This competition entry was submitted with Hannah Tribe and myself and was awarded first place. Let’s hope they go ahead with the suckah.
This proposal aims to serve the dual purpose of consolidating North Sydney’s major public transport interchange and providing North Sydney with a tangible and defining marker.
The scheme comprises a thin steel roof that links the three sites and provides a continuous covered way from the train station to the bus stops. At the top of Mount Street Palza the plane of the roof folds up into a series of moulded towers. Beneath these towers is the entry to the train station and a proposed flower market.
Along Miller Street the continuous flat roof plane is supported by slender steel columns. The density of columns varies along the length of the scheme to demarcate separate functional areas.
Plan
Elevation
At night the towers are lit from within and the perforations at the top mark the centre of the North Sydney CBD.
The Bus Stops. The bus stop is one of many functions under the continuous roof. This covered way acts as a platform that allows a variety of uses to take place beneath it; small cafes and coffee carts, fruit stalls, seating for adjacent cafes, newstands and the like.
Freestanding timetables (old school, real-time, virtual, holographic etc) and benches sit beneath the roof where required.
The Train Station Entry and covered Flower Markets. At the top of the Mount Street plaza the roof folds up to provide a canopy to the Train Station entry and the North Sydney Flower Markets. This Canopy is a steel framed structure clad internally with mirror finished stainless steel and externally in a matt white powdercoat steel.
Their formal character is derived from the vertical drama of rising out of the train station tunnels and draws on the language of North Sydney’s neglected but nonetheless beautiful precast facades. The tower forms mark the entry to the station as well as announcing this major urban intersection and terminating the Mount Street Plaza.
The reflective underside of the roof over the flower markets would create a field of flowers on the underside of the canopy. Commuters would rise out of the train station tunnel into a canopy filled with flowers. We think this would be a very pleasant way to greet the working day.
June 15th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
well done hannah and marcus as i have said in my email.
i have booked my tickets and hope to see you on tuesday night
June 15th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
awesome witches hats - I hope they have the gust to do it!
June 15th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
hey marcus and hannah,
fantastic work! nice presentation. north sydney certainly could do with some inspiring public spaces.
maybe you could think about orange?
June 15th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
an anonymous submission entry… yeah right!
June 16th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Looks really nice. Congrats on the win!
I look forward to the day when i can rise out of a train station tunnel into a canopy filled with flowers. It’s always sort of been a dream of mine…
June 16th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Congratulations! I love the mirrored underbelly. I hope you can get that Anish Kapoor quality finish to the surface :)
June 17th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Congrats!
It’s a beautiful scheme. Love the graphic abstractness in its context.
Ingenious idea to physically link the two canopies into one singular gesture.
You might want to look at SANAA’s Park Cafe for precendent of slender column structures. (El Croquis 99)
It makes a convincing case for its buildability.
All the best.
June 18th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Thanks for the nice words everyone,
and see you at the exhibition if you can make it.
Tuesday 20th, 6:30 Northpoint Plaza, North Sydney.
June 18th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Congratulations guys … so much for having no chance, Marcus. Miller Street needs a bit of sprucing up. Awesome stuff!
June 19th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Great work Marcus, keep it up! Who’d have thought witches hats could serve such a purpose!
July 17th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Well done Marcus!
Looks sweet, although i think your texture mapping of the flowers could do with some work. ;)
would be cool if it was made from glass as It could ‘flow’ over time, although im sure this would be structurally dumb
July 25th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Well done to you and Hannah! Love it
July 26th, 2006 at 11:39 am
oh! I also like how your fore ground lightpole twists to go behind the structure, but if viewed from the correct angle seems to remain upright and straight… ok .. now im getting picky.
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June 13th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Hey Miss Hannah……….. that bus shelter is just the VERY best, it is sooooooo impressive Could you do a few in Scotland to cheer the place up a bit and remembering they would need to be industrial strength over here!