1/23Akshata Vinoth, Year 2, Chatswood Public School has designed a leisure area to be built in Chatswood called Tropical Summer Triangle. It includes 200 rooms and is only open in summer time: “So come fast!”.
Primary students’ ideas on what Sydney needs
When Sydney primary school children were asked to outline their vision for a Sydney building of the future, the results were creative, clever and more than a little bit cute.
2/23Eco-friendly factory by Riley Regan, Year 5, at Holy Family Menai. “We made an eco-friendly factory that recycles plastic and metal into new eco-friendly vehicles and things like solar panels and cars. The trees are close to each other so they seed. The factory is 100 per cent emission free as it uses solar power. We are called ECO-CO!”
3/23Angie Procter and Josie Lear, Year 6, Seaforth Public School, with their design. Picture: Damian Shaw
4/23Josie and Angie of Seaforth Public School designed a building called Becchiere Triagolo, which is Italian for glass triangle. It is a sight-seeing building for the south-east of Goat Island, slanted for beautiful appearance. It has 10 level including (from bottom) an entertaining level with indoor waterfall and greenery display; history of building display level; information; art display level; play area; gift shop; three floors of viewing. One side of the building is a vertical garden.
5/23Eli Phiyasirikul, Year 6, of Blaxland Public School in the Blue Mountains, has drawn designed a building named The Sydney Clockwise Theatre. It is a youth theatre of space where the youth of Sydney and beyond can be welcomed and congregate to share their experiences. This image is one of his four drawings showing specific details of the building.
6/23Joey Wolfinger, Year 6, from Blaxland Public School in the Blue Mountains has designed a building named House of Hope as temporary accommodation for homeless people, and a place to provide them with support and help to find permanent housing.
7/23Amber Riddle, Year 6, Seaforth Public School with her design. Picture: Damian Shaw
8/23Alyssa Michael, Year 5, St Therese Catholic Primary School Mascot. “I have designed a ferris wheel. The building will be used for people to have fun when they need it. I propose the building to be located in Sydney Olympic Park.”
9/23Zymon Calonzo, Year 6, St John Vianney’s Primary School. “This is a stadium designed by me. This stadium is a soccer stadium for the world cup in the future. I call it the S2000. I will be placing this stadium in Wentworth Park.”
10/23Ethan Cleary, Year 5, St Therese Catholic Primary School Mascot “I love drawing so I drew a design for the future of Sydney competition. My design was sky bridges. Sky bridges help people travel from building to building faster than elevators. They would be located on many of the tall buildings in Sydney and have a great view.”
11/23Seaforth Public School Year 6 students with drawings they made for the Bradfield Sydney buildings competiton. Picture: Damian Shaw
12/23Charlie W, Year 3, Bundanoon Public School. “Vegemite Land will be a vegemite-themed theme park with many rides and a gift shop fitted with vegemite accessories and a cafe with meals associated with vegemite, eg. vegemite sausage roll or a vegemite toastie. It will be at North Sydney near Luna Park and the Harbour Bridge. There will be a vegemite fountain, roller coaster and ferris wheel. The building is named Vegemite Tower and has the cafe, gift shop and other rides.”
13/23Natalia Lemalu, St Therese Catholic Primary Schoo,l Mascot. “The design I created is the Backup Supply Resource 101 for Picton. My design is to be used for backup land just in case Picton has an outrageous bushfire and burns all of Picton down, then you can use the Backup Supply Resource 101. And if you run out of water don’t worry because the water used in the unlimited water supply in the backup supply resource 101 is filtered ocean water. The water is boiled then filter. 50 litres an hour of water gets filtered by the ocean and brought back. My design is also used to save the worries of drought, and the stress of food and supplements. Don’t worry, we will fundraise enough money to ship supplements over to Picton. Whenever you need something just let me know and use the backup supply resource 101!”
14/23Henry Read, Year 4, Paddington Public School has designed Henry Read’s Cricket Centre. The sign on front door says: “If you don’t like cricket, GO AWAY!” Level 1 is a museum, level 2 VR Cricket, level 3 gym, and level 4 is a customisable kit store.
15/23Seaforth public school Year 6 students (L-R) Angie Procter and Josie Lear pictured at Seaforth public school with drawings they made for the Bradfield Sydney buildings competition. Seaforth, Sydney. 14th November, 2019. Picture by Damian Shaw
16/23Ethan Kato, Year 2, Chatswood Public School. “Sunshine Hotel in Sydney Harbour.”
17/23Ishi Tadiyal, Year 5, St Therese Catholic Primary School, Mascot. “I have designed a building which is called Wonderland. I want to place this building in Liverpool so people don’t have to travel so far to have fun. There are ride parks, animals to play with, shows to watch and things to buy.”
18/23Rufus Adam, Year 6, Seaforth Public School with his design. Picture: Damian Shaw
19/23Bradfield Oration. Sydney Building Design Comp Isaac Hoy, Year 2, Chatswood Public School. "Sydney Water Factory in Bondi Beach. It is used to making clean water for people to drink." It has pipes "for sucking up water" from the ocean amd shapes "for cleaning water and decoration".
20/23Joel Griffin, 10, from Miranda Public School in the Sutherland Shire. “I have done a drawing of a new high speed train station. I would imagine this would be located outside the city of Sydney, in the outer suburbs. With more and more people living in these areas we need more transport options to move them around. The train would be used to get from suburb to suburb in a high speed fashion and could also be used for longer distances, such as between the city and more rural areas. You can see in my drawing the city of Sydney in the background. The station would feature a glass roof for light and a sense of openness.”
21/23Amber Riddle, Seaforth Public School “This is a building that will house restaurants so that workers can go to eat easily and quickly during their lunch break. It would be located in the middle of North Sydney.”
22/23Isobel and Emily, from Seaforth Public School. “Our idea is to create an educational building all about plastic and how it ruins our environment. The walls in the side will have plastic that we have found in the Sydney region with facts printed on walls. We would have an environmentally friendly café that will have paper/metal cups and straws that could be reused. The globe on top would read Eco Sydney and spin. The globe will be made of plastic. The building would tell and remind people the importance of protecting our environment.”
23/23Rufus Adam and Amber Riddle, Year 6, Seaforth Public School working on their designs. Picture: Damian Shaw
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