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Cutting Edge Digital Multimedia Studios Brisbane

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

Commercial

Cutting Edge

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Cutting Edge

Film and television post-production facility, flexible work spaces, offices, audio studios, recording studio rooms, digital editing suites, multimedia suites, visual effects suites, theatrette for 60 people and roof top terrace with restaurant.

Location
West End, Brisbane, Australia

Client
Cutting Edge

Status
Completed 2004

Gross Floor Area
3,750m²

Context

Strategically located at the south-western corner of the Brisbane City Frame, the prominent site fronts the Brisbane River and Davies Park at West End. It is a critical juncture where the city ends and the sub-urban qualities of West End begin. The project also mediates between the changing context of the area that is shifting from light industrial to mixed-use, which will be predominantly residential. The design responds to this site by addressing the landscape and views to the Kurilpa Reach of the river.

There is faith here in a kind of regional modernism that can accept the context of climate and local architectural idiom as a base for thinking rather than an ideology to be propagated. What appears as modelling of the exterior form of the building is in fact driven by a holistic logic of organisation, structure, spatial experience and lighting conditions.

John Macarthur
Architecture Australia, July-Aug 2004

Concept

Cutting Edge is a 4500 square metre four level building for Australia’s leading film and television post-production company. The site has 3 street frontages all with very differing scales and relationships with the immediate context. The concrete fins rotate on the critical corner junction to reveal different views of the river and it is this device that connects the differing elevations to the River (transparent open) and to the Park (closed articulated openings).

Richard Kirk Architect's sophisticated new premises for the cutting edge post-production company is an elegant and thorough solution to a complex brief, site and experience.

John Macarthur
Architecture Australia, July-Aug 2004

Learning Spaces and Studios

The four level building contains a wide range of flexible work spaces including staff offices, audio rooms and booths, studio spaces, digital suites, multimedia suites, visual effects suites, a theatrette for 60 people, and a restaurant for 140 people. The building was conceived as a ground-breaking, full service post production facility under one roof, including video and audio editing, digital effects studios, sound recording and studio spaces, and outside broadcast facilities. Its design, from the ground up, enabled RKA to develop significant expertise with the integration of the complex acoustic requirements for these highly technical spaces.

Materials

Constructed of white insitu concrete and zinc wall cladding, the four-level building has a significant two-storey wall of operable blinds on the river elevation. The concrete for the walls and fins contains a white oxide additive, a white aggregate and a white Ravensbourne sand which produced a vibrant white hue to the concrete walls when used externally. The deletion of the fillets allowed the concrete elements to have much stronger reading within the building presentation. 

As the concrete had a rich depth of colour and texture these walls were also used internally to produce a seamless transition between interior and exterior. Internally the white concrete walls were used to identify the public spaces and foyers and were typically light where possible by natural light.

Ground Floor Plan Landscape
Level 1 Plan
Level 2 Plan
Level 3 Plan
Elevation 1
Elevations 2

Drawings

Awards Team Publications
RAIA Beatrice Hutton Award 2004 Commercial Architecture
RAIA Regional Commercial 2004 Building of the Year
RAIA Regional Commendation 2004
Structural & Civil Engineers Cardno
Electrical Engineers DMA
Hydraulic Engineers MRP
Mechanical Engineers DMA
Acoustic Engineers Hyder Consulting
Photographer Jon Linkins
Archello (Website) 2012 Cutting Edge
Focus on Zinc 2010 Timeless
West End Magazine June 2010 Richard Kirk
Future Living 2008 Cutting Edge
Placemakers: Contemporary Queensland Architects, 2008 Richard Kirk Architect
Next Wave: Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture 2007 Thames and Hudson
C+A 2006 Cutting Edge
HEAT 2006 Material Solutions, Queensland's new wave of environmental architects
Architecture Australia 2004 Sweet Whiteness
Inside Brisbane February 2004 Cutting Edge Gets Sharper
RAIA MEMQ Aug/ Sept 2004 State Architecture Awards
RAIA MEMQ September 2000 State Architecture Awards

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