Special projects (Queensland Heritage Council)

The facade of the RS Exton and Co premises at 333 Ann Street.

Brisbane’s Shrine of Remembrance, dedicated on Armistice Day in 1930.

The Story Bridge, spanning Brisbane River, was built between 1935 and 1940.

The Masonic temple at Barcaldine was constructed in 1901.

My heritage place

In the late 1990s, land subdivision at Yeronga changed the surroundings of heritage-listed Rhyndarra, a two-storey mansion that had variously served as a grand house.

Commercial Heritage Buildings & Sustainability Forum

On 18 November 2010 the QHC, in conjunction with QUT Institute for Sustainable Resources, coordinated a national forum to explore the issues surrounding the conservation of commercial heritage buildings and sustainability.

About 130 industry professionals from across the country attended the forum where speakers from both the private and public sector presented data and case studies about making heritage buildings sustainable.

The Heritage Council, in conjunction with the Department of Environment and Resource Management, will now reflect on the outcomes of the forum and determine what actions need to be progressed.

Find out more about the forum.

Rural heritage advisor

Since 2006, the Queensland Heritage Council has provided a rural places heritage advisory service to the owners of heritage-listed rural places. Some of the oldest and most significant Queensland homesteads are among them.

This service has provided free professional architectural advice including:

advising on painting, building maintenance, building repair and renovation
prioritising a property’s heritage conservation work
helping owners with local government planning and building applications
providing advice on how to research the history of heritage places including accessing title information and early photographs
assisting in preparing grant applications.

The Australian e-Heritage Portal

The Queensland Heritage Council is in the early stages of a project to improve online access to information about places of cultural significance. Designed for researchers and educators, the Australian e-Heritage Portal will make cultural heritage materials available through an innovative database system and search facility to a wide range of disciplines and users. Users will be able to exchange, reuse and combine data from other researchers and domains in new ways. The e-Heritage Portal will make the state-based and national collections available for the first time through a common federated search interface.

The Portal project will include a seamless research and compilation service over these databases to produce rich, up-to-date 'compound objects' for teaching, learning and research.

In particular, the heritage materials in the state and national registers will be linked to other significant research collections and sources such as libraries, museums, galleries and archives. Because each search is carried out on databases that are rigorously maintained by their custodians, researchers can be assured of accessing the most up-to-date collection of material. Any changes and additions that are made to the databases of the participating bodies will be available in the federated database.