Tweed Heads Promenade
The design of the promenade at Jack Evans Boat Harbour in Tweed Heads reveals the singular beauty of the ever-shifting inter-tidal zone as an inhabitable landscape. At the mouth of the Tweed River, on the border of New South Wales and Queensland, the new shoreline and aquatic recreation precinct, framed by 4.9 hectares of parkland, is intended to provide the impetus for the critical economic revitalisation of Tweed Heads, and create a diverse, vibrant, culturally rich, recreational and tourism centrepiece for the town centre.
The primary organisational element of the design is a simple, stepped, concrete gesture that frames the harbour edge. Its modular design provides a perfect platform for this high use landscape and offers a refined solution to a complex hydrological environment subject to tidal, river and coastal climatic pressures.
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- TRADITIONAL OWNERS & ONGOING CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND Bundjalung Country
- Client Tweed Shire Council
- Location Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
- Year 2011
The design's success lies in its creation of a place of recreation whilst allowing the tidal nature of the river itself to create a unique and ever-changing experience of the parklands. It is this simple solution which will ensure the longevity of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour parklands as they are placed under the pressures of a growing coastal population and the many pressures of urban densification.
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- TEAM McGregor Westlake Architecture, Cardno Group, Wilde + Woollard, Quantity Surveyors
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AWARDS
2013 CCAA Public Domain Awards - Best Overall Project and Precincts Winner
2012 AILA National Awards - Design Award
2011 AILA NSW Awards - The Medal - PHOTOGRAPHY Simon Wood, Tweed Shire Council
