The start of the 2020s has seen extreme environmental and economic pressures reshape the way we think, live and work. In a similar manner to architecture’s postwar era, our buildings are responding to – and becoming timestamps of – the present context. The University of Queensland Cricket Club Maintenance Shed, by Lineburg Wang with Steve Hunt Architect, is a small project located in Meanjin, Brisbane that marks a moment in time. Developed over 2021 and 2022, the scheme battled constant cost revisions in response to shortages of labour and materials, which had been rightfully redirected to rebuilding homes lost in the 2022 floods across Queensland and New South Wales. These external factors morphed the building into what it
