The winners of the Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards have been unveiled with One One One Eagle Street by Cox Rayner Architects and the Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill jointly awarded the John Dalton Building of the Year Award.

In total 51 entries from the original 95 submitted were awarded Regional Commendations on the night and now progress to the Queensland Architecture Awards to be announced in Brisbane on 21 June.

Loucas Zahos Architects’ Taringa House project received a Regional Commendation and the House of the Year Award.

Cox Rayner’s riverside commercial tower forms the centrepiece of a trio of towers that marks the precinct, originally master-planned by Harry Seidler.

The jury noted:

"This project ingeniously resolved complex planning constraints to realise a highly engaging and distinctive architectural centrepiece.

"The organic structural-led design solution overtly expresses itself to create a uniquely sculptural building that transcends normal commercial imperatives and delivers an exemplary new landmark tower."

The Translational Research Institute by Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill (Architects in Association) features a memorable landscaped outdoor room which aims to provide respite from the intensity of research.

"A great sense of generosity and enjoyability is ingrained into every aspect of this laboratory building. It offers a series of lavishly-crafted spaces across a range of scales that redefine not only the cramped campus in which it is located, but also the laboratory building typology itself," the jury said.

An original worker’s cottage, Taringa House has been expanded with a juxtaposed new addition by Loucas Zahos Architects to accommodate family activity while retaining the traditional frontage, to allow the home to remain firmly settled in the existing street fabric.

"A dramatic sectional idea connects an original timber cottage to the lost terrain of the back yard gully superbly. Drawn down into the site one is introduced to a grounded double height space elegantly sitting into the adjacent landscape. A beautifully crafted house displaying sophisticated tectonics with simplicity and warmth."

Queensland 2013 Awards jury director, Mark Damant, and regional jury coordinator, Sarah Rush, presented the regional commendations to Brisbane winners at the Awards ceremony at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Keperra House by A-CH (Atelier Chen Hung). Image by Alicia Taylor.

Architecture & Design Team

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