Wentworth Quarter

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Arcadia designed the landscape for the private property group, City Freeholds, in collaboration with Bates Smart.

Wentworth Quarter is a new master planned build to rent community in Wentworth Point, one of the most densely populated suburbs in the country. The waterfront site, a former industrial land parcel, is the first step in a four-stage masterplan that extends from the foreshore back to Hill Road. Wentworth Quarter meets the suburb’s demand of a growing population with 200 high-quality apartments and eight foreshore townhouses, landscaped podium with a swimming pool.

The U-shaped perimeter block is organised around a landscaped courtyard opening out to Homebush Bay. The public domain extends and enhances the existing street network; Marine Parade, to the north-west, and Verona Drive, the green spine that will link the entire precinct. The 30m wide foreshore provides a new public open space, encouraging pedestrian and cycle routes along the promenade.

Diverse amenity spaces create opportunities for community interaction. The generous landscaped courtyard accommodates an outdoor pool, lawn, and shaded alfresco dining area. A double-height space with an open stair connects the courtyard back to the main lobby via a co-working space. There are also bookable music and meeting rooms and a gym on this level. Additional communal amenity is located on the top level where residents can relax in the lounge or media room, cook on the BBQ terrace, or entertain in the private kitchen and dining room whilst enjoying views out over the water.

Due to its position on the Wentworth Point Peninsula, the site offered multiple opportunities to improve the local condition from an environmental and social point of view. The site provides a link for ecological communities, a filter for water and a conduit for pedestrian movement between the Millenium Parklands, Hill Road and Homebush Bay as well as along the waterfront.

It creates a generous and welcoming public domain with various open space typologies, including a public park and active waterfront to enable a rich precinct with multiple opportunities for gathering and occupying. By utilising and referencing endemic vegetation communities and species, the landscape has the potential to contribute to the estuarine health of Homebush Bay, and provides a habitat for bird and aquatic life.