Translational
Research Institute
Translational Research Institute (TRI) is Australia’s most comprehensive medical research and biopharmaceutical facility. It brings together four major research bodies to accelerate research and encourage innovation in biomedical fields.
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Traditional Owners
Turrbal and Jagera
peoplesCollaborators
Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill Architects in AssociationCompleted
2012Project Value
Landscape budget; $2,000,000Key Personnel
Beth Wilson, John Harrison, Ilka Salisbury
TRANSLATIONAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL, BRISBANE
The outdoor room brings the landscape deep into the building, allowing a porosity to the hospital campus and organises multiple entries to a diverse range of medical research facilities. Framed within its great window, the outdoor room provides a civic place at the scale of a city and delivers respite from the intensity of research. This memorable landscaped room contributes to the identity and workplace environment while adding significant space to the network of communal places.
It was intended that the plant material selected be of special scientific interest. Plants such as gymnosperms abundant in past ages but now represented by conifers and cycads have been included, as have been a thicket of pines and a Magnolia grove to represent the most primitive of the Dicotyledons.
Specified protection of existing trees contributed to the revolution and survival of two large flowering Poinciana trees on the Diamantina Road frontage. These trees formed an important part of the existing streetscape, and their survival now provides a living frame to the TRI main entry and a future tree-lined boulevard within the hospital campus.
“On arrival, I think there is almost a sense of joy that you arrive in a garden rather than into a hallway. It’s transformative in so many ways. It reveals the power of architecture.”
— Professor Michael Keniger, former TRI Board Member and past QLD State Government Architect
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Awards for Architectural + Landscape Services
2013 Premier’s Awards for Excellence in Public Service Delivery – TRI & BPA awarded Highly Commended for Growing and developing Queensland’s future
2013 AIA National Architecture Award Public Architecture
2013 AIA National Architecture Award Interior Architecture
2013 AIA FDG Stanley Award for Public Architecture
2013 AIA GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture
2013 AIA QLD State Commendation for Sustainable Architecture
Shortlist for 2013 World Architecture Festival, Higher Education category
2013 IDEA (Interior Design Excellence Awards), Highly Commended Public Space
2013 Horbury Hunt Think Brick Award for Urban Design & Landscape
2013 Australian Interior Design Awards: Best of State QLD Commercial Design
2013 Australian Interior Design Awards: Highly Commended Pubic Design
2013 Australian Timber Design Awards, Best Northern Region (Qld & NT)
2013 AIQS Infinite Value Awards - Architectural Excellence Award
2013 AIQS Infinite Value Awards - Project of the Year Award
2013 Engineering Excellence Award QLD Winner, Building Services (awarded to Aurecon, Multitech Solutions, Opus, Hawkins Jenkins Ross)
2013 IES Qld Lighting Society Award for Excellenc
2013 AIA John Dalton Award for Building of the Year
2013 AIA Brisbane Regional Commendation Public Architecture
2013 AIA Brisbane Regional Commendation Interior Architecture
2013 AIA Brisbane Regional Commendation Sustainable Architecture
