Tasmania
Devonport Living City Stage 2 Waterfront Park and Hotel, takes one more step in realising the Council’s vision to regenerate and reinvigorate the city centre through a shared investment in public and private infrastructure. The new public Waterfront Park and privately owned Hotel work in compositional unison – creating a articulate and dynamic urban design form, acting as a highly functional connector between the city and the river, as well as an attractive destination for the community and visitors alike. The elevated ‘pier’ walkway frames the south edge of the park and compositionally extends the horizontal articulation of the hotel to the river – a highly charged attractor in the city. The park is designed along three linear intersecting axis which provide the community with opportunity to explore the park’s new community assets – a roundhouse pavilion, landscape amphitheatre, waterfront picnic shelter and playgrounds with continual reference to the city and river.
The Waterfront Park and Hotel is the significant second stage of the Devonport City Council’s Living City masterplan and complements the highly successful first stage –the Civic Building, library, convention centre, marketplace. The hotel provides vital accommodation for tourist and conference goers, and the waterfront park provides a great community destination. Devonport will thrive with the public and private investment, and the integrated urban design undertaken by Lyons wonderfully fulfills councils’ vision whilst respecting the existing city…it connects the city to the waterfront, activates the public realm and creates an exciting first impression for sea passengers coming to Tasmania.
Lyons, Design Architect
6TyDegrees (Park and Hotel), Civil, Structural and Services Engineer
Aspect Studios (Park), Landscape Consultant
Castellan Consulting (Hotel), Fire Safety Engineer
Inhabit (Hotel), Facade Engineer
McKenzie Group (Park), DDA Consultant
Pitt & Sherry (Park and Hotel), Building Surveyor and Traffic Engineer
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