WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR DESIGN OF GRIFFITH PARK PRECINT
01 May 2024
The city of Bankstown-Canterbury held a design competition to reimagine the Griffith Park Precinct, which had fallen into disrepair.
Over 100 teams of architects and landscape architects across Australia entered the design competition, which was judged by a jury that included independent experts and a member of council staff with experience in architecture and urban/landscape design.
The competitors were asked to submit designs that considered community feedback on the area, including the desire for a new community centre, better access, enhanced green space with more recreational opportunities and an area that would be activated day and night.
Collins and Turner, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and WSP Indigenous Specialist Services' winning design will maximise the potential of Griffith Park and bring improved facilities, enhanced green space and more recreational activities.
IN THE ARCHITECTS' WORDS
Griffith Park knits into Bankstown centre's framework of streets and places to host diverse activities and opportunities - cultural and commercial, bringing the life of the street through the precinct.
A series of rills, pools, and wetlands structure the park, linking it to past connections to Salt Pan Creek and a strong First Nations heritage and identity.
The community centre forms a soft welcoming southern edge. Spaces for movement, gathering, meetings, and learning are unified beneath a dramatic sweeping roof - a contemporary verandah conceived as a richly coloured three-dimensional tapestry, a celebration of one of Western Sydney’s most vibrant multicultural communities.