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What might have been a rigid grid is animated by the simple gesture of shifting the top two containers across the facade.

Flipside Circus’s Brisbane Circus Centre by Blok Modular

A relocatable, flexible structure made from shipping containers supports this country’s efforts toward a circular economy as well as the stripped back ethos of contemporary Australian circus.

Commercial
The fire and rescue station manages to be both contemporary and respectful of the town’s “heritage city” moniker.

QFES 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.

Commercial
The collaborators have taken advantage of the overhead railway line to create a lush, shady sanctuary in the middle of subtropical Brisbane.

Tactical urbanism: Fish Lane

Richards & Spence, Aria Property Group

A neglected post-industrial area of central Brisbane is transformed into a vibrant arts precinct through a collaborative private delivery model with a nuanced approach at both the strategic and the fine-grain scale.

Commercial, Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
Treatment pods are enveloped in diaphanous curtains, providing privacy.

Elegant pragmatism: Light Years Skin Studio

Maher Design

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.

Commercial
The translucent polycarbonate screens between bays make for a spatially dynamic environment that fosters a sense of safety.

‘Welcome to Sparkletown’: Northshore Car Wash

Twohill and James‘s Googie-style car- and pet-washing facility is a community landmark that encourages social activity and adds character to its suburban Townsville location

Commercial
The lantern-like entry tower exaggerates the scale of the building and celebrates its structure.

Delicately rigged: Les Wilson Barramundi Discovery Centre

Bud Brannigan Architects’ building for a fish hatchery and interpretation centre in Karumba, Queensland is a poetic and uncompromising celebration of the town’s industrial legacy.

Commercial, Public / cultural
Regular ribs and strips of honey-coloured timber are key to the character of the project and a nod to the Queensland tradition of timber construction.

Theatrical and meticulous: The Kitchens

This new market hall, designed by ACME, Landini Associates and The Buchan Group, is a theatrical and meticulously crafted insertion in the Robina Town Centre redevelopment and a crucial contribution to an enriched urban space.

Commercial
The mixed-use development brings an unexpected geometry and rhythm to Echlin Street in West End, Townsville.

Fresh-faced: The Hub on Echlin

Architects North has created a curious and elegant self-generated development in the Townsville suburb of West End that was conceived as “a breathe of fresh air.”

Commercial, Residential
The recently completed 19 Wandoo Street project saw the conversion of an existing shed into a large retail space.

Incremental civic-ness: James Street Precinct

Richards and Spence has made a significant contribution to a whole fragment of Brisbane, using a rich and distinctive design language across a range of works for the James Street precinct.

Commercial
Ormuz Specialist Eye Clinic has a striking and articulated form – its inverted truss roof and array of slender columns make it easily identifiable.

Civic vision: Ormuz Specialist Eye Clinic

Loucas Zahos Architects has orchestrated a calming and intimate sequence of spaces for a new eye clinic in Caloundra, South East Queensland.

Commercial, Health
ABC Brisbane headquarters by Richard Kirk Architect.

ABC Brisbane

Richard Kirk’s design of the new ABC headquarters in Brisbane makes it a cultural landmark.

Commercial, Public / cultural
The facade has a distinctive web of outer columns.

One One One Eagle Street

Experimentation yielded an intriguing Brisbane tower by Cox Rayner Architects.

Commercial
A night view from the street.

Green Beacon Brewing Company

A Brisbane craft brewery fitout by James Cubitt Architects.

Commercial
White brickwork sharply defines the form.

Nineteen James

As part of a larger renewal program, Richards and Spence revitalizes a building on Brisbane’s James Street retail precinct.

Commercial
The flat, pixel-like colour blocks of the southern facade contrast with the patterned, folded metal shades of the western facade.

Santos Place

A rich irregularity and strange difference balance commercial imperatives in Donovan Hill’s addition to the Brisbane skyline.

Commercial
Shelters overlooking wetlands provide welcome surroundings for the workers of the industrial estate.

Sunshine Coast Industrial Park

This corporate industrial park by Gamble McKinnon Green shows industry being woven into a backdrop of vegetation and wetlands.

Commercial, Landscape / urban
View over the parkland along Lake Street towards the Cairns CBD.

Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal

Arkhefield, Total Project Group Architects

Cardno S.P.L.A.T.’s Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal is sculptural, elegant and controlled.

Commercial, Public / cultural
Projecting out beyond the front window, a yellow door offers a single point of solidity within the otherwise transparent facade.

620 Wickham Street

Practice as critique, and architect as heritage activist. In restoring Karl Langer’s 1954 shopfront, Riddel Architecture challenges the canon of Australian architectural modernism.

Commercial