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Torpedo Factory and Wirra Birra Park, Sub Base Platypus

Firm LocationSydney, Australia
Project locationSub Base Platypus, 120 High Street, North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia
CompanyTurf Design Studio
Lead ArchitectTurf Design Studio/Guida Moseley Brown Architects
Design TeamSUPERSENSE (formerly Trigger), Dennis Golding and Vicki Golding, Yerrabingin, Taylor Construction Group
ClientSydney Harbour Federation Trust (Harbour Trust)
Projecthttps://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/news/wirra-birra-park-at-sub-base-platypus-in-north-sydney-set-to-open-this-easter/
Project Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGynKepxm4

The Torpedo Factory and Wirra Birra Park complete the Harbour Trust’s transformation of Sub Base Platypus. The site has had a variety of uses, from a gasworks in 1876, then naval use from 1942. A single cut, traced from the buried quarry geometry below removed one-third of the 1942 factory structure to form Wirra Birra Park, while adaptively reusing the remaining two-thirds as a multi-use interpretive public concourse. A ‘nothing leaves the site’ approach remediated material in place, with endemic planting and indigenous artist Dennis Golding’s artwork integrated throughout.