Queensland Institute of Technology’s Creative Industries Precinct is located at their Kelvin Grove campus, in Brisbane’s inner north, about 3km from the centre of the city.
Situated on the corner of Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue, the precinct is adjacent to La Boite’s Roundhouse Theatre.
The co-development of Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Kelvin Grove Campus as an integral element of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village in inner northern Brisbane has enabled the university to expand, reducing the demands made upon its tightly constrained Gardens Point Campus in Brisbane’s CBD.
The evolving campus-cum-urban-village ranges across a challenging topography that hampers the ability to shape a coherent urban structure and to achieve a unified sense of place.
Urban legibility has been enhanced by defining a series of linked precincts, of which the most emphatic is that for the creative industries disciplines.
The Creative Industries Precinct is grounded by the significant space of the former parade ground of the Gona Barracks that once occupied the site of the urban village.
Extending along the highest part of the campus and running parallel with the adjacent Kelvin Grove Road, Gona Parade offers the largest and most accessible clear space on the campus.
Along with the remaining structures of what was the Upper Barracks, it is a listed heritage place.
The former military training ground now locates and marshals the principal facilities housing the university’s burgeoning creative industries disciplines.
Stage One of the precinct, centred on Parer Place, established the operational arrangement and planning context for the precinct as a whole.
Richard Kirk Architect and Hassell, as a joint venture, were selected as the architects for Stage Two of the Creative Industries Precinct that cost $80 million.
The vibrant creative environment they designed helps to foster connections and collaborations between students, staff, researchers and commercial ventures working in different disciplines, enabling the development of new ideas, creative processes, and techniques.
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