HIS building will be here when I and my sons have long passed away, as a monument of pluck and indomitable perseverance.” (Thomas Dixon) What once started as a “minor renovation”, led by Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Li Cunxin, has ballooned to a $100 million plus reimagining of QB’s old home: the Thomas Dixon Centre (TDC). Against a backdrop of COVID, El Niño, significant delays, rampant inflation and rising costs, QB’s new home was finally completed in July last year. It is a spectacular new arts hub for Brisbane. After getting the insider’s titbits from QB’s precincts manager, Julia Urbanska, let me take
