Glenfalloch Apartments

Glenfalloch Apartments (1962) is a heritage-listed multi-storey residential building at 172 Oxlade Drive, New Farm Brisbane, Queensland. It was one of the first high rise developments in Brisbane in the Modernist style.

History

Glenfalloch Apartments is a residential building designed by Lund, Hutton, Newell, Black and Paulsen and completed in 1962 at a cost of £750,000..[1] It was developed by Stanley Korman and built by J.D Booker Constructions, who also developed Kinkabool in Surfers Paradise. It overlooks the Brisbane River. The site was previously the home of the Merthyr Bowls Club and Limbless Soldiers Bowl Club until it was sold.[2] It was the first high rise in New Farm. It is listed on the Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.[3]

Glenfalloch is 15 storeys tall, accessible via a lift and stairwells that protrude from its rectangular structure. It features two under building garages. It consists of 98 apartments, primarily two bedroom units, with penthouses on the top and one bedroom units on each side of its structure. To safeguard the building from flood, each of its two driveways leading to the garages have two metre high side walls. The apartments face north to take advantage of solar benefits, rather than river views.[4]

It is unique in that 60% of the land on which it sits is dedicated garden and outdoor living space leading to the river.[5]

Modern improvements to the façade include new glazed aluminium, new windows, doors and balustrades.[6] During the 1974 and 2011 floods which affected Brisbane, residents sandbagged the garage and driveway areas preventing the flooding of lower level apartments.[7]

Plans of the designs for Glenfalloch are held in the University of Queensland Fryer Library.[8]

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References
  1. "IN QUEENSLAND THIS WEEK A.L.P. Needs To Win 15 Seats". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 30 May 1963. p. 2. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Benjamin, Gerard. "Brian remembers all in New Farm; a conversation September 2nd 2008". New Farm and Districts Historical Society | Brisbane | Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  3. "Glenfalloch | Heritage Places". heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  4. Macarthur, John, van der Plaat, Deborah, Gosseye, Janina and Wilson, Andrew (2015). Hot modernism: Queensland architecture 1945-1975. Artifice. ISBN 9781908967589.
  5. Prasser, Calum (29 February 2016). "The 'Back to the Future' of residential towers". Medium. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  6. "Brisbane's Iconic Glenfalloch Apartments | BRS Building Rectification Services". Building Rectification Services. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  7. Ferguson, Peter (1 February 2011). "Flood Commission Submission" (PDF).
  8. "Lund, Hutton, Ryan, Morton Records - Fryer Manuscripts". manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 20 December 2019.

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