A proposal for twin towers in Parrmatta’s CBD, designed by SJB in collaboration with Land and Kind, is presently on exhibition throughout the NSW authorities’s main tasks planning portal.
Sited on a vacant lot reverse Parramatta’s station and bus interchange at 2 Fitzwilliam Avenue, the $400 million mixed-use venture seeks to ship high-rise rental housing atop a lodge podium with ground-floor retail.
After securing first-stage growth consent in April final 12 months, City Property Group chosen SJB’s preliminary design from a design excellence competitors between three rivals. On the time, the proposal included one residence tower and one workplace tower above an workplace podium.
Having been chosen for the NSW authorities’s State Important Rezoning Program – an initiative launched in September 2024 to fast-track the supply of housing to contribute to the Nationwide Housing Accord goal – the scheme was revised with the alternative of the unique workplace part with residential lodging and a lodge.
Throughout two towers reaching 48-storeys and 40-storeys excessive, the present venture contains greater than 700 build-to-rent residences. The rostrum, which accommodates a 217-room lodge and ground-floor retail eating areas, is articulated with a diagonal, cross-block pedestrian hyperlink that echoes the break within the towers above and continues the axis of the practice station entrance reverse. A five-storey basement for automotive parking is positioned under.
SJB’s web site notes, “Our proposal for two Fitzwilliam Avenue introduces a essential piece of city cloth to Parramatta’s fast-changing CBD, facilitating intuitive connections and public respite with a robust sense of belonging and resilience.”
In accordance with the agency, the design for “the rostrum responds to pure motion paths via the general public area – individuals, wind and water – creating an natural kind that guides individuals intuitively, scales to human proportions and adapts to the pure topography of the location.”
The present state important growth software may be seen on-line.