After winning the Sydney and Australian Better Future Design Awards, Wadanggari Park has received a Silver at the recent World Better Future Design Awards, an awards program is focused on celebrating courageous, diverse and excellent design throughout the world.
“We are very proud to see Wadanggari Park awarded Silver alongside the “Best of the Best” from across the globe. It is inspiring to see how design is being used to solve economic, environmental and social human challenges,” says Alex Longley, Founding Principal of Arcadia.
“In Sydney, where lack of housing is an issue, projects like Wadanggari Park are helping developments do density well by providing the amenity and open space needed for livable communities.”
With a narrative based on the resilience of the Wadanggari (banksia), Wadangarri Park is the only park in Australia built over a railway line. Using innovative thinking about space to deliver green open space in a dense urban environment, the park extends the green corridors of bushland which connect the CBD of St Leonards with Sydney Harbour. This much-needed public open space is a resilient and responsive landscape that reflects and enhances the local character and identity of St Leonards while meeting the demands of urban growth, supporting active, vibrant, and growing residential and commercial communities.
