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205 North Quay / Hassell + REX + Richards and Spence

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000

205 North Quay asserts its commercial value not by willful form, but by shrink-wrapping a slender, highly efficient structure in an equally resourceful, state-of-the-art enclosure tailored to Brisbane's subtropical climate. To enable the façade's high glazing ratio and VLT, and excellent interior lighting and color rendition, the building's long northwest and southeast faces are veiled by a copper-anodized, rolled-aluminum sunscreen composed of large ovals, geometrically tailored to their orientation.

Milan Design Week 2026 and Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Cathedral Precinct in Sydney: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:30:00 +0000

As major cultural events, institutional transformations, and new architectural commissions unfold across different geographies, this week's discourse highlights how architecture operates at the intersection of public life, creativity, and long-term adaptation. With Milan Design Week 2026 foregrounding process, experimentation, and citywide participation, the projects and initiatives emerging this week point to a broader shift toward openness, accessibility, and experiential engagement across disciplines and urban contexts. Ongoing investments in cultural infrastructure, from new museums to large-scale renovations and competition-winning proposals, further underscore how institutions continue to recalibrate their spatial and social roles in response to evolving environmental, technological, and cultural demands.

Brisbane Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery / Studio Collective

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Brisbane Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery's new flagship in the heart of the James Street precinct redefines healthcare interiors through the lens of boutique hospitality design. Interior designers Studio Collective have replaced clinical cues with a softer, more refined design language, drawing on warmth, tactile materiality, and a human-centred approach to care.

Rotterdam’s Sustainability Landmark and Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Stadium: This Week’s Review

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture this week reflects the intersections of legacy, authorship, and social responsibility, as practices navigate questions of identity, recognition, and public engagement. Legal rulings, major competition shortlists, and large-scale urban proposals illustrate how architecture continues to operate across cultural, institutional, and environmental arenas. From sustainability-driven landmarks and transformative waterfront developments to iconic commercial towers, projects demonstrate approaches to ecological strategies and public programming. At the same time, global observances such as World Hearing Day highlight how spatial design shapes inclusion and accessibility, reminding the profession that the built environment can influence participation, learning, and well-being for diverse communities.

Tighty Whitey House / Maytree Studios

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

On a steep, compact site in inner-city Brisbane, Tighty Whitey House redefines what's possible within a small urban footprint. Designed by Maytree Studios, the project challenges conventional ideas about scale, privacy, and density—proving that clever design and restraint can create generosity in the most modest conditions.

Birdwood House / Peter Besley

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Birdwood is a house on a local street tracing the ridge of one of Mount Coot-tha's numerous spurs ("Coot-tha" denotes "Place of Honey" for the traditional Turrbal and Jagera people).

From Austin to Tokyo: Architecture Now Highlights Global Projects Shaping Airports, Cities, and Cultural Destinations

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This edition of Architecture Now brings together projects that explore how architecture is reshaping global gateways, cultural destinations, and urban living. SOM's design for a new Arrivals and Departures Hall in Austin and Scott Brownrigg's Heathrow West proposal highlight the airport as a civic threshold, while Kerry Hill Architects' three-tower precinct in Brisbane emphasizes public space and subtropical landscapes in high-density housing. Zaha Hadid Architects' beachfront tower in Florida extends Miami's sculptural coastal tradition, and Pharrell Williams and NIGO's Japa Valley Tokyo introduces a temporary cultural district blending art, hospitality, and retail. Together, these initiatives reflect how infrastructure, lifestyle, and design intersect to define contemporary urban experience.

Freihaus / Gockel Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Located in Brisbane's inner-city suburb of Bardon, the "Freihaus" involved significant alterations and additions to a traditional pre-war house on a small lot. The owners sought a flexible home that responds to the evolving needs of contemporary living while emphasizing passive climatic control and ample natural light. A key desire was to create a strong visual connection between the main internal space and the pool terrace.

High Street House / Lineburg Wang

Hana Abdel — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 03:00:00 +0000

A tiny pre-1911 cottage on a tiny 253m2 site, the design works hard to find generosity. The project is limited by size. The house challenges the commonly prescribed room requirements of today's homes and works with strategies of expanding constrained space to ensure an outcome that does not feel small. Planning consolidates room types and circulation is programmed to ensure that all space is useful. A split-level diagram shares volumes and walls manipulate sight lines to edit out neighbors and instead invite long vistas to the adjacent borrowed landscape.

Stafford Vet Hospital / Vokes and Peters

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The Stafford Vet Hospital is a world-class specialist veterinary facility operated by Queensland Veterinary Specialists and Pet ER, offering both elective and emergency patient care. As well as promoting animal welfare, the wellness of clients and staff is equally considered in the design of the hospital. Good clinical work is delivered when people feel healthy, professional and happy. This is the principal role of architecture in this setting.

Pinjarra Hills House / Sullivan Skinner

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

On sloping land beside a creek in the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane, Pinjarra Hills House adjusts and extends a simple 1970s brick dwelling to better engage its occupants with the landscape, and each other, as part of their daily lives.

Sunrise Studio / Bark Design Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Bark Architects designed Sunrise Studio as a small tree house with big views. It recedes into and embraces the surrounding bush landscape whilst embracing its expansive coastal views over the Pacific Ocean. This two-bedroom studio is for our client’s daughter and grandson to live connected to family but with privacy and their own secluded space. It is a separate dwelling sited adjacent to an original Quadroped house designed by Gabriel Poole in 1983. Gabriel Poole (1934–2020) was a celebrated Queensland architect known for innovative residential projects and pioneering low-cost, prefabricated designs.

University of Queensland Andrew N. Liveris Building / Lyons + m3architecture

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Lyons + m3architecture won the competition to design the new Andrew N. Liveris Building, which includes significant space assigned for the School of Chemical Engineering. The design concept focuses on creating a physical environment and identity that will allow the School to reinforce its distinctive strengths – outwardly open and transparent, and inwardly intense and focused.

Beck Street House / Lineburg Wang

Hana Abdel — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000

A compromised site burdened most significantly by flood and overland flow, the project is a balance of contrasts, defined by conditions below and above the council’s Minimum Habitable Floor Level (MHFL). A contrast of mass & utility in the flood plain, of lightness & gathering in the canopy of a captured gum tree.

Cannon Hill Anglican College D Block / Reddog Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Working in conjunction with the master plan, D Block is a high-profile location for the campus forming a critical connection for the linear journey from Prep to Year 12 for Cannon Hill Anglican College. The building is a natural entry point into the campus and is an important intersection between the senior and middle schools.

Australian Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai Echoes the Country's Distinctive Culture and Landscape

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:30:00 +0000

Brisbane-based architecture firm bureau^proberts has unveiled its design for the Australian Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, UAE. The pavilion serves as a cultural contribution with large social space that translates Australia’s distinctive landscape and skies through a cloud-like form suspended over folding timber. The structure "captures the local sensibility" by highlighting the welcoming and warm nature of the Australians through the central and sheltered gathering area.

The Role of Open BIM Technology in one of Queensland's Largest Developments

Olivia Bartolini — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 06:45:00 +0000

With new advancements in software opportunities, Open BIM is tiding over the disconnects between different project sectors, making the workflow more efficient at both large and small scales. Open BIM extends the benefits of BIM (Building Information Modeling) by improving the accessibility, usability, management, and sustainability of digital data in the built asset industry. Open BIM processes can be defined as sharable project information that supports seamless collaboration for all project participants, removing the traditional problem of BIM data that is typically constrained by proprietary vendor data formats, by discipline, or by the phase of a project.

Park Road House / Lineburg Wang

Alexandria Bramley — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The project is sited on a 2200 square meter suburban corner block, a grand two-storey existing Queenslander enveloped by significant trees, a lap pool, deck, and tennis court. While generous in scale and without lacking in the program, layers of intervention through time resulted in each public room and external feature being disconnected in isolation. A diluted organisational diagram with deep rooms and no outlook, the clients sought a renovation to privilege outdoor living, fitting to their active social lifestyle in retirement and suited to comfortably bring friends and family together at times of celebration.