Urban Design Award for The Rocks at the 2020 WA Architecture Awards
2 July 2020
The Rocks – an urban pathway connecting Geraldton’s city centre to the waterfront that we designed in collaboration with UDLA Studio – took out The John Septimus Roe Award for Urban Design at the 2020 WA Architecture Awards.
Key to our team’s approach was a drive to achieve valuable urban design outcomes with minimal built form additions. The original ‘The Rocks’ building has been stripped back to become a throughway and covered community space, the skeletal pavilion reinstates the streetscape in an open and pedestrian-friendly way and Trevor Richard’s meta-graphic extends across existing surfaces to unify the different zones.
This city-to-foreshore pathway has succeeded at drawing people in; the repurposing of underutilised spaces has improved connections through Geraldton’s city centre, strengthening local identity along the way.
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