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Your Australian World Expositions Connection
- Celebrating Brisbane's World Expo '88 and Australia at World Expositions -
Design & Construction
Some of Australia's largest construction, design and landscaping firms were responsible for the planning and delivery of the Exposition
- that transformed the site from a derelict
corner of Brisbane
history into a modern, sophisticated and
beautiful micropolis
- featuring an extensive program of co-ordinated
landscaping, art work and water features.
In 1984 the Queensland Government appointed Thiess Watkins Construction Managers for World Expo 88.
Thiess Watkins reported directly to the Expo 88 Executive on all facets of the Design & Construction and worked in close association with the Master Architects Bligh Maccormick 88.
Bligh Maccormick 88 had an office on-site in the years leading up to the construction phase, and employed a large staff including the latest American computer to regularly update the Master Plan for the site.
Under the terms of a special exposition, the Host Country was required to design and construct all Pavilion accommodation, with the exception of the Australian and Queensland Pavilions, and certain international pavilions.
The majority of building accommodation was designed by Bligh Maccormick 88 with the exception of individual buildings listed below.
Bligh Maccormick 88 had an office on-site in the years leading up to the construction phase, and employed a large staff including the latest American computer to regularly update the Master Plan for the site.
Under the terms of a special exposition, the Host Country was required to design and construct all Pavilion accommodation, with the exception of the Australian and Queensland Pavilions, and certain international pavilions.
The majority of building accommodation was designed by Bligh Maccormick 88 with the exception of individual buildings listed below.
INDIVIDUAL ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSIONS
Pavilions : Bligh Maccormick 88
Monorail Stations : Bligh Maccormick 88
Gates: Bligh Maccormick 88
Ice Cream Parlours : Bligh Maccormick 88
Merchandising : Bligh Maccormick 88 and Les Jones Architects
Landscaping : Laurie Smith and Associates
Boardwalk : Ainsley Bell & Murchison
Information Buildings : Rex Addison and Hume and Webster
Young at Heart and Pacific Lagoon Restaurants : Bligh Robinson
Entertainment Venues : John Simpson
Expo Info Kiosks : James Maccormick and Associates
Queensland Pavilion : Robin Gibson and Partners
Australia Pavilion : Anchor Mortlock Woolley
CLIENT
Brisbane Exposition South Bank Re-Development Authority
MASTER ARCHITECTS
Bligh Maccormick 88
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Chris Clarke
PROJECT TEAM
Noel Park, Steve Knight, Peter Bertram, Howard Kent, Dianna Woods, David Dennis, Klaus Bartosch, Greg Winkel, Phil Tait, Steven Thrum
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Thiess Watkins
TENSION MEMBRANE STRUCTURES ('Sun-sails')
Thiess Contractors Pty Ltd in association with Harald Muehlberber
This page will soon feature photographs of during this phase of the Exposition.
Information Sourced from interview with James Maccormick MBE, Co-Master Architect of World Expo 88, as well as from 'Architecture Australia' Magazine September 1988 Vol 77 Number 6 p.44 "World Expo 88 - by Micheal Keniger"
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