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    Case studies: Housing initiatives in Queensland

    Aug 31, 2020 5 minutes
    Words by Cameron Bruhn
    and Sara Alidoust

    Logan Youth Foyer

    The Logan Youth Foyer supports young people, aged 16–25, who are engaged in education or training and who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. This Wesley Mission Queensland program delivers services from a centre in Woodridge, a suburb in Logan City, south of Brisbane. The centre’s recent expansion – which adds 16 new one-bedroom units to the existing 24 studio units, as well as communal areas, an office and training spaces for the youth community – exemplifies the value of direct engagement of an architectural practice as the principal consultant by a government department. Bark Design Architects was one of six practices shortlisted by the Office of the Queensland Government Architect and engaged by the Queensland State Government’s Department of Housing and Public Works,

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