Landscape Architecture Australia
SUSTAINABILITY AWARD FOR LEVEL CROSSING
The team behind Victoria’s Caulfield to Dandenong level crossing removal project, comprising Aurecon, Lendlease, CPB Contractors, WSP, Metro Trains Melbourne and the Level Crossing Removal Authority, has won the Built Environment category in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards. The $1.6 billion “skyrail” project, designed by Cox Architecture and Aspect Studios, involves the removal of nine level crossings in Melbourne’s south-east and the transformation of previous brownfield rail corridor into
22.5 hectares of new linear park. The awards’ judges noted the project represented the biggest “re-giving” of land in Melbourne since the opening of the Royal Botanic Gardens and provided significant ecological opportunities.
— sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au | aspect-studios.com