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O’Neill Architecture, Boathouse Pavilion, Queen’s Wharf Foreshore, Public architecture, Hospitality architecture, Brisbane CBD, Riverside Mangrove Walk, Flood resilience, Flood resilient design, Café design, 2022 floods, Flood-resilience measures, Pedestrian network design, Urban realm design, Riverside Expressway

Queen's Wharf Foreshore -
The Boathouse

Client

Destination Brisbane Consortium

Location

Brisbane

Traditional Owners

Jagera / Turrbal

Completion

2019

Photographer

Christopher Frederick Jones

The Boathouse is a new riverside restaurant at the eastern entry to Queen's Wharf Mangrove Walk.

Queen’s Wharf Foreshore is a significant public realm project along the western riverbank of Brisbane’s CBD, a part of the Queens’s Wharf Integrated Resort Development. We were selected as part of a multi-disciplinary team to design a series of shade pavilions and a café, spread along a 500m long boardwalk perched over the Brisbane River, outside the Mangrove line. The pavilions were to be beautiful and place-specific, as well as robust and flood-resilient. The Boat House pavilion is a major node along the boardwalk. Flanked by the boardwalk to the north and a riverside deck to the south, this space houses a café and a set of public amenities. Delicate, golden, folded screen structures wrap awnings that shelter outdoor seating, marking the building from a distance. The design employs various flood-resilience measures, and has successfully withstood the recent 2022 floods. All of the pavilions sit above the Q20 flood level. The materials used – steel, timber, core-filled blockwork, concrete are suitably robust. A construction methodology of bolted connections for the structure and timber screens allows for easy replacement to damaged parts. The Mangrove Walk has become a successful part of Brisbane’s riverfront pedestrian network, highly trafficked by walkers, joggers and cyclists all through the day and evening.

O’Neill Architecture, Boathouse Pavilion, Queen’s Wharf Foreshore, Public architecture, Hospitality architecture, Brisbane CBD, Riverside Mangrove Walk, Flood resilience, Flood resilient design, Café design, 2022 floods, Flood-resilience measures, Pedestrian network design, Urban realm design, Riverside Expressway
O’Neill Architecture, Boathouse Pavilion, Queen’s Wharf Foreshore, Public architecture, Hospitality architecture, Brisbane CBD, Riverside Mangrove Walk, Flood resilience, Flood resilient design, Café design, 2022 floods, Flood-resilience measures, Pedestrian network design, Urban realm design, Riverside Expressway
O’Neill Architecture, Boathouse Pavilion, Queen’s Wharf Foreshore, Public architecture, Hospitality architecture, Brisbane CBD, Riverside Mangrove Walk, Flood resilience, Flood resilient design, Café design, 2022 floods, Flood-resilience measures, Pedestrian network design, Urban realm design, Riverside Expressway
O’Neill Architecture, Boathouse Pavilion, Queen’s Wharf Foreshore, Public architecture, Hospitality architecture, Brisbane CBD, Riverside Mangrove Walk, Flood resilience, Flood resilient design, Café design, 2022 floods, Flood-resilience measures, Pedestrian network design, Urban realm design, Riverside Expressway
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