The vision for Ed.Square is for a place where connections are made — between the suburbs and the city, between an urban lifestyle and the natural environment, and, most critically, between people. With 700 terrace-style houses, 900 apartments and over 35,000 square metres of retail, this is a sizeable undertaking.
The cornerstone of Ed.Square is formed from the notions of permeability, connection, social spaces, lifelong learning, health and wellness woven around a rich public domain. This “urban epicentre” of community, retail, leisure and living experiences includes a town square divided into different quadrants with a series of streets and laneways.
The design connects the dots between pastoral settlement dating back to the 1800s and a new town centre. It honours the past while creating a future that embodies live, work and play.
Renders: HDR
We Design Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenges
With 11,000 employees across more than 250 locations, HDR is an award-winning integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm with a history of challenging conventional practices and innovating across disciplines and geographies. Our interconnected, global knowledge exchange and borderless approach means that we have real-time access to research, data and technology that enables us to design solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
Australia’s Architecture practice specialises in Health, Education, Science, Civic and Defence – and we design and deliver projects across a multitude of sectors at every scale, whether that be state-of-the-art laboratories, paradigm-shifting hospitals or healthy cities that act as antidotes to loneliness.
We have transformed hospitals from conventionally monolithic, closed systems; designed major infrastructure and precincts that impact context and communities; delivered highly adaptable education and laboratory research facilities that cultivate knowledge transfer; and built justice and defence facilities that intersect health, community and sustainability.
Key projects include Westmead Health Precinct Redevelopment; University of Sydney and Health Infrastructure NSW’s Sydney Biomedical Accelerator; CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness; Chris O’Brien Lifehouse; Sunshine Coast University Hospital; University of Sydney’s Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Building; Ed.Square Town Centre; Wollongong Central; and the Australian Defence Force Academy Redevelopment.
HDR is currently ranked No. 2 in the World Architecture Survey of Top 100 Global Architecture Practices, with six of our market sectors in the top 10.