stanisic architects

Stanisic Architects is pleased to be announced as the winners of the Charles Street Design Competition. This mixed use project is a 48 storey tower with 12 storey street wall at the corner of Charles and Macquarie Streets, Parramatta. It comprises retail, health services, child care centre and 381 residential apartments.

The architecture of the tower responds primarily to three design concepts: the interface of the buildings with the open space at street level; the response to the wider urban and landscape setting and views; and built form articulation through surface treatment and controlled variation. The building adopts a ‘hybrid form’ of tower, street walls and horizontal slots to interface with the ground, the street, the city, the river, the sun and the sky.

Architect: Stanisic Architects, Client/ Developer: Statewide Planning

Images: David Duloy

Stanisic Architects was the runner-up in a Design Excellence Competition for a key site, GSTC 6, in the Green Square Town Centre, having been selected for Stage 2 proposal. The buildings are distinguished by their materiality, built form, open space, and interface to the public domain.  According to Stanisic: ‘I wanted the buildings to be light and uplifting, reaching to the sky or floating above the ground, in contrast to the many masonry and precast buildings which are now commonplace in the area. The Green Square Town Centre is the new venue, the new exemplar, and I thought it was time for a new expression, one which was not horizontal and heavy, but vertical and light. The buildings are clad in glass and metal. Colourback and bronze tinted glass, aluminium panels, and fixed metal louvres and battens that shade the western faces from the afternoon sun that streams across the site and give a golden reflected light to the building faces. Glass is related to the history of the wider Green Square area which had some of Sydney’s first glass manufacturing such as Australian Window Glass. I have always associated glass, precious metals, transparency and lightness with the area, qualities which are also forward looking.”

Stanisic architects has submitted an entry to a limited design excellence competition for an ‘island’ site at Lane Cove, Sydney. Based on a Part 3A Concept Plan approval the architecture responds primarily to three concepts: the interface of buildings with the open space; the response to the wider landscape setting and views; and built form articulation through surface treatment and controlled variation. The siting of the lower 6 to 10 storey buildings reinforces the open spaces, step down the hill and emphasise the topography of the site. The 20 storey tower and its 10 storey companion building, located at opposite ends of the site, are similar in expression and anchor the proposal, providing urban markers when viewed from the east and west along Epping Road. The 20 storey tower is designed to both complement its landscape setting and maintain its identity as a bold, modern addition to the cityscape.