BECK STREET BY LINEBURG WANG

Etched into the minds of those witness to the 2011 Brisbane floods are the incredulous scenes of locals taking to watercraft to relocate precious belongings from inundated houses. Such scenes played out in the neighbourhood of Rosalie, where a basin forms at the bottom of Paddington. During significant rainfall, stormwater rushes down from ridge tops in the northwest while Brisbane River inundation surges from the south-east. The magnitude of these threats did not phase Brisbane architects Michael Lineburg and Lynn Wang, directors of Lineburg Wang, who reassured their clients – who were keen to live in the area