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Queen Street, Brisbane
Queen Street is the main street of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. It is named after Queen Victoria. The western part of the street is covered by a new plaza at the base of Brisbane Square and underneath part of the western half is the Queen Street bus station. Queen Street is heavily built up with arcade (architecture), arcades, shops, hotels, offices and apartment high-rises such as MacArthur Central, Brisbane Square, Central Plaza 1, Brisbane, Central Plaza, Aurora Tower, Treasury Casino, Wintergarden, Brisbane, Wintergarden, Broadway on the Mall, The Myer Centre, Brisbane, The Myer Centre and QueensPlaza. Queen Street is also the location of Brisbane's General Post Office, Brisbane, General Post Office. Geography Queen Street is the city's central road, partly covered by a pedestrian mall called the Queen Street Mall. It ends at the Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, Victoria Bridge and is bounded by two of the Brisbane River's central reaches. Uptown at the top o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Street Mall
The Queen Street Mall is a pedestrian mall located on Queen Street in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The mall extends approximately from George Street to Edward Street, and has more than 700 retailers over of retail space, which includes six major shopping centres. It was intended to bring more people into the central business district. The mall was designed by Robin Gibson and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982. It has been refurbished and extended a number of times. In 2013 it was the site of a siege that saw the mall go into a lockdown. It features several shopping malls, a steel structure for shade and an entertainment stage. The mall sits atop the Queen Street bus station. History The mall was designed by Robin Gibson (architect). After being closed to traffic in 1981, the initial pedestrian mall was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 August 1982, in order to be ready for the 1982 Commonwealth Games. Initially, the section of Queen Street between Albert St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacArthur Central
MacArthur Central, also known as MacArthur Central Shopping Centre, in Brisbane, Australia, is a four level shopping centre that incorporates an English Renaissance styled heritage-listed building known as MacArthur Chambers. MacArthur Central is on the north-east corners of Queen Street, Edward Street, Brisbane, Edward Street and Elizabeth Street. During World War II, Douglas MacArthur, General Douglas MacArthur used the building as the Allied forces' South West Pacific Area Headquarters from July 1942 to November 1944. Features A feature of the MacArthur Chambers building (and once of all buildings that were owned by the AMP Society) is a three-figure statue above the portico entrance of the Queen Street façade of the building, sculptured in Sicilian Marble sculpture, marble by Fred Gowan, representing: "''Strength, Plenty, Production and Growth''". Below the statue is the Latin motto of the AMP Society - : "AMICUS CERTUS IN RE INCERTA" -- or in English language, English: : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Street, Brisbane
Elizabeth Street is a major street in the centre of the city in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The street was one of the Early Streets of Brisbane, earliest in Brisbane being established at the beginning of settlement in Brisbane as Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Moreton Bay penal settlement. Today, most of the street is fronted by low-level retail outlets, with an increase in mixed use skyscrapers being recently constructed. Geography Major shopping arcades on Elizabeth Street include The Myer Centre, Brisbane, The Myer Centre, Marcarthur Central and the Elizabeth Arcade. The Brisbane Hilton Hotels, Hilton hotel has it main entrance on Elizabeth Street. The offices at Central Plaza Complex#Central Plaza 2, Central Plaza Two have their entrance at the easterly end or downtown part of the street. There is good pedestrian access around the street, such as pathways near the General Post Office, Brisbane, General Post Office and access to the Queen Street bus station via the Mye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River (Turrbal language, Turrbal: ) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia. It flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Governors of New South Wales, Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane in 1823. The Moreton Bay Penal Colony, penal colony of Moreton Bay later adopted the same name, eventually becoming the present city of Brisbane. The river is a tide, tidal estuary and the water is brackish water, brackish from its mouth through the majority of the Brisbane metropolitan area westward to the Mount Crosby Weir. The river is wide and navigability, navigable throughout the Brisbane metropolitan area. It is affectionately known by locals as the "Brown Snake", on account of its silty waters and long, winding course. The river travels from Mount Stanley. The river is dammed by the Wivenhoe Dam, forming Lake Wivenhoe, the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedestrian Mall
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed. Converting a street or an area to pedestrian-only use is called ''pedestrianisation''. Pedestrianisation usually aims to provide better accessibility and mobility for pedestrians, to enhance the amount of shopping and other business activities in the area or to improve the attractiveness of the local environment in terms of aesthetics, air pollution, noise and crashes involving motor vehicle with pedestrians. In some cases, motor traffic in surrounding areas increases, as it is displaced rather than replaced. Nonetheless, pedestrianisation schemes are often associated with significant falls in local air and noise pollution and in accidents, and frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Map Of City Cbd
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million. The Brisbane central business district, central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls over the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Post Office, Brisbane
The General Post Office (GPO) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is a heritage-listed building located at 261 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queen Street. Originally constructed in 1872, it was extended through to Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Elizabeth Street in 1908. The GPO remains in use by the Australia Post today. Opposite the GPO is the Post Office Square, Brisbane, Post Office Square. History The first full-time postmaster in Brisbane was J. E. Barney, appointed in 1852. In 1862, Thomas Lodge Murray Prior became the first Postmaster-General for the state of Queensland. Initially, postal services operated from a small convict-era building, which was inconveniently distant from the telegraph office. The Postmaster-General selected a centrally located half-hectare site for the new post office. The building previously located at the Queen Street site, which once housed women convicts, was demolished in 1871. Freestone (masonry), Freestone and bricks were sourced locally for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QueensPlaza
QueensPlaza is an upmarket shopping centre located in the Brisbane central business district, Queensland, Australia, with frontages on Adelaide Street, Queen Street Mall, and Edward Street. Built by Besix Watpac, construction began in September 2003. Stage 1 of QueensPlaza was completed in June 2005, with stage 2 being completed in October 2007. Stage 2 included giving the building more footage on the Adelaide Street side for more stores. The final stage, an expansion of David Jones, was opened in February 2008. Car parking is available at five basement levels. Fashion shows are held annually in the QueensPlaza as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane. Gallery File:Queens-Plaza-sculptures.jpg, QueensPlaza sculptures on Edward Street File:Queens-Plaza-2.jpg, QueensPlaza entrance , corner Queen Street Mall and Edward Street File:Tiffany & Co Store, Edward Street, Brisbane City.jpg, Tiffany & Co store File:Louis Vuitton Store, Edward Street, Brisbane City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Myer Centre, Brisbane
Uptown (previously known as The Myer Centre) is a shopping centre in the Brisbane central business district. It is located on the Queen Street Mall. Transport Uptown is one of the bus transit hubs for the Brisbane CBD. Many bus routes commence and terminate under Uptown at the Queen Street bus station on the Albert Street level of the complex. Uptown has a multi-level car park with 1,450 spaces. Tenants Uptown has 63,025m² of floor space. The major retailers include Target, Coles, Beach House Bar & Grill, Dopamine Land Funhouse and Event Cinemas. Layout Due to the hilly landscape of the Brisbane CBD, Uptown's floors are labelled differently from that of most shopping centres. Whereas many shopping centres label their floors purely by number (level 1, level 2, etc.) or its vertical position (lower level, upper level, etc.), Uptown is laid out in the following fashion (lowest level to highest): *Level S (named after the former Sizzler restaurant located on this level): no l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway On The Mall
Broadway on the Mall was a four-storey shopping mall, located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, between the Queen Street Mall and Adelaide Street in the Brisbane central business district. It was developed by Mace Developments and Jennings Industries in the late 1980s. Following the collapse of AV Jennings and a series of acquisitions, the centre has been owned by Industry Superannuation Property Trust since 2011. In 2011, the centre conducted a search for a fashion blogger to represent them on social media. On 31 August 2013, the centre closed to allow for a redevelopment of the tired retail space to commence. Broadway on the Mall was expected to reopen in mid-to-late 2014 as "170 Queen Street", but due to construction delays and torrential rain, the project has been delayed. Fire at Broadway on the Mall On 20 January 2015, a large fire started in the construction site of Broadway on the Mall, and as a result, destroyed a portion of the existing building and air cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wintergarden, Brisbane
Wintergarden is a shopping centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It contains over 60 specialty stores over three levels. The centre was developed by the Kern Corporation and constructed by subsidiary, Kern Construction. It was intended to create a retail focus to the 1982 Commonwealth Games. History The location previously operated as the 2000 seat Wintergarden Theatre cinema complex from 1924 until it closed in 1973 and was demolished in 1981. The original building was designed by Ballantyne & Hare of Melbourne. Hall & Prentice in Brisbane provided local design assistance. The theatre featured a Wurlitzer pipe organ which could be raised and lowered from the orchestra pit. In 1929 the rival Regent Theatre opened also in Queen Street. With the transfer of ownership of the theatre to the Kern Corporation in the 1970s, and plans for the construction of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank, the Her Majesty's Theatre building next door to the Wintergarden was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
