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RADAR
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| | WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN AWARD FOR URBAN DESIGN Birrarung Marr, City of Melbourne in association with Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Paul Thompson and Swaney Draper
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Over several years the Victorian Government
and City of Melbourne have worked to
reconnect Melbourne to the Yarra. Birrarung
Marr, Melbourne’s new “festival” park, is the
final piece that connects a network of parks
and gardens encircling the city centre. The
park successfully combines references to the
site’s natural and cultural history, including
its riverine geology and the railways, which
represent important elements of Melbourne’s
civic imagery. It creates a dramatic, meaningful
and confident connection between the Yarra
and the city.
Unlike Melbourne’s other parklands and
open spaces, which are primarily for passive
recreation, Birrarung Marr has been designed
with city events and entertainment in mind.
The design comprises a number of simple but
monumental gestures, which include a long
single flight of stairs, a serpentine water’s edge,
the Field of Bells, a grassed embankment, a
300-metre-long bridge linking the city to the
park’s eastern end, and axial pathways, which
all reference the immediate built and natural
environment. These gestures define a series
of generous spaces of varied qualities to
accommodate a range of activities.
This park represents a significant moment
in the Grids and Greenery philosophy
developed by the City of Melbourne Urban
Design Department some twenty years ago.
As a component of the overall plan, this park
is a tangible icon that reinforces a strong and
continuous connection between the city-park
qualities of Melbourne.
The jury is concerned about proposals
to remove significant elements of the park
without due consideration of the city’s future
pedestrian needs or appropriate input from
the authors.
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| Project Credits |
BIRRARUNG MARR
Project architect City of
Melbourne, Swaney Draper,
Taylor Cullity Lethlean—project
team City of Melbourne:
Rob Adams, Joanne Bourke,
Ian Dryden, Ed Jardine,
Ronald Jones, John Knaggs,
Helena Piha, Shane Power.
Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Perry
Lethlean, Scott Adams, Nick
Loschiavo, Kevin Taylor, Paul
Thompson. Swaney Draper:
Sally Draper, Shahab Kasmai.
Project manager City Projects
Division, City of Melbourne.
Landscape consultant
Taylor Cullity Lethlean,
Paul Thompson.
Lighting consultant Vision
Design, The Flaming Beacon.
Civil consultant Connell
Wagner. Structural consultant
Connell Mott MacDonald.
Services consultant AHW
Consulting Engineers.
Quantity consultant
Donald Cant Watts Corke.
Programming consultant
LMA Partnership.
Photographer John Gollings.
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