New South Wales Projects & Sites
Redfern Park Upgrade , Sydney
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Landscape Architect: Spackman Mossop and Michaels
Location: Refern Street, Redfern (Sydney) New South Wales
Introduction
Redfern Park is one of Sydney’s most significant Parks established in the 1885. It was severely compromised in the late 1960’s when Redfern Stadium was built. This structure effectively cut the Park in two and alienated the Park from the local community.
This project was about rebuilding Redfern Park and making it once again a focus for the whole community. The simple landscape gesture of depressing the playing fields and moving the stadium to the side meant that long forgotten vistas and axis could be reestablished. This metaphor of healing the Park became emblematic of a wider social program for the project.
Sport as represented by the Redfern All Blacks and the South Sydney Rabittohs were a means of engaging with a disadvantage community that has few other means of expression in Australian Society.
The indigenous artist Fiona Foley contributed a playground that incorporates ideas regarding contemporary Australian society and its relationship to the original inhabitants.
The park opens up the street and invites the residents of the area to make use of the facilities. The park has two clear areas; the new South Sydney Rabbitohs training ground (which when not in use is open to the public) and the original 19th Century park which has been extensively renovated.
The Park is now a hub within Redfern that has created social, cultural and economic opportunities for the local residents.
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2010
