Energex Wins Awards
The Energex Headquarters in Newstead River Park is finally receiving accolades for its design in the Institute of Architects Awards programme, following three years standing on the sidelines due to the conflict of interest whilst Cox Rayner Principal Michael Rayner served as jury chair.
At the Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards announced on Friday, Energex received two commendations, one for Commercial Architecture and the other for Interior Architecture.
This puts it on the shortlist of nominations for the Queensland Architecture Awards that will be announced on Friday 21 June.
One of the most contemporary workspaces in Australia that also received Queensland’s first Six Star Green Star Office Design for a commercial office development, it was designed collaboratively by BVN Donovan Hill and Cox Rayner.
It has already transformed one of Brisbane’s oldest industrial sites, the Gasworks on Breakfast Creek Road that is being redeveloped by FKP Property Group.
Mr Michael Rayner, Principal Director of Cox Rayner said, ‘The Energex building is a solution to housing a very large organisation in a way that enables them to feel like a cohesive community. It also contributes to the public realm by being shaped to embrace the riverpark.”
According to the jury, ‘Energex Newstead Riverpark Workplace is a major commercial building which creates a vibrant cohesive working community that fosters greater collaboration within and between each of the company divisions.’
Designed as a campus environment the workplace has large flexible floor-plates, organized around an open lift core and three full height atrium spaces within the centre spine of the building.
The jury found that these large floor plates and full height atrium ‘with communal spaces such as meeting rooms and cafe/breakout spaces concentrated around the edge. This creates a high level of transparency and visual connectivity between the seven levels.’
They also noted how effectively the connecting stair works, ‘Stairs sculpturally cut across the atrium to provide and encourage physical connections between open plan work place communities.’
‘It was important for us to create a feeling of openness and accessibility for the 1,650 workforce that was previously dispersed across a number of offices in Brisbane. To have a jury endorse the outcome is very satisfying,’ said David Kelly, Principal of BVN Donovan Hill.
At the Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards announced on Friday, Energex received two commendations, one for Commercial Architecture and the other for Interior Architecture.
This puts it on the shortlist of nominations for the Queensland Architecture Awards that will be announced on Friday 21 June.
One of the most contemporary workspaces in Australia that also received Queensland’s first Six Star Green Star Office Design for a commercial office development, it was designed collaboratively by BVN Donovan Hill and Cox Rayner.
It has already transformed one of Brisbane’s oldest industrial sites, the Gasworks on Breakfast Creek Road that is being redeveloped by FKP Property Group.
Mr Michael Rayner, Principal Director of Cox Rayner said, ‘The Energex building is a solution to housing a very large organisation in a way that enables them to feel like a cohesive community. It also contributes to the public realm by being shaped to embrace the riverpark.”
According to the jury, ‘Energex Newstead Riverpark Workplace is a major commercial building which creates a vibrant cohesive working community that fosters greater collaboration within and between each of the company divisions.’
Designed as a campus environment the workplace has large flexible floor-plates, organized around an open lift core and three full height atrium spaces within the centre spine of the building.
The jury found that these large floor plates and full height atrium ‘with communal spaces such as meeting rooms and cafe/breakout spaces concentrated around the edge. This creates a high level of transparency and visual connectivity between the seven levels.’
They also noted how effectively the connecting stair works, ‘Stairs sculpturally cut across the atrium to provide and encourage physical connections between open plan work place communities.’
‘It was important for us to create a feeling of openness and accessibility for the 1,650 workforce that was previously dispersed across a number of offices in Brisbane. To have a jury endorse the outcome is very satisfying,’ said David Kelly, Principal of BVN Donovan Hill.
