The award recognises significant, long lasting and innovative architecture with usually more than 25 years passed since the completion of construction.

[1] The Enduring Architecture Award recognises achievement for the design of buildings of outstanding merit, which have remained important as high quality works of architecture when considered in contemporary cultural, social, economic and environmental contexts in the state of Queensland.

Projects by architects Geoffery Pie, Robin Gibson and James Birrell have all been presented the award on two occasions each.

The 35-year-old building houses the plane that was flown by Sir Kingsford Smith and his crew across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane's Eagle Farm in 1928.

The jury declared the project “an exemplary piece of public architecture that protects an important part of Australian history”.