DESIGN EXCELLENCE COMPETITIONS SEPTEMBER 2015 TO JULY 2020
The publication of Council's Design Excellence Competition Winning Buildings is intended as a guide only. Development portrayed in this publication may differ from the final designs that are subsequently approved and constructed. Text describing design competition entries have been extracted from the architects submission. All development within City of Parramatta is subject to regulatory approvals, from all relevant consent authorities. This publication must not be modified, copied or provided to a third party without the prior written consent of City of Parramatta Council. This publication does not give rise to any legally binding obligations by City of Parramatta Council to anyone in relation to development with City of Parramatta's LGA.
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SHAPING PARRAMATTA'S FUTURE
Axonometric view of the Future Parramatta skyline looking south-east.
Extract from the Future Parramatta 3D animation looking south-east, with the Western Sydney Stadium and Parramatta Park in the foreground.
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INTRODUCTION BY LORD MAYOR Cr Bob Dwyer Lord Mayor for the City of Parramatta Council
At the core of any world-class city is exceptional design. Whether it’s the Sydney Opera House, the Empire State Building, or the Eiffel Tower, iconic and thoughtful architecture plays an important role in defining a city. A city’s architectural fabric is a key ingredient in making a place special to both locals and visitors alike. In Parramatta, we are experiencing once-in-a-generation change and growth. With this comes an incredible opportunity to build on our rich foundations and create a future City that is dynamic, well-designed and sustainable; a place where people want to live, work and visit for generations to come. Recognising such aspirations, City of Parramatta Council embarked on its Design Excellence Competition Process in 2011 to encourage the realisation of state-of-the-art buildings in our City. These competitions have led to top architects from Australia and across the world contributing to the continual improvement in the design of our City. In the last five years, Council has held an unprecedented 33 Design Excellence Competitions, which will result in 5,000-plus new dwellings, 560,000 square metres of commercial floor space, five new public buildings, and $5.5 billion in investment in the Parramatta Local Government Area. This book showcases the winning and runner-up designs submitted by the many high-calibre architects and designers who have participated in our Design Excellence Competitions since 2015. It also showcases the extraordinary design that is emerging in our City and provides a glimpse into what Parramatta will look like in the not-too-distant future – a bold, welcoming City with its own unique and iconic architecture reflective of its equally unique story.
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INTRODUCTION BY KIM CRESTANI Fellow, Australian Institute of Architects, ARB 4360 City Architect for the City of Parramatta Council
Since my arrival in September 2015, as the first City Architect of the City of Parramatta it has been a huge privilege to oversee the Design Excellence Competition process over the past 5 years. Parramatta has been running design competitions since 2008, in accordance with Director General’s guidelines and since establishing my first practice here in Macquarie Street in 1984 and being a recipient of some design competitions in the 2000’s, I have come full circle in promoting the highest quality of built form and public domain in Australia’s fastest growing (high rise) city. From 2008 to 2014 some 5 design competitions were run annually. Since 2015 this has exponentially grown to some 19 Design competitions annually. The statistics are extraordinary and surpass any other Local Government area in NSW. From 2015 to 2019, some 30 Design Comps (including 5 Public buildings) have been completed. The quality and calibre of Award Winning Australian and International Architects, Proponents, Planners, Consultants and Jurors engaging in the Design Excellence Competition process is exceptional. This 200+ page book is a “snapshot” of the Winning Schemes and Runner Up schemes for competitions held between 2015 to 2019 and include some State Government run competitions. During the first quarter of 2020, a Review of the Design Excellence Competition process will be undertaken to further improve the outcomes. I will never cease to be amazed at the level of innovation and variety of concepts given an identical brief. Architects explore and challenge given constraints and planning rules and come up with imaginative solutions that produce the highest quality of built form and public domain. 6
The winning Architects are then retained throughout the entire process to ensure the highest quality of building, through the construction certificate and occupancy certificate process. This is unique to Parramatta and is legislated in the Planning approvals. One of the most powerful attributes of the Design Juries, which include representatives from the Government Architects office, are that they are maintained for the duration of the entire process to ensure design continuity and excellence is maintained. As part of the Design Excellence process, Council also have independent consultants engaged throughout the entire process to adjudicate on environmentally sustainable design and ensure that the effects of rising temperatures and heat sink effects on the urban environment are highly calibrated on each and every building. This includes minimising reflectivity from glazing into the public domain, inclusion of highly specified external sun shading and dual piping safeguarding for future use of recycled water. Some proponents are now volunteering to undertake Design Competitions without any legislative triggers. A recent “Master Plan Design Competition” with Australian and International Architects and Landscape Architects was recently conducted by a proponent and has yielded excellent results. More Master Plan Competitions will be encouraged by the City Architects Team. As Parramatta’s first City Architect, it gives me great pleasure to release this inaugural compendium of projects from 2015-2019.
SINCE THE ARRIVAL OF CITY ARCHITECT
33 Commercial Competitions GFA 550,000m 2
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Residential or Mixed Use GFA 502,000m 2
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Design Competitions have been held since the arrival of City Architect
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Hotel Competitions GFA 36,700m 2
5,000 Apartments
$5.5 billion Total Construction Value
37 Australian
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6 weeks Average time to endorse Design Competition Brief
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ENGAGING WITH WORLD CLASS IDEAS
A competition is started
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The design entries are presented
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This is a very exciting milestone starting a design competition. The Architects have been selected and are furnished with a template brief which describes the project requirements, planning controls and budget. The more thorough the brief the better the outcome. Preparing the Brief may take many months and may follow years in the Planning proposal space. Competing Teams are given approximately 4-6 weeks to complete their entries and there is a flurry of excitement and many design meetings to conceive a scheme and validate the response. On some competitions there are sometimes 30 people involved in preparing the proposal.
The Design entries are presented prior to the Jury presentation. The Jurors are given one to two weeks to assess the proposals, which are beautifully packaged, and a pleasure to review. At the same time behind the scenes there are a number of consultants reviewing and validating the schemes from the point of view of services, structure, environmental considerations and the numerous other requirements. It is acknowledged that the design teams spend a larger amount of money to be part of this process, than the remuneration they receive (sometimes by a factor of 3), however the chances of winning are usually around 33%.
One winner chosen by the jury
An approved design is built
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This is the next exciting milestone where the design teams present their schemes for the design competition. The room is full of excitement with Jurors, presenters, consultants and technical reviews occurring. Sometimes there is one clear winner, but on occasion one or two schemes are considered worthy of design excellence provided they further develop their schemes. It is imperative that Design Excellence is met on all criteria as awarding it allows for a more streamlined approval process. The quickest DA approval following a design competition was 9 months. Confidentiality is imperative at this stage, until a winner and a final jury report is concluded.
Once design excellence is granted and Development Application requirements are suitably satisfied – approval to proceed to Construction certificate is undertaken. The better the process at the design competition stage the better the outcomes for completed buildings. Not all design comps will be built expediently – however the better quality the DA – the better quality built outcome will prevail. Currently the built/design competition ratio is approximately 30% following the process. It is an aspiration to of course build as many award winning design competitions as is feasible.
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PARRAMATTA SQUARE 6&8 Parramatta Square 3 Parramatta Square 5 Parramatta Square 4&6 Parramatta Square 8 Parramatta Square
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6&8 PARRAMATTA SQUARE PARRAMATTA WINNER Under Construction
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ARCHITECT
JPW Architects
PROPONENT
Walker Corporation
PLANNER
Walker Corporation
SITE AREA
9,785m 2
FSR
13.7:1
HEIGHT
232m – 56 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
134,064m 2
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People are at their most effective when they are happy, comfortable and engaged with the place and people around them. Our concept maximises the site’s potential to create a place for people – a campus environment that is connected to and inspired by its location, and by its use as a place where collaboration and excellence is at the core of every endeavour, and where people feel comfortable and connected with their colleagues.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
6 October 2017
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
14 December 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
19 January 2018
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 20 December 2018
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ARCHITECT Peckvonhartel Matthew Pullinger
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Bold and confident against the Parramatta skyline, the tower form of Parramatta Place is refined and elegant - sharply defining Church Street and curving its western facade to acknowledge the spire of St John's Cathedral. Lush terraced gardens are a counterpoint to the sleek metallic facade, offering access to green space that enhances well-being. The design caters for the needs of tenants and anticipates the future. Parramatta Place is an emphatic statement, making a powerful contribution to Parramatta as it assumes its place as Australia’s best CBD.
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ARCHITECT Group GSA
The architectural response starts with a tripartite organisation of the building massing driven by the key horizontal datums of the site. This breaks the tower components into low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise volumes. Conceptually, these volumes float over the tower base, with the soffit of the low-rise volume aligning with the RL31.85m datum to define the threshold between tower and base. This datum is aligned with the Sydney Water building at No.2 Parramatta Square and the proposed soffit level at No.4 Parramatta Square. As well as contributing to the establishment of a coherent scale and character to the interface between the towers of Parramatta Square and the ground level public space, the datum also establishes a scale that ties the tower base to the heritage scale of St. John’s Cathedral.
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3 PARRAMATTA SQUARE PARRAMATTA WINNER Under Construction
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ARCHITECT
JPW Architects
PROPONENT
Walker Corporation
PLANNER
Walker Corporation
SITE AREA
4,532m 2
FSR
9.2:1
HEIGHT
62m – 17 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
44,870m 2
CAR SPACES
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BASEMENTS
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As the final development site in Parramatta Square, this building completes the Square, whilst creating a network of exciting pedestrian links to Macquarie Street. The design responds to Parramatta’s rapidly developing CBD, providing flexible workplace environments suited to large, established tenants and small start-ups alike. The large floor plates are unique within Parramatta, and complement those of the other commercial buildings around Parramatta Square. By embracing Leigh Place, the building reinforces the future River Link axis, and marks the location of Parramatta Square from afar. By stepping back at the lower levels, the form creates generous gathering spaces at ground level, responding to the railway station entry, Western Sydney University’s building to the east, and future light rail. 3 Parramatta Square is a unique response to this important and prominent site.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
16 May 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
19 February 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
31 January 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 14 August 2017
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The project challenges conventional concepts of a “corporate office�, where security and privacy often overrule civic concerns by welcoming the city to share the new public places, facilities and open space created, and by ensuring that the workforce within the building is not an isolated community within the city. With this objective in mind, the building has been designed from the inside out, with the core objective of creating a campus of communities to further enrich the diversity and energy of Parramatta Square.
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ARCHITECT Architectus
Our proposal for 3PSQ will make a significant contribution to the realization of Parramatta Square with an active and diverse ground plane that maximises fine grain urban spaces, active retail frontage and opportunities for public art. The commercial office tower will be a highly efficient and flexible workplace solution which will appeal to both large government and banking tenants and smaller corporate and professional services tenants. 3PSQ will make a calm and timeless contribution to the urban language of Parramatta Square through considered and elegant architectural design. 3PSQ will be a compliant PCA A Grade commercial building and will achieve a 5 star Green star rating.
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ARCHITECT Bates Smart
Our aim is to create a highly public and permeable podium scaled to the context; above which sits an efficient office building with ideal floor plate. We are interested in the potential of the podium to contribute to the public life of Parramatta. Our podium is truly a connective space between the public realm of Parramatta Square and the private realm of the workplace. We have created a space where people are comfortable to meet, work and socialise – an active lobby, not a ceremonial space. This highly open, permeable and naturally ventilated space is literally an expression of the modern workplace as work becomes less private and more integrated into the city; responding to the casual nature of today’s tech savvy generation. We have created two highly flexible, open and interconnected floor plates, based on a side core typology which maximise connectivity to encourage communication and collaboration.
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5 PARRAMATTA SQUARE PARRAMATTA WINNER Under Construction
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ARCHITECTS
Manuelle Gautrand Design Inc Lacoste + Stevenson
PROPONENT
City of Parramatta
PLANNER
JBA Urban Planning (now Ethos Urban)
SITE AREA
3,858m 2
FSR
9.2:1
HEIGHT
42m – 8 Storeys
LAND USE
Council Facilities
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8,015m 2
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5 Parramatta Square is designed as an extension of its civic heart, Parramatta Square, growing out of the Square in a natural fragmented pattern, providing a natural escarpment of public spaces which can be climbed and explored. The design delivers civic permeability through physical and visual connections: Horizontal permeability through the building, from Parramatta square on the south to north in the direction of the Leigh Church. Vertical permeability through the building with the use of voids and linking stairs. The use of transparent materials creates a welcoming, friendly, open, expressive and playful building.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
15 March 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
19 July 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
1 September 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 13 February 2018
The fragmented floors slips past and over the existing Town Hall: accordingly the south western lower levels produce a new lobby for the Town Hall and level 5 cantilevers over the Town Hall building producing a monumental space for the council Chambers and public viewing platform.
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The interior space is organised by an interconnecting stair which links a series of stacked landings at each floor, creating quiet reading areas adjacent to the southern building facade, framed by each facade fragment. These are the vertical community living rooms visible to and from Parramatta Square.
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ARCHITECT FJMT Studio
The new building in the heart of Parramatta Square will be a contemporary expression of civic pride that embraces the past, present and the future. It will reflect the city today, its history and the promise of Parramatta tomorrow. A vibrant fertile ground - for fun, ideas, research, community, commerce, identity and a place of pride that celebrates our rich culture and unique heritage. The project should be ‘world class’ and unique to Parramatta City Council.
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ARCHITECT JPW Architects
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Parramatta City Hall will define and extend the public domain at ground level, and at the new Civic Terrace level on the building's roof top overlooking Parramatta Square. The City Hall will complete a critical corner of Parramatta Square, and connect three key city spines Church Street, Parramatta Square and the future Civic Link to River Square. By linking effectively to old Parramatta Town Hall, the City Hall will become a unified symbol of Parramatta's civic ambitions, past, present and future.
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ARCHITECT SJB Architects Lahznimmo
The proposed building form has three main components: the Anchor Building along the northern boundary which contain the bulk of the programmed space; the Community Veranda along the southern boundary overhanging Parramatta Square; and the Civic Lounge Room between the two. We see the ground plane as an extension of the public domain of Parramatta Square. The ‘Civic Lounge Room’ is the ‘Heart’ of the design – a grand public outdoor room with a tempered environment that provides a transition from Parramatta Square to the programmed interior of the building.
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4&6 PARRAMATTA SQUARE PARRAMATTA WINNER Under Construction
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ARCHITECT
JPW Architects
PROPONENT
Walker Corporation
PLANNER
Walker Corporation
SITE AREA
12,752m 2
FSR
10.05:1
HEIGHT
152.9m – 36 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
128,143m 2
CAR SPACES
756
BASEMENTS
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WINNER
Parramatta Square is a transformational project which will create a vibrant mixed use precinct of critical importance for Parramatta and the city’s role as the centre of Greater Western Sydney. The site is ideally situated at the heart of Parramatta’s central business district, directly adjacent to Parramatta Station, and forms the majority of the southern side of Parramatta Square, which will be the city’s major public urban space. The buildings capitalise on this unique location by creating a fined grained network of pedestrian links across two ground planes - one linked directly to Parramatta Square and the Station, and an upper level linked to Darcy Street and the building entrances. Both provide active edges to the Square, whilst the podium levels of the buildings are visually and physically permeable, integrating them into the broader urban fabric.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
13 December 2013
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
7 June 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 6 December 2016
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8 PARRAMATTA SQUARE PARRAMATTA WINNER Res i d e nti a l d es i g n co m petiti o n s u pe rced ed by 6 +8 Pa r ra m at ta Sq u a re co m m e rci a l d es i g n co m petiti o n
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ARCHITECT
Bates Smart
PROPONENT
Walker Corporation
PLANNER
Walker Corporation
SITE AREA
4,714m 2
FSR
20.15:1
HEIGHT
239m – 73 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
66,827m 2
CAR SPACES
134
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WINNER
Our vision is to create a tower that is iconic and monumental while simultaneously expressing its residential function and human scale. The curvilinear geometry creates a soft organic form that is highly recognisable on the skyline, while contrasting with the other commercial buildings around Parramatta Square. In contrast the grid expression of the facade is modular, repetitive and has a human scale. The singular form expression and facade create an iconic image on the Parramatta skyline and its civic heart. The golden bronze tones of the facade respond to the history and legacy of Parramatta’s sandstone colonial buildings. Environmentally the horizontal and vertical architectural expression provides passive shading and reduced glazing area for thermal performance. This will be a monumental anchor on Parramatta Square, which compliments the historic buildings in its vicinity. The tower’s design demonstrates attention to detail, scale and proportion like many of the successful historic buildings in Parramatta.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
3 March 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
28 April 2016
WINNER
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Our aim was to create a facade expression with a human scale and residential character; while maintaining an iconic image on the skyline appropriate to Parramatta. Environmentally we aim to integrate passive solar shading and reduced glazing area for thermal performance. The facade modules are rectilinear, repetitive and cost effective; with golden bronze tones that reflect the sandstone legacy of Parramatta’s heritage buildings.
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ARCHITECT DBI Design
The architectural response to the site has focussed on creating a building form that both celebrates and embraces its environment. The complete development is intended to provide a landmark in the Greater Sydney landscape and responds to both the urban and human scale, whilst making a stunning architectural statement. The sleek prismatic forms have been conceived to reflect the historic architecture, and street scape of the public plaza that surrounds it. A reflective skin composed of folding geometric angles wraps the residential tower and commercial podium, enveloping them in a diamondlike coating that reflects back upon the local context, and gives the building a clearly defined and prominent silhouette on the Parramatta skyline.
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ARCHITECT PTW Architects
We understand the creation of a new civic heart and public domain for one of the fastest growing regions in Australia has been a Parramatta City Council ambition for some time, and one we’re intent on helping to achieve. Our collective challenge is to realise not just the tallest building in NSW, but one which speaks clearly of Parramatta’s ambitions and rightful place as the metropolitan city of Sydney’s economic and geographic centre. It presents a rare opportunity to create a strong urban statement, to cater for diverse uses, and grow an active and vibrant public domain – enhanced by good permeability and easy pedestrian movement into, across and through Parramatta Square and surrounds. Our aim: to build on the spirit of the public domain for the benefit of all, to help realise Council’s aspirations for the city, and to achieve a commercially viable outcome for all collaborating partners.
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ARCHITECT Fender Katsalidis Architects
Our primary objective has also been to design a solution based on logical, rational and economic planning. We have created exciting, vibrant and viable retail activity at the tower base to compliment the master plan of Parramatta Square. Above this, residential and serviced apartment accommodation has been designed to provide maximum amenity to views, daylight and ventilation. Additional communal and recreational facilities designed will offer this project a point of difference to others in the Parramatta and wider Sydney region. Further to this, we have created a compelling tower form, distinguished and unique to the Parramatta skyline. The tower is designed to be a landmark in the formation of Australian cities.
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PUBLIC BUILDINGS Aquatic & Leisure Centre for Parramatta Western Sydney Stadium Parramatta Public Arthur Phillip High School
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AQUATIC & LEISURE CENTRE FOR PARRAMATTA
ARCHITECT
Andrew Burges Architects (ABA) Grimshaw Architects McGregor Coxall
PROPONENT
Property Development Group (PDG) City of Parramatta Council
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PLANNER
City Plan Strategy and Development
SITE AREA
2.0 – 2.5 ha
FSR
N/A
HEIGHT
RL 37.20
LAND USE
Recreational
GFA TOTAL
14,726.4m 2
CAR SPACES
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Our proposal sensitively locates the relatively large scale of the Aquatic Centre program into its park setting with minimal disruption. The landscape character of the Park and the historic prospects that are distinct to the Mays Hill Precinct are not only retained, but celebrated.
for its unique setting and complimentary to the small scale of other built elements within the park context. This also enables the continuation of high levels of pedestrian permeability within the park, retaining and improving existing and new pathways and connections.
The design minimises the building footprint by locating the program within the topography, thereby retaining all landscape and heritage vistas.
The design recognises the whole of the Parramatta Park context as a Special Character Area, creating a design solution that prioritises historical outlooks and the pre-eminence of the Parramatta Park landscape as the strategic driver for the Aquatic Centre design.
By substantially reducing the visible footprint of the Aquatic Centre, the design makes the scale of the project suitable
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
20 June 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
26 November 2018
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Trees, shrubs and groundcovers
Trees in deco
Above & below parking Rain Garden & entry bridge
Link to bike parking
Bike parking
Community or events veranda with views over park and city skyline
Trees in nature & grass planting
Fig trees
Irrigated lawn
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Rain garden
Informal events space with irrigated lawn
Trees in new lawn area trees provide shade and help define space
Informal events space with irrigated lawn
Rain garden planting
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In recognition of the competitive nature of Fitness Centres, and market trends towards broad based wellness rather than just fitness training, the design uses a material palette inspired by the heritage park location to create a warm, calm neutral grouping of timber materials and high quality finishes as a point of difference to other fitness options in the area.
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AQUATIC & LEISURE CENTRE FOR PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT DWP FJMT
The enclosed Indoor Pool Halls are articulated as four pavilions. These pavilions are off set in arrangement to minimise the visual prominence of the built form to Park Parade. The Indoor Pool Hall pavilions are profiled to continue the gentle form of the landscaped basin over the top to the recreation terraces. The Indoor Pool Halls are supported to the east with tree like structures, below the Mays Hill ridgeline and set in the picturesque parkland landscape - a new element echoing the copses of trees.
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AQUATIC & LEISURE CENTRE FOR PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Aileen Sage Architects Cox Architecture Aspect Studios
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A new pool complex is inserted within the hill, embedded in its landscape setting rather than reading as an object in the park. Grassed mounds visually continue across the enclosure, extending towards the tree canopy at the base of the site. Existing views towards Parramatta city beyond are maintained, framed by lemon scented gums. Over the submerged pool landscape, lines of photovoltaics are interspersed with glazing and low line planting, continuing the rhythmic geometry of the lower form. The linear patterning is reminiscent of the pastoral landscape of early colonial occupation, with its lines of crops cut into the hill.
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AQUATIC & LEISURE CENTRE FOR PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Neeson Murcutt GHD Woodhead
The spiral basin sets the pools near natural contours with the 50m pool at the lowest level, on axis with the city grid. The levels of the spiral are found working between gradients for universal access and historic view lines. Entry is via a park space rather than an urban space, to the upper level of the spiral. The spiralling platform is a natural fit with the fundamental programmatic requirement of supervision. The pools are sheltered by a picturesque cloud-like parasol roof that is tilted on axis to Old Government House to preserve views across it to landscape.
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WESTERN SYDNEY STADIUM WINNER State Design Competition
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W E S T E R N S Y D N E Y S TA D I U M
ARCHITECT
Populous & Aspect Studios
PROPONENT
NSW Infrastructure
PLANNER
JBA Urban Planning Consultants
SITE AREA
Approximately 95,000m 2
HEIGHT
33m
LAND USE
Recreational
GFA TOTAL
60,000m 2 excluding the Playing Pitch
SEATING
30,000
WINNER
A variety of rich and diverse environment cater for an array of activities, demographics and user groups. The layout and arrangement of open spaces allows for and invites use of the site 7 days a week, on both game and non-game days. These include: The Civic Entry Plaza: The main point of the stadium, this open flexible space allows for large crowds to gather with shaded seating provided at the plaza edges under a grove of feature trees. O’Connell Place: The Public centre-piece of the precinct include a multitude of active and passive uses. Southern Entry Plaza: A large secondary entry plaza with grand stairs and lift access to the stadium concourse. Southern Training Field: Open turf zone for informal games. Western Carpark: Adaptable paved carpark capable of accommodating event overflow. River Side Terrace: Naturalistic green terraces that step down towards Parramatta River, offering places to gather, barbecue or attend an event. Boulevard of Legends: A tree lined dedicated park link connecting O’Connell Street to the River. Northern Carpark: The main carpark with integrated ESD initiatives such as planted stormwater swales, large shade trees to reduce heat and LED lighting for increased safety.
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WINNER
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
13 January 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 31 August 2017 CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED
April 2019
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PARRAMATTA PUBLIC ARTHUR PHILLIP HIGH SCHOOL WINNER State Design Competition Completed
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PA R R A M AT TA P U B L I C A R T H U R P H I L L I P H I G H S C H O O L
ARCHITECTS
GRIMSHAW Architects BVN Architecture ASPECT Studios
PROPONENT
Department of Education
PLANNER
Mecone
WINNER
From the outset of the Parramatta Schools’ project, the team reviewed a wide range of literature and documented practice, they conducted a number of informal interviews with leading thinkers, educationalists, teachers and designers engaged in making learning better through the design of space for future focused learning, together with congruent pedagogies and organisational practices. That investigation resulted in a set of proven educational principles and design principles, which have been used as the foundation of our approach to this project.
School within a School Subdividing a large school into smaller communities, each with genuine autonomy and their own leader is successful for good reason - it is engaging. School within a School (SWiS) gives a structure which, unlike a House system for example, extends across the curriculum as well as the pastoral dimensions of the school. As a student, of whatever age, you very much identify with your “school” and have a stable relationship with the staff and students in your community. SWiS tend to aim for a community size of around 350 although other models exist too.
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Vertical transport in the Parramatta Primary School consists of one lift and 2 sets of external stairs; one to the north and one to the south of the central courtyard. As the lift is located on the northern wing of the building, concrete bridges create a direct connection to the southern wing. These bridges improve accessibility to all areas of the floor plan, reduce fire egress paths and allow the movement of people to be visible from all sides of the building.
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PA R R A M AT TA P U B L I C A R T H U R P H I L L I P H I G H S C H O O L
SITE AREA
1.78 ha
FSR
0.22:1 & 1.24:1 (amalgamated lots)
HEIGHT
16.2m – 4 Storeys
LAND USE
Education
GFA TOTAL
6,785m 2
CAR SPACES
6
WINNER
COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
November 2015
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
December 2015
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
24 May 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 15 December 2016
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The perimeter breeze-ways are composed of a patchwork of screened facades which reflect the functions within the perimeter walkway beyond. The various facade types, with their varying degrees of openness respond to the required weather and solar shielding required for the outdoor learning areas and vertical circulation around each of the homebases.
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WINNER
ARTHUR PHILLIP HIGH SCHOOL SITE AREA
1.2 ha
FSR
0.24:1 & 1.76:1 (amalgamated lots)
HEIGHT
69.73m – 19 Storeys
LAND USE
Education
GFA TOTAL
24,521m 2
CAR SPACES
30
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CITY CENTRE 142-154 Macquarie Street 89 George Street 2-10 Phillip Street 130-140 George Street 32 Smith Street 180 George Street 23-27 Harold Street 470 Church Street 85-97 Macquarie Street
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142-154 MACQUARIE ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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ARCHITECTS
PTW, Collins & Turner, McGregor Coxall (Syd)
PROPONENT
Dyldam
PLANNER
JBA
SITE AREA
12,500m 2
FSR
8.05:1
HEIGHT
181.8m – 60 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
100,623m 2
CAR SPACES
1300
BASEMENTS
3
WINNER
Our design has its starting point in the specific history of the site and also in its future context as a gateway to the rapidly developing CBD. The design is also built on an awareness of current public realm design thinking, which encourages serious activation of public spaces while still nurturing the fine-grained human scale of laneways and other more intimate external spaces. Our design proposal incorporates a strong relationship to its environmental context through improved visual and physical connections to the river, to the surrounding streets and the incorporation of a new shared use street, as a continuation of Union Street. We believe that this proposal will provide an exhilarating improvement to the immediate streets, laneways and of course to future occupants. The design team has slightly modified the approved proposals built form with specific consideration to the sculpting of the public domain, and to views and improved solar access in particular. What we believe is an improved spatial dynamic can be achieved through very minor alterations to the approved building envelopes, while achieving all of the aims of the original proposal.
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WINNER
COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
4 March 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
15 March 2016
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142-154 MACQUARIE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Denton Corker Marshall Ian Moore McGregor Coxall
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Our competition submission scheme is driven from a singular design approach to the apartment towers and blocks, each with a unique identity offering a unique range of residential and commercial uses, set on a complex and vibrant ground plane, forming a memorable gateway to the Parramatta City Centre and a sensitive response to the Parramatta River setting and heritage on the site. Apartments are designed to maximise amenity for residents, while the design of the lanes, square and open-air museum maximise neighbourhood activity and public realm benefit. The development encapsulates a complete urban neighbourhood. It creates a rich variety of settings beyond the housing units. These are places with inviting qualities to meet neighbours, invite friends to, or encounter other residents either in the laneways and square, open air museum, the cafes and bars, the recreation decks, roof gardens, or resident’s club.
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142-154 MACQUARIE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT AJ+C Koichi Takada Oculus
The individual identities of three towers have emerged from their context and function, creating the feel of a local precinct that is has grown naturally over time. This distinctive local identity continues in public spaces are envisaged as more intimate, green alternatives to the larger scaled civic spaces envisaged at Parramatta Square – we expect that this will become a new local destination for the rapidly growing eastern part of the city centre, on the banks of the river and on the threshold of the eastern parklands.
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89 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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8 9 G E O R G E S T PA R R A M AT TA
ARCHITECT
Group GSA
PROPONENT
Sandstone Capital and JZL Properties
PLANNER
JBA
SITE AREA
1,362m 2
FSR
9.545:1
HEIGHT
90m – 26 Storeys
LAND USE
Hotel
GFA TOTAL
12,977m 2
CAR SPACES
69
BASEMENTS
0
WINNER
Our vision for the Four Points Hotel and Residences Parramatta is to create a distinctive and vibrant destination that will attract guests to stay both short and longer term, and to provide a unique food and recreation based precinct. The entire building was designed as a response to the view analysis, and the approach of maximising the available views. For this reason, the serviced apartments are located at the very top of the building, as the ‘crown’ to the built form, taking advantage of the panoramic views. Central to the vision of creating a dramatic and vibrant Eat Precinct is the engagement with the Perth House Café and Heritage Plaza, and its extension and activation into our Hotel site. We have specifically designed our Café, Best Brews Bar and Restaurant destinations to address the street and the Heritage Plaza, enhancing the Perth House Café and complimenting the public realm.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
10 April 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
14 March 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
10 November 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 11 July 2018
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WINNER
We have utilised the concept of ‘Veranda’, key to the architectural expression of Perth House, to inform our architectural response, and to connect our public spaces. The Hotel public spaces over the first four levels actively engage with the George Street public realm, providing both enhanced activation and increased exposure of the heritage items of Perth House’s former Stables and its landscape. The design achieves excellence in heritage response and street scape activation, two key elements in creating a unique sense of place for this hotel within the broader George Street and Parramatta context.
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89 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Aplus Design Group
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Rising twenty-one levels above its narrow, elongated site fronting George Street in Parramatta, this polite and unpretentious, classic podium/tower building embodies all of the key qualities of the Four Points Sheraton brand; practical, authentic, timeless, honest and uncomplicated – put simply, it is as real as it gets. The functional and modulated form of the building immediately addresses the street at a human scale as the building cantilevers to the site boundary providing shelter on approach to the main entrance. This rich tapestry and layering of elements break down the overall scale of the building into smaller components. This articulation of the external envelope provides solidity, reflectivity, transparency, depth and relief, allowing light and shadow to wash across and bring the building to life.
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89 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Marchese Partners
The objective of the design is to create an iconic yet feasible hotel building which embraces and enhances the value of the adjoining heritage Perth House building and its setting. In order to achieve these objectives the main tower volume of the hotel has been pushed back from the street front to align with the rear of the adjoining Perth House heritage building. This will open up the perceived adjoining airspace around the heritage building so that the transition in scale between the Heritage Building and the proposed hotel less significant. This strategy also provide the pedestrian with a more human scale for the relationship between the front of the hotel and the street.
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2-10 PHILLIP ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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ARCHITECT
Woods Bagot
PROPONENT
Coronation Property
PLANNER
Mecone
SITE AREA
2,307m 2
FSR
17:1
HEIGHT
200m – 55 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use + Hotel
GFA TOTAL
28,268m 2
CAR SPACES
162
BASEMENTS
7
WINNER
2-10 Phillip must stand for more than just an address. It must symbolise all that is great about the rise and momentum of a new Parramatta, and a new vision for Sydney. Evolving from street to sky, transformative architecture will embrace the context of its surroundings. This will be a declaration of progress and inclusion. A world-class precinct that extends vertically, layering local heritage, amenity, hospitality, residences, and a global rooftop destination. This is where day and night are alive with energy, where residents and the community can connect and celebrate a new era in a place they are proud to call home. In a place that leads the way.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
25 August 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
11 October 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
14 November 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 29 June 2018
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2-10 PHILLIP ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT SJB Architects
The proposal captures the changing essence of Parramatta CBD as it transitions from Australia’s historic centre into a world class city. The site lies at the edge of waters - where the freshwater from the Parramatta River flows into the salt water of Port Jackson. This moment of transformation is embedded within the proposal not only through the site response at the public domain level, but also through the tectonic language of the tower itself. The history of Parramatta is drawn into the site response, with a symbiotic relationship between the new tower and the heritage fabric of St Andrew’s Uniting Church and Hall.
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2-10 PHILLIP ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT FJMT Architects
The proposed mixed use development of 2-10 Phillip Street will reinvigorate the public domain and connect Phillip Street through to the river. High quality residential and total accommodation are complemented by ground and upper level publicly accessible retail and lifestyle facilities. A new organic, sustainable and sculptural gateway tower for the future City of Parramatta will be light in character and a little ephemeral whilst weaving the scales and materials of the historic Church buildings sensitively through the public ground levels.
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130 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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13 0 G E O R G E S T PA R R A M AT TA
ARCHITECT
Bates Smart
PROPONENT
Dexus
PLANNER
Robinson Urban Planning
SITE AREA
14,887m 2
FSR
10.2:1
HEIGHT
138m – 30 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
99,545m 2
CAR SPACES
35
BASEMENTS
2
WINNER
The development of the George and Charles Street precinct is on opportunity to define the northern quarter of Parramatta City as a genuine 21st century business hub that integrates workplace, social interaction and well-being with the natural environment. This highly open, permeable and naturally ventilated podium connects the office towers to the street through a series of atriums and voids, placing people as the foremost concern of the design. The podium raises to celebrate the George St plaza, inviting the public into the precinct and sets back from the neighbouring buildings to create additional public space. In the office we have created two highly flexible, and interconnected floor plates, based on a side core typology. This premium floor plate typology maximises connectivity, encouraging communication and collaboration which are the hallmarks of good contemporary workplaces.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
9 November 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
16 December 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
18 September 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 8 May 2018
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130 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Make Architects
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Design Evolution: −A generously scaled entrance lobby positively addressing George Street, running deep into the heart of the site. Conceived as a modern day veranda, it deliberately engages with the street, and begins the process of defining and creating an activated street frontage. −T he entrance hall forms the pivot to set up new connections and dialogue with existing and emerging routes and public spaces within the site and beyond. The design embraces the current proposals and re-imagines the forgotten laneways and spaces between street and buildings.
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130 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Fitzpatrick & Partners
This “new look ” solution informed by an understanding of the new workplace idiom, a collection of flexible spaces that start at the ground plane and move high into the building. The solution recognises that the modern work environment starts well before the sitting down at one’s desk. As such the solution supplies opportunity spaces not currently seen in the Parramatta marketplace to provide the building users and the public alike the opportunity to be part of the wider community - a building which celebrates this relationship from the ground up.
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32 SMITH ST PARRAMATTA WINNER Under construction
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32 S M I T H S T R E E T PA R R A M AT TA
ARCHITECT
Fender Katsalidis Architects
PROPONENT
GPT Re Limited
PLANNER
Urbis
SITE AREA
2,452m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
138m – 30 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
28,268m 2
CAR SPACES
108 (Adaptable)
BASEMENTS
0
WINNER
By studying the surrounding context, it becomes apparent that the site is strategically located on the primary north south axis, acting as the northern gateway to Parramatta. The site also has the potential to strengthen the connection between the river and the city centre. The ground floor has evolved around these two main principles by setting back the podium on the corner it provides a strong visual connection from Smith Street to the River via George Khattar Lane. The pedestrian desire and flow lines begin to shape the podium into soft pebble like forms and opening up vistas creating an impressive north facing urban room, providing an exciting addition to the public realm whilst delivering a clearly identifiable commercial lobby and retail offer activating this new public space. Each pebble form represents a different use, commercial entry lobby and retail, yet inherently complement each other in form and function.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
7 June 2017
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
10 July 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
13 October 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 19 March 2018
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WINNER
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Through a series of massing studies, we have developed a strategy of elevating the tower from the corner to open up the public realm. This allows vistas through to the river and an opening to the junction, to build upon the northern gateway. The lower podium consists of two pebble forms which are highly activated and warm in materiality extending into the laneways. The pebbles extend out from the tower to reduce down draft effect at the ground plane. The upper podium adopts the same form as the tower, but is broken to respond to the street wall. The ventilated car park facade also acts as a wind dampener. The tower is simple in form and has been shaped as a “building in the round� whose curved corners reduce the wind speed.
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32 SMITH ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Harry Seidler & Associates
The proposed building is not cloaked in an envelope of curtain wall. The different functions of the building, office spaces, retail spaces, entry, services and car parking inform different architectural forms and expression. Scale and an understanding of the building is readily discernible, uses are differentiated and their environmental demands expressed. Different uses dictate different facade design, different structural demands and construction systems, which in their expression, further enhance legibility and understanding. The materials that constitute and finish the building are honestly expressed and naturally finished. The concrete structure of the main tower columns and the core is detailed with deeply incised joints, legible form ties and assembly patterns, and clear finished. Metalwork is lustrous and metallic and stone, where used, is honed.
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32 SMITH ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT Fitzpatrick + Partners
Our design concept is informed by the journeys of the people, places and buildings that have defined the Parramatta of today and will define the Parramatta of tomorrow. It is a solution of lines, like rivers, creeks, stories and history. All inter-weaved and changing, affected by time and events. It is the abstract expression of these stories through materiality, form, art and colour that creates the unique expression and embeds 32 Smith Street to its geography - Parramatta. The proposal is for a building where people will congregate to create work, and as such will allow for the new workplace, the blending of lifestyle and work to create product. This is more than the creation of efficient parcels of space logically stacked higher and higher, it is about the journeys or people, their interactions, connections and relationships.
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32 SMITH ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT FJMT Studio
An identity that celebrates the advanced and contemporary workplace environment while also interpreting and acknowledging the history and culture of this place. A lively activated, authentic and deepened placemaking. This is to be achieved through the interpretation of the indigenous, colonial, modern and future protected layers of the site, and a sophisticated integration of archaeology, artwork, landscape and architecture. The integration and transition from street-defining form to tower form is a key element of the design. Our concept is for an integrated approach of architectural integrity where the street form gently and progressively transforms into the tower form.
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180 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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ARCHITECT
Woods Bagot
PROPONENT
Meriton
PLANNER
Meriton
SITE AREA
7,979m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
215m – 66 Storeys
LAND USE
Residential
GFA TOTAL
91,753m 2
CAR SPACES
225
BASEMENTS
2
WINNER
180 George will set a new standard of tower living in Parramatta City. It will reflect the aspirations of an emerging economy, social hub and choice of lifestyle for a growing and diverse city population. Embracing the riverside lifestyle and heritage surrounds, a carefully crafted podium responds to the city, local materiality and creates a human scale. Its changing datums and repeating forms transition into the city grid and emerging public domain. The river front between Parramatta Park and Queens Wharf Reserve will be a verdant connection between significant open spaces, drawing the landscape up into the communal podium levels improving outlook and amenity.
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The towers are shaped to look past each other maximising views to the river and solar access. The southern tower is lowered to create a varied skyline composition. The forms are then softened at their edges to enhance form and reduce wind loads. Each form is then split once on each of its long sides to accentuate the dramatic verticality. Facades are then applied to respond to the two predominant contexts. The city on the southern side and the river on the northern side.
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WINNER
COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
15 November 2017
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
16 March 2018
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
18 July 2018
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 9 October 2019
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ARCHITECT PTW
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Like timeless standing stones above a layered river worn undulating podium base, the paired towers stand as sentinels to the tides end. Wind and water-formed, the pair are carved to improve wind conditions, solar access and significant views. As the taller tower inhabits the forward position, its smaller sibling stands rotated to face the north-eastern horizon. Both turn together like spectators at a game, so as to share the views rather than to have one tower disadvantaged. Their key views are downriver to the CBDs of Sydney and Chatswood. The base form is eroded as if water worn, but in fact the forces at work are those of pedestrian intent routes, to and from the river front.
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180 GEORGE ST PARRAMATTA E N T RY
ARCHITECT SJB Architects
Merging from the banks of Parramatta River, 180 George Street will cater to visitors and residents with permeable and flexible spaces cut out of its podium, mimicking the protective, cave-like structures of sandstone overhangs. Our concept builds on the topography of the site, creating a natural progression from river to podium, and public to private. Layered podium massing reference the strata of Parramatta’s river bed while its solidity will be broken up, referencing weathered sandstone creating a familiar and welcoming aesthetic.
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23-27 HAROLD ST PARRAMATTA WINNER
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ARCHITECT
Cox Architects
PROPONENT
Trebel 88 Pty Ltd
PLANNER
Think Planners
SITE AREA
1,654.2m 2
FSR
6.9:1
HEIGHT
80.5m – 25 Storeys
LAND USE
Residential
GFA TOTAL
11,384.4m 2
CAR SPACES
96
BASEMENTS
4
WINNER
Historic reference is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them. The site’s existing heritage context is of paramount importance in this transitional precinct and as such, our aim is to reference this historic architectural language in a contemporary manner, creating a cohesive architectural aesthetic for the future. Through the use of contemporary versions of traditional Victorian elements we aim to reimagine the joy and craftsmanship of a traditional Australian Victorian veranda on the larger scale of a multi-residential tower. Elements such as slender vertical columns, filigree balustrades and lace like shading devices intend to create a contemporary aesthetic that is firmly grounded in the history of the site.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
23 May 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
4 July 2018
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WINNER
53 Sorrell Street is an important heritage item directly adjacent the proposed site. The proposed building aims to mediate between the immediate historical context to the east and the future development to the west. The design of the proposed building is restrained and simple, yet with a depth that aims to sustain and appeal over time. This building will form part of a collection of buildings in the newly expanded city centre and as such
we believe the aesthetic should be restrained, to compliment rather than overpower its neighbours. Proportioning can create a strong visual relationship between architectural languages. We intent to use the scale and proportioning of the Victorian dwelling at 53 Sorrell Street to inform the proportioning of the new building.
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ARCHITECT Marchese Partners
The design acknowledges and works within the parameters of the approved Planning Proposal envelope and develops this into a distinctive architectural vision for the site whilst responding to the local context of the site sitting between the existing heritage precinct to the east and the desired future character of the Church Street corridor and Parramatta City Centre to the west of the site. The podium design has been deliberately modelled to address the relationship with the adjoining heritage precinct, and the adjoining heritage item at 53 Sorrel Street. Architectural elements, materials, textures and landscape treatment have been modelled to harmonise with the character of the existing Heritage Conservation precinct.
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ARCHITECT Scott Carver
Responding to the adjoining heritage can take the traditional form of a podium structure aligned to the height of the heritage building. The building facade elegantly transitions from solid at its base towards increasingly ordered and transparent at the top through the skilful design and deployment of a family of facade ‘ribbons’. As the ribbons dynamically migrate across the facade they negotiate multiple architectural roles ranging from the definition of each apartment’s balcony, interunit privacy screening and the provision sun shading to the living and sleeping spaces behind. As each ribbon traverses diagonally, up-and-across the building’s facade, it contributes to a significant disruption of the dominant horizontal and vertical expression of the “balcony” so typical to multi-residential design - delivering a unique and memorable building figure.
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ARCHITECT
Aleksandar Projects
PROPONENT
SAI Group Australia
PLANNER
Think Planners
SITE AREA
1,629m 2
FSR
6.9:1
HEIGHT
92m – 26 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
11,240.4m 2
CAR SPACES
143
BASEMENTS
3
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470 Church Street. Parramatta is defined by the relationship between the site and the junction between Church Street and Harold Street. The form is developed to respond to a variety of opportunities and constraints. The podium facade design is open full-height glazing to lower levels to maximise retail interface of the public domain and the upper levels with more solid, fine grain treatment to accommodate the different residential use. The main feature of the podium is the urban doorway which serves as the main entry. Positioned on the corner, the large entry portal provides quality amenity such as solar and natural ventilation to what is usually a deep floor plate. The tower design has a form that compliments the podium in architectural expression. Designed to read as a cluster of smaller towers, part of the tower that is the closest to the corner is taller to establish a hierarchy of built form. The tower facade is articulated with strong horizontal elements which maintains podium facade design.
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Landscape starts at the ground level and finishes at the top of the building. The landscape areas area separated between Level 01 and Level 03 to benefit from solar access, flexibility of orientation, and provide balance of open space and built form. To maintain our approach with spreading out the landscape across the building we also have planter boxes on all levels where masonry spandrel is proposed as well as common planter boxes at all lobbies opening up the building. Being on a prominent corner/entry to the North end of Parramatta town centre, this project will set up the future character for the precinct in architectural expression and built form.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
23 May 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
20 July 2018
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ARCHITECT Eeles Trelease Architects
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ARCHITECT Atlas Urban
The interaction of the rectilinear grid and the curving street creates a ‘disturbance’ in the urban pattern. In particular, there is a misalignment of the subject block and the block to the north which produces an extra wide footpath on the site’s west. The turning alignment of Church Street produces a pronounced acute angle at the corner of Harold and Church Streets. The location of the site at the outside of the curve also reveals the site and the tower more dramatically than if Church Street were straight. All these unusual characteristics are celebrated in the architecture. The change in this orientation represents a 7 degrees shift and it is expressed in the kink in the western elevation. The change in the angle is also what produces the cleft on the northern elevation which brings daylight into the lift lobby on each level.
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ARCHITECT
Turner Studio
PROPONENT
Holdmark Property Group
PLANNER
City Plan Strategy and Development
SITE AREA
1,201m 2
FSR
8.05:1
HEIGHT
56.7m
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
9,608m 2
CAR SPACES
29
BASEMENTS
2
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The proposal is highly visible from a number of significant vistas within Parramatta. It can be seen for quite a distance up and down Macquarie Street and will form a new visual marker for Centenary Square. Its design mediates between the scale of the heritage buildings and the taller towers to the south of Parramatta Square and to North of the site. The podium design interrogates surrounding urban relationships with the lofty arcade and the shared-way creating a fine-grain experience at street level. A number of scaling devices are employed in the facade such as the two-storey colonnade, giving a human scale and relating to the historic street scale. In addition the facade of the podium picks up a number of datum lines from the facade of Murray’s to the West. The upper tower embraces the triangleprism envelope form arising from the solar constraints to the Square. The raking plane of the roof will be visible from the ground level and from surrounding tall buildings. The roof is animated with planting and outdoor terraces. The unique geometry of the building form and robust expression of the external skin presents a distinctive silhouette to the future skyline of Parramatta Square.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
28 February 2019
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
11 June 2019
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
6 November 2019
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED DA Currently Under Assessment
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ARCHITECT Kennedy Peck Von Hartel
Standing at an important junction of the public and private realms of Parramatta Town Centre the project acts as a pivot between the low scale heritage buildings enclosing Centenary Square and the office towers encircling it. The design takes as its starting point the fact that this site, the last remaining development site on the eastern side of Macquarie Street and the closest site to Centenary Square will be possibly the most visually prominent new building in the square, overlooking and engaging with it. At the same time the project acts as a termination for the commercial strip along the eastern portion of Macquarie Street providing a bookend to the buildings in that section of Parramatta.
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ARCHITECT Cox Architects
The Arch is synonymous with civic architecture. From the ancient Greeks to the more recent Italianate architecture of our recent colonial heritage. Sydney has many examples of its use to describe a building with a ‘civic’ purpose. Taking cue from the adjacent arched colonnaded Town Hall building the proposal uses a contemporary interpretation of the Arch to enclose this commercial building. The site is iconic in its exposure to the surrounding Parramatta CBD public domain. Building on the civic presence of the Town Hall within Centenary Place and the new adjacent Parramatta Square, the proposal is designed to be read ‘in the round’, together with the Town Hall. The contemporary interpretation of the arch providing an iconic and memorable identity appropriately ‘civic’ reading to both public spaces.
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ARCHITECT
Woods Bagot
PROPONENT
Ecoworld
PLANNER
Think Planners
SITE AREA
4,778m 2
FSR
6.9:1
HEIGHT
126m – 40 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
32,968m 2
CAR SPACES
402
BICYCLE PARKING
134
BASEMENTS
4
WINNER
The design seeks to embrace the scale and materiality of the neighbourhood, reflecting the ‘patchwork ’ textures of Church street and the historically rich Parramatta precinct. The podium and tower are differentiated by their materiality and proportion. Great care has been taken to create an overall composition that reads as a whole in which the natural materials are used to provide appropriate scale to the podium and tower. The podium has an increase in solidity compared to the tower, which grounds the building, enhances privacy, and creates a relationship to the street context. The robust nature and modulation of the facade, consisting of a concrete and metal panels, recalls a varied scale and materiality sympathetic to the urban context. The panellised composition, of varied heights and proportions, further breaks down the mass of the podium to a more human scale. The tower has been conceived as visually lighter than the podium to contrast with the solid materiality of the base forms. The central corridor of the tower plate is opened at the ends and the illuminated negative space between the apartment plates is used to sculpturally modulate the tower form into pair of elegant slivers.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
17 February 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
23 March 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
27 June 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 22 September 2017
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ARCHITECT Fender Katsalidis Architects
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The genesis of the concept is to provide the most compelling urban outcome at street level with active, pedestrian friendly and permeable space. Natural pedestrian routes and visual axes exist across the site and are enhanced in this concept design. Three distinct volumes evolve from the ground plane to create a discontinuous podium around the perimeter of the site. These podia contain residential accommodation, predominantly one and two bedroom apartments. Visual privacy and acoustic protection are paramount here. Facade design to these levels includes a heavily articulated bronze coloured metallic frame beyond the glazing line. The corner gateway site and its context of tall buildings suggest the tower to be orientated to the south of the site. This achieves the best aspect to views and sunlight and space between adjacent buildings. It also presents a tower volume as a true gateway site. The proposed combination of tower and podium forms sit comfortably with surrounding built form, providing public fine grain activity to the ground floor and contributing a striking new element to the Parramatta sky line.
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ARCHITECT Bureau SRH MHN Design Union
A strong, clear urban form is achieved through an architecture that responds to a variety of scales. The design is based upon a slender tower from the southern approach with a rectilinear podium responding to street edges and “cleaning up” of the alignments of the intersection. The ground floor plan delivers logical pedestrian linkages responding to and enhancing local street and laneway patterns. Residential amenity is maximised and quality common areas and facilities are provided including: a rooftop showpiece space offering a “chef ’s kitchen” and a spectacular outdoor terrace; a podium garden with outdoor dining, amenities, kitchenette and community garden, well separated from the nearest apartments; and the provision of a “Vertical Garden” at the end of a dramatic main lobby.
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ARCHITECT
FJMT
PROPONENT
Coronation Property Co
PLANNER
Mecone
SITE AREA
888.6m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
126m – 40 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
10,218m 2
CAR SPACES
40
BASEMENTS
2
WINNER
The vision for the Harris Park site is to create an outstanding residential building that forms a clear and identifiable gateway icon for the Parramatta CBD. The proposal provides a sense of “entry” and “arrival” while performing an equally important role in connecting the tower to the finer grain of the surrounding suburban fabric with a carefully articulated podium and break-up of the ground plane. An architecture of timeless value and beauty of universal attraction and value must be inspired by and design in close correlation with the sources of natural timelessness. The unique position of the site in relation to the historic Parramatta city centre provides a unique opportunity to reference the tones and textures of the sandstone and brick buildings and civic spaces.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
6 April 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
31 May 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
22 December 2016
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 9 October 2019
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A warm residential palette and composition of fine grain materials comprise the podium form, combining use of coloured precast, warm coloured matt aluminium screens, framed glazed folding panels and timber baffles incorporated behind upper glazed areas. The finely scaled proportions.
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ARCHITECT a+ design group
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The undulating facade and balcony curves were inspired by the winding Parramatta River and organic lines often seen in Aboriginal paintings. Cultural references are continued with a laser cut screen reflecting an indigenous pattern at ground level, framing an art gallery, (an initiative in which Parramatta Council are keen to promote). A large painting decorates the double height lobby with a connecting public sculptural piece positioned outside. The commercial gallery space activates the street level and could be used for exhibitions, events and lectures.
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Our design seeks to: • Deliver a memorable street level experience •D eliver a striking city edge building which celebrates the ‘entry’ to Parramatta • Respect and respond to current surrounding site conditions
ARCHITECT SJB Architects
• Respond to future surrounding development potential •P rovide privacy (acoustic and visual) to future residents via the orientation of apartments •D eliver a building which captures views and outlook while managing the impact of the busy surrounding streets • Achieve excellent solar access to dwellings • Achieve excellent cross ventilation to dwellings
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ARCHITECT
SJB Architects
PROPONENT
Bluesky Parramatta
PLANNER
Caladines Town Planning
SITE AREA
2,830m2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
140m – 44 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
32,533 m2
CAR SPACES
371
BASEMENTS
3
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Our site is located at the doorstep of Parramatta River which is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour. The land adjacent to the River was occupied for many thousands of years by Aboriginal people, and today it still continues to influence and direct the way the City is organised. Our concept takes the meandering nature of Parramatta river and strategically implements gentle curves throughout our building form, reminiscent of a natural physical movement. The curves act to provide entrance points to our proposal at podium levels, motivate activation, and open up expansive views from the tower corner balconies. They soften the tower on what is an important corner gateway site to the City.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
6 April 2016
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED 21 February 2017
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ARCHITECT PTW Architects
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The Apartment Design Guideline requirements have indirectly informed and contributed to the residential tower becoming a paired tower solution with through apartments at the abutment between the two towers. This has two additional benefits being the ability to step the building form, higher to the west than the east and the ability to break down the facade with a clustered tower composition. The podium design further enhances the scheme by providing a scale appropriate interface with the surrounding public domain. The facade treatment of the podium along Parkes street incorporates green wall bands. These will provide much needed green amenity to the street. The residential towers facade is designed to complement the building form. Sculptural planar book ends frame the northern shaded facade and the expressed slab edges of the southern facade emphasis the strong and curved line of the southern plan form – contained and framed by these are ribbon glass walls featuring coloured green and blue spandrel glass, these echo the green wall of the podium below and provide animation within the composed facade.
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ARCHITECT Robertson + Marks
An inviting ground level landscaped public open space connects to a reinterpreted Clay Cliff Creek with active and passive recreational activities envisaged. An organic form podium aligns with the adjacent building scales to create a human scale to both Parkes Street to the south and Wigram Street to the west, with the residential tower setback from the south to create generous and inviting public open spaces and a sense of invitation for through site pedestrian connection. The tower form above the podium has been carefully proportioned into a slim angular form to create an elegant contribution to the skyline of Parramatta. The tower position and orientation is determined to minimise environmental effects such as overshadowing on nearby conservation areas to the south and maximise the number of units achieving good solar access and ventilation.
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ARCHITECT
Fitzpatrick & Partners
PROPONENT
Australian Unity Investment
PLANNER
Investa Office Developments
SITE AREA
3,935m 2
FSR
11.19:1
HEIGHT
118.6m – 34 Storeys
LAND USE
Commercial
GFA TOTAL
44,033m 2
CAR SPACES
Existing
BASEMENTS
0
WINNER
Our proposal reimagines an engaging and inviting Valentine Avenue while presenting a refined and precise marker to the Parramatta skyline. We have devised a podium which engages the street as a pedestrian experience through the addition of a street cafe and a unique focal point in the office lobby art wall. Beyond these actors the podium harmonises the existing and proposed car parking levels, adding visual interest to the street scape. Above the podium the office building defines the southern gateway to the CBD. As an urban marker the building is a series of layered volumes describing occupation patterns in the horizontal and movement patterns in the vertical to provide a strong visual point of difference. The tower speaks of its time and is classically composed in three horizontally cast elements defined by two recessed client reception levels to describe a distinct urban form on the Parramatta skyline.
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Ours is a proposal derived from the overlay of logic on a strong idea of site and location. A solution which acts to extend the CBD south of the rail line, offering a new piece of public realm and a new office destination to inform a dialogue across the rail corridor. The design seeks to engage the public domain, add life to the street and a design benchmark in the Parramatta market. A solution which allows the tower configuration and form to maximise the opportunity offered by the site, creating a positive contribution to the precinct. The tower is unique and therefore identifiable from afar.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
3 May 2017
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
3 August 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION LODGED
27 September 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED 10 April 2018
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ARCHITECT FJMT
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This is a strategic urban site, a city threshold and urban gateway. Our response to this strategic threshold is to create a dramatic gateway form. The unique heritage, landscape and material character of the city of Parramatta is our inspiration. Our vision is for a Parramatta Tower that reflects the material warmth and landscape richness of the city. Our concept is for a landmark urban gateway tower from that celebrates its dramatic slender form marking this urban threshold. The gentle curve and gradient of Valentine Street connects Parkes Street to the station and will become a valued pedestrian friendly street. The lower levels of the building from this gentle curve, building strongly to the street alignment, activating the street and transforming the carpark into an architectural/landscape composed urban street wall. The integration and transition from street-defining form to tower form is a key element of the design. Our concept is for an integrated approach of architectural integrity where the street form gently and progressively transforms into the tower form.
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ARCHITECT Make Architects
Our proposals embody five core values: 01 Simple Logical and efficient, easily understood and legible. Regular volumes and floor plates that maximise value and flexibility. 02 Unique Instantly recognisable, strong sense of place. This is a building with a clear identity that celebrates the context. 03 Elegant A refined timeless architecture, employing the ideals of proportion and repetition. 04 Appropriate Using material and forms that respond positively to the location and budget constraints. 05 Deliverable Ease of construction, using tried and tested materials in a fresh way.
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ARCHITECT
Nettleton Tribe + Fox Johnston
PROPONENT
Dyldam
PLANNER
Dyldam
SITE AREA
3,306m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
207m – 62 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed Use
GFA TOTAL
41,325m 2
CAR SPACES
470
BASEMENTS
5
WINNER
Situated in the evolving Parramatta CBD Locality, this site benefits from a unique and pivotal position in the Auto Alley masterplan. Bounded by Church Street to the east and The Great Western Highway to the south - the sites corner location benefits from panoramic northerly views to the central CBD and Parramatta River, as well as distant easterly and westerly views to the Sydney CBD and Blue Mountains - in turn offering a unique outlook for its inhabitants. Its pivotal location - recognised as an extension of the new eastern and southern neighbours - enables a series of permeable networks throughout the site, enlivening its connection to the future surrounding retail hub and recreational areas. A high-level pedestrian bridge weaves through the site connecting the eastern and southern proposed building and offering an alternate level of experience and usability. A robust sandstone podium carefully carved out and eroded in response to its program and orientation - anchors the site, providing direct contrast to the permeable and sculptural tower above.
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A generous aperture in the podium from Church Street provides an inviting and visually enticing connection to the public domain. Expansive facade glazing - clear, tinted and opaque - as well as generous balconies are designed to embrace the surrounding outlook.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
21 March 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
18 June 2018
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ARCHITECT Plus Architecture
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Our design concept is inspired by the technique used to make eel traps that the Indigenous people of the area used to capture eels. The technique represents the ability to provide living in a place and has been conceptualised in a vibrant facade expression visible from a larger distance as well as from the public domain. The facade concept expresses the weaving patterns expressed by external fins which conceptualise the materials and technique used for catching eels. The weaving patterns are proposed to transition from a small scale to a larger pattern towards the top of the building to reflect the scale of the human scale at the ground plane and the larger scale visible in the tower scale of the proposed CBD of Parramatta. The material palette is based on the natural reeds and their earth colours which characterise the nets. The weave expression consists of powder coated angled aluminium profiles which are coloured based on the natural reed materials used in the aboriginal fishing nets.
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ARCHITECT CDA Architects
The building is a unique tower which reflects its city centre, Gateway South and street setting. It is a ‘building-in-theround’ which is designed to be viewed from all directions. It will be an urban marker and the most prominent building on the southern edge of the city centre, complementing the tall towers on the city’s centre and along the southern edge. The mass and bulk of the building is softened by sky terraces while maintaining the vertical emphasis of the tower form to produce a distinctive urban habitat for the city. The building adopts a ‘hybrid form’ of tower with street wall to interface the ground, the street, the city, the sun and the sky. It incorporates unique environmental initiatives of harvesting sunlight and natural air to reduce the carbon footprint of the building and increase the enjoyment of residents and visitors. The tower is designed to balance outlook, natural ventilation and sunlight while giving wind protection to external private spaces.
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ARCHITECT
PTI Architecture
PROPONENT
Dayaf Investment Pty Ltd
PLANNER
Hamptons property Services
SITE AREA
815m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
118.5m – 34 Storeys
LAND USE
Residential
GFA TOTAL
9,334m 2
CAR SPACES
68
BASEMENTS
0
WINNER
The key objective is to create an overall good value, high quality residential apartment building. In the case of this project, given its location adjacent to Westfields, as well as being in close proximity to the centre of Parramatta CBD and to the bus and train interchanges, the site is ideal for those wanting a high level of convenience as well as amenity. We have also worked to provide a design that can foster a strong positive community spirit and provide for the increasing needs of a “high-rise apartment lifestyle� by the incorporation of a Residents Club on the podium level and a number of related spaces. Parramatta as one of, if not the, fastest growing and most dynamic of Australian cities. This is an expression of the very considerable energy, warmth and dynamism of its people. Our design is for a building that though simple in form expresses a sense of energy and warmth, and has a richness of colour and texture.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
1 August 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
30 August 2018
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ARCHITECT Nordon Jago Architects
The proposal achieves the highest and best use of the site and achieves a 5% uplift in the apartment numbers nominated in the brief. The building form clearly differentiates the usages of each floor with different architectural treatments for ground floor retail, above ground parking, commercial space and apartments. The planning of the building accommodates the setbacks and heights of adjoining buildings using zero lot alignments to a height where amenity can be achieved using boundary setbacks. The proposal establishes a consistent street frontage and continuation of covered footpaths and connection to the Westfield undercroft. The street facade incorporates scaled architectural elements that are progressively set back to distance the tower from the street and provide a podium to mitigate the effects of downdrafts. A sculptural precast concrete screening element has been used disguise the above ground car park and is intended to meet the requirements for public art.
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ARCHITECT WMK Architecture
The proposed residential building aims to transcend the two vastly different contexts of the local natural parklands, to the gritty urban surrounds, into a respective design solution responding to these contrasting contexts. Within this context the proposal recognises two significant view opportunities from the site, primarily towards Parramatta Park as a tranquil, calming outlook to the north west, and to the urban city views to the north east. The architecture of the building promotes a residential building typology as a calm and refined simplicity of structure. Planting and landscaped communal areas reference the natural landscape of the parkland vista providing opportunities for communal activity to nurture a sustainable resident community.
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ARCHITECT
Tzannes and Blight Rayner
PROPONENT
The Trust Company (Australia) Limited and Western Growth Developments (Innovation Hub Parramatta) Pty Ltd
PLANNER
Ethos Urban
SITE AREA
2,647m 2
FSR
11.5:1
HEIGHT
86m – 21 Storeys
LAND USE
Education and Commercial
GFA TOTAL
30,440m 2
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Our proposal is to create a building of contemporary form which displays the interdependence of architecture and engineering. Spaces delineated by structure, carve-outs which penetrate natural light to the interior depths, elevated gardens and break-out spaces which enrich well-being are just some of the ingredients of this reciprocal concept. These elements also underpin our heritage response, by articulating the building into human-scaled parts that acknowledge the small scale Lancer Barracks and Commercial Hotel adjacent. At ground level, the high scale of the public space respects the hotel in a converse way, by creating a soffit datum aligned with the rooftop of the Hotel. And when the Barracks is opened up to public access, this space will form a dramatic gateway to the Barracks and beyond to Parramatta Square.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
7 November 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
26 February 2019
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION APPROVED December 2019
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Our distribution of the briefed spaces allows the further carving out of the external envelope to open up the building to its context and to generate a tangible sense of turning it ‘inside-out’. The eroded edges play beneficial roles in creating elevated outdoor learning and social spaces, extending gardens up from Lancer Barracks when it is repurposed as public park spaces, and bringing daylight and outlook deep into the interior of the floors.
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Elevating the tower 3 levels above ground and carving out a lower ground space creates a public and university realm for people to look up and down into multiple engineering activities – robotics, maker spaces, collaborative spaces, exhibition spaces – which showcase the dynamics of engineering. The proposal accentuates this engagement by a void carved into the 5 levels above, revealing further activity and conveying to students and staff belonging to the whole.
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Our proposal has the potential to be a destination for the surrounding city precincts as well as enjoy the amenity they provide. A carefully designed, integrated community that encourages permeability and activity will act as an extension of the city. We will bring the city to us as well as operate as a mini-city in itself. Our university floors will connect as though each floor is an extension of the city itself. We have taken the identifiable heritage language of the Barracks buildings and translated that into a roof form that speaks to a sense of place and its history. This also creates a datum to the existing Commercial Hotel.
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The building form has taken strong clues from the existing urban and historical context. The proximity of a number of significant heritage items has strongly informed the concept, resulting in a form that is respectful of its surrounding in terms of its materiality and proportion. The future pedestrian link is to be been seen as more than just a thoroughfare to form an important connection in the urban context. The atrium reveal reinforces the public domain and creates a series of multi-programmable spaces that can be comfortably inhabited rather than being simply a transitory link. By strongly relating the low building volume to the heritage context, a true solid anchor has been created making a transition from a simple tower volume to a scale that reflects the human proportion and composition of both social and historic public realm.
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ARCHITECT Cox Architects
The proposed design will create a new through site link which will create a new layer of public activity for the city, linking Hassall Street to Lancer Barracks, the currently under construction education precinct and eventually the new Parramatta Square. The design of the building will optimise opportunities to showcase activity and invite public gaze and interest into its various portals, levels and facilities – bridging the traditional internal – external divide of a university campus. It will be designed and operated as a place of participation – a natural attractor through composition of programs.
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OUTSIDE THE PARRAMATTA CBD 134-142 Parramatta Road, 26-38 Good Street 59-61 Cowper Street & Granville - The Barn Master Plan Competition Block H - Stage 1
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PBD Architects
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Staryland
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Think Planners
SITE AREA
5,150m 2
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79.6m – 25 Storeys
LAND USE
Mixed use
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The proposed Gran Central development makes a significant contribution to recognise the site significance of The Barn located at 138 Parramatta Road and contribution made by the Colquhoun family since the establishment of the family business on the site over one hundred years ago. The heritage strategy encapsulated within the Gran Central design is to ensure current and future generations to the site are informed and aware of the site history and significant contribution in the development of Granville. The approach to the proposed development is to present architectural edges, scale and texture that offers a visual and physical connection to the
sites history and links its past and presence through sensitive and responsive conservation indicatives and integrated heritage imagery and artefacts. The Gran Central design has proposed a series of heritage design initiatives that recognise the contribution by Colquhoun family to the wider Granville and Sydney communities from this site. The original BARN building located at 138 Parramatta Road is conserved using footpath relieve to the development edge preserving part of the building’s original foundations plus addition of footpath text relieve in the font character of the original John Colquhoun Backsak and Jute Merchant building sign.
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COMPETITION PRESENTATION DATE
29 November 2018
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED
9 April 2019
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Materiality, contemporary signage and historical graphics are seamlessly interwoven to ensure that aspects of the site’s history is maintained and celebrated. The result would be a rich, tiered environment that offers a contemporary urban experience whilst retaining a sense of history and authenticity.
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The Podium design is a direct response with the aim to enhance an active street frontage while creating an appropriate scale to the public domain. This active frontage is maintained at level 01, especially at the corner where the commercial or retail use is proposed. The podium scale relates to the 4-storey street wall which will set up further street wall in this block. The tower facade is articulated with a fine grain element which relates to the podium faced design. The site has diverse conditions and as such, a facade design to respond to different environments. Where the building is predominantly north facing articulated or recessed, the facade provides for some shading and weather protection.
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An analysis of the DCP massing was undertaken. We were concerned that whilst the massing has distinct urban attributes, the built form approach doesn’t take advantage of the site’s amenity. The orientation, and monolithic form are questioned. Once the potential solar impact was analysed the logical progression was to orient the large component of envelope in a northerly direction taking advantage of the morning and afternoon sun. Given the obvious benefits of orienting the larger tower north the next logical progression was to apply the same rationale to the smaller building. Twisting and sculpting of the forms ensures apartments enjoy more solar access and greater view aspect to the city. The towers are twisted approximately 20º which aligns with the street grid on the northern side of Parramatta Road.
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FJMT, Bates Smart Durbach Block Jaggers
PROPONENT
Billbergia
PLANNER
Dowling Urban
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Mixed Use
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While we are generally strong believers in traditional urban form based on streets and blocks; this seems a rare case where a towers in the park typology can enhance the urban experience. We have created a grand ‘urban carpet’ to connect the Town Centre to an activated waterfront. The towers, pulled to the waterfront edge for activation and to alleviate density, ‘float’ above the public domain maximising permeability. Our vision is to maximise public benefit through rotating the park for increased solar amenity, alleviating density and creating an ideal desire line to the ferry, an enlarged public domain that connects the Town Centre to the waterfront, and an active urban waterfront as an expression of the Town Centre. In addition we have enhanced the private amenity through maximising apartments with water views, ensuring all apartments have either water or park views and improved solar amenity.
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At the centre the park is the community building, a bowl like form assembled from the inverted reuse of the timber laminated beams of the Ralph Symonds Sheds. A market square is positioned opposite the retail and library on Wentworth Place with an expansive children’s playground further to the east. This is a bold and exciting new urbanism, not the reconstruction of the European city model nor the modernist windswept spaces of isolated towers. It is a hybrid form, specific to this remarkable site, melding the two urban typologies with the creation of a great new waterfront parkland at is heart.
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ARCHITECT Durbach Block Jaggers + Jila
The proposal uses the built form to divide the site in a ‘yin and yang’ arrangement. Both halves compressed or enclosed on one end and open or released on the other. The component adjacent to the bridge arrival, the ‘yin’ contains the public park. Opening in the direction of the desire lines, it provides legible, enhanced and effortless connection to the key precinct destinations. The other component, the ‘yang’, contains both the buildings and semi-private residential garden court. This stimulates and activates the public domain as well as steering public circulation and access.
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Our proposal takes the focus of the public park and how we can create a comfortable space which allows for life between the buildings. The park is enclosed by the residential developments which have been pushed to the edge of the plot to shield the park from the busy streets around it. By locating the majority of the massing on the southern side, we avoid the towers casting shadows on the park, and this move also maximises the proximity to the waterfront and hence the value of the apartments. The parking is hidden in the western corner which informs the landscape of the park. The townhouses sleeve the car park towards the park and mid-rise towards the street and on top of it is the private courtyard.
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The central park spaces are designed to terrace and step down from Wentworth Square towards the promenade. This connectivity is facilitated through an efficient basement car parking design integrating deep root planting zones and shallower planter areas designed to relate to the diverse flora proposed in each park space. The architectural outcomes are motivated by the opportunity to create a distinctive skyline for Wentworth Point. The existing buildings in preceding stages will be complemented by two towers inspired by the fluidity of the site and the river and the arc of the footbridge. The sculpting and twisting of these towers are in direct response to sun and views for future residents as well as existing views from surrounding buildings.
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The final massing that we pursued split the building mass, placing buildings along Footbridge Boulevard and Burroway Road, thereby affirming the existing streets and improving amenity within the proposed development.
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We placed taller buildings towards the waterfront and shaped them to minimise shadows, and optimise access to views and sunlight. In this arrangement, the private courtyard in the Reference Design is added to the public park, creating a larger open space and greater opportunity for precinct connections and to the waterfront promenade. The entire site turns toward the water, creating a unique relationship with the Homebush Bay and the riparian environment.
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THE JURY CITY OF
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PROPONENT'S
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Kim Crestani
Peter Poulet
Bob Nation
Russell Olsson
Olivia Hyde
Simon Parsons
Barry Mann
Ben Hewett
John Choi
Deena Ridenour
Cathy Kubany
Gabrielle Morrish
Graeme Dix
Dillon Kombumerri
Ray Brown
Philip Thalis
Lee Hillam
Dominic Alvaro
Brendan Randles
George Savoulis
Michael Harrison
Garth Paterson
Rory Toomey
Kellie Payne
Joshua French
Paulo Macchia
Philip Vivian Peter Spira Chris Johnson Ross Howieson Michael Neustein Jonathon Knapp Jim Corbett Matthew Lorrimer Stephen Cox
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CONSTRUCTION SET TO BEGIN ON ICONIC 5 PARRAMATTA SQUARE MEDIA RELEASE 20 DEC 2019
City of Parramatta Council is set to begin construction of 5 Parramatta Square - the City’s new civic, cultural and community building - after its Development Application was approved by the Sydney Central City Planning Panel. The $130 million multi-purpose building is the final addition to the new Parramatta Square precinct. The six-storey space will be dedicated to the community, offering a public library, café, publicly available meeting rooms, and access to nearby transport. “I’m thrilled to see Council’s long-term vision for one of Australia’s largest urban regeneration projects get the green light,” City of Parramatta Lord Mayor Cr Bob Dwyer said. “With its striking design and incredible versatility, this new civic building will be the beating heart of the Parramatta CBD, where our community can meet, work, study, and relax. I can’t wait to see 5 Parramatta Square go from blueprint to reality.” Following a rigorous selective tender process, Council will appoint a builder in February 2020. Construction is expected to begin soon after.
The innovative and sustainable building was designed by a consortium of Australian firms DesignInc and Lacoste + Stevenson, and French firm Manuelle Gautrand Architecture. It will feature an open layout, tessellated facade and LED lighting, with light projections and digital artworks set to animate the building’s exterior. The City’s historic Town Hall building will be seamlessly integrated into, and accessible from, 5 Parramatta Square. This integration has been carefully considered by the architects to ensure it celebrates and maintains Parramatta’s rich culture and unique heritage. Parramatta Square is a three-hectare mixed-use precinct in the centre of Parramatta CBD. Located next to Parramatta train station and a future light rail stop on Macquarie Street, the precinct includes 6,000sqm of public domain that will serve as an important place to meet, trade, shop, dine, learn and connect. Council anticipates that 5 Parramatta Square will open in April 2022, to coincide with the completion of the remaining Parramatta Square precinct.
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CONCLUSION The City Architects Team looks forward to the commencement of two city shaping projects being the Aquatic and Leisure Centre and the Parramatta’s Library, Community and Civic Building in 2020. Design development of the winning scheme of the International Design Competition for the Powerhouse Museum, a State Government Project is also underway. Parramatta Square design competitions are all completed and construction is underway of the largest commercial building in the southern hemisphere. Some 10 Design Excellence Competition winners are under construction and it is expected that many more will be commenced soon. The future of Parramatta is looking very exciting indeed. The City Architects team thanks everyone who has assisted in the ongoing Design Excellence process in Australia’s next great City.
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