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Pitt Street Over Station Development, Sydney

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Pitt Street Over Station Development

6 Aug 2020

Pitt Street Over Station Development Sydney

Design: Foster + Partners

Location: corner of Park & Pitt streets, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Designs for Pitt Street OSD and metro station in Sydney revealed

Designs for a mixed-use over station development at the heart of Sydney have been revealed. The new 39-storey premium office building on the corner of Park and Pitt streets will create a vibrant mixed-use hub offering flexible office space with an elevated lobby and retail plaza in the heart of Sydney’s retail, dining and entertainment precinct. The design follows on from the work undertaken by the practice on five of the new stations on Sydney Metro City & Southwest.

The building is located immediately above the northern entrance to Pitt Street Station, a crucial hub for the new Sydney Metro. Strategically located at the junction of Sydney’s southern CBD and the midtown retail precinct, the station stretches underground across an entire city block between Park Street and Bathurst Street. The north station entrance plaza naturally fronts onto the tree lined Park Street which is one of the most prominent east-west cross-streets in Sydney.

Ross Palmer, Senior Partner, Foster + Partners, said: “The Pitt Street north design is inspired by its unique park-side CBD context, bringing together office, transport, retail and public places in a coherent form. The podium draws upon the scale and materiality of its neighbours, with entrances emphasised through incisions that extend vertically and articulate the building as a cluster of three form. Each of these forms responds to views over the Harbour, Hyde Park and Town Hall.

Its sandstone and bronze colour palette respond to the surrounding context in a contemporary and bespoke manner, delivering a project that reflects Sydney’s status as a truly global city. The Pitt Street north development will reinforce and frame one of the key gateways to the city with a design that celebrates the rich architectural heritage of the precinct and heralds the future of Sydney’s next-generation midtown.”

The entrance to the station is celebrated by a glass veil which allows daylight to flood the station plaza concourse throughout the day. Above this ‘veil’, the building has been articulated into three vertical blocks with curved corner glazing. A vertical recess in the facade continues seamlessly through the full height of the building and is centred directly on the station entrance veil. This urban scale massing creates a connection between the station and the building, articulating the south elevation of the building. The entrance lobby has a strong vertical emphasis and a triple height volume that leads up through two mezzanine floors of shops, restaurant and cafes to the commercial lobby spaces.

The building features a podium level whose datum follows the building heights of the two listed buildings adjacent to the site on Pitt Street and Castlereagh Street. The use of a sandstone and bronze palate of materials link the new buildings to these and other surrounding heritage buildings in the area.

The massing has been carefully crafted to accentuate the building’s functions. The large flexible floorplate has two banks of lifts in a central core, allowing for continuous uninterrupted views of the surrounding parks and Sydney Harbour. The office spaces have been designed to allow interconnecting stairs, social hubs, breakout spaces, client meeting rooms and interaction spaces enriching the workspace.

The primary elevation of the building faces south with very little solar exposure and has minimal vertical sunshades to deal with low-angle early morning sun. On the east and west elevations, the glazed area is substantially reduced to reduce heat gain with an array of solid and transparent horizontal ribbons that help manage the high sun and maximise views to the parks and beyond.

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Sydney Metro is Australia’s biggest public transport project. In 2024, Sydney will have 31 metro stations and more than 66 kilometres of new metro rail, revolutionising the way the city travels.

The project is being carried out working alongside Cox Architects who are the local collaborating architect, and Bates Smart who are designing a residential building on top of the south entrance.

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The two inmates at the Bathurst Correctional Center, an all-male medium-security prison west of Sydney, had planned to escape detection by using toothpaste to glue down toilet paper to conceal any signs of digging.

But a corrections officer noticed the damaged mortar at the back of the cell during a routine search of the cell Thursday, and decided to investigate.

“I noticed near the cell bars at the back of the cell what appeared to be diggings into the concrete, and the mortar had been removed from around the large sandstone block,” the officer said in a statement by the New South Wales (NSW) Justice Department on Thursday.

“A flag shape had also been painted onto the sandstone block to disguise the damage,” she added.

The mortar was dug out of an area 17.7 inches (45 cm) across by 11 inches (28 cm) down, in some places as deep as 7 inches (18 cm) into the wall.

The inmates, who denied all knowledge of wrongdoing, have been placed in segregation while the police continue to investigate.

Corrective Services NSW Commissioner Peter Severin praised the officer’s “curiosity and methodological cell search” in the press release, and said escape attempts would always be uncovered by his officers.

“I also wish to thank this officer for reminding inmates that these types of attempts — particularly in a medium-security centre – are futile. Our officers are well-trained and good at what they do,” he said Thursday.

The number of prison jailbreaks have declined in NSW jails in recent decades, according to the state’s Justice Department.

Only ten prison inmates escaped from prisons across NSW last year, compared to 183 escapes more than three decades ago in 1983-1984.

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