Albury Cultural Precinct
A new cultural space joining a museum, entertainment centre and art gallery with landscape
Project Overview
- Client: Albury City
Albury City had a long-term vision to create a contemporary, vibrant and exciting inner-city space for a growing regional centre. I designed the master plan so that civic and historic buildings were unified around a landscape with a mixture of small intimate spaces and large event spaces.
My Role
- Project landscape architect
- Liaising with the different levels of local government, consulting with the community and stakeholders.
The Project
QEII Square in Albury is surrounded by a museum, entertainment centre, art gallery and historic church. With so many civic landmarks, the square was a prime location to unify Albury’s culture. I worked with city officials and community stakeholders to incorporate existing elements into a master plan that would unify the city’s cultural assets and celebrate a contemporary regional centre.
The entire vision cost $1.8 million and construction works are to be implemented in stages over a 5-year period.
Master Plan Elements
I designed the master plan to incorporate already existing features, and to unify and activate the site by:
- Utilising existing paving from the entertainment centre and continuing it through the rest of the precinct.
- Relocating existing flagpoles and adding new flagpoles to accentuate the central avenue.
- Planting avenue trees and providing seating and amenities to raise the prominence of the central avenue.
- Providing spaces for outdoor art exhibitions.
- Celebrating the heritage church.
- Providing flexible space for the proposed Youth Centre.
- Providing a mixture of event space and intimate space.
- Providing more accessible amenities.
