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Queensland Gallery of Modern Art - Award Winning Design
- Client: Bovis Lend lease
- Price: $8 million
- Tonnage: 859t
- Location: Brisbane
- State: QLD
A S I 2007 Structural Engineering Steel Design Award Winner.
The new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (QGMA) is an initiative of the QLD Government through Arts QLD. QGMA boasts being the largest art museum in Australia solely dedicated to modern and contemporary art (gross floor area 25,635m2).
It comprises of 12 galleries, 2 cinema galleries, a gallery shop, two cafes and a cinema bar.
Gay Constructions fabricated and installed all 859 tonnes of structural steel throughout the roof, facade and internal walls.
Early days – north west corner of the roof is complete (bottom right corner),
The 100 tonne crane (bottom middle) is working on the north side of the building laying out bundles of Stramit pulins.
A 50 tonne crane is working on erecting the feature eaves plates each weighing over a tonne (bottom right hand corner).
View from level 3
Looking up through the roof of the gallery 3.1 at welded beam hip rafter, catwalks above ceiling beams, stramit purlins & bridging and stramit wall girts all detailed and fabricated by Gay constructions and erected by Mulherin rigging and cranes.
The roof structure
Is nearing completion with feature eaves plates over 1 tonne each , these were nick named BBQ plates, they were 1045mm deep with a 430mm upstand and up to 9.3m long in 12mm plate.
This roof represents probably the biggest cantilevered structure in Brisbane. It also boasts one of the longest columns you are likely to see at 23m, the section is a 350 WB 280 the largest commercially available welded column in Australia.
Nearing Completion
The project is starting to take shape , the roof is complete and the facade structure is nearing completion with just the north timber screen to be installed.
The west facade structure is almost entirely covered by black aluminium panels and is only exposed at the windows.
Qld Gallery of Modern Arts (QGMA) completed December 2006
