Come check out Sydney's newest public space over the former Goods Line (train line) and along the magnificent Frank Gehry UTS building!
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The below is taken from the Guardian's article (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/31/the-goods-line-its-no-highline-but-a-welcome-green-corridor-for-sydney?CMP=soc_567) published on Monday 31 August 2015:
On Sunday, Sydney locals walked a key inner-city corridor for the first time since 1855.
For 129 years the Goods Line carried some of Australia’s most important commodities: coal, shale, wheat and timber. By the time the train line was put to bed in the 1980s, gone was heavy industry and in its place were cultural institutions including the ABC studios, the Powerhouse museum and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Construction of a $15m revitalisation project commissioned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority that would open public access to the former rail line, began in April 2014 and opened quietly over the weekend, with children playing in the small water park and locals soaking up sun on the grassy knolls.
Speaking from the Goods Line on Sunday, designer John Choi of Chrofi architects said locals had turned up and were “taking their shoes off, as if it’s their front lawn”.
While the Goods Line cannot rival its more famous New York counterpart, the High Line – a 2km elevated repurposed railroad that snakes through the city – both projects belong to a worldwide movement of urban renewal and revitalisation.
Coles said not only is the surrounding area a “hotbed of creativity”, with more startups and creative industries than anywhere else in Australia, it is also the nation’s most densely populated. “There’s apparently over 80,000 students at UTS and Tafe. They will be the major beneficiaries of this space,” he said.
On Monday many of those students will walk the Goods Line for the first time discovering a 20-person table equipped with power points, Wi-Fi access, an outdoor gym, an amphitheatre for performances, ping-pong tables and quieter nooks and crannies under a line of fig trees the designers have dubbed “study pods”.
The line also provides front-seat views to Sydney’s newest architectural jewel, the UTS Dr Chau Chak Wing building designed by Frank Gehry, dubbed “the paper bag” for its crumpled appearance. “The UTS representatives who came to look at [the Goods Line] were blown away – yes, by the project but also by their project,” Coles said.
The project is just one chapter of a major revitalisation of inner-city Sydney, including projects for UTS, Chinatown, Darling Harbour and the Entertainment Centre, which is being demolished to make way for new residential and entertainment precincts called Darling Square and Darling Quarter.