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Maitland Riverlink
A brick and timber civic gateway reconnects Maitland’s High Street with the Hunter River and creates a sheltered place to gather.
Restaurant frontage beside the civic gateway
The project
Maitland Riverlink makes a direct connection between High Street and the Hunter River. CHROFI worked with McGregor Coxall and Maitland City Council to establish a new route through the town’s historic streetscape, drawing public activity towards the riverside.
The building frames that route with angled brick walls and a broad timber-lined roof. Its geometry gives the gateway a clear presence from the street and river, while providing shade and places to pause within the passage. Handmade bricks relate the new work to the surrounding townscape.
- Practice
- CHROFI
- Year
- 2018
- Photographer
- Simon Wood; Brett Boardman; Clinton Weaver; Matt Abbott
- Project
- Civic gateway and public space
- Client
- Maitland City Council
- Area
- 439 m²
- Landscape architecture
- McGregor Coxall
- Programme
- Public plaza, café and amenities
- Status
- Complete
Public activity around the gateway from High Street
Public amenities and a café and restaurant occupy the sides of the gateway. The central covered space supports everyday use as well as community events, bringing movement, seating and informal gathering together in one public setting.
The landscape and building form part of the wider Levee public-realm project. Riverlink’s connection to the river allows the new civic space to work with the town’s existing streets and waterfront. The building was completed in 2018.
The riverfront pavilion lit at dusk, seen across the Hunter River.
Riverlink within Maitland’s wider riverside setting
Restaurant seating beside the tall glazed river frontage
Credits
- Project architect
- Susanne Pollmann
- Project director
- Tai Ropiha
- Project architect
- Joshua Zoeller
- Landscape
- McGregor Coxall
- Architect, Photographer
- CHROFI
- Photographer
- Brett Boardman
- Photographer
- Simon Wood
- Photographer
- Matt Abbott
- Photographer
- Mark James
- Photographer
- Clinton Weaver
- Client
- Maitland City Council
- Landscape architecture team
- Adrian McGregor
- Landscape architecture team
- Ann Deng
- Landscape architecture team
- Julia Manrique
- Landscape architecture team
- Maria Sabria
- Accessibility consultant
- BCA Access Solutions
- Acoustic engineering
- Marshall Day Acoustics
- BCA
- Steve Watson & Partners
- Fire engineering
- MCD Fire Engineering
- Heritage
- City Plan Services
- Hydraulic engineering
- Whipps Wood Consulting
- Kitchen consultant
- Frost Catering Equipment
- Lighting, electrical and mechanical engineering
- Northrop Consulting Engineers
- Planning
- Colliers Urban Planning
- Quantity surveying
- Rider Levett Bucknall Sydney
- Signage
- Deuce Design
- Structural engineering
- SDA Structures
- Structural engineering
- Cardno
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