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Brookfield Place Sydney – photo essay
Brookfield Place Sydney comprises a 6 Star Green Star-rated office tower, two restored heritage buildings, premium retail space and a multi-level transit hall, along with new pedestrian connections across the public domain. This award-winning development has transformed a constrained site in Sydney’s central business district and stitched it back into the city’s existing infrastructure, creating a new civic front door for Wynyard Station, one of its busiest transit hubs.
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The development’s centrepiece 27-storey office tower is sculpted to respond to the rhythm of the wider city block, appearing as a series of interlocking orthogonal blocks of differing scales.
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The project sensitively mixes heritage and new-build architecture in a vibrant example of adaptive urban re-use.
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The fully integrated development has re-established Carrington Street as one of Sydney’s prime addresses.
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The triple-height transit hall links George Street, Carrington Street and the nearby Wynyard Park for the first time, creating a dynamic, people-centric urban space.
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The new tower merges with the adjacent listed 10-storey Shell House, with the latter’s historic facade fully restored and 400-tonne clocktower retained.
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Comprehensive improvements to the public domain have established vital new connections across the site.
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Thanks to carefully phased delivery, the station’s commuter concourse was able to remain operational throughout construction.