Head of School Commendation

Sponsored by: ADP Sponsor Pool

School: School of Architecture, Design and Planning

A discretionary award from the Head of School for a project, team or individual student that embodies the School’s values of innovation, resilience, and leadership.

Ep. II Oemah: Bhanuteja

by  Bonar Yeshurn Situmorang

The project defined in two words.Bhanuteja in Javanese means sunlight, which is filtered through the leaves of the trees acts as it metaphorical word. While its philosophical value embodied through the word 'Ma' the space between elements, the time between the beginning and the end. Its the gap, the space and the pause but its not simply an absence but an active presence that shape experience.

Kangaroo Point Library

by  Natasha Paliwoda

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

Kangaroo Point Library

by  Natasha Paliwoda

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

Kurilpa Community Centre

by  Sarah-Jane Foxton

A heritage-led reimagining of Kurilpa Hall and the 97-year-old Kurilpa Library, this project transforms both buildings into adaptable civic spaces shaped by human-scale occupation. Guided by tabula plena, the design preserves embedded character while blurring inside and out—inviting learning, gathering, and everyday community life.

Rediscovering the 1959 Birrell Toowong Pool

by  Hal Chandler

This project proves that the Toowong Pool was eligible for listing on the Queensland Heritage Register via the completion of a Cultural Heritage Significance Assessment (CHSA), and should never have been demolished. As a way of preserving the Pool's memory, it has been digitally modelled (based on archive research and interviews) so its legacy can continue in the digital realm.

The Forum of Coexistence: Urban Ecological Interpretation Center, Leisure Valley

by  Lisa Sabu

A visionary landscape–architecture project that reimagines Chandigarh’s Leisure Valley as a civic–ecological spine. By weaving water infrastructure, public life, and habitat systems, the Urban Ecological Interpretation Center transforms an underused valley into a living framework of memory, culture, and ecological resilience.

The Great Hall

by  Caroline Lund

This project proposes a new Great Hall at UQ that creates a spatial narrative of movement, memory, and material expression. A series of pavilions form a multi use precinct that celebrates community and provides an active space at the forefront of the uni. Through form, and exposure of structure, the main hall building celebrates the grandeur and richness of timber and the native bunya tree.

The Greenslane

by  Selina Li

Designed around security, individuality, and community, The Greenslane supports older women from isolated or fragmented backgrounds. A linear terrace-inspired layout creates safe private dwellings and internal streets, leading to a shared garden and a meal kit distribution workshop that promotes connection, resilience, and collective wellbeing.

Under-Arching

by  Evanne Cosico

The Great Court’s arches are used to celebrate UQ’s stories and achievements, similarly to the ritual of graduation; however, they also hold a special presence in student’s memories of their time at UQ. This project gathers students under one voluminous, extruded arch that recalls and commemorates those once-in-a-lifetime memories, whilst taking special consideration to enable daily use besides gr

Under-Arching

by  Evanne Cosico

The Great Court’s arches are used to celebrate UQ’s stories and achievements, similarly to the ritual of graduation; however, they also hold a special presence in student’s memories of their time at UQ. This project gathers students under one voluminous, extruded arch that recalls and commemorates those once-in-a-lifetime memories, whilst taking special consideration to enable daily use besides gr

UQ Graduation Hall

by  Henry Beckmann

The UQ Graduation Hall is emphatically contemporary and of its time, yet designed to conjure the traditional expression and majestic character of historic University Halls.