Metro North West is a Richly Interwoven Project that Integrates the Public Realm

Metro North-West is a richly interwoven project that integrates the public realm, infrastructure, and a sustainable vision for future density through art, landscape, and architecture across many scales. This is a series of eight projects, operating both together at the metropolitan scale of Sydney through a unified kit of parts, and independently, connected to each place through art and landscape, grounding each project in history and giving meaningful identity to place.

The orchards that historically populated the North-West are reinterpreted through colour, and layout, with colours referencing their diverse produce. A gradient of colour becomes the journey along the 31km corridor though the North West. The grid of the orchards sets the organising principle of the public domain and allows detail and variation within its  logical order.

At the centre of each project is a generosity of public space, the large light filled public rooms of the concourse levels and canopies are visually transparent and look out to a varied typology of public open spaces, plazas, linear street edges and parkland groves. This is a project that looks forward to how Sydney could be, making space for people and for the future public life of each community.

Project Information

Architect: Hassell with Turpin Crawford Studio and McGregor Westlake Architecture 

Photography: Brett Boardman