APPLICANT CONSENTS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION BEING RELEASED Yes No. APPLICANT S SIGNATURE: 15 September 2015

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1 Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Application form Heritage Entry of a State Heritage Place in the Queensland Heritage Register Removal of a State Heritage Place from the Queensland Heritage Register Removal of part of a State Heritage Place from the Queensland Heritage Register Use this form to make an application to either enter a State Heritage Place in or have all or part of a State Heritage Place removed from the Queensland Heritage Register. The Queensland Heritage Register is established under the Queensland Heritage Act Applicant Details FAMILY NAME (OR CORPORATE NAME Including Title of signatory): Australian Instititute of Architects Queensland Chapter GIVEN NAME/S: Mr Richard Kirk POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 3275 SOUTH BRISBANE QLD TITLE: Qld Chapter President POSTCODE: 4101 TELEPHONE (BUSINESS HOURS): TELEPHONE (AFTER HOURS): MOBILE: Judith.Gilmore@architecture.com.au FACSIMILE: Applicant Consent APPLICANT CONSENTS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION BEING RELEASED Yes No APPLICANT S SIGNATURE: DATE: 15 September 2015 Please note: all applications are made available for public viewing. Giving your consent here will mean your name, as well as any affiliations will remain on the public copy of the application. 3. Details of place NAME OF PLACE AND / OR FORMER NAME TAB Building (former) now UNiTAB Building STREET ADDRESS 240 Sandgate Road, Albion QLD 4010 FOR REMOVALS ONLY ENTER HERITAGE REGISTER NUMBER (60xxxx) HRN: LOT Lot 5 PLAN SP LOCAL GOVERNMENT Brisbane What is your interest in the property? Owner Other Page 1 of Department of Environment and Heritage Protection ABN

2 Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Application form 4. The following information must accompany this form: FOR AN APPLICATION TO ENTER: An application must have the following information attached; if not it may not be accepted. 1) Adequately identify the place by completing details in previous section entitled Details of place. 2) A description of the features of the place that contribute to its cultural heritage significance. 3) Contain a statement of the history of the place. 4) Copies of supporting documents including photographs, drawings, maps, plans, historical titles information and other relevant publications and documents. 5) Based on the history, a statement of how the place satisfies one or more of the cultural heritage criteria in the Queensland Heritage Act 1992, as follows: a) The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland s history. b) The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland s cultural heritage. c) The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland s history. d) The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. e) The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. f) The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period. g) The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. h) The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland s history. For assistance preparing this supporting information, please refer to the Guide: Entering a State Heritage Place in the Queensland Heritage Register, available at FOR AN APPLICATION TO REMOVE OR PART REMOVE: An application must have the following information attached; if not it may not be accepted. 1) A statement of how the place, or part thereof, does not satisfy the cultural heritage criteria contained in the entry in the Queensland Heritage Register. 2) Information to support this statement, including a written history and description relating to the place (supported by relevant photographs, drawings or other documents). For assistance preparing this supporting information, please refer to the Guide: Removing a State Heritage Place from the Queensland Heritage Register, available at Send one copy of completed form and attached information to: Implementation and Support Unit, Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, GPO Box 2454, Brisbane Qld Enquiries Information about heritage places is available on the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection s website at If you have any questions about how to complete this form correctly, or need guidance, contact Department of Environment and Heritage Protection s Heritage Branch on 13 QGOV ( ). Page 2 of Department of Environment and Heritage Protection

3 Nomination for the Queensland Heritage Register: TAB Building (former) now UNiTAB Building 240 Sandgate Road, Albion Figure 1: The (former) TAB Building as seen from Hudson Road c.1988 (Photograph: Graham De Gruchy) 1: Details of Place The (Former) TAB Building is located at 240 Sandgate Road, Albion. This site has the real property identification of Lot 5 on SP and a site area of 8,772m2. The site is located within the Brisbane City Council local government area and presently is not afforded any heritage protection under that Council s planning scheme. The boundary of the proposed listing is the full extent of this particular landholding (see Figures 2 & 3) to ensure that the landmark qualities of the building are not eroded or compromised by subsequent adjacent development.

4 Figure 2: The subject site with boundaries highlighted which is located between the major road frontages of Sandgate & Hudson Roads. (Source: BCC Interactive mapping) Figure 2: The site of (former) TAB Building at 240 Sandgate Road, Albion - site boundaries and proposed heritage curtilage highlighted in red. (Source: BCC Interactive mapping)

5 Assessment of Significance: Criterion B: The (former) TAB Building is considered to demonstrate rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland s cultural heritage as a surviving, intact example of Late Twentieth century Brutalist architecture. This architectural style continues to be somewhat divisive in the eyes of the general public and often lacks broad community appreciation hence buildings of this type are often under threat of demolition or similar redevelopment. It is considered imperative that high quality examples of this particular architectural style be preserved for future generations to appreciate and see as integral to the development of a modern regional architectural style within the State of Queensland. Criterion E: The (former) TAB Building is important because of its aesthetic significance as a well composed commercial development that has retained its original materiality and detailing and possesses local landmark qualities on the fringe of Brisbane s CBD. Criterion F: The (former) TAB Building is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period in its execution of the Late Twentieth century Brutalist style to produce a distinctive and enduring commercial building. The simple composition of large-scale horizontal and vertical elements to generate the structure of the building combined with the robust nature of the off-form and precast concrete components have generated an excellent example of this architectural style and one well worthy of preservation into the future. Criterion H: The (former) TAB Building has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance to Queensland s history as one of the most notable architectural local commissions of Geoffrey Pie AM, Architect. Description: The (former) TAB building now UNiTAB Building at 240 Sandgate Road, Albion is a fine surviving example of Late Twentieth Century Brutalist architecture, which is located on the city fringe of Brisbane. This ten (10) storey commercial building has enjoyed a certain degree of public notoriety as a local landmark for Albion since its construction in 197X. Although the building is only around forty (40) metres in height, its comparative scale against the late-nineteenth or early twentieth century commercial architecture of the adjacent Albion centre generates a considerable visual presence for the (former) TAB Building in this locality. The building comprises a vertical stack of horizontal spandrel panels in precast concrete contrasting with tower elements in off-form concrete at the either end of the building. At the eastern end of the building, the tower structure comprises a combination of lift and fire stair risers while, at the western end, a narrower tower structure contains only fire stairs. The eastern tower also features the northern entrance portico for the building, which is approached by a concrete staircase leading up from the Sandgate Road frontage and is protected by a large, cantilevered awning that is tied back to the concrete tower behind and above it. The fenestration pattern of the building comprises continuous horizontal bands of curtainwall glazing suspended between the spandrel elements with the glazing line being deeply recessed to achieve the appropriate level of solar control for the interior spaces. A two storey podium structure constructed of face brick and off-form concrete projects out from the bottom of the building into the southern forecourt area. An elevated driveway and open carparking area is located immediately to the north of the building and is edged by a substantial retaining wall in rubble stonework, which is visible from both major street frontages and adds to the robust and tactile nature of the overall development.

6 Figure 4: The (former) TAB Building viewed from Sandgate Road. Note the entrance staircase, substantial stone retaining wall (on right), the cantilevered entrance awning and the pair of tie rods supporting same from the eastern tower structure. (Source: Google Maps) Figure 5: The (former) TAB Building viewed from Sandgate Road. Note the projecting podium structure on the southern side of the building as a visual counterpoint to the verticality of the eastern tower element. (Source: Google Maps)

7 Figure 6: The (former) TAB Building viewed from the Hudson Road frontage. From this aspect the face brick exterior of the projecting podium structure is evident, which reinforces the Brutalist underpinnings of the design with a combination of raw or brutal materials being utilised in the construction of the building. (Source: Google Maps) Site History: The (former) TAB Building was designed by Geoffrey Pie in conjunction with Hall Wilson & Phillips (now Phillips Smith Conwell) and completed in the early 1980s. Geoffrey Pie, Architect: Geoffrey Pie is a Queensland-based Architect; now retired. His architectural career extended for almost 50 years from his early days in the office of Lucas & Cummings, a short period in London, several years with Robin Gibson & Partners before becoming highly regarded as an individual practitioner in his later years. In 1986 his own residence at Peregian Beach received the Robin Boyd Award for residential architecture by the (then) Royal Australian Institute of Architects. In the 2014 Queen s Birthday honours, Geoffrey Pie was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his significant service to architecture and heritage preservation as a practitioner, mentor and leader. In the past decade, two of Geoffrey Pie s projects have been awarded the 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture by the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. The two projects are the (former) TAB Building at Albion (2007) and the Pie Residence at Peregian Beach, which received this award in 2012.

8 Figure 7: The (former) TAB Building upon completion (c.1982) viewed from its entrance staircase on the Sandgate Road frontage. Note the verticality of the lift and fire stair tower, the exaggerated span of the cantilevered awning and the contrasting horizontality of the precast spandrel panel units. The substantial rubble stone retaining wall is also prominent in this image. (Photograph: Geoffrey Pie) Architectural accolades: The (former) TAB Building was awarded the 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture by the Australian Institute of Architects in The jury described the building as having weathered generations of reaction to, and subsequent re-embracing of, the principles of functional modernism. As the tallest building on a busy arterial road, the TAB Building had acted for a quarter of a century as a solitary, prominent, forward scout for modern urban architecture in the middle ring suburbs. (Source: Australian Institute of Architects website)