Since its first iteration in 2013, this initiative has facilitated real-world experience, opportunities, and guidance for more than 25 emerging architects and interior designers and has become an important pillar of our ethos as a practice.
QHIGI (Queensland Housing Investment Growth Initiative) aims to fast track the delivery of 6,365 new social homes through a $1.8 billion investment in a 4 year integrated capital investment program.
If there was an opportunity to deliver new social housing, how could existing models be improved? What would it look and feel like, and how would people experience these places and services?
Affordable housing shortfalls and the need to improve our current approach to social housing has become an urgent and important agenda for Australians. The widely recognised challenges facing the housing market generally have been brought into sharper focus by the ongoing pandemic.
After six years of working with Arkhefield as Strategic Director, we wish to advise Gavan Ranger will be finishing this role at the end of this year.
Home to 6,000 athletes during the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, the Smith Collective is reinventing the rental experience as its 13th build-to-rent building is released following strong demand.
Camp Hill Marketplace and Elizabeth Arcade were awarded commendations at the 2020 AIA QLD Architecture Awards.
With handover due in 2020, the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal is quickly taking shape and framing for the dramatic roof wrap over the entry plaza now in place.
This year due to COVID-19 The AIA (Australian Institute of Architects) broadcast the annual Regional Architecture Awards online. Arkhefield staff wanted the event to be memorable nevertheless, and so presented themselves on Zoom picking up another “award” on the way
As the build-to-rent housing model gains traction in Queensland, the first rental offering has hit the market in the newly transformed Smith Collective.
A thought-provoking and inspiring architect-client relationship has led to the achievement of a happy and profoundly comfortable family home - Genevieve Lilley, Houses Magazine
