Brisbane Square Civic Complex + Plaza
Cultural + Civic
Brisbane, Australia
Project 2001 – 2006
About this project
Brisbane Square is a major civic complex in Brisbane’s CBD combining a public library, council services and a public plaza. The Brisbane Square Library is the city’s flagship public library which together with the Brisbane City Council offices and a customer service centre, creates an integrated civic hub co-located in a podium and office tower totalling 65,000m².
In front of the building an open, paved public square connects Queen Street Mall to the river.
It is designed as an important social and cultural hub for the city. Shops, cafes and food outlets at street level open onto a public space in front of the neighbouring old Treasury building. Floating over the plaza, and providing splashes of colour, are four low-rise linear stick buildings housing the library, customer service centre and offices.
Brisbane Square is an emblematic gateway to the city and a distinctive addition to the city’s skyline, public facilities and urban open space.
