QLD Chapter

The Gold Medal – the Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour – recognises distinguished service by architects who have designed or executed buildings of high merit, producing work of great distinction that has advanced architecture or endowed the profession in a distinguished manner. Los Angeles-based Australian expatriates Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg, of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, jointly won the prestigious Gold Medal for their lifelong pursuit of social and community outcomes through architecture. Join us to hear more about Julie…

Designing apartments is often based on client’s expectations and past successes but Samantha Reece of Australian Apartment Advocacy has taken a different tact, researching what buyers are seeking so that she can then inform the design process from a consumer perspective. Samantha will be presenting her 2019 apartment research results which secured 3312 responses, comparing QLD to NSW, Victoria and WA as well as sharing the types of amenities, public art, street interfaces that buyers would choose if they could…