
Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Cultural & Public
Fitzgibbon Community Centre
In April 2010, KIRK was commissioned to design a community building for the new Fitzgibbon neighbourhood. This was to act as a mixed-use cultural centre, incorporating allied health, offices, meeting spaces, retail and community halls, as well as creating a centre point for the community.
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Client
Urban Land Development Authority
Status
Completed 2010
Gross Floor Area
600 m²



Materials
While formally abstract and demure the centre makes provocative use of materials, which highlight it as a future landmark in the community. The building is fringed by sculptural blades of weathering steel, a material that responds to the corroded car bodies once found on site. These blades form a rippled screen to the street which reveals glimpses through the building when approached by vehicle.
With an oxidised steel shell wrapping around a series of community gathering spaces, Richard Kirk has marked the importance of place while re-asserting the poetry of cast-off materials
Steel Profile
Issue 114, April 2013



RAIA State Colorbond Award | 2015 | Steel Architecture |
RAIA Regional Commendation | 2013 | |
Australian Steel Institute National Award | 2012 | Clad Structures Steel Design |
Australian Steel Institute QLD State Award | 2012 | Clad Structures Steel Design |
Structural & Civil Engineers | Cardno |
Electrical Engineer | Aurecon |
Hydraulic & Mechanical Engineers | WSP Group |
ESD Consultant | Built Ecology |
Landscape Architect | PLACE Design Group |
Contractor | Grindley Construction |
Photographer | Scott Burrows & Christopher Frederick Jones |
Nisha Magazine | May 2016 | Fitzgibbon Community Centre |
URO Media | 2015 | From the Ground Up: 20 Stories of a Life in Architecture |
ArchDaily (website) | 2014 | Fitzgibbon Community Center/ Richard Kirk Architect |
Detail Magazine – Konzept | 2014 | Places of Public Assembly – From the Origins of Multifunctionality |
A+A Magazine | 2013 | The New Fitzgibbon Neighbourhood |
Steel Profile | April 2013 | Lay of the Land |
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