Architects:Lyons, m3architecture

Area :1258 m²

Year :2022

Photographs :Christopher Frederick Jones

City : Brisbane

Country : Australia

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Lyons + m3architecture won the competition to design the new Andrew N. Liveris Building, which includes significant space assigned for the School of Chemical Engineering. The design concept focuses on creating a physical environment and identity that will allow the School to reinforce its distinctive strengths – outwardly open and transparent, and inwardly intense and focused.

The idea for the exterior of the building is the confluence between Chemical Engineering and the campus itself – a campus with stoic sandstone origins becoming increasingly glass with each new building addition. This evolution is due to advances in technology involving the work of Chemical Engineers, amongst others. This metamorphosis from sand to glass is used metaphorically to make a building that simultaneously acknowledges its time, place, and role as the home for Chemical Engineering.