Flashback Friday - Blackall Cultural Centre

The Blackall Cultural Centre has celebrated its 20th anniversary since it was built!

Blackall is a small rural town located in the Blackall-Tambo Region in Central West Queensland, approximately 960km from Brisbane.

The Cultural Centre was designed to meet the needs for cultural activities in and around Blackall. These were identified through extensive interviews with local community groups.

Memorial Park is situated next to the Cultural Centre and was utilised to form an instant landscape to the new facility and provide a green lookout.

The building is set out with a strict grid of east-west masonry wall panels providing visual weight to a significant community structure. North-south walls are lightweight steel and glass, opening internal spaces to surrounding courtyards.

A gentle, double-curvature steel roof overlays the structural grid with 6 metre wide eaves to the east and west for protection.

Simplicity in internal details using plywood and timber and painted plasterboard completed a low cost simple but recognisable civic building.

The building received several awards including;
BHP Colorbond Award.
Australian Institute of Architects Queensland State Architecture Commendation: Public Architecture.
Australian Institute of Architects Central Queensland Regional Architecture Commendation: Public Architecture.