Landscape Architecture 360°, Sydney
McGregor Westlake Architecture, Sydney
Project Team
Liam Noble (360°)
Peter McGregor (McGregor Westlake Architecture)
Daniel Baffsky (360°)
Art Consultant Peter McGregor
Engineer Partridge Partners
Builder Synergy Resource Management
Landscape Contractor Coordinated Landscapes
Excavation revealed a mosaic of different rock platforms and floaters, requiring the designers to work on site with drawings from eye level to help calculate edges and steps
Photos: Dianna Snape
This
small public park, named after Polish migrant Sam Fiszman, is a
redevelopment of Ben Buckler Point on Bondi Beach. A collection of
small spaces engage with the particularities of the site, sitting
exactly here and exactly there like jigsaw pieces, and develop
directed, rather than passive, relationships with the views on the edge
of Sydney Harbour. Two concrete lookouts, crouching on the sandstone
cliffs, stick out like ships' prows or Juliet balconies. Standing in
one, the viewer looks south to the Waverley Cemetery headland; the
other points out to sea.
Behind
them is a flat, sandy terrace with a large circular lawn element in the
middle. There is a distinct contrast between this peaceful level space;
the lookouts, with their almost-domestic glazed blue interiors; and the
cliffs below, which move steeply down to the water in wild, jagged
jumps. Steps and edges are anchored to eccentric rock elements
discovered by the designers rather than to measurements, requiring
on-site drawing from eye-level and a strong relationship with the
form-worker.
Like an ideally placed picnic rug, the circle podium looks over the site to the view beyond, bypassing the sandstone cliffs
Named for Polish migrant Sam Fiszman, the park has two pointed balconies that direct attention to arresting views
Named for Polish migrant Sam Fiszman, the park has two pointed balconies that direct attention to arresting views
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