Pier Pavilion by Besley and Spresser.
Pier Pavilion by Besley and Spresser.
Pier Pavilion is a genuinely public building, hosting events and offering repose at the harbour’s edge at Barangaroo. Its plan echoes the coves and peninsulas of Sydney Harbour; within a complex play of columns, an oculus draws a roaming circle of light across the ground.
The envelope is oyster terrazzo, formulated for the project from half a million recycled Sydney Rock Oyster shells. It deepens the building’s connection to a place where these oysters have flourished for millennia. Above, a landscape roof of endemic planting, boulders and hollow logs establishes microhabitats, making this a public building that serves the city’s animal inhabitants as well.
Read Grace Mortlock’s review of Pier Pavilion here .
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