Buchan is a global architecture and design practice with a 130-year history in Australia. Headquartered in Brisbane, Buchan's highly skilled team works as one, drawing on the combined experience of its people in studios around the country. Buchan's multi-sector expertise and sensitive heritage overlay encompasses commercial, civic and public projects. All come together in city-shaping precinct design that brings places to life. Buchan's Alliance team is led by director and principal Phil Schoutrop, Precincts Sector Lead and proud Brisbanite.
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Northshore Vision 2050
'Northshore Vision 2050' reimagines Brisbane's Northshore with a visionary scheme underpinned by a vibrant new precinct supporting housing, business, recreation, tourism and a Games-ready sports and entertainment stadium.
‘Northshore Vision 2050’ is the brainchild of the Brisbane Design Alliance, a team of specialist architecture, design and engineering practices firmly embedded in Queensland that unites the local and global expertise of Buchan, HKS, NRA Collaborative, Aurecon and Nikken Sekkei.
Our Northshore scheme responds to projected population growth over the next 25 years, with a mixed-use urban renewal precinct to add significant value to the fabric of Brisbane, as a city and gateway to Southeast Queensland and beyond.
Northshore Vision 2050 proposes a dramatic, world-class 60,000-seat stadium with an adjacent aquatic centre, wave pool, and retail and hospitality zone. Pedestrian promenades extending east and west maximise access to the river, opening up the precinct as a new tourism destination that provides a unique riverfront experience and is accessible by ferry.
Newly created public open spaces, elevated gardens, recreational canals and cultural venues acknowledge the rich First Nations history of the site and reinstate the pre-colonial profiles of the river edge.
The masterplan would be staged to create a dynamic, mixed-use precinct that will respond to meet the rapidly changing needs of Brisbane.
Stage One would establish a Sports and Entertainment precinct that accommodates the Olympics and include the stadium and a 2,500 apartment Athletes’ Village and warm-up facilities, alongside hotel, restaurant and leisure amenities. This combination of uses will allow for activation every day of the year, with the stadium complementing a much broader community offer.
Subsequent stages over the following 15 years would integrate an additional 12,000 residential apartments and townhouses, enterprise, innovation and cultural zones, and a specialist high performance sports science and sports medicine zone. A Central Park would provide public green open space. An elevated landscaped walkway or ‘highline’ would connect the precincts to Doomben Station whilst a green pedestrian bridge over the river would link the site to the evolving suburb of Bulimba.
The scheme addresses the challenges of the city’s existing sports infrastructure such as the site constraints of Brisbane’s much-loved ‘Gabba’. A new world class stadium at Northshore can be purpose built for cricket and AFL while creating a unique Olympic experience and venue to be proud of. Having direct connection to the river and views from inside the stadium back to the CBD will showcase the city’s natural beauty, river setting and sub-tropical climate to the world.
- Discipline | Masterplanning, Architecture
- Sector | Precincts, Mixed-Use, Sport
- Region | Australia
- Location | Northshore, Brisbane
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About the Brisbane Design Alliance
The Brisbane Design Alliance is a team of specialist architecture, design and engineering practices firmly embedded in Queensland that unites the local and global expertise of Buchan, HKS, NRA Collaborative, Aurecon and Nikken Sekkei.
As Brisbane and Queensland enter an exciting period of opportunity and growth, the Brisbane Design Alliance is poised to bring exemplary design to sport and community infrastructure at every scale.
HKS is a global architecture and design practice working across sectors with an extensive portfolio of sports and entertainment venues and a strong focus on sustainability. HKS approaches venue design from the inside out to put the user experience at the centre, from sitting in the stands to getting home from an event. The HKS Brisbane Design Alliance team is led by Andrew Colling, who grew up in Brisbane and lives on the Gold Coast. Andrew has worked on stadiums around the world, including the state-of-the art SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
More about HKSAurecon is an engineering and advisory company with a strong presence across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Aurecon tackles some of the world’s most complex challenges, providing integrated solutions across the entire asset cycle and helping communities and economies transition to a more sustainable future. Aurecon has engineered more sports and entertainment venues than any other company in Australia. Its Brisbane Design Alliance team is led locally based Peter Ayres, Global Structures Lead. Peter has worked on stadiums and venues in every continent across the last 30 years.
More about AureconNoel Robinson Architects (NRA) is a Brisbane architecture practice that has been delivering projects throughout Australia for over for 50 years. NRA's awarded portfolio traverses scale, typology and geography, and includes creative, commercially sound design in the multi-residential, commercial office and tourism sectors. Urban design and planning are other areas of interest and the practice has been instrumental in many major Brisbane developments in recent decades. NRA's Brisbane Design Alliance lead is practice founder and Brisbane local, Noel Robinson.
https://www.noelrobinsonarchitects.com/Nikken Sekkei is an international architectural, planning and engineering firm with headquarters in Tokyo. Since founding in 1900, it has worked on diverse projects in Japan as well as across Asia, the Middle East and Spain. The Nikken Sekkei Wood Lab is a specialist team of architects and engineers researching and developing wooden structures, with a growing portfolio of award-winning projects that includes the Ariake Gymnastics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Its Brisbane Design Alliance lead is Hiroshi Miyakawa, Executive and Design Fellow.
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