888 Bourke Street

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Residential proposal at Bourke Street and O'Dea Avenue, Zetland, resolving a difficult corner site with brick-banded forms, courtyards and pedestrian links.

888 Bourke Street is recorded in the supplied PTW capability material as a residential proposal for Greystar on Gadigal Country at Bourke Street and O'Dea Avenue, Zetland, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The project is recorded as a Design Excellence Competition winner through the City of Sydney. The site is located on the corner of Bourke Street and O'Dea Avenue in Zetland and is divided in two by a future new road, Kingsborough Way.

The difficult geometry of the site is resolved through simplified planning strategies that create an elegant planning solution, with well-articulated forms expressing the internal layout.

The design draws cues from the surrounding industrial warehouse heritage and the dense future site context. The new curved street inspired the curvature of key corners in the proposed brick-banded buildings. The resulting two sinuous L-shaped street wall buildings are visually connected through a proposed new east-west site link, starting beneath a pair of double-height entry bridges facing one another across the future roadway. This pedestrian link connects two north-south pedestrian walkways beyond the subject site.

All entrance lobbies are double height and visually connect the interior courtyard gardens to the perimeter streets. The ground and first floors are recessed beneath the building perimeters overhead through a two-storey terrace house typology facing the public realm. All 181 apartments in the scheme have good amenity, and upper-level lift lobbies are light-filled and cross-ventilated. The main street intersection includes a double-height cafe space at ground level, and the easternmost pedestrian intersection includes a generous communal space at ground level.

Sunny rooftop open spaces with pergolas for shade are provided for residents.