Future Project of the Year: Sydney Fish Markets Design Honored at World Architecture Festival
An architectural plan to redevelop and improve the Sydney Fish Markets has been crowned the “Future Project of the Year 2017” at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Berlin. The festival is the world?s largest annual international architecture event and is structured around five key components: the awards ceremony, a thematic conference program, an exhibition of award entries, sponsor and exhibitor displays, and a series of networking/social functions (as well as WAF fringe activities).
Held over the course of three days in Berlin, the festival hosted a jury made up of James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake, OMA partner Ellen van Loon, WOHA founder Mun Summ Wong, Ian Ritchie of Ian Ritchie Architects, and Christoph Ingenhoven of Ingenhoven Architects. Together, they chose the Sydney Fish Markets scheme from a shortlist of 13 category winners, which were themselves chosen over the first two days of the festival. The winner was announced on the final day. The winning project was designed by Australian firms Allen Jack+Cottier and NH Architecture (who are based in Sydney and Melbourne, respectively) and proposes replacing the existing ?dangerous, odorous, and dilapidated? markets in Pyrmont with modern structures under a mirrored, undulating canopy, which itself would cover an entire boardwalk in the markets’ new location of Blackwattle Bay. The Pyrmont site would then be transformed into a mixed-use development ? one that would be completely r...
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