This cache is third in a series of heritage listed places in
Kelvin Grove.
At this cache location you will find some interesting heritage
listed architecture.
Read more about this location at EPA Qld's website:
Student Residences, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus. There will be a
test later. :)
The former Hall of Residence at the QUT Campus at Kelvin Grove
demonstrates the pattern of development of the provision of
improved facilities for Technical and Further Education in
Queensland. It also provides evidence of the development of a
climatically responsive architecture.
The project is an uncommon and intact example of a public
commission by the architect John Dalton. It exhibits the principal
characteristics of his work in the 1970s and demonstrates the
successful adaptation and continuity of the themes that he had
developed in his body of residential work into the public realm -
the marked differentiation between the contained and more open
parts of buildings achieved by changes in materials and contrasts
between solid core of white painted masonry and the brown stained
timbers of verandahs and pergolas, and angled white walls and
pitched roof forms projected at various angles in a distinctive
response to the Queensland climate.
I'm not sure what is in these buildings these days, I think they
may be unused, but a few appear to be offices. Hopefully they will
play a part in the new developments going on in the area, although
a couple have already been knocked down, according to the EPA
link.
The cache should be an easy find and it is
reachable from the pathway, so please don't go climbing in any
gardens.