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Richard Kirk’s design for the new ABC headquarters in Brisbane speaks to the organization’s role as an assiduous messenger, with the prominent public setting and dual-function foyer reinforcing its role not just as a broadscaster, but as a promoter of culture as well.
When the ABC’s Brisbane operation moved into its new headquarters in South Bank, it reunited teams and divisions that had been dispersed across nine locations for five years.
In 2007 a cancer cluster was identified, forcing the evacuation of its former Brisbane studios at Toowong, and the dislocation disrupted operations and morale. Consequently, the overriding imperative guiding the design of the ABC’s new home in Brisbane was the need to provide an explicitly healthy and supportive environment for its staff.
The ABC is a renowned public institution required by its charter to contribute to a sense of national identity, to support cultural understanding and to encourage and promote music, drama and the performing arts in addition to providing high-quality broadcasting services.
One of the attractions of South Bank was that the prominent public setting would strengthen the ABC’s capacity to meet the requirements of its charter.
A close proximity to Griffith University’s South Bank Campus, the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (formerly the Queensland Conservatorium of Music) and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) promised synergies and interactions across a variety of cultural activities, further strengthened by the co-location of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) with the ABC.
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