Donovan Hill is the Brisbane based practice directed by Brian Donovan and Timothy Hill. They established the firm as recent graduates from the University of Queensland in 1992, where they are now Adjunct Professors. After developing ‘Strategies for Delivering Places that Enable Events” Donovan and Hill were awarded a Masters of Architecture in 2005 at RMIT.
The office functions with two other partners and a core team of 30. The office’s output is deliberately unspecialised, ranging through furniture commissions, landscapes, office towers, apartment buildings, research buildings and in a continuous stream over 15 years...houses.
Recently completed projects include the redevelopment of the State Library of Queensland (in association with Peddle Thorp Architects), Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation Centre (in association with PDT Architects), conversion of one of inner Brisbane’s remaining woolstore buildings to 120 apartments, and a house with an ecosystem as a roof.
