{"id":253236,"date":"2025-10-31T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253236\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:03:14","slug":"rshp-completes-barangaroo-south-masterplan-on-sydney-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253236\/","title":{"rendered":"RSHP completes Barangaroo South masterplan on Sydney harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

British studio\u00a0RSHP<\/a> has completed the Barangaroo South masterplan<\/a> in Sydney<\/a>, transforming an abandoned\u00a0container port into a harbourside commercial and residential<\/a> district.<\/p>\n

Working with developer Lendlease<\/a>, RSHP<\/a> designed Barangaroo South as an extension of Sydney’s central business district, aiming to connect the surrounding city with the disused waterfront location.<\/p>\n

\"BarangarooRSHP has completed the Barangaroo South district on Sydney’s harbourfront. Photo by Ethen Rohloff<\/p>\n

“With the greatest respect for all people and supporting the vision that was to give back a new landscape to Sydneysiders at Barangaroo, we set out to be radical at Barangaroo South, to turn Sydney’s back door into a new front door,” said RSHP senior design director Ivan Harbour.<\/p>\n

“That it has been such a success is testament to the skills of the thousands of people involved in its conception and realisation, in the making of history”.<\/p>\n

\"InternationalIt includes a trio of office buildings named the International Towers Sydney, designed by RSHP<\/p>\n

The first phase of Barangaroo South was completed 10 years ago and in 2016, RSHP completed the International Towers Sydney<\/a>, a trio of office buildings designed as the heart of the district.<\/p>\n

The three office towers have rounded ends and were arranged side-by-side at slight angles, aiming to give “democratising views whilst making space at street level for the fully accessible waterfront”, according to RSHP.<\/p>\n

\"SkyscrapersOther notable buildings in Barangaroo South include skyscrapers by Renzo Piano and WilkinsonEyre<\/p>\n

Neighbouring the International Towers Sydney is a pair of residential skyscrapers named One Sydney Harbour<\/a>, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano<\/a>, and the curved Crown Towers Sydney hotel<\/a> by architecture studio\u00a0WilkinsonEyre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than two-thirds of the Barangaroo South site is dedicated to public and recreational spaces, including a park, a waterfront promenade and an amphitheatre-like boardwalk that steps down towards the water.<\/p>\n

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Renzo Piano joins Rogers Stirk Harbour and Wilkinson Eyre for Sydney harbour overhaul\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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To help connect the district with the rest of Sydney, RSHP designed the masterplan with pedestrian pathways and bridges, a ferry terminal, and a metro station that was completed by British studio Foster + Partners last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to RSHP, Barangaroo South became Australia’s first carbon-neutral district in 2019.<\/p>\n

\"SydneyPublic spaces in Barangaroo South include a curved boardwalk that steps down to the water’s edge<\/p>\n

“Barangaroo is more than a masterplan \u2013 it’s a living part of the city that continues to evolve around the people who use it every day,” said RSHP Australia managing director Avtar Lotay.<\/p>\n

“As a practice based here in one of the International Towers, we experience daily the first-hand vibrancy and connection this place brings to Sydney’s western waterfront,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“Barangaroo demonstrates what can be achieved when design prioritises public space, sustainability, and a sense of belonging \u2013 principles that continue to shape our work in Australia and beyond.”<\/p>\n

\"DistrictThe recently completed district forms part of a larger Barangaroo development plan<\/p>\n

Barangaroo South forms part of RSHP’s wider Barangaroo transformation masterplan, which the studio divided into three zones.<\/p>\n

The other two zones completing the development are Barangaroo Central, which will feature low-density housing overlooking a park, and Barangaroo Reserve, a landscaped area created as a reconstruction of a historic local headland.<\/p>\n

\"SydneyRSHP aimed to prioritise pedestrian paths and public transport in the development<\/p>\n

A promenade wraps the entirety of Barangaroo’s waterfront, contributing to a continuous 14-kilometre harbourside trail from Sydney’s Anzac Bridge to the Royal Botanic Gardens, which passes the Sydney Opera House on the way.<\/p>\n

Other projects by RSHP include plans for a 1.7-kilometre-long convention centre in China<\/a> and designs for 10 interconnected buildings containing a hotel and housing in Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Brett Boardman<\/a> unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British studio\u00a0RSHP has completed the Barangaroo South masterplan in Sydney, transforming an abandoned\u00a0container port into a harbourside commercial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,84096,149841,61745,61746,670],"class_list":["post-253236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-masterplans","tag-rshp","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}