A Brisbane-based architecture firm has come up with an alternative idea to the knock-down and rebuild of the Gabba for the 2032 Games, floating a plan to build a temporary stadium nearby instead.

Last week Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk vowed her government was 100 per cent behind using the venue as the “centrepiece” of the Games, despite concerns over the cost and logistics of the plan.

Director of m3architecture, Dr Michael Lavery, has an idea to utilise a site nearby instead, and leave the Gabba.

“The alternative that we are currently proposing, is that the site next door .. the old Go Print site, it’s currently fenced off because they are using it to build Cross River Rail,” he told Neil Breen.

“It becomes available in 2024, huge site, slightly bigger than the Gabba currently sits on … and it’s a site that becomes available before the Gabba, and it’s a site that is prime for a temporary stadium to be built on it, and then that temporary stadium removed after the Games and the site reset for whatever the city needs it to be.”

He said the stadium could be dissembled and used for other purposes.

“Imagine taking it down and building hospitals out of the material, or taking it down and putting small grandstand in every regional sports town all around the country.”

Neil said it’s the “most sensible” idea he’s heard.

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