exile on Main street
Client: Confidential
Location: Kangaroo Point, Brisbane
Date commenced: November 2017
Date completed: December 2019
Architect: maarch*
Landscape Architect: maarch*
Location: Kangaroo Point, Brisbane
Date commenced: November 2017
Date completed: December 2019
Architect: maarch*
Landscape Architect: maarch*
In 1823 Australian explorer and surveyor John Oxley described Kangaroo Point as a “jungle, fringed with mangroves with the higher land open forest, covered with grass”, a point of difference to the surrounding geography that Brisbane now finds itself on - an ‘exiling’ of the norm. As John Oxley says himself; you should never stop discovering.
‘Exile on Main Street’ seeks to translate the narrative history of Brisbane into elements of Design. Here, a steel framed structure draped in planting inserts itself in the urban fabric as both a hidden gem in the greater Brisbane area while giving voice to the history of the urban and natural environment.
