6 star Green Star rated office development in fast changing Fortitude Valley. Packs more than 40,000m2 of GFA into its two towers, which are only 9 and 12 storeys in height. Includes a supermarket, cafes and bars on the ground floor.
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HQ
Written by cityadmin2
September 18, 2010
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| address | 512 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD, 4006 |
| year | 2010 |
| citymaker(s) | Leighton Properties, Leighton Contractors, Bligh Voller Nield |
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The market for "green" office space is alive and well in Brisbane. HQ is yet another big-scale commercial development that has chased down its design and construction green stars. The green wall here is a neat feature, but tiny. Perhaps it's an experiment aimed at greater future things? But the elephant in the room is surely the quoted 500 car spaces. There may only be a handful outside in the public domain, and a large bike parking facility, but 500 cars is 500 cars.
What is interesting about HQ is that the scale of the development is consistent with recent 30ish-storey towers in the CBD. But the massing here presents a completely different urban typology. 12 storeys is not insignificant, but with no podiums these buildings point to a compact urban density, not a skyscraper city.
There's lots of corporate glass but the street edge is well tended by open-air bars and cafes with generous ground level ceiling heights. No monumental corporate architecture here. And who wants to work in a place like that anyway?
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