Plans to showcase Lake Burley Griffin to central business district visitors have won one of Australia's most prestigious urban design awards.
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The ACT government's Linking Canberra City to the Lake project won the large-scale policies, programs, concepts category in this year's Australia Award for Urban Design. The event, hosted by the Planning Institute of Australia, was held on Tuesday at the National Portrait Gallery.
Institute president Dyan Currie said Linking Canberra City to the Lake's place in the Canberra city plan promised to transform central Canberra through flexible civic planning, with pedestrian access, light rail and land bridges.
''This is a logical move for Canberra and the project team should be congratulated on how they have dealt with linking the Civic precinct to the water,'' she said.
''The jury was impressed with how the project respects and extends Canberra's historical settings in a way that is appropriate.''
The project will create a new public waterfront area at Commonwealth Park and City Hill and connects the city across Parkes Way with several important civic projects.
The project brought together work by the ACT Office of the Co-ordinator General, Hill Thalis, SMEC Australia Pty Ltd, MacroPlan Dimasi, JILA and Tania Parkes Consulting.
The Australia Award for Urban Design was established in 1996 under former prime minister Paul Keating. It acknowledges the role urban design plays in the social, economic and environmental development of cities and towns.
