City of Adelaide North Terrace Redevelopment

  • client City of Adelaide

    status Complete 2005 - 2011

    location North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia

    traditional land owners Kaurna People

    design team PEA with Taylor Cullity Lethlean

    photography Grant Hancock, John Gollings and Ben Wrigley

  • North Terrace is Adelaide’s premier civic street. It is 2.5 kilometres long and is lined with an extraordinary array of cultural, civic, educational, health, recreation and commercial institutions unique in Australia. Whilst the Terrace still functioned as a civic place of importance by the late 1990’s it had become tired and overgrown and was in need of a major over-haul. The project commenced in 2000 with the preparation of a Development Framework Plan, followed by concept designs and staged implementation. This was an intensely collaborative project with Peter Elliott, Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Carter as cultural interpreter. What distinguishes the Terrace from other civic boulevards is the unusual asymmetric alignment of street and spacious northern linear garden served by inner and outer paths thus creating a grand terrace walk. The northern edge of the Terrace is rich public terrain for each institution that lines it provides a different form of civic forecourt that over-locks the garden walk.

  • 2006 BDP Australia

    Urban Design Award

    2006 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

    National Merit Award in Landscape Architecture [design category]

    2006 Australian Institute of Architects

    The Adelaide Prize

    2005 C&CAA Public Domain Awards

    Streets Category [winner]

    Precincts Category [commendation]

    2005 BDP Australia

    Urban Design Award

    2005 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

    Project Award [design excellence]

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