Designs show vision for Brisbane’s future Victoria Park
Leading architects and designers have revealed their vision to transform one of Brisbane’s most beloved sporting facilities into the river city’s answer to Central Park. Take a look around and tell us what you think.
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SOME of the city’s leading architects and designers have revealed their vision for Brisbane’s new mega-park that is set to rival some of the world’s best.
It comes as more than 1000 Brisbane residents have shared their ideas for the park which has been touted as the river city’s answer to London’s Hyde Park and New York’s Central Park.
Leading Brisbane designers including Place Design Group, Lat27, Conrad Gargett, Tract and Urbis have created their vision for the park which includes ideas from reforesting the park to creating water features and rock pools.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said design experts had developed the five concepts to inspire more ideas from residents for Brisbane’s biggest new park in 50 years.
“Some of the suggestions include reforesting the park, designing a space that allows us to appreciate our wildlife and rich cultural heritage, creating beautiful water play elements including rock pools,” he said.
The designs also envision an accessible and active pedestrian-focused place that brings people together.
The Lord Mayor said that the conceptual vision designed by some of Brisbane’s leading designers would help residents think out of the box before consultation on the inner-city greenscape closes in a month.
The new park, dubbed the Victoria Park Vision, will be the second largest in Brisbane at 45ha, behind the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens 52ha, and more than double the size of the City Botanic Gardens.
The current Victoria Park function centre and venue, putt putt course and driving range will remain at the tourist attraction, with works expected to comments in 2021.
The Sunday Mail can reveal the city’s residents will be given a rare opportunity to explore the entire site, voice their ideas with the project team at the Council’s ‘Victoria Park Party’ on September 22.
“There is a huge amount of greenspace at Victoria Park, it’s as big as about 45 football fields, and this offers endless opportunities to transform this land into a public parkland that is uniquely Brisbane,” Cr Schrinner said.
“We hope these ideas will capture the imagination of residents and inspire more of them to submit their vision for Victoria Park.”
Environment, Parks and Sustainability Chair Fiona Hammond said it was “amazing” that residents from across Brisbane had contributed their thoughts on the mega-park.
“This is a park for all of Brisbane, including all our wonderful visitors,” Cr Hammond said.
“This vision will double the size of the existing park and transform it into an amazing public greenspace that will help make Brisbane an even better place to live, work and relax.”
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