Brisbane 2032 Olympics: 40 big ideas to make our Games the greatest
A floating Olympic pool in the Brisbane River, a massive natural playground and the complete removal of the Riverside Expressway are among some of the bold ideas put forward to transform the city ahead of the 2032 Games. SEE THE FULL LIST
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An Olympic pool in the Brisbane River, a massive natural playground and the removal of the Riverside Expressway are among more than 600 bold ideas put forward by residents to transform the city ahead of the 2032 Games.
In one of the most significant community feedback programs undertaken by Brisbane City Council, hundreds of ideas have been received on how to revitalise inner-city precincts.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said hundreds of Brisbane planners, designers, architects and students contributed, and has now encouraged residents to have their say on the “daring, audacious and innovative concepts”.
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“We asked some of Brisbane’s best and brightest to come forward with big and bold ideas that can transform those areas of our city that are popular with residents and visitors alike,” he said.
“What we wanted were concepts of all shapes and sizes that can enhance the experience of visitors during the Brisbane 2032 Games and remain as legacy infrastructure and experiences for residents into the future.
“Like Expo88 transformed the industrial site we now know as South Bank, we wanted to start a conversation on how Brisbane 2032 can revolutionise other parts of our city, particularly those areas in and around Games venues.”
Submissions include a bold call for the “beautification” of parts of the Riverside Expressway not essential to strategic traffic movements, such as the Elizabeth St off ramp, several green inner-city spaces and a clifftop outdoor natural play area at Kangaroo Point.
Other ideas include the creation of a subtropical garden on Victoria Bridge and widening the river to create waterside parklands and community spaces.
Mr Schrinner said he was “blow away” by the response, but acknowledged some of the ideas wouldn’t be implemented.
“While I love some of the ideas that have come forward, I’ll admit there are others that I’m not so keen on,” he said.
“The important thing now is that we get feedback from Brisbane residents.
“Howard Smith Wharves, Albert Street Green Spine, Queens Wharf and our Green Bridge program have all come from similar public processes in the past.”
Deputy Mayor Krista Adams said workshops, pop-up engagement events and activations would be held for residents to have their say.
“I’m sure these ideas will be the subject of much debate around the barbecues of Brisbane over coming weekends,” she said.
Outside of Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coast councils have also started community consultation on how their regions – which will both host Olympic sports – will benefit from the Games.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate said his city was a “frontrunner” when it comes to Olympic-standard facilities, having already hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Pan Pacific Masters Games and National Gymnastics Championships.
“The significant investment into our new and refurbished venues have provided us with a head start in providing the world’s best facilities for the 2032 Olympics,” he said.
Swimming Australia recently relocated to Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, with the venue hosting more than 10 national events and training camps since 2019.
Sunshine Coast mayor Mark Jamieson said his community was excited for the decade leading into the Games.
“The next 10 years is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us to bring together community
and industry experts and businesses to plan for sustainable growth ahead,” he said.
“We will continue to keep sustainability a focus for the future, which will help preserve our
natural environment and the lifestyle our region is famous for.”
40 BIG IDEAS TO TRANSFORM BRISBANE
Albert Street Urban Kitchen
Idea by Alex Dimmock
A linear outdoor urban kitchen along Albert Street as a way of celebrating our multicultural city and bringing theatre and purpose to the green spine.
City Centre Garden Block
Idea by Urbis
A collection of city blocks between George and Edward streets/Adelaide and Charlotte streets, in which the streets and public realm are reorientated toward pedestrians. Significant landscape, shared zones, green space, activation, and public realm investments transform the image of the ‘city centre experience’ attracting more people and acting as a catalyst for renewal, retail, investment and civic outcomes. Vehicle access will be incrementally reduced over time so that ultimately, only service vehicles will move throughout a pedestrian and active transport focused city.
Next Generation Knowledge Corridor
Idea by AECOM, Bull + Bear Economics and Place Design Group
Break the Knowledge Corridor out across the city, transforming employment precincts and inner-city neighbourhoods to create a more complex and interconnected innovation ecosystem:
- Inner City Creative Economic Network -Deliver world class infrastructure and accessible spaces that inspire creative community participation and deliver extraordinary experiences for residents and visitors to the city. Ensure diverse, strategic investment in the inner city and its neighbourhoods contributes to a leading creative economy to support growth and drive success through authentic partnerships.
- Last Kilometre Movement & Communication -Create an efficient local network of physical and technological infrastructure to manage last kilometre movement and communication within the inner city. Prepare local infrastructure to enable meaningful participation in the global economy and innovation.
- Knowledge Neighbourhoods -Create the canvas for inner city subtropical living, education and innovation through ‘knowledge neighbourhoods’. Challenge traditional and use profiles and blur single function knowledge destinations into true mixed use, high amenity, well serviced neighbourhoods.
An Inner City of Experiences
Idea by AECOM and Place Design Group
Tap into Brisbane’s youthful, outdoor lifestyle and spirit by showcasing the distinctive and authentic experiences of the inner city:
- Inner City Arts Strategy -Drive Brisbane’s unique heritage, character and creative energy through significant urban art interventions. Integrate art into public realm design and the built environment, and introduce a world class program of events to place us on the global stage and underpin our growing creative economy.
- Global First Nations Knowledge Hub -Connect and share our First Nations stories and knowledge to draw a deeper connection to this place, and aid our understanding of history. An opportunity to celebrate Brisbane’s inner city across a connected network of First Nations knowledge sharing and learning destinations – accessible for all to connect, share and enjoy.
- A Unifying Sporting Spirit -Harness and hone Brisbane’s sporting spirit and how it permeates the inner city. Build upon the foundation of community clubs and venues and the city’s grassroots participation in sport and active living.
Inner City Green and Blue Ribbon
Idea by AECOM, Cox and Place Design Group
Enhance the amenity and accessibility of our inner city neighbourhoods by connecting and increasing Brisbane’s parks and waterways. The ribbons of green and blue create a network of spaces that are greater than the sum of the parts:
- Destination Arbour -Celebrate our subtropical environment, unique city experiences, hospitality and commitment to accessibility through a network of signature pathways that span the inner city. Transform our experience of place and deliver a safe and practical movement network that encourages active transport as a healthy lifestyle choice.
- A City That Breathes -Evolve the Buildings that Breathe design elements to create a City that Breathes, to understand and manage carbon neutrality, flood resilience, community cohesion, health and wellbeing in public spaces, waterways and transport corridors. This approach identifies and supports subtropical Brisbane living as the centerpiece of our urban character.
- New Inner City Parks -Enhance neighbourhood character and liveability and mitigate the urban heat island by increasing the urban tree canopy. A deliberate program of urban acupuncture and targeted inner city greening provides lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits for the next generation of residents, workers and visitors.
Icon: Riverstage Indigenous Eternal Flame Landmark
Idea by David Hayward, Stantec
Iconic Indigenous architectural structure ‘Eternal Flame’ placed above Riverstage that creates Brisbane’s world-renowned landmark. The Eternal Flame would emphatically enshrine our rich Indigenous history, blended with the global Olympic movement, at the city’s focal point on the Brisbane River.
Wickham Park Precinct
Idea by Daniel Kallis, Hassell
The precinct contains some of the least recognised open spaces in the city. Through opening up the precinct with strong connections and adaptive reuse of the heritage reservoirs these isolated green spaces can be integrated back into the city fabric, creating a significant people place for Brisbane.
Roma Street Parkland City Gateway
Idea by Michael Madden, City Parklands Services
The vision supercharges the Albert Street Green Spine that connects the City Botanic Gardens with Roma Street Parkland. Expanding the boundaries of Roma Street Parkland by amalgamating it with Wickham Park and Emma Miller Place will create an iconic parkland in the heart of the city.
Mandjar: Roma Street Precinct Reimagined
Idea by Stephen Long, Architectus
This once shared place emerges as a reconnected precinct through skilfully interposed linkages and new alignments. The precinct’s past will inform new communities as it weaves itself into the fabric of Brisbane. A sustainable precinct that welcomes a global audience leaving a local legacy.
Quay Street Park
Idea by Damian Thompson, LatStudios with ARIA
A local link and revitalised city park. A verdant parkland destination celebrating Brisbane’s first European burial ground (with traffic calming could incorporate E.E. McCormick Place). A hub linking Suncorp Stadium, Caxton Street, The Barracks and Roma Street to key cultural destinations across the River.
A Wild River’s Edge
Idea by Mel Jones
Widening and softening of the river edges at North Quay to complete the river’s edge experience created by Howard Smith Wharves, City Reach, City Botanic Gardens, and Queens Wharf. North Quay presents an opportunity to ‘rewild’ the river’s edge, create new parkland and places for the community to enjoy, while creating a unique gateway experience into the city west.
A Filigree of Laneways
Idea by Caryl Heraldo, ARUP
A new filigree of pedestrian spaces through creating new and connecting existing laneways. A branch of laneways that stitch and intensify the pedestrian spaces between Adelaide Street, Queen Street and Elizabeth Street; and a laneway circuit within the CBD.
Reimagine Our Core
Idea by Jared Hall, ARUP
This big idea introduces a sustainable core to our peninsula-based city – a typology that is typically hard to centralise. A green core of temporal structures and open space that is an active, fluid hub to accommodate our growth post-Brisbane 2032 and changing city uses post-Covid.
Valley Stitch
Idea by Urbis
Stitching together the valley retail core with neighbouring employment and residential precincts and back into the city.
Fortitude Valley Ann Street – Transport Boulevard
Idea by Jacobs
KEY MOVES:
• Ann Street becomes two-way
• Integrate a separated two-way cycle path with shaded, landscaped median
• Apply threshold treatment to designate a shared zone.
River Icons
Idea by Andrea Goodwin, Creative Road Art Projects
Major public art commissions by high profile Australian and international artists in partnership with Brisbane City Council and the private sector. Installed on, within and/or use water as a medium.
Play of Light
Idea by Andrea Goodwin, Creative Road Art Projects
An annual program of semi-permanent lighting and projection artworks by renowned Australian and international artists. Artists to design site specific artworks to be located on and around the river.
Subterrain
Idea by Andrea Goodwin, Creative Road Art Projects
An experimental contemporary art space located under the expressway on the CBD river’s edge. Developed for Brisbane’s emerging artists to create permanent and temporary visual art and stage cultural events.
Fairy Trail Addition
Idea by Samantha Collins, Mirvac
Add to the nighttime vibrancy of Brisbane city and improve perceived safety by expanding Where to Find Fairies in the city to include King Edward Park.
City Art Loop
Idea by Urbis
The City Art Loop will be a collection of current and new public artwork displays looping around the city centre along Edward Street and over to Kangaroo Point, along the river’s edge, through South Bank, the Kurilpa Bridge and connecting back to the city. New displays of both permanent and temporary nature will create a curated and ever-changing trail of artwork around the city.
Play at Little Roma
Idea by Liz Ryan, Mirvac
Imagine a new urban park focused on sport, health and wellness underneath the Turbot Street underpass. A park which is welcoming, connected, animated and beautiful, and one that also enhances our outdoor lifestyle. Welcome to Play at Little Roma.
Tank Street Entertainment Strip
Idea by Urbis
Programmed street closures on weekends or for specific events to allow for markets, and other live entertainment opportunities to help rebuild patterns of visitation to the city centre. Play at Little RomaIdea by Liz Ryan, MirvacImagine a new urban park focused on sport, health and wellness underneath the Turbot Street underpass. A park which is welcoming, connected, animated and beautiful, and one that also enhances our outdoor lifestyle. Welcome to Play at Little Roma.
REX Beautification
Idea by Urbis
Beautification of parts of the Riverside Expressway that are not essential to long term or strategic traffic movements. This is an opportunity for small scale interventions around lighting and art, but also more significant opportunities such as highline concept on the south bound Elizabeth Street off ramp, to include new public spaces for relaxation, exploration and adventure.
Remove the Riverside Expressway Without Replacement
Idea by Ben Gardiner
Riverside Expressway induces traffic and pollution. Its purpose is also made redundant by Clem7, V1, rail, etc. Studies demonstrate that urban freeway removal is overall beneficial. Removal would make the west riverfront more amenable and discourage car use in the CBD.
Gabba Link
Idea by David Uhlmann
Enhance inner-city open space, connectivity and riverbank from Gabba stadium to inner city through undergrounding parts of Vulture Street, Stanley Street and M1 and removal of the Riverside Expressway at Northbank. Captain Cook Bridge stays as a green bridge for pedestrian, cycle access with green shade.
Queen Street Park
Idea by Michael Cattoni, Charter Hall + Urbis
Queen Street Park involves the creation of a new iconic civic space in the heart of the CBD by ‘taking back’ a road for pedestrian use. Queen Street is Brisbane’s most important pedestrian street.
Greening King George Square
Idea by Nader Ibrahim, O2 Landscape Architecture
Greening/shading King George Square to offset expansive built form could be achieved by rationalising the bus station entries. Our proposal involves closing the western entry portal (as it is approximately only 40m from the eastern entry) and repurposing as a green lawn with signature/cultural trees.
Market Square on Market Street
Idea by Reilly Mallon, Cavill Architects in association with Urbis
Market Square, framed by important heritage buildings, benefits from a quiet and calm atmosphere and is a strong candidate for an exceptional inner-city gathering space. Licensed seating for tenancies on both sides of the street facilitate comfortable amenity and underpin vibrant activation of the square.
Brisbane City Blindspot
Idea by Andy Ong, Hames Sharley
The GPO Precinct is formed by a collection of important CBD sites and laneways. As such, the precinct is a prime contender for consideration as a ‘blindspot’ that would benefit from a more focused and integrated approach to both planning and development.
Frog’s Hollow Civic Space
Idea by FORM
A new civic space on the corner of Albert and Mary streets that provides a green focus opposite the new Cross River Rail Station and further reinforces the green spine between the City Botanic Gardens and Roma Street Parklands.
Brisbane City Super Canopy
Idea by Urbis
As a natural extension to Buildings that Breathe, encouraging and incentivising elevated and roof top gardens in the CBD as a way of enhancing shade and providing a rich habitat for wildlife in the city centre.
Green Plot Ratio
Idea by Urbis
Creating standards around ‘green plot ratio’ to ensure each new building within the city centre creates new public spaces and gardens that improve visual amenity and reinforce a distinctly Brisbane character.
Urban Forests
Idea by Howard Tran, Aria Property Group
Green towers are the future of Brisbane and we should be embracing this type of architecture as we move towards becoming host city for Brisbane 2032 that is seen on the world stage.
Green the Queen
Idea by Simon White, ARIA/Urbis
‘Green the Queen’ will transform Brisbane CBD’s most significant cross river movement corridor into a thriving piece of world class subtropical public realm, while creating diverse, shaded and multi-levelled garden outcrops that provide a place for people to pause, rest and enjoy unimpeded views.
Victoria Barracks Bridge
Idea by Urbis
Opening up of the likely redundant rail bridge connecting Victoria Barracks to Roma Street Parkland. This will enable the renewal of the barracks and extend the green spine concept from the City Botanic Gardens through to Suncorp Stadium and Petrie Terrace.
West End to Newstead – A connected city centre
Idea by Jacobs
A plan to connect Anne St to RBWH, Victoria Park, Teneriffe, Gasworks, James St, Bowen Hills, Brunswick St, New Farm and Story Bridge and a plan to connect Melbourne St to Roma St Parklands, River Edge Network and South Bank.
Inner Northern Sports Precinct – Public and active transport plan
Idea by Jacobs
Improve and enhance connectivity and the public realm between sports precincts and communities north and south of Enoggera Creek.
Green Glider
Idea by Jenny Elliott
Creation of a cliff-top outdoor natural play area at River Terrace combined with enhanced biodiversity-focused planting and stunning views across to the city. Outdoor adventure connection via flying fox to the City Botanic Gardens – connecting these two complementary green recreational spaces.
The Block Park
Idea by Tessa Leggo, FRED St
Bounded by Stanley, Wellington, Ipswich and Balaclava streets: ripe to be a block park, where all streets are parkland style streetscape and car travel is local only. Major reclamation of road into extended verges with dense tree planting and pedestrian priority. Bridge links across Stanley and Ipswich Road.
Woolloongabba Urban Park
Idea by Conrad Gargett
The development of the new Cross River Rail Station at Woolloongabba, together with the ‘Gabba’s’ transformation in the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games main venue, provides a unique opportunity to inject a new vibrancy to a part of this city dominated by traffic and somewhat abandoned over the last few decades. Our response proposes a new Urban Parkland at the Woolloongabba Stanley Street precinct, part of an overall strategy that stitches a series of public spaces together via an urban promenade. This new urban parkland will enhance the pedestrian journey by providing a place of respite with cool microclimates, a focal point for social, economic activities, and will increase the provision of much needed green space, allowing the city to breathe, and for people to enjoy the subtropical climate unique to our city.
Logan Road Ribbon Park
Idea by Blight Rayner
Stretching between Jurgens Street and Balaclava Street, the Logan Road Ribbon Park creates up to eight metres wide of continuous open green space by realigning the road and incorporating parallel parking and bicycle lanes. At each end are existing open spaces that can form culminations of the ribbon park, especially at Jurgens Street where cafes can open to an amphitheatre space and green common. The ribbon park is conceived as a series of linked green spaces, some for active sports like table tennis, a playground, and some for relaxation under trees or canopies. The canopy shown is intended to recur and reinforce the ribbon nature of the park, reflecting its greenery. The linear green spine also provides opportunity for a narrative of public art embodying First Nations People’s relationship to the land. With widened pavements at both sides of the road, developers would be encouraged to extend the cafe precinct at the top of Logan Road southwards, with space for outdoor dining and garden edges.
Principal Pedestrian Network – Olympic Boulevards
Idea by Joshua McDougall, O2LA
Apply Principal Pedestrian Network Methodology developed by VicRoads (or equivalent) to identify active transport network routes, audit routes to identify barriers/shortcomings and prioritise for infrastructure investment to ensure they provide for efficient, pleasant and convenient active transport.
Gabba Plaza
Idea by CUSP
The Gabba Forecourt proposal celebrates the theme of “water” drawing on the local areas' close relationship with its defining waterbodies, past and present. This would be defined through public artwork; water features, feature lighting; planting design and paving patterns. The transition between the forecourt and the upper concourse would be achieved with a combination of terraced gardens; seating terraces/steps; and a centrally located sloping lawn covering bar and café areas. An arbour based on the iconic South Bank arbor would emphasise the link from the Woolloongabba Cross River Rail Station linking to the stadium’s concourse and culminating in a sculptural tower covered in Bougainvillea and subtropical plants that dominates the plaza space. This element is to provide a contextual landmark; a destination piece; shade and contain a central lift to upper levels as equitable access.
Heart of Woolloongabba
Idea by Emily Griffioen
Close off the end block of Logan Road from Jurgens Street onwards and create a pedestrian only hub, deck out the middle with plants, lights, interactive games, seats, shaded areas, drinking and bottle refilling station, bike parking and colourful artworks.
Australia’s New Iconic Landmark
Idea by Joarez Moraes Bispo, QUT Student
It consists of three key areas:
- Welcoming – Create Iconic building or Statue to celebrate Brisbane 2032 and Multicultural city
- Connect – Build a new bridge connecting Noble Street and Fagan Road
- Future focused – Change zoning restriction to allow new commercial, shops, hotels, offices and residences.
The Low Line
Idea by Vicki Barclay, RPS
The Low Line Project will demonstrate what is possible when once-forgotten city spaces are loved and valued to contribute to the culture and amenity of the urban environment. The outcome delivers public accessible space including play, fitness and community activation grounded in the local vernacular.
Enlivening Victoria Bridge – Our City Gateway
Idea by Nader Ibrahim, O2 Landscape Architecture
Enlivening/enhancing Victoria Bridge ‘gateway to our city’, primary connector in 2km spine between Queen Street and Boundary Street in West End. Reclaiming the ‘Peoples Walk’ – enhance key areas of gateway such as Treasury Building’s Forecourt (e.g. by closing the Queen Street Bus Station Portal).
Kurilpa Riverfront Parkland
Idea by Urbis
The riverfront parkland will be a place for recreation, relaxation and civic events. The generous parkland will follow the river’s edge, opening up the riverfront to the local community and maximising opportunities for people to view and interact with the river.
Glenelg Street Master Plan
Idea by Damian Thompson, LatStudios with ARIA
Transforming Glenelg Street into a Green Spine delivers critical, cityscale connection linking Musgrave Park and West End to the river and South Bank. It will play host to community events – activating local street corners, edges and undercrofts – celebrating life in our special corner of the subtropics.
Your City Brisbane
Idea by Liam Suter, ARUP
A digital participatory platform for the co-creation of the city. Leveraging local knowledge, how-to, and community will, citizens actively shape the city with proposals supported with public funding. The city centre is the perfect laboratory for community led co-design, projects, and policies.
Lebron Link
Idea by Luke Micali, VEE Design Collaborating with Mike Jones
An elevated open space and active transport link, providing new activated open space within Fortitude Valley. It will provide a broader connection loop from Victoria Park through to New Farm, ultimately connecting major destinations and green space and providing much needed equitable green space.
Animated Multicultural Nodes and Patches
Idea by Dr. Sudipto Roy, D4: Fourth Dimension
The proposed ideas include bold, bright, specific recommendations, transforming under-utilised, unappealing nodes and patches to welcoming, connected, animated, beautiful, future focused, green and resilient ‘coupled human’ natural systems, that will ignite a spark, activating the city matrix.
Linking Generations
Idea by Mimi Tsai
Building Brisbane as a city where all generations are respected, understood, connected and engaged together in their communities. To achieve this I advocate for a need of intergenerational design framework and provide opportunities for generations to come together.
Bishops (re) bourne
Idea by Matt Martoo, Property Leaders Brisbane/Ellivo Architects/Ethos Urban
The chosen subject area is a unique and hidden land holding that offers an abundance of opportunity for the revitalisation of the heritage Bishopsbourne buildings which can unlock wider opportunities for elevating Milton as a vibrant inner city precinct.
Brunswick Street Master Plan
Idea by Damian Thompson, LatStudios with Pointcorp
Transforming Brunswick Street from busy road to leafy, pedestrian boulevard. Shifting priorities to pedestrian comfort and safety and encouraging active transport in a strategic link between river and bustling heart of the valley. Local stakeholders are ready to make this world-class vision a reality.
Breakfast Creek Sports Precinct
Idea by Brisbane City Council
Breakfast Creek is a premier destination for elite and community sport and is an iconic lifestyle centre in Brisbane’s inner-north. With a new address to Breakfast Creek and positioned to maximise convenience, the precinct showcases Brisbane’s best qualities.
Seasonal River Pool
Idea by Urbis
An Olympic standard pool floating in the Brisbane River. This will make good on the active and healthy lifestyle brand, drive visitation and celebrate the remarkable swimming culture of the city. The swimming pool will be movable and located in different parts of the city’s river throughout key times of the year.
The Walkable Loop
Idea by Tessa Leggo, FRED St
An experiential journey through green streetscapes and parklands, linking the city’s key nodes for the upcoming Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Its circuit aims to unite connections currently missing between these main destinations and allow visitors to engage intimately with Brisbane.
Walk 4 Brisbane
Idea by Emily Griffioen
A charitable walking event over four days in a row starting from and returning to the city centre, people can choose to walk five, 10, or 15km courses around the city each day. People can walk individually or in groups e.g. school/sport. Inspired from the Netherlands Avondvierdaagse.
City-wide Bougainvillea Path
Idea by Janine Watson, Business South Bank
Extend the South Bank Bougainvillea arbour to not only create a welcoming, safe, subtropical trail that promotes and encourages walking throughout the inner city but provides a beautiful and iconic backdrop for the city. This wayfinding device helps links all of the significant places in Brisbane.
Suspended Connection Proposal
Idea by Miranda Sheehan, PDT Architects | Property Leaders Brisbane
The aim of this proposal is to enhance the streetscape of the city, through creating a high-level space forming another plane of connectivity and accessibility throughout the city. To maximise safety and efficient connectivity through the city, segregation of vehicles and pedestrians will be adapted.
Blue Brisbane
Idea by Lucy Johnson, ARUP
For Brisbane City Council to develop a holistic and integrated Blue Network Infrastructure plan included within the revised City Masterplan. ‘Blue Brisbane’ will adopt a larger-scale, strategic approach to sustainable drainage and look to create an adaptive and resilient response to flood mitigation.
River Is-land?
Idea by Jared Hall, ARUP
A series of new and internationally unique elevated landscapes that will provide Brisbane with a multi-faceted benefit regarding recognition, environment, and economy. This project is an innovative way to integrate ecology with our public open spaces.
Urban Agriculture
Idea by Ryan Kennedy, ARUP
This idea explores what Brisbane could look like with more urban agriculture and biophilic design elements.
Portals to South East Queensland
Idea by Jared Thorp
Embracing SEQ’s biodiversity through temporal ‘green infrastructure’ artefacts, the concept: ‘a neighbourhood-informing competition promoting domestic and international partnerships’ repositions Brisbane as a design capital.
First Nations Placemaking – Designing with Country
Idea by Blaklash in partnership with Place Design Group and AECOM
Designing with Country is both an overarching idea and a hands-on approach for improving neighbourhoods, cities, or regions through design that inspires people to collectively re-imagine buildings and public spaces that are connected through Indigenous storytelling and cultural knowledge. With First Nation’s community-based participation at its center, an effective Designing-with-Country process capitalises on a local community’s assets, knowledge, inspiration, and potential, which results in the creation of quality design outcomes of functional sophistication, environmental sustainability and that contribute to people’s health, happiness, and wellbeing through the fostering of storytelling, relationships and community engagement.
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