{"id":15247,"date":"2022-02-22T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:21:16","slug":"discover-the-remarkable-story-of-griffiths-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2022\/02\/22\/discover-the-remarkable-story-of-griffiths-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the remarkable story of Griffith\u2019s buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Who was Robin Gibson?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The name Robin Gibson may not be a familiar name to some. And yet, Gibson is responsible for the design of numerous iconic Brisbane buildings including Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Queensland, Queensland Museum and Queensland Performing Arts Complex. His building designs can also be found at the University of Queensland, Brisbane Botanic Gardens (Mt Coot-tha) and in the ACT (Canberra).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among his \u2018Griffith buildings\u2019, Gibson designed our original Library (N53 Willett Centre)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Humanities Building <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">N16 Macrossan Building) and Central Theatres (N18) at Nathan campus. The Information Services Centre (M13), Education (M06) and Community (M08) Buildings at our Mt Gravatt campus are also his structures. His Griffith reach even extends to the Ship Inn (S06 at our South Bank campus)\u2014Gibson provided the drawings to have the heritage-listed building restored and renovated during the mid-1980s.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gibson received several honours for his architecture and design:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 1979, our Nathan Library was voted the best designed library in Australia by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 1982, Gibson became \u2018Queenslander of the Year\u2019 and received the \u2018Canberra Medallion\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 1986, we awarded Gibson an honorary \u2018Doctor of the University\u2019 for his considerable architectural services to our university, Brisbane and Australia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You can learn more about Griffith\u2019s remarkable history by visiting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/griffitharchive.griffith.edu.au\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Griffith Archive.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Robin Gibson?\u00a0 The name Robin Gibson may not be a familiar name to some. 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His building designs can also be found at the University of<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2022\/02\/22\/discover-the-remarkable-story-of-griffiths-buildings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Discover the remarkable story of Griffith\u2019s buildings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":18572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-griffith-archive","tag-griffith-archive"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Vanessa Gatt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/02\/griffith-archive-robin-gibson-e1645139427658-1000x0-c-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}