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UQ Advanced Engineering Building by Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell (Joint Venture).Image: Peter Bennetts

The 2014 Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards were announced on Friday 16 May at Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane. From the sixty-two projects entered, twenty-nine have been honoured and will now progress to the state Queensland Architecture Awards, to be announced in Brisbane on 20 June 2014.

On this year’s jury were: Paul Worroll (co-chair, Reddog Architects), Kevin O’Brien (co-chair, Kevin O’Brien Architects), Elizabeth Anderson (Hayes Anderson Lynch Architects), Shaun Lockyer (Shaun Lockyer Architects), Fiona Gardiner (Heritage Branch, Department Environment and Heritage Protection), Paul Butterworth (Paul Butterworth Architect), Anna Chamberlin (Push Architects), Peter Dawson (Architectus Brisbane), Ray Giarola (Giarola Architects), Michael Hartwich (Wilson Architects), Stephen Long (Architectus Brisbane), Rebecca Moore (Conrad Gargett Riddel Ancher Mortlock Woolley), Scott Peabody (Arqus Design), Gavan Ranger (Ranger Design), George Taran (Multi Span Australia), Liam Proberts of bureau^proberts (state awards jury director), Paul Uhlmann (Paul Uhlmann Architects), Catherine Baudet (Ferrier Baudet Architects), Mark Jones (Architectus Brisbane) and Paul Curran (PUSH).

The John Dalton Award for Building of the Year 

UQ Advanced Engineering Building (St Lucia) –Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell (joint venture)

Jury Comment: The UQ Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), a collaboration of Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell exquisitely embodies a significant benchmark in sustainability within a complex building program of research, teaching and learning. AEB expertly embraces setting and place and has created an exemplar of engagement with renewable resources and local industry. The project provides teaching, research and laboratory facilities either side of a five storey timber clad, elongated central atrium with a double glazed roof. The axis terminates in an expressive timber trussed off-form concrete lecture theatre with the lake setting as backdrop. Thoroughly considered and exquisitely detailed.

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Highgate Hill House by Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones

House of the Year

Highgate Hill House (Highgate Hill) – Twofold Studio and Cox Rayner Architects

Jury Comment: A sublime piece of architecture, expressed through intricate detailing that is seamlessly engaged with an ironically humble brief. A visceral experience of occupation is manifest through a series of spatially modest but poetically executed rooms. A bespoke, controlled garden and a sequence of outdoor living zones complete the project.

Enduring Architecture Prize

Torbrek, 1960 (Highgate Hill) – AH Job and RP Froud

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