Darling Quarter

Above the restaurants, cafes and promenade, the workplace floors centre on day-lit atria. Their asymmetry, edged with stairs, bridges, breakout areas and glazed lifts, creates a collaborative campus environment.

Darling Quarter is a true integration of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture working towards the creation of a public place within the city. We have sought to enhance the joy and beauty of Darling Harbour, one of the most popular public places in Australia, and to do so in a way that imbues it with a sense of quality and permanence.

Darling Quarter is where the western edge of the city and the park meet and is celebrated in a series of defined public spaces, including a pedestrian boulevard, parklands, gateway, children’s playground and activated edges lined with cafes and restaurants. It is a place for everyone, for city workers at lunchtime and in the evenings, families, children, the young and old, visitors and locals. Lobbies on Harbour Street and escalators bring visitors and workers to the dramatic floor of the day-lit atria. The asymmetry of the workplace floors and atria, edged with stairs, bridges, breakout areas and glazed lifts, creates a stimulating and collaborative campus environment.

An important aspect of the project’s innovation and sustainability in design is not simply in the point score that reaches the highest levels of sustainable accreditation, but the focus on occupant well-being and the creation of an enabling, supportive, human, and ultimately inspiring place to work, generate and exchange ideas.

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