Sydney Park Brick Kilns

Name Sydney Park Brick Kilns
Client City of Sydney Council
Country Gadigal
Location Alexandria, NSW
Year 2022 - Ongoing

Located at the junction of Alexandria, Newtown, and St Peters, the conversion of the Brick Kilns Precinct of Sydney Park presents a strategy based on renewal and the understanding of heritage significance. The proposal stabilises the existing structures and improves site access while integrating the kilns, heritage objects, and hidden history into the contemporary context of Sydney Park.

Due to the abundance of clay beds, brick and pottery works were established in the early 1800s and remained in use until the 1970s. The site was converted into a park in 1976 and the abandoned kilns fell into disrepair.

The history of the Brick Kilns Precinct has been made visible and celebrated as a sculpture garden. Lost elements such as the railway tracks, the processing plant, and some kiln structures will be reinterpreted in the design, unearthing and linking the narrative of its hidden history.

Our design conserves the existing brick kilns including three smaller down-draught kilns and the larger Hardy Patent and Hoffman Kilns. The heritage buildings, their landmark chimneys and collection of historical objects will be structurally restored and reinstated as elements in the landscape design.

Team

Peter Tonkin, Julie Mackenzie, Albie Tenedora, Ciaran Acton, Kevin Lee, Gracie Grew.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage, Anton James, JMD.

Previous Project:
Art Gallery of NSW Library and Members Lounge

Next Project:
St. Luke’s Grammar School – Senior Campus

Sydney Park Brick Kilns

Due to the abundance of clay beds, brick and pottery works were established in the early 1800s and remained in use until the 1970s. The site was converted into a park in 1976 and the abandoned kilns fell into disrepair.

The history of the Brick Kilns Precinct has been made visible and celebrated as a sculpture garden. Lost elements such as the railway tracks, the processing plant, and some kiln structures will be reinterpreted in the design, unearthing and linking the narrative of its hidden history.

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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.

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.