COX Architecture with 3XN Architects, Aileen Sage, Turf Design Studio and Bangawarra to design Riverside Theatres

COX Architecture with 3XN Architects, Aileen Sage, Turf Design Studio and Bangawarra has won the international design competition for Riverside Theatres.

With a foundation built on established relationships, confidence, and mutual understanding, the design team is driven by a shared vision. This vision will establish the Riverside Theatres as the cornerstone of burgeoning cultural presence within the Central River City.

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Our winning design includes a new 1,500 seat lyric theatre alongside a smaller 424-seat studio theatre and 80-seat cinema. Additionally, the existing playhouse theatre will undergo significant refurbishment into a 760-seat venue.

The revitalised riverfront will be a focal point, boasting a vibrant riverside bar and café, improved pedestrian pathways, and extensive new endemic landscaping.

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Committed to sustainability, the design targets a 5-Star Green Star rating, with a focus on reusing existing building materials to minimise environmental impact.

The design seeks to remediate and restore the Parramatta landscape and riverbank ecologies to foster thriving biodiverse natural ecosystems.

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Our community will soon have access to a state-of-the-art facility that will attract major Australian works and the best of Broadway, and the West End shows to Parramatta for the first time.

It also offers more opportunities for local and international talent to amplify their stories in a soon to be brand new modern theatre.

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We are committed to providing a thriving cultural precinct in Parramatta and this new design for Riverside brings us one step closer to our end goal.” Pierre Esber, Lord Mayor, City of Parramatta.

The design team thanks the City of Parramatta, Riverside Theatres, and the competition design jury for this opportunity to contribute to the cultural and public life of Parramatta and Greater Western Sydney. Source by COX Architecture, 3XN Architects.