
The University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Architecture has proven again that the creative skills developed in its design studios are truly award winning. Graduating from UQ’s Master of Architecture program in 2010, Rick Hill and Josh Spillane, along with 3D graphic artist Leon McBride, recently submitted one of three winning designs in an international competition to redesign the Parramatta foreshore in New South Wales. Mr Hill said that the Ideas on Edge competition coordinated by the Parramatta City Council provided the perfect opportunity to put the skills they learnt in the masters design studio to the test.
“The Ideas on Edge competition allowed people from all over the world to submit an innovative and creative design for the development of a site on the Parramatta foreshore which covers 2.2 hectares. This was an opportunity to explore a project that considered alternatives to continued sprawl in a climate of rising energy and production costs and to deal with aspects of environmental, economic and community sustainability,” Mr Hill said.
