For decades a part of the Neutral Bay shoreline in Sydney Harbour was off-limits — first as an industrial site, then as a naval facility. It was a piece of the city’s waterfront hidden from public life. The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust and GMB have worked to change that. This project is about giving a place back to the people, transforming an underutilised 1940s structure into a public space that serves the local community and visitors alike. The revitalised site now hosts markets and community events, while a foreshore park strengthens connections to the broader harbour landscape. But this project is part of a larger story. The Torpedo Factory is one among several prominent former Defence sites on Sydney’s waterfront which the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust have been revitalising. The Torpedo Factory urban renewal contributes to this broader reconnection of Sydney’s public life with the harbour waterfront and the unique environmental and heritage values it embodies. Beneath the layers of former industrial and defence land use is a much deeper history—one this project seeks to reveal. Through a ‘Design with Country’ approach, GMB worked with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust and indigenous cultural heritage and place making consultants Yerrabingin to integrate storytelling, art, and First Nation’s perspectives into the site, uncovering its past to ensure that history isn’t just preserved — it’s made visible. At its heart, this project isn’t about imposing new architecture; it’s about revealing what was always there. Harbour Trust Taylor | Australia Yerrabingin Pty Ltd Turf Design Studio Thurston Empson View this project on our website: www.gmbarchitects.com
Guida Moseley Brown Architects
Architecture and Planning
Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory 1,344 followers
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Guida Moseley Brown Architects is an architectural, interior design, and urban design firm carrying out an international practice from Australia’s national capital. The firm has extensive experience in major public buildings; educational and research facilities; large-scale residential developments; a range of commercial and corporate projects; and urban design and master planning. We aspire to create environments that make possible a better life for users, visitors, and for the wider public, and in every case seek to attain design excellence and work in the spirit of art. Central to our design approach is the understanding and appreciation of place. We aim to respond to a variety of environmental, cultural, social, and historical factors in order to discover an independent and unique expression in each project. It is our belief that a comprehensive and sensitive engagement with the sense of place leads to successful, aesthetically durable and intelligent design solutions.
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- Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, and Masterplanning
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Join our friends at the Regional Architecture Association for their upcoming conference - Exchanging Ideas in Context. Co-curated by our own Hal Guida and RAA's Tim Lee, it is sure to be an informative and inspiring event. The main seminar day will be held at Canberra’s Ainslie Arts Centre, with featured speakers including: - Julian Raxworthy, landscape architect and academic - Nikos Kalogeropoulos, director of property developer Molonglo - Rob Stefanic, formerly Department of Parliamentary Services for the Parliament of Australia - Adam Wigg, lecturer of architecture at the University of Canberra - Joanna Nelson, architect and founder of Joanna Nelson Architect - Thurston Empson, architectural photographer As well as a lead-up event featuring: - Catherine Townsend, ACT Government Architect. Tickets can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/guSsw-62
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Join our friends at the Regional Architecture Association for their upcoming conference - Exchanging Ideas in Context. Co-curated by our own Hal Guida and RAA's Tim Lee, it is sure to be an informative and inspiring event. The main seminar day will be held at Canberra’s Ainslie Arts Centre, with featured speakers including: - Julian Raxworthy, landscape architect and academic - Nikos Kalogeropoulos, director of property developer Molonglo - Rob Stefanic, formerly Department of Parliamentary Services for the Parliament of Australia - Adam Wigg, lecturer of architecture at the University of Canberra - Joanna Nelson, architect and founder of Joanna Nelson Architect - Thurston Empson, architectural photographer As well as a lead-up event featuring: - Catherine Townsend, ACT Government Architect. Tickets can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/guSsw-62
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We are pleased to announce that Rob McLachlan has been elevated to the position of Associate. Congratulations!
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We're delighted for our friends at Turf to recieve a well deserved award from AILA NSW for this wonderful project. It was a pleasure to work with them and reclaim this wonderful piece of the city for the public.
Sub Base Platypus Torpedo Factory is the recipient of the 2024 AILA NSW Landscape Architecture Award for Cultural Heritage for the extensive reworking of the 1942 Torpedo Factory building to create a new multifunctional public space on the former HMAS Platypus site in North Sydney. The project promotes multiple narratives that reflect the complex nature of the site — formally a torpedo factory, submarine base and gas works — and importantly the millennia–long connection of the Cammeraygal people and culture on the harbour and its peninsulas. Cultural engagement and reconciliation through design has been delivered in contemporary and innovative ways that have created a layered response to the intrinsic heritage and cultural values of the site. AILA Jury Citation Combining restoration of endemic vegetation, contemporary art, and imaginative heritage interpretation, the team has drawn on the qualities of the place. The team’s collaborative approach has transformed a derelict industrial building into a compelling public space that fosters local interest and care for the place while recreating space where landscape areas can be revitalised in the future park. Guiding the transformation of a complex site with incredible potential, the design team’s collaboration with First Nations designers has resulted in contemporary expressions of culture in combination with a playful interpretation of the industrial heritage. Project Team Harbour Trust | Client Turf Design Studio | Landscape, Strategy, Wayfinding and Interpretation Guida Moseley Brown Architects | Architecture Yerrabingin Pty Ltd | First Nations Consultant Dennis Golding and Vicki Golding | Public Art (Around the Curve) SUPERSENSE | Blast Wall Interpretation Gujaga Foundation | Community Engagement Support Iguana Creative | Signage Fabrication and Installation Taylor | Australia | Builder Thurston Empson & Michael Chorley | Photos #Place #CulturalHeritage #LandscapeArchitecture #Awards
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Sub Base Platypus Torpedo Factory has been shortlisted in the 2024 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards in the Education and Interpretation category. 🎉 Congratulations to Harbour Trust for stewarding this significant project. The submission states “the Sub Base Platypus Torpedo Factory Renewal Project has created a new multifunctional public space within the former 1943 Torpedo Factory. As part of these works a suite of innovative interpretation elements have been incorporated within the building design and landscape elements that interpret the site’s rich and layered history from First Nations contact and the subsequent colonial phases, 1870s gas works, Second World War torpedo assembly and then from the 1960s as a submarine base." On Friday 15 September 2023, the Minister for the Environment and Water, the Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, officially opened the new Torpedo Factory Precinct at Sub Base Platypus. Harbour Trust Executive Director, Janet Carding, oversaw the proceedings, which began with a memorable Welcome to Country by Alison Page, Acting Chair of the Harbour Trust. A special highlight of the ceremony was an address from Commander Sandy Coulson CSM, the first female Executive Officer (XO) at an operational naval base. Turf Design Studio was engaged by the Trust to design, develop and document both the landscape and interpretation works, working with the following amazing group of collaborators: Triggerdesign Interpretation Design (Blast Wall exhibition) Dennis Golding wth Vicki Golding: Artists Yerrabingin Pty Ltd First Nations Consultant The Gujaga Foundation Community Engagement Support Iguana Creative Fabrication and Installation Guida Moseley Brown Architects Architecture and Lead Consultant 📍Cammeraygal Country
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Proud to have lead the team that restored the Torpedo Factory and created Wirra Birra Park. A wonderful waterfront space reclaimed for the public.
Following on from the recent rejuvenation of the Torpedo Factory, the Harbour Trust is proud to unveil Wirra Birra Park – a brand new public space at Sub Base Platypus, North Sydney, which will be open to the public from Good Friday (29 March). This marks another significant milestone since the Sub Base Platypus site was handed to the Harbour Trust to rehabilitate and revitalise as a harbourside precinct for all to enjoy. On Monday 25 March, the Harbour Trust hosted an intimate native tree-planting event to celebrate the completion of Wirra Birra Park and to thank the members of the Sub Base Platypus Community Advisory Committee for their support throughout the Torpedo Factory Renewal Project. The opening of Wirra Birra Park reflects the Harbour Trust’s commitment to protect and provide access to extraordinary places on Sydney Harbour for generations to come. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gKAPvdRz #WirraBirraPark #SubBasePlatypus #NorthSydney
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