Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

The Telegraph 9 November 1982 ·" cl rt Gallery wins 'architectural award · The new Queen1l1nd Art Gallery h11 been awarded one of Au1tralla'1 ,naJor architectural award,. : · Tbe gallery, designed by leading Quec-:1sland architect, Robin Gibson, won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for a new building as part of the 1982 Na– tional Architecture Awards announced in Sydney today, ·. The winnen of the national awards were selected by a judging panel, drawn from all States ·and territories, from those buildings which hud already on 1982 State awards. The judges described the Queens– and Art Gallery,.which is part of the Canberra Times 10 November risbane gallery– wins award new Cultural Centre, .as ari' 6pen, light and spacious building appropriate for its Queensland locatio11.' They said the use of water in the wa– ter mall, which was both a foil and con– trast to the solid walls of the building, was an appropriate rcco,nition of the building site along the Brisbane River. The pools of varying kinds, cascades and water surface patterns, and the sensitive use of water sound, all provid– ed an exceptional linking element visi ble from all the major alleries. I SYDNEY: The Queensland Art Gallery, on the banks of the Brisbane River, has won this year's Royal Auatnlian Institute of Architects' Sir Zelman Cowen Award for a new building. courier-Mail 10 November 1982 The gallery, designed by Queenslander Robin Gibson, was opened in June th~ year as part of Brisbane's cultural centre. The Lacblan Macquarie Award for the best restor• ation projcct in the country went.to the I 9th-century Lands Orr.cc in Moree, northern NSW. Agovernment architect. David Wilson, reconstructed the building ~after it wu danialcd by fire in 1980. · · The o.o.cmor-Ocacral, Sir Nini•n Stephen, an– , nounccd the awards at a luacla-at.Sydney University estcrday. ' I • • •' !- '•MRKATfER Ql<I two win top awards Two Qucenslanders _yeste~ay -:von national awards for their contributions in the fields of architecture and road safety. . Architect Robin Gibson, 52, won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award, Au~– tralia's highest architectural recogni– tion, for his design of the Qu~ns~.~d r= Art O!illm.- . . , . , ~ e judges said G I bson s d_es1Jn · "successfully resolves the conflict m• herent in art gallery and museum de• sign _ the battle between the art of the architecture and the art of the ex– hibits." Long-serving National rarty MHR for Kennedy, Mr Bob KatterSen., 64, won the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Graeme Grove Medal for bis contribution to road safety. The college's Road Trauma Com• mince national chairman, D_r Gord?n Trinca, said: "Mr Ka1ter's indefat_ig– able drive in the cause of_preventmg death and disabling road cruhcs h been an inspiration to ~ other !?" hers of the conuniu.ce be · ds. ...