This project successfully creates a critical light rail address to the campus via a strategic and imaginative reworking of an existing facility. The architects have exploited an opportunity to create a new activated pedestrian spine which is cooled by breezes captured through the manipulation of the ‘venturi effect’. Shopfronts have been successful integrated into a coherent and rich series of spaces that are suitably informal. The architecture makes a clear and strong welcoming gesture to people arriving from the light rail, inviting use and exploration of a well-considered sequence of human-scaled spaces. Jury Comments, 2017 Gold Coast Urban Design Awards About 2017 Gold Coast Urban Design Awards, Commendation2016 AIA Queensland Architecture Awards State Medal (Beatrice Hutton Award) for Commercial ArchitectureGold Coast Building of the Year This project involved the re-planning and re-birthing of an ‘ugly duckling’ conglomerate structure that housed the Student Uni Bar, Function Room and some eating areas.The major architectural manoeuvres involved relocating the Bar to create a new pedestrian entry to the University that links the new light rail station through an alfresco dining area and into the campus. Architecturally the building’s many disparate parts are united in a clean palette of […]
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About 2008 AIA Queensland Architecture Awards Brisbane Regional Commendation QUAD represents the first trial of a new type of light industry, small lot development. Essentially conceived as a commercial townhouse module for small business use, the design evolved out of a desire to reduce the dominance of parking and vehicle manoeuvring on the ground level of the small site. The design creates a new typology for urban infill in light industry area. The focus on small business reduced the ‘grain’ of the building mass and offers a livelier streetscape. People business triumphs over vehicle business. The tenancy arrangement suits a wide variety of users, hence the flexibility sought by small operators in industrial zones is catered for. The other benefit is in terms of workplace culture whereby the focus on useable open space was given importance. Third level covered roof terraces would not normally survive the financial rigours of commercial property development. The desire for these types of spaces for workers in the modern workplace is catered for and the successful uptake of leases on the tenancies proves the model. Four small tenancies make up the 3 storey development. It was agreed that single vehicle access was appropriate to the […]
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