With travel restrictions significantly eased, Godfrey Frederick has enjoyed visiting some of our office locations to ‘eyeball’ a few of our signature projects rather than simply seeing them on 2D plans.
He was recently lucky enough to visit the 450 Queen Street site in Brisbane and it was an eye opener to say the least. Standing across the road and looking up, Godfrey observed where the 1970’s building gained the notorious honour of being known as Brisbane’s ‘ugliest commercial building’. A commercial development that has definitely seen better days, now a vacant building that had suffered with a raft of issues including façade problems.
450 Queen St is being redeveloped by InDeMa Properties and is forecast to be an A-Grade 24-storey tower incorporating the structure of the existing building and will include a new podium and a new rooftop canopy. The development will include end-of-trip facilities with 157 bicycle spaces, along with the ground floor business lounge and communal rooftop terrace. The development is targeting a 5 Star Green Star design rating and a WiredScore certification, check out our most recent 450 Queen Street post to read all about BSE’s partnership with WiredScore to bring this monumental piece of architecture to life.
Looking at the latest concepts, Godfrey observes that:
“The vision for this building is exciting, it will be interesting to watch this development take shape on the waterfront over the coming years”
BSE is excited to be working with Fender Katsilidis Architects (who BSE worked with in delivering the Midtown Centre development) and InDeMa Properties.
What will be an incredible ‘before & after’.