School: The University of Queensland
Project:  Advanced Engineering Building
Architect: KIRK Architect with Hassell Studio
Photographer: Peter Bennetts 

The AEB is a benchmark for innovation in learning, research, and collaboration spaces for engineering disciplines. The facility has generated a world-class environment for the school, transforming the possibilities in research and education and augmenting its rep-utation on an international stage. Mass Engineered Timber (Australian GLT) was utilised for the façade and roof structure of the large auditorium.

The Live Building Concept, introduced by KIRK, is integrated into the design of AEB where the building itself is a living laboratory and provides learning and research opportunities both as a design and construction project and as a completed project. 

School: The University of Queensland
Project:  Andrew N Liveris Building (School of Chemical Engineering)
Architect: m3architecture
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones 

The Great Court sandstone is the single greatest icon of the campus. Since it was built, myriad materials have been used with increasing proliferation of glass. In many respects, changes are the result of Chemical Engineers.

The idea of a Chemically Engineered Great Court, turning sand(stone) to glass is a tribute to both the School and the University, the next building in the ongoing contemporisation of the campus. 

The principles of the Great Court also penetrate the interior, its plan compacted and extruded to form a ‘vertical cloister’ and ‘engineered landscape’, offering relief and counterpoint to the learning spaces that surround.