Bid to save QPAC from 30-storey towers

Queensland Performing Arts Centre, part of the Queensland Cultural Precinct. Photo: Supplied.

Queensland architects want the Queensland Cultural Precinct at South Bankto be heritage-listed before the state government pushes ahead with plans to build two 30-storey towers on the landmark site.

The state government's draft master plan for the cultural precinct, which was released in May, includes plans for two 30-storey towers.

The plan proposes a five-star hotel be built over the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and a second tower near the Queensland Museum.

The Queensland arm of the Australian Institute of Architectshas voiced its frustration at the proposed changes, which it has said oppose the vision of architect Rob Gibson, who designed all the Queensland Cultural Centre buildings in the mid to late 1970s.

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Mr Gibson's daughter Tina Gibson, herself an architect now working in Luxemborg, has also voiced her opposition to the high-rise plans and has started a Facebook page titled Queensland Cultural Centre Campaign protesting the state government's alterations to her father's designs.

"Essentially it is a myriad of inappropriate commercially driven alterations and additions that will inalterably affect both the interior and the exterior of the Complex," Ms Gibson told Fairfax Media.

"To make matters worse the funding for all these changes will come from selling off the airspace above and constructing a pair of 30-storey towers," she said.

"The scheme is a travesty and should be stopped."

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