The Anthropology Museum is now located at the ground floor with its entrance associated with the aboriginal carved rock artifacts. Ten new teaching and learning spaces at the Great Court level as well as the Antiquities Museum create a dynamic highly accessible facility. 

The extension, much smaller than Hennessey and Henessey's original unbuilt plan for Michie, is respectful to the proportions and language of the stone clad high rise building but is clearly distinct in its materiality and scale. This response is aligned to the DERM Heritage objectives and aligns with the Burra Charter which defines the basic principles and procedures to be followed in the conservation of Australian heritage places. 

“Our approach to the extension was to avoid replicating the stone clad Michie Building but at the same time set up a language that would still have some relationship to the Michie Building through abstracted elements.”

— Hamilton Wilson, Managing Director Wilson Architects

2014 AIA Brisbane Regional Commendation for Public Architecture