of Technology. She is a regular contributor to the Australian design media publications Houses and Artichoke, and an occasional contributor to Architecture Australia.
Sheona Thomson's Latest contributions
River Hearth House by Arcke
Rebuffing the temptation of the singular view, this new house evokes memories of the site’s past occupation to craft a place for living and making on the Brisbane River.
Brisbane South State Secondary College by BVN
Grand in scale yet responsive to its context, this addition to Brisbane’s “knowledge corridor” embodies a layered narrative of connections to neighbours, to Country and to community.
The houses of Steendijk
For more than two decades, this Queensland-based architecture studio has been designing inventive homes characterized by precision, meticulous detail and a passion for making.
One to watch: Furminger
Builder-turned-architect Chris Furminger’s architectural sensibility is grounded in his knowledge of the making process and a fascination with material experimentation.
‘Magnetism of the landscape’: Poinciana House
Taking root beneath a timber Queensland cottage, this carefully tuned addition knits an experience of the immediate and distant landscape into the daily patterns of domestic life.
Enhancing neighbourliness: Toowong Renovation
A new addition to a much-loved Brisbane cottage unearths the latent possibilities of a sloping suburban site, interlacing house and garden while preserving the neighbourliness of its laneway locale.
Elegant pragmatism: Light Years Skin Studio
Sculptural formations of joinery and a trio of individual treatment pods within shrouds of sheer curtaining distinguish the unique interior of Light Years Skin Studio on Queensland’s Gold Coast, designed by Maher Design.
Designed for the long run: Annerley House
Zuzana and Nicholas’s modest alteration to a Brisbane cottage finds opportunities for spatial richness in a small footprint.
The city classroom: Fortitude Valley State Secondary College
At Brisbane’s first vertical school, by Cox Architecture, students are experiencing a different kind of secondary education that makes the most of the urban surroundings.
Building for the climate: Goskar House
A Brisbane house by Anna O’Gorman Architect balances economy with impact, space with sustainability, function with aesthetics.