Brisbane architecture firm Blight Rayner and landscape architecture practice Aspect Studios are part of the consortium appointed to deliver Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point bridge.
The city’s mayor, Adrian Schrinner, announced the appointment of the Connect Brisbane consortium this week and revealed new renders of the bridge, which will include an overwater bar and restaurant.
Crossing the Brisbane River from the corner of Alice and Edward streets in the CBD to Scott Street at Kangaroo Point, the new bridge will be around 460 metres long and will cost $190 million. It will have a single-mast cable-stayed structure, designed to complement the city skyline and minimize visual impact.
Shrinner told media the bridge would be a “game changer” for the city, providing practical connections across the river, while becoming a tourist attraction in its own right.
Kangaroo Point green bridge by the Connect Brisbane consortium, which includes Blight Rayner and Aspect Studios.
“This will be one of the only bridges in the world where you can have a restaurant or boutique bar opportunity on the bridge itself,” he said. “This is going to be unique to Brisbane and will create a great tourist attraction for our city.”
Detailed designs will now be developed over a five-month period, with construction work expected to begin at the end of 2021. Connect Brisbane is led by construction company BESIX Watpac and, along with Blight Rayner and Aspect Studios, includes Rizzani de Eccher, WSP, Dissing and Weitling, RWDI, F-POV, Right Angle Studios and Rowland.
The concept design for the bridge was developed by Cox Architecture and Arup.
Greens councillor Jonathan Sri has expressed concern about the privatization of public space through the inclusion of the restaurant, the ABC reports, noting that he “would rather see a picnic area with some public barbecues and picnic facilities on the bridge.”
The Kangaroo Point bridge is one of several car-less “green bridges” the Brisbane City Council is looking to build across the river. The $60 million Breakfast Creek green bridge is also expected to begin construction at the end of the year and two planned West End bridges should begin construction in 2022.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
