SYDNEY | Barangaroo Urban Renewal

[AsianDragons]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=532289

[AsianDragons]

Originally Posted by BuildBigger

MORE than 75,000 native plants are being grown to complete the transformation of one of Sydney's oldest industrial sites into Barangaroo's sprawling 5ha foreshore park.

Landscape designers led by architect Peter Walker - the man behind New York's Ground Zero memorial - scoured historic sketches and maps of the shore to re-create how the headland looked prior to European settlement.

"Barangaroo's Headland Park will be a newly-made bush headland following very strictly on the vocabulary of the natural bush when the Aboriginal Gadigal people were living there," he said.

"As a team we scoured through old maps of the pre-1836 shoreline using this as inspiration to create models of the topography as it might have appeared at that time.

"We also considered the sandstone cliff at the northern end of Barangaroo under Merriman St to re-create the headland shape."


The whole western foreshore of Millers Point from Walsh Bay right around to Darling Harbour was essentially flattened and excavated during the 1800s and early 1900s to make way for Australia's export trade.

Mr Walker said the final design was an interpretation of the original headland along with research into the surrounding Harbour archipelagos of Balls Head, Goat Island and Ballast Point.

Critical to the area's transformation will be more than 75,000 plants from 84 different species selected as native to Port Jackson and typical of pre-European settlement.

Mr Walker's team of landscape and soil experts, along with celebrity gardener and consultant Don Burke, will today inspect the plants - ranging from small tubestock to towering trees - currently being nurtured, pampered and preened at Mangrove Mountain on the Central Coast.

"Sydney is unique in the world in that as a city, it still features lots of native plants surviving almost exactly as they were when Captain Cook arrived in 1770," Burke said.

"In the Sydney Harbour area alone there are far more species of native plants than in the entire British Isles."

In addition to the pre-1800s flora, the park will feature bush walks, grassed areas, lookouts, walking and cycling paths and tidal rock pools created from sandstone excavated from Barangaroo.

Among the plants are about 500 trees from 13 species, - some expected to stand 9m tall by the park's completion in 2015 - about 1800 shrubs and more than 73,000 native grasses, ground covers and climbers.

A further 12 exotic deciduous trees and eight different species of palms, ferns and cycads make up the remainder of the foliage chosen.

picture in the Herald sun:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nat...-1226476869448

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[musiccity]

Excellent! Thanks for posting!!

[Singidunum]

Amazing project!

[SydneyCity]

Excavation for this project has begun

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Photos I took from Sydney Tower today. Imagine this view by October 2015!

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Great shot of the construction site.


http://theconversation.edu.au/barang...of-trust-10676

[R@ptor]

So when can we expect the first towers to rise?

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

C4 (middle tower) is supposed to rise above ground level from mid 2013, with C5 (southern most tower) due to join it in late 2013.

C3 (northern most tower) is not yet officially leased, though PwC is unofficially confirmed to be taking space and several legal firms have expressed interest. Should have a better idea on its progress once Lend Lease confirms tenants.

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

The designs of the first two residential buildings at Barangaroo have been unveiled. R8 (designed by FJMT) and R9 (PTW) will comprise 159 residential apartments and 20 food and beverage tenancies (including a 'standout signature restaurant' at the bottom of the northernmost building, fronting the public square. All apartments will have harbour views.

1 bedroom apartments are expected to go for around $1 million, 3 bedroom apartments around $3.5 million and the penthouse could sell for up to $10 million.

R8 - FJMT
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https://majorprojects.affinitylive.c...lding%20R9.pdf

R8 - PTW

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


https://majorprojects.affinitylive.c...lding%20R8.pdf