Green Square Library and Plaza by Studio Hollenstein in association with Stewart Architecture

摘要

Jury citation Green Square Library and Plaza responds ambitiously to its context - the ever-increasing residential density of the Green Square town centre, which will become home to 61,000 people by 2030, according to the City of Sydney. Inherent to the project's design strategy is the protection and preservation of an eight-thousand-square-metre public plaza; this is achieved by submerging much of the building program beneath it. The design privileges the plaza as urban "breathing space," which it recognizes as a diminishing commodity that will become increasingly valuable as the area continues to density.