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In addition to progress reports on work we are undertaking, this section of our site provides commentary on topical issues where we want to express our opinion. In this way, our attitudes are revealed.
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The State Government has released for comment a draft Master Plan for ongoing development of the Cultural Centre at Southbank in Brisbane. Full details of the proposals can be accessed here: http://www.arts.qld.gov.au/docs/2%20APRIL%202014%20DRAFT%20CULTURAL%20PRECINCT%20MASTER%20PLAN%20DRAFT%20LOW%20RES.PDF Our reading of the document inspires us to resurrect proposals we advanced many years ago (2001) as part of our submission for the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) design competition. We think these proposals remain relevant today. Our fundamental issue, both now and with these latest master plan proposals, is that the Cultural Centre is, and will continue to be, a homogeneous “Complex” that has largely obliterated the traditional urban street grid in South Brisbane. This has rendered the spatial structure of the area unreadable and has impeded pedestrian movement. The adjustments we contemplated thirteen years ago would reduce the currently homogeneous “complex” into its constituent parts: each part would have a street address and would contribute to the life of the street and the public plazas which we envisaged as an interconnected series of spaces energized by pedestrian movement. In our view this urbanistically more appropriate model can be realized if the following measures are taken: ![]()
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Our proposals re-invent in principle the texture and complexity of the original South Brisbane street grid: the public space of the streets is further enhanced by the injection of a progression of plazas and promenades each with a relationship to its parent buildings and to the river and CBD beyond.
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