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Smart Design Studio's prototype vertical farming device.

Smart Design Studio’s prototype vertical farming device.

Smart Design Studio has designed a prototype vertical farming device, which is currently being built at its Sydney studio. The vertical farms device is designed to attach to a building’s facade and act as both a food source and an interactive public resource. The farms introduce the concept for produce to be grown as an integrated part of a building’s facade and for the produce to be distributed and consumed just metres from where it is grown, removing the need for transportation and storage. [Image 1]

Cox Rayner, Derlot and Aurecon's collaboration that won the Brisbane ferry terminal design competition.

Cox Rayner, Derlot and Aurecon’s collaboration that won the Brisbane ferry terminal design competition.

Cox Rayner, Derlot and Aurecon have collaborated to win the Brisbane ferry terminal design competition. The competition comes after several key terminals were damaged during the January floods, with the winning concept being used across a number of key terminals. The winning design creates a connection for the user between shoreline and ferry and is resilient to future flood impacts. The design is operationally efficient, safe and accessible to all. [Image 2]

McGregor Coxall's urban design strategy for  regeneration of the Parramatta River foreshore.

McGregor Coxall’s urban design strategy for regeneration of the Parramatta River foreshore.

McGregor Coxall has created an urban design strategy for the regeneration of a thirty-one-hectare site on the Parramatta River foreshore. The project analysed key development sites, heritage items, ESD, open space, water and cultural assets as a basis for building a new city brand and waterfront. The design reorientates the city back to the river and proposes four new mixed-use river quarters. Parramatta Quay was conceived as a new water arrival point connecting the CBD to Circular Quay by ferry and creating a public and private domain. [Image 3]

Edwards Moore's winning entry in the Design for an Active City competition.

Edwards Moore’s winning entry in the Design for an Active City competition.

Edwards Moore was named winner of the Design for an Active City competition. The competition, which was part of the State of Design Festival, invites Victorian designers to enhance and activate a pedestrian area near the Collins Street Bridge in Melbourne. Edwards Moore’s winning entry manipulates the visual experience of the pedestrian. Frameless coloured fins slot into place between the existing yellow fins, introducing an array of colour to the area. [Image 4]

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects' design of the Prince Alfred Park for City of Sydney.

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects’ design of the Prince Alfred Park for City of Sydney.

Sue Barnsley Design and Neeson Murcutt Architects have designed the Prince Alfred Park for City of Sydney, which opens in summer. The new pool with its landscape roof and bounding grassy mounds has clarified the urban geometry of the park while recognizing the pastoral sensibility of the original Victorian landscape. As part of the upgrade, new sports facilities, playgrounds and picnic areas have been added. [Image 5]

The Street Works competition, an initiative of the AILA New South Wales, aims to create temporary installations in underutilized spaces in Sydney. Sixty-seven teams from all over the world submitted entries. The five winning temporary Street Works sites, listed below, were launched at the Sydney Architecture Festival in October.

Green is the New Gold by Fine Grain, University of New South Wales.

Green is the New Gold by Fine Grain, University of New South Wales.

Green is the New Gold (Barrack Street) by Fine Grain, University of New South Wales. This project offers an interactive opportunity for the thousands of daily coffee enthusiasts to reuse their coffee cups for planting a range of herbs. Seeds are supplied in sleeves through local cafes or via a workstation located on site. The installation of green modules on Barrack Street allows people to directly participate in the project by filling their cup with soil, also supplied via the workstation, and placing it into a module. Over the weeks, the installation’s opacity will evolve, filled with more cups and covered with the growth of vegetation. [Image 6]

1108 Beer Line (Hay Street) by McIntosh Ngay Wolstencroft. In memory of the Castlemaine Brewery of 1869 and the former grain hub of Haymarket, the Beer Line is a temporary piece of infrastructure tying together urban agriculture, public space and social activity. The Beer Line will begin with the installation of a crop of barley set against the city skyline and conclude with a celebration dedicated to the creation of beer. Using the timber palette as a standard module, the processes involved in beer production will be housed in a linear sequence. [Image 7]

Urban Waterfall by Kristi Park, LLC.

Urban Waterfall by Kristi Park, LLC.

Walk the Line (all sites) by Hassell. This project is a path that connects all six of the Street Works spaces. The path will be a simple painted line that turns into a game in selected areas. Street corners will become hopscotch pitches, tennis courts and marbles fields; stairs will turn into waterfalls and road crossings will be transformed into arcade games. The concept responds to cultural changes over the past few decades. The project hopes to inspire a revival of the much-loved pre-iPod fun that used to be played in our streets. [Image 8]

Urban Waterfall (Redfern Street, Redfern) by Kristi Park, LLC. By using flagging tape and solar powered spotlights, the starkly blank wall and bleak street aesthetic will be transformed by Urban Waterfall into a canopied cathedral of colour and shadows. The design is intentionally simple to add the greatest impact with the smallest intervention. During the day the street would exhibit a festival of light and colour with soft movement generated by the wind. In the evening, the solar powered lights would create transformative shadow patterns on the buildings and streets. [Image 9]

Sydney, there is something I have been meaning to tell you by University of Adelaide.

Sydney, there is something I have been meaning to tell you by University of Adelaide.

Sydney, there is something I have been meaning to tell you (Roslyn Place, Kings Cross) by University of Adelaide. This project is part playground, part art installation and part therapy session. The concept is to let a laundromat loose in Roslyn Place, Kings Cross. Visitors to the space are directed by visual prompts on the ground and instruction manuals to select a freshly laundered white napkin from the bank of washing machines and then write down their “dirty little secret.” The secrets are then “aired” by pegging them onto the Hills hoists. Once they have lightened their load, visitors can spend some time in the space, being titillated by the other laundry and waiting to see who else has a secret to share. [Image 10]

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