RENEWING OUR INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

As part of Neylan Architecture’s commitment to new ideas in an evolving urban environment, we are welcoming back Ricardo Madrid to the NA team. Ricardo completed a Master in Urban & Regional Planning at UNE which, in addition to his 20-year experience in the practice of architecture in SEQ, affords him a unique multi-disciplinary perspective to urban and architectural topics. 

His recruitment is part of a renewed strategy to allow the practice to further expand its 30-year exploration of place and city-making issues. As part of this process we will be conducting a series of design research exercises on topics such as: ‘Subdivisions and master planning for 21st century SEQ’; ‘Sustainable mammoths: shopping centre readaptation’; and ‘Post-Covid: the age of polycentric development’, among others.

The series will begin with a case study examining Eagle Junction, a neighbouring rail station (see image below). Recent plans for transit-oriented developments (TODs) along the inner-Brisbane northern railway corridor (in red) at Albion and Toombul, have revived interest in genuinely integrated land-use and transport planning. 

Our first design exercise examining Eagle Junction Station’s potential for TOD, is coming soon!