Expert stakeholders responded to the requirement by Stadiums Queensland to produce a zero carbon building while controlling the cost of the project. The outcome is a relatively low build cost that maintained the vision for a zero-carbon outcome. The pavilion is now the only known facility of its type in the southern hemisphere, and only one of several worldwide.
“The need for landscape architecture has never been greater,” AILA National Awards jury chair Claire Martin says. “Whether by accelerating adaptation, strategising for carbon and flood mitigation, increasing biodiversity or improving the health of our waterways. Likewise, landscape architects can strengthen people’s connection with their environment and to each other, improve livelihoods and health outcomes, foster truth telling and simply bring joy to people.”