Last month Club Glenvale (formerly the Toowoomba Hockey Club) won the Clubs Qld Best Club Redevelopment Award 2009 (over $1M).
Conjuring up images of energetic hockey matches and Saturday morning practice, the newly named Club Glenvale, formerly the Toowoomba Hockey Club may cogent one to think no more of it than a conventional sporting facility. This is one of those suppositions that you quickly put aside when the point comes where you conceive the facts.
The Club is owned by the Toowoomba Hockey Association and is regarded as one of the most unique sporting associations in Australia. While it traits two artificial hockey fields, three competition grass fields and an international-standard water-based field, the site transcendently reserves a fully licensed clubhouse. Located to one side of the 10 acre site on a parcel of vivid western Toowoomba, stretches the now restituted, Club Glenvale.
Originally a 2.4m high ceiling brick building, it was impending a date where it would soon be unworkable and inefficient. This impelled the gamble by the Association to build from the ground up a new Club. The result, quite unsuspectingly, is the only state of the art, energy efficient club of its kind in Australia.
With the terminal building superseding so quickly the Association put high importance on a new building that would last. They engaged Brisbane based architects, Inaspace Architecture + Design, for their expertise in clubhouse design. Together with a team of consultants, Inaspace Architecture + Design, schemed a building that would be the sustainable club that the Association needed.
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