A dinosaur museum in outback Queensland has been shortlisted in a global architecture competition.
The
$2.5 million reception centre at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs near
Winton, north-west of Longreach in central-west Queensland, was
officially opened earlier this year.It is now a finalist in the cultural category at the World Architecture Festival awards.
Architect Michael Rayner says they are competing against cultural buildings in Moscow, South Africa and Brussels, but the Winton project has special appeal.
"It's just a spectacular site, you go across endless plains without relief and then suddenly there is this rising mesa in front of you," he said.
"The whole place is just magic, one of the great pieces of Australian landscape I've ever been to.
"The idea was really to see how we could almost make a building that looked like the landscape had kind of folded up, and perhaps could be seen as almost prehistoric itself."
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