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66 Hope Street in Brisbane
Forest & Lane Real Estate Development in Queensland, Australia – design by Pointilism
11 Sep 2019
66 Hope Street
Design: Pointilism
Location: Hope St, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
66 Hope Street

Forest & Lane delves into our fascination with contemporary Queensland and our deep reverence for the local Murri way of life. We have long admired the Queenslander and our concept pays homage to the unique architectural set up of elevating living yet maintaining the natural topography of the land.
Composed of two buildings raised 30m off the ground modestly supported by slender pilotis, we seek to evacuate the ground plane and to introduce a new urban thoroughfare; the linear forest, the laneway and the cabinet of curiosities all within a single urban gesture. The city receives a new tactile forest experience with dense layered vegetation that seeks a visceral connectedness to the original custodians of the land, the Turrbal and Jagera people.
Fronting Hope Street in eclectic South Brisbane, the forest presents itself as a mysterious composition of totemic elements of curiosity within the landscape. Skeletal animal structures are set amongst dense foliage while moss covered rocks reveal a meandering pathway. As the pedestrian gets drawn deep into the forest, other curious components begin to reveal themselves; an iron chef stage on steps, a suspend...