Queensland Projects and Sites
Brisbane Foreshore Parklands
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Landscape Architect: City Design, Brisbane City Council
Location: Wynnum / Manly & Sandgate/ Shorncliffe. Brisbane, Queensland
Introduction
Through the Foreshore Parklands project, Brisbane has renewed and revitalised its connection with the seaside edge of the city.
The project was initiated in 2004/5, when Lord Mayor Campbell Newman committed $24 million to the renewal of the city’s foreshores. Work commenced on the ground in 2006 and was completed in 2008.
The project had a clear aim to optimise the recreation and amenity potential of foreshore parks. However there was also an appreciation by the project team that the Foreshore Parklands could create an urban-scale edge, delivering both broad scale and local outcomes for the adjacent neighbourhoods. In pursuing these aims, there was a commitment to protect and enhance natural, scenic, cultural and built qualities and values of the area.
The project has created a linear network of public, outdoor spaces stretching for approximately 6 kilometres that promote subtropical living and recreation, reveal scenic views to Moreton Bay, invite cultural interpretation and facilitate new and ongoing community activities and festivals.
In the northern precinct, the project sites are Moora Park at Shorncliffe and Lovers Walk and Flinders Parade at Sandgate.
In the eastern precinct, the project undertook revitalisation of Breakwater Park and the Wading Pool at Wynnum and Bayside Park at Manly.
As an easily accessed network of socially engaging, aesthetically stimulating and attractive public spaces, the Foreshore Parklands contribute to healthy, positive and vibrant communities for Brisbane. They offer opportunities for people to exercise, meet, interact and connect in locations of expansive scenic beauty.
A consultation process informed the project brief, added in the visioning for the project, reviewed concept plans and assisted in planning the staging of works to maintain the public’s access to the parks while construction was undertaken.
Water saving and polishing measures, material selection and use of on-site resources were some of the sustainability initiatives identified early and delivered through the project. In excess of 60,000 plants have improved biodiversity and will over time provide additional shade and amenity for visitors to Brisbane Foreshore Parklands.
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2010
