Central Park Sydney - Architecture

Sekisui House

Frasers Property

Park Lane is the next stage of development of Central Park, conceived by Frasers Property Australia, an international property developer whose hallmark is commissioning the world’s most accomplished designers and architects to create exceptional buildings and places.

For Park Lane, Frasers selected Johnson Pilton Walker, one of Australia’s most distinguished architecture practices responsible for some of Australia’s most recognisable landmarks of recent years. The new National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and the Asian Wing of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney are two of many. In 2008 JPW’s co-founder, Richard Johnson, was awarded Australia’s highest design honour, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal. As well as public buildings, JPW is known for its fine commercial work including the new headquarters tower for Westpac in Sydney, which raised the bar for bank architecture in the city. It is JPW’s skill at sensitively weaving major new buildings into historic sites that has also won the firm special praise and led to their commission to design Park Lane.

Park Living

Intimate connection to the leafy green heart of a newly-designed urban village is Park Lane’s exceptional proposition. Choose from a range of apartments with balconies or loggias, along with stepped terraces, winter gardens and communal rooftop spaces that bring the open and organic elements of Chippendale Green into the living areas of the buildings.

Open-hearted lobbies offer an extraordinary impression where bountiful natural light and the greenery of the park wash in and through to the laneway beyond.

The distinctive external facades of the JPW design will feature unique coloured and patterned glass, refracting light in a sophisticated and dynamic play of organic patterns that reflect the development’s proximity to Sydney’s brand new urban village green. The reflectivity of the glass will vary from the blue of the sky, the green of the landscape and the warm tones of the heritage brewery.

A flagstone-paved pedestrian lane – the eponymous Park Lane - connects the two residential buildings. Townhomes that open directly onto the lane create a Mews-style streetscape, a relaxed yet vibrant environment reminiscent of the intimate street communities of neighbouring Chippendale and Glebe. Park Lane will host the suburban trappings of mailboxes, fence posts and bicycles in an urban village setting, as well as offering unique connectivity to Chippendale Green itself.