Powerhouse Parramatta Design Competition

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Arcadia was part of a design team, led by AL_A and Architectus, short-listed for the design competition for the new Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta. Including Arup, Gross.Max, Balarinji and Yerrabingin, the collective scheme put public spaces first, making the riverbank a place of convening, allowing the city to flow below the buildings and up into the museum.

Arcadia’s design ideas for the precinct referenced the Civic Link Framework Plan, the Parramatta River Master Plan and the Parramatta City River Strategy to reinvent the river experience, naturalising the riverbank and strengthening links between the city and river to create a new civic connection from Parramatta Station to the water.

The Jury considered the design proposal to be a positive response to the landscape with exceptional connectivity to the water. The scheme presented clear potential to reinvent the river experience, naturalising the riverbank and linking the city and river to make a new civic connection from Parramatta Station to the water.