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Year completed
University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed
Behind an apparently simple, low-budget yet beautiful building lies a rigorous design process that demonstrates the value of collaborative on-site engagement, fresh approaches to standard materials, and a flexible attitude to changing circumstances.
Niwa House by John Ellway
A clever and nimble adaptation to the humble Queensland worker’s cottage learns from the verandah, enabling its occupants to live on the edges of house, garden and neighbourhood.
ResidentialBradbury Park Play Scape by Alcorn Middleton
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 / culturalThe Cottage by Justin Humphrey Architects
Preferring elaboration over eradication, this adaptation of a 1970s house disrupts pervading Gold Coast attitudes toward older housing and revels in its suburban context.
ResidentialY3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect with Donovan Hill
This artfully composed outdoor room reconsiders the central courtyard of a seminal Queensland home, providing a dog-proof filter between the house and the street.
Landscape / urbanJames Garden Pavilion by UME Architecture
Set in the subtropical verdure of Brisbane’s New Farm, this outdoor room is an ornamental frame of blockwork and foliage that contributes to an elevated, extroverted domestic life.
Landscape / urbanRiver 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.
ResidentialFirst House: Honeydew by Sparks Architects
In the design of their own home on the Sunshine Coast, Dan and Margo Sparks relished the chance to investigate sustainable design and construction. Dan looks back on the lessons they learnt about efficient, small-scale living.
ResidentialQFES North Coast Region Headquarters and Maryborough Fire and Rescue Station
An elegant new community facility in regional Queensland meets strict operational requirements while respecting its heritage neighbour and dramatically reducing construction carbon emissions.
CommercialPaperbark Pod by Bark Architects
Emblemizing an ambition to build small but better, this contemporary beach shack on the Sunshine Coast sustains a life lived outdoors.
ResidentialSydney House by Cavill Architects
A contemporary yet complementary addition to a 1950s house in New Farm is a tribute to the unsung history of brick in Brisbane’s residential architecture.
ResidentialSpring Hill House by Myers Ellyett
Robust and refined, this extensive reworking of a timber-and-tin cottage in Brisbane’s Spring Hill offers one busy family a calming backdrop to life outdoors.
ResidentialOxlade by J.AR Office
A minimalist approach to a 1960s apartment renovation pares back extraneous elements and, through the process of subtraction, generously rewards its owners.
ResidentialThe Disco by J.AR Office
In Brisbane, emerging studio J.AR Office has created a hair salon where stainless steel joinery, cool lighting and polished concrete evoke the spatial qualities of a slick nightclub experience.
InteriorsHawthorne Siblings by Refresh Design
Two micro-lot houses in Brisbane are the companions to an existing Queenslander in this considered solution to suburban densification, which pairs the best qualities of traditional detached housing with the convenience of inner-city living.
ResidentialBrisbane 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.
EducationRevisited: State Library of Queensland
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.
Public / culturalNew Farm Neighbourhood Centre by 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 / culturalFirst House: Kieron Gait Architects
For Kieron Gait, this modest renovation in the Brisbane suburbs was a ‘spare-time labour of love.’ Completed in 2008 by Kieron and his partner Wei Shun Lee, it was both their own home and the unintentional start to their practice.
ResidentialRiverside 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 / culturalMoonshine by Brit Andresen Architect
On Minjerribah, an architect’s keen knowledge of the island setting distils an immersive experience of nature, inspiring a house that is at once architecturally rigorous and environmentally sensitive.
ResidentialHopscotch House by John Ellway Architect
This Brisbane house by John Ellway Architect is inspired by the simple joy of a children’s game.
ResidentialGreen House by Steendijk
Striking a balance between old and new, this architect’s own home reinvents the traditional Queenslander with confidence and precision, achieving elegance and openness in a compact plan.
ResidentialHoliday mode: Hastings Park Apartment
Overlooking the main beach in Queensland’s Noosa, this house captures that relaxed, beach holiday feeling.
ResidentialLess house, more life: Spring Hill House
A Brisbane family of five disrupts the conventions of the suburban family home, instead pursuing a ‘city change’ that offers a compelling formula for less house, more life.
ResidentialAndrew N. Liveris Building, The University of Queensland
At the University of Queensland, two design teams have interwoven narrative, history and a vision for the future to craft a building that reflects its faculty’s culture of open collaboration and provides a hub for the St Lucia campus.
Education‘Ingeniously demure’: Muttaburrasaurus Interpretation Centre
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.
Public / culturalOne for all: York
Function is key for this family of four, and their reimagined Queenslander is at once sophisticated and relaxed.
ResidentialInstructive reimagining: Pinjarra Hills House
Careful and concise, this addition resolves the problems of an unremarkable 1970s brick home in Brisbane, thoughtfully replanning it to support relaxed family living attuned to its subtropical locale.
ResidentialA mini metropolis: Live Work Share House
Three spaces, ten occupants and one flexible plan: Bligh Graham Architects’ Live Work Share House is a multi-use prototype where everyone can feel at home.
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