Museum Rail Station Easy Access Upgrade Project, Sydney
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Museum Station is a largely underground station, with a portal building located on the south western corner of Hyde Park providing the main access to the station. Hyde Park and the station buildings have city, state and national cultural heritage significance. This work included the assessment of impacts experienced during the day and night, construction and operation, aboveground and also from within the station itself. The potential compatibility with City of Sydney’s masterplan for Hyde Park, which intends to restore the 1927 competition winning Weekes design for the park, prepared when Museum Station was originally planned and constructed. The impact on numerous historic trees and inconsistent additions to the Park were considered and proposals adjusted to achieve this vision of restoring the Park and designed views.
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
Museum Station is a largely underground station, with a portal building located on the south western corner of Hyde Park providing the main access to the station. Hyde Park and the station buildings have city, state and national cultural heritage significance. This work included the assessment of impacts experienced during the day and night, construction and operation, aboveground and also from within the station itself. The potential compatibility with City of Sydney’s masterplan for Hyde Park, which intends to restore the 1927 competition winning Weekes design for the park, prepared when Museum Station was originally planned and constructed. The impact on numerous historic trees and inconsistent additions to the Park were considered and proposals adjusted to achieve this vision of restoring the Park and designed views.
Donaldson’s College, Edinburgh
Townscape Character and Impact Visual Assessment Suzie prepared an assessment and master plan design for the redevelopment of the Donaldson’s College, the home of the Donaldson’s School for the Deaf, Wester Coates, Edinburgh. The site is centred on a Grade A listed, quadrangular Elizabethan building, set within grand grounds. Townscape character and visual issues were a crucial part of this project due to the sensitivity of this building as an important part of the city's history, as well as a local icon. In keeping with this status, the site is located within the Edinburgh City World Heritage Listed Site; and within the Coltbridge and Wester Coates Conservation Area. The proposal for CALA Evans Restoration Limited comprised the removal of recently built school buildings; the construction of a crescent of terraced apartments, and refurbishment of the Playfair building as high quality residential units. *** |
St Bartholomew's Hospital EIA, London
Townscape Character and Visual Impact Assessment Preparation of an assessment for the redevelopment of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield, London. Townscape character and visual issues were critical for this project due to the site’s location within Smithfields Conservation area, and adjacent to the Newgate; and Postmans Park Conservation areas. The site itself comprised a number of listed buildings, a registered London Square, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and was located within the St Paul’s Cathedral heights restriction area. The proposal comprised the redevelopment of a number of the main hospital buildings along with the refurbishment of the listed square and central hospital building facades. *** |