Built on the land of the Turrbal and Jagera peoples
Fifteen years ago, the Queensland government’s Smart State Council presented the Smart Cities: Rethinking the city centre1 report to then premier Peter Beattie. The report proposed actionable visions for the future of Brisbane’s city centre, including “dramatically and innovatively enhancing connectivity throughout“ and “creating a ‘knowledge corridor’” to link and harmonize areas of forecast population growth with an S-shaped spine of emergent and potential creative, cultural and knowledge-intensive precincts snaking from Bowen Hills to St Lucia.
By 2017, the nascent “knowledge corridor” had evolved such that the residential intensification associated with this urban renewal was putting significant pressure on enrolments in existing inner-city schools. The Queensland government, connecting the dots of opportunity and need, fast-tracked theNow, Brisbane South State Secondary College (BSSSC), designed by BVN, has opened in Dutton Park, partnering with the University of Queensland (UQ) at St Lucia.
