City Thinking: Architectural Talks - Brian Donovan

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Time:

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

UQ Location:

Abel Smith Lecture Theatre (St Lucia)

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Full Description:: Donovan Hill : Uptown Guise

Donovan Hill, headed by UQ graduates and Adjunct Professors Timothy Hill and Brian Donovan, is undoubtedly one of Queensland’s most exciting architectural practices.

As one of their more enthusiastic clients (accurately) states, they are “the architects the architects applaud.”

Donovan Hill has won the nation’s highest architecture awards for Housing (D House, 2001; H House 2007), Multiple Housing (Cornwall Apartments, 2007), for Public Architecture and also for Interior Architecture (State Library of Queensland, 2007).

Significant and innovative works of the firm to be found on the St Lucia campus include GPN3, the Architecture Collaborative Workshop and the current alterations and extensions to the Zelman Cowen Building.

Since the earliest projects, remarkably sensitive and finely detailed residential projects, Donovan Hill has continued to evolve and transform as a practice as they undertake ever more demanding and ambitious projects.

This year the firm enters another significant realm of architectural development with the construction of major inner-city commercial office projects: Santos Place on Tank Street, AM60 at the corner of Albert and Margaret streets and the NAB Chambers building.

Brian Donovan returns to UQ to reflect on the trajectory of the practice and to present its increasingly urban and urbane works in the City Thinking: Architecture Talks series.

Talks are free and open to the public.