It is the most prominent Brisbane example of Queensland Government building activity associated with the economic recovery of the late 1890s and with the Federation of Australia.

With the inclusion of offices for the Executive Council and Cabinet, a separate entrance in George Street was designed for ministerial access.

[1] The use of expanded metal lathing as a re-enforcement to the concrete floors and ceilings was amongst the earliest application of such technology in Australia, and was a first in Queensland.

In the north-western elevation an allegorical group representing Queensland mining and agriculture was carved by New South Wales sculptor William Priestly MacIntosh to a design by Thomas Pye.

[1] From 1901, the Queensland National Art Gallery occupied a purpose-designed room the length of the third floor above George Street.

[1] The building is constructed of masonry, steel and concrete and faced with sandstone from Helidon and Warwick.

Depicted in stained glass in the William Street vestibule is a sower, a reaper, a pioneer and squatter.

A marble tablet set into the wall of this entrance is inscribed with the message sent by King George V to the people of Australia on 25 April 1916, establishing the Anzac Day tradition.

An honour board commemorating Lands Department staff who served in the First World War is located in the corridor on the first floor.

A wide hallway runs around most of the building with doorways on either side opening onto rooms that are lit via windows to the courtyard or to the street or garden.

[1] The construction demonstrates an early use of reinforced concrete floors in a large scale building.

Steel framing was employed in the roofs over the photographic rooms on the top floor and over the fireproofed sections.

[1] Land Administration Building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.

The highly intact Lands Administration Building is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of Edwardian Baroque public architecture, and is the finest example of its type constructed in Queensland.

The building is important in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, and by architectural historians in particular, the accomplished design, detailing, materials and workmanship, its townscape contribution, particularly in relation to the adjacent buildings and sites and the aesthetic quality and connotations of the associated artworks and furnishings, including the stained glass and sculptural work.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.