Architectus brings together the experience of more than 200 leading architects, interior designers and planners with offices in Auckland, Brisbane, Shanghai, Sydney and Melbourne.

Guided by a belief that a healthy environment is essential to a healthy society, the team at Architectus are strong advocates of sustainable design.

With an impressive track record in the core areas of architecture, interiors, urban design and planning, Architectus has specialist expertise in education, public buildings, commercial, industrial, residential, aviation and transport, sustainable design, retail and hotels.

Collaborating on a number of key projects, Kennedy’s and Architectus share a common belief in the inherent beauty and importance of sustainable design.

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With the innovative design work of Architectus and the eco friendly building products of Kennedy’s Timbers, our two companies have worked together on the following projects:

• Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
• Queensland Emergency Operations Centre (pictured below)
• King George Square Civic Space Brisbane
• UQ Gatton Fitness and Aquatic Centre
• UQ St Lucia Wordsmiths Cafe

Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre illustrates a simple response to functional requirements which belie a complex set of urban design challenges.

MECC's purpose is to enable Mackay to share in regional North Queensland's growing appeal for business tourism. However, it differs from other city's stand-alone facilities being grafted onto Mackay's existing multi-purpose centre.

As such, one of our major challenges was how to generate a sufficiently distinct identity to entice custom to Mackay while also enriching a civic and entertainment precinct already functioning.

Our approach was to reconsider the brief such that the existing and new buildings could function compatibly, and then to devise an architectural language that transmits memorable identity for business tourism attraction as well as enhances the wider precinct.

Our solution is a deceptively simple yet potent new edge to the civic precinct, utilising slabs of timber and concrete to recall a great colonnade. This colonnade wraps around the new Centre to engage with the pathway system of both the existing facility and the precinct whole.

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