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Fitzgibbon Community Centre

Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre

Cultural & Public

Fitzgibbon Community Centre Brisbane

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

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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

Ground Floor Plan
South Elevation
Awards Team Publications
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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