Richard Kirk has established the practice as a leader in designing buildings of cultural significance on sensitive and important sites, with the majority of its commissions awarded through design competitions.

Advanced Engineering Building, University of Queensland

The award-winning AEB sets a new benchmark for sub-tropical institutional buildings – an authentic building of its place that enhances student experience and aligns with the university’s vision for a global campus.

The Arc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Arc embraces new performative design technologies that allowed us to fine-tune the design to work passively with the tropical climate.

With a foregrounding of sustainability initiatives, the new facility will transform the delivery of higher education and create a vibrant campus heart.

KIRK are experienced in providing a range of services for interiors projects for commercial and institutional projects. The practice is in a unique position to deliver quality and cost-effective results that provide clients with unique, resilient, sustainable and well-crafted interiors.

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Hopkins & Clark

The Hopkins + Clark interior design provides warm and tranquil spaces for two surgeons within the Holy Spirit Northside Hospital. The key idea of 'carving-out space' is enhanced by the custom-made joinery in solid Canadian Rock maple timber.

AEB Auditorium

The innovative construction methodology used to deliver the auditorium is more commonly seen on large stadium roofs. Each timber roof truss was assembled off site, broken down into manageable sections for transportation, reassembled on the auditorium floor and hoisted 15 metres into place in one piece.

ABC - Symphony Orchestra

The purpose-built, 600m² Media Production Studio (MPS) functions uniquely as a rehearsal space for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) and as a TV & Radio production studio for the ABC.

CIP2, QUT Interdisciplinary Studios

CIP2 is a world class innovative creative industries facility, with twelve dedicated and inter-disciplinary studios for Dance, Music, Drama and Visual Arts

The Arc - NTU Singapore

The Arc at NTU reimagines tropical architecture as a permeable and open building. The Arc recently receive the Green Platinum Mark status which is Singapore's highest award for sustainable design.

West End House

The Granville Residence takes a multifaceted approach to provide a holistic sustainability solution. The project utilises a number of standard environmental sustainability strategies such as energy efficiency, rainwater harvesting, solar power and natural daylighting. No mechanical ventilation is used within the residence with generous openings and ample insulation allowing breezes to maintain and regulate the ambient climate.

Duncan Street Masterplan

Duncan street masterplan is the largest land holding in the West End Riverside precinct. The design concept challenges conventional development models, with the buildings running perpendicular to the river to achieve improved solar orientation, increase river views and provide less building mass to the river edge

Alice Street Pedestrian Bridge

The pedestrian bridge was one of six priority projects to be selected to kick-start the transformation of Brisbane’s City Centre. These projects will commence during the next five years to revitalise city streets and riverfront precincts, and better connect inner-city neighbourhoods.

KIRK is  at the forefront of architectural design, embedding CFD and micro-climate analysis into our design process. We utilise high-performance building modelling to continually create successful and sustainable buildings for the future. We are particularly proud of The Arc, NTU, Singapore being awarded Green Mark Platinum status. 

The curvilinear "Arc" building form allows for passive cooling. Computational Fluid dynamics were utilised to deliver comfortable naturally ventilated spaces.

Mon Repos Turtle Centre, Queensland

Mon Repos from the outset was envisaged as being constructed in locally grown and manufactured glulam timber. We were extremely fortuitous to have Hyne a world leader in glulam-timber manufacture based nearby in Maryborough. Hyne manufactures the timber to +/-2mm tolerance so the glulam structure can be manufactured off-site and assembled rapidly as a kit of parts saving valuable time on site.

AEB

The AEB design was committed to employing renewable resources and local industry on a large and meaningful scale upon selection of the construction materials. Specifying locally-grown timber species, manufactured in Queensland demonstrated the benefits of this technology as a sustainable alternative to steel and aluminium. Local Queensland timber was central to the buildings sustainability initiatives.

West End House

Materially the West End House is a contemporary interpretation of the architectural language typical of the area – the timber framed worker’s cottage. Timber screening to the street and upper level bedroom affords privacy to the interior while maintaining light and ventilation. Internally the timber language is celebrated with clear finished plywood linings. Recycled structural timber joists and hangers are expressed, defining the intimacy of living areas and providing acoustic treatment. Matching timber cabinetry conceals lighting and services while organising adjacent spaces.

Highgate Hill House

In response to the dominance of the landscape, the house is clad in timber or has glazed facades with timber mullions. Each timber type was selected to age in response to its orientation and weathering conditions. Over time the timber will turn from red and brown to silver and grey.

ABC Symphony Orchestra

The virtual acoustic modelling for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) resulted in the design of operable acoustic paneling (absorbers, and reflective and diffusing elements), fine-tuned by KIRK and acoustic engineer ARUP in an iterative process. Numerous design modes manipulate operable elements and allow the MPS to cater for a diverse range of orchestral music, as well as radio and television production.

CIP2, QUT

Acoustic separation and structural isolation detailing are demonstrated in the vertically stacked double height studios Creative Industries Precinct 2 at QUT. This maximises the ground floor area and increases transparency which is not usually associated with acoustically driven spaces.

11 Logan Road Redevelopment

Logan Road is a benchmark project for the adaptive re-use of existing Heritage buildings in Brisbane. A lot of effort has been made to take the existing buildings back to their best version, new elements are added sensitively to respect the character of the existing.

Creative Industries Precinct

The site is comprised of 3 lots with two encumbered by heritage structures dating from 1914. Re-purposed Heritage Listed buildings have been carefully restored and adjacent new works have been sensitively designed & sited. The former military training ground now locates and marshals the principal facilities housing the university’s burgeoning creative industries disciplines

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