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The High Life
Over the past decade Brisbane’s riverside suburb of
Newstead has cast off its commercial, industrial and
maritime past and been reborn as a fashionable,
upmarket residential suburb.
Over the past decade Brisbane’s riverside suburb of
Newstead has cast off its commercial, industrial and
maritime past and been reborn as a fashionable,
upmarket residential suburb.
The area is probably best known for the iconic brick
woolstores in Teneriffe (now a suburb in its own right) but
is also home to some fine Queenslanders and heritage
properties such as Newstead House, Brisbane’s oldest
existing residence, built in 1846, and the flamboyant
Breakfast Creek Hotel.
A 17-hectare gasworks site is being developed as
Newstead Riverpark. Mirvac’s Waterfront project occupies
just over 10 hectares of this prime site flanking the
Brisbane River, a mere two kilometres from the CBD.
Stage two, Park at Waterfront, opened in mid-2011.As its name
suggests, this stage is set back from the river and surrounded by
hectares of parkland. In all, 3.1 hectares has been developed
as public open space and ownership transferred to Brisbane
City Council.A further 1.8 hectares are publicly accessible but
privately owned.
The Park building is set on a podium that forms the residents’
car park. It is best described as a three-core design with two
eight-storey cores surmounted by a sixteen-storey tower
providing variation and articulation to the building massing.
The 102 apartments are a relatively affordable mix of one-,
two- and three-bedroom designs. In addition, there are 380
square metres of retail/restaurant tenancies on the ground floor.
Mirvac Design, a wholly owned design and architecture
subsidiary of the Mirvac Group, picked up the Teneriffe
woolstores’ materiality and decorated the building’s western
facade with vertical brickwork panels separated by rendered
horizontal elements.
High-rise development sets new standards
in a heritage riverside suburb
Quick Facts
Park at Waterfront, Newstead
Location:
Newstead QLD
Developer:
Mirvac Group
Architect:
Mirvac Design
Builder:
Mirvac Constructions
(Queensland)
Structural engineer:
ADG
Engineers
Bricklayer:
Fugen Holdings
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clay bricks in Terracotta
Stage 2 of Mirvac’s
Waterfront, Newstead
project is best described
as a three-core design
with two eight-storey
cores surmounted by a
sixteen-storey tower.
Vertical brickwork panels
increase the building’s
thermal mass and give
the whole complex a
more human quality.
Photography:
Alex Chomicz
