The Wynyard Station Upgrade, designed by COX, has given Sydney a brighter, safer, faster and more accessible travel link, with increased capacity for tomorrow’s Sydney.
The Wynyard Station Upgrade aimed to interpret and celebrate the history of the site while designing a space that can provide a modern station experience.
Where possible, COX aimed to reveal or match the station’s original soffit and column structure, balustrades, handrails, and plasterwork.
This upgrade has allowed more people to access, exit, and move easily through Wynyard Station.
Adding facilities such as a lift at the York Street entrance, safer escalators, and new and upgraded stairs has reduced queues and crowding.
Given the internal and enclosed nature of the station, the COX design focused on the following initiatives:
Integration: The proposal provided a customer environment that links Wynyard Walk, the station concourse and the entry integration with Wynyard Place, but clearly delineated the station and its transit and operational function.
It improved pedestrian connectivity and permeability through the precinct, and integrated the revitalisation of the George Street entry integrated and the “new” station entries created at Barangaroo, Napoleon Plaza and Clarence Street.
The detailed proposals for integration with Wynyard Walk and Wynyard Place required an overlap of design concepts to facilitate a seamless transition of components and finishes and the realignment of construction boundaries to enable the integration
Identity: The proposal improved the stations identity as a movement corridor and premier transport interchange, while responding to adjacent interventions.
It ensured consistency and quality of design intent, material and finishes of the concourse environment.
The station concourse is seamlessly integrated with surrounding retail links, yet is expressed to create a distinctive character and a strong sense of identity through the design of key components including heritage interpretation, services integration and lighting design and material design selection.
The ceiling components and floor tile patterns at the gateline provide a threshold that accents the paid and unpaid zones while responding to the constraints of extensive service reticulation.
Architecture: The concepts provide an enhanced transport experience for both outward and inward customer journeys through efficient station planning, space reconfiguration, revitalising the form and aesthetic of the existing station with contemporary architectural interventions expressing the station as a unifying element aligned within the dynamics of the space.
Heritage: The intent was to design a station upgrade that respects elements of the original layout and remaining original fabric of the station, while also providing a modern station experience.
Project Details
Project size – 15,000 m2
Project budget – $130,000,000
Completion date – 2016
Project Team
Architecture
COX
COX is a design-focused contemporary architectural practice with studios located in every major Australian city and a history spanning 60 years.
Key to their ethos is supporting the public life of our cities. Cox does this by ensuring each project makes positive contributions to its public realm – giving more than it takes.
Photography
John Gollings
John has been the photographer of choice, the go-to guy for many Australian architects.
He is renowned for his ability to almost always compose the best shot, the one defining image that makes a building memorable, etches it into the psyche.
Tom Ferguson
Tom Ferguson is a Sydney-based commercial photographer who is regularly commissioned by leading architects, developers, and major brands within Australia and internationally.
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