Rocks Square

  • Name Rocks Square
  • Client Sydney Cove Authority
  • Country Gadigal
  • Location The Rocks, NSW
  • Year 1994

The Rocks Square unites three underused buildings as a two level boutique retail centre focused on a new urban square, below four residential apartments. It is located in the heart of The Rocks – Sydney’s leading tourist and heritage precinct, and accommodates 60 specialist retail shops and cafes.

Awards

1994 RAIA National Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design.
1994 NSW Chapter Merit Award for Urban Design.
1994 Boral Award for Excellence in Timber.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage.

Team

Peter Tonkin, Andrew Nimmo, Tim Greer, Julie Mackenzie.

Previous Project:
Birchgrove House
Next Project:
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Peter Tonkin, Andrew Nimmo, Tim Greer, Julie Mackenzie. 1994, rocks, sydney, nsw, public, adaptive reuse

TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.

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