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Rouse Hill Town Centre

This award-winning Sydney town centre incorporates clever urban design and ESD to optimise public space.

A comfortable balance The aim for Rouse Hill Town Centre was to find equilibrium between its concurrent roles of meeting place, marketplace and traffic way – all while maintaining links with nature. Additional design considerations attend to the community’s needs, its imminent expansion and climatic environment.

From vision to reality The centre features all the facilities of a small town, including streets and a town square, providing residents with everything they need in one location. There is a shopping-centre precinct, commercial space, cinemas, education, library and community facilities, a health and medical centre, and good transport links.

United success A consortium of three architectural firms – AJ+C, Rice Daubney and Group GSA – delivered the design. In 2010, Rouse Hill Town Centre was named one of the five winners of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence.

• Date
  2008
• in assoc.
  Rice Daubney
  Group GSA
• Cost
  A$470 million
• area
  Town Centre: 10 ha
  Retail and commercial 65 000 m²
• Apts
  104 (part of the New Rouse Hill)
• Owner, developer, manager
  The GPT Group
• Project management/ construction
  Bovis Lend Lease
• MP
  Civitas Design and Planning

• Awards
• 2010
  Urban Land Institute, Asia Pacific
  -RegionAwards for Excellence
• 2009
  UDIA NSW Austral Bricks Awards for Excellence
  - Masterplanned Mixed Use Development
• 2009
  Property Council of Australia Rider Levett Bucknall Awards for Innovation and Excellence
  - Pitney Bowes Business Insight award for shopping Centre Developments
• 2009
  Property Council of Australia Rider Levett Bucknall Awards for Innovation and Excellence
  - Overall Winner
• 2008
  Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards
  - Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
• 2008
  Urban Development Institute of Australia NSW Awards for Excellence
  - High Density Residential
• 2008
  2008 People’s Choice Award, Banksia Awards for Environmental Excellence
• 2008
  Australian Institute of Architects (AIA)
  Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design