Kogarah Town Square

Kogarah Town Square,

Sydney, Australia

Kogarah Town Square sets a new benchmark in best practice urban and environmental design. Launching the 2004 Year of the Built Environment at Kogarah, NSW Premier Bob Carr praised the ‘European-style’ town square development for bringing together public and retail spaces, apartment living and leading-edge ecologically sustainable design (ESD).

The Town Square is striking for its combination of energy and water efficient design principles which have created one of the most sustainable urban communities in NSW. With the equivalent of a solar power station on the roof, and a water detention tank the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the Square is calculated to generate enough solar energy to power 32 suburban homes and save 42 per cent of potable water use compared to a typical residential development.

Kogarah Town Square provides a focal point for the Sydney suburb of Kogarah, linking into the adjacent ‘main street’ shopping precinct of Railway Parade. The development comprises 33 retail outlets, 193 privately owned apartments of one- two- or three-bedrooms, a 224-space basement public carpark, an expansive public foyer/library space, plus the Town Square itself.

AJ+C设计的高嘉华市政广场（Kogarah Town Square）为城市与环境设计设立新典范。新州州长卜卡（Bob Carr）在高嘉华宣布2004建筑环境年时，赞扬这一“欧式”市政广场开发项目将公共与零售空间、公寓居住以及前沿生态永续设计（ESD）融为一体。

这一市政广场的精妙之处在于结合了节能与节水设计，营造出新州最佳可持续发展都市社区。广场屋顶有一个太阳能发电站，并有一个奥运会游泳池般大小的储雨水箱，可制造足以供32户家庭使用的太阳能，并相比传统住宅发展项目节省42%的饮用水。

高嘉华市政广场为悉尼高嘉华区创造了焦点，并与邻近的“主街”Railway Parade购物区相连。这一开发项目包括有33个零售店铺、193套1卧室/2卧室/3卧室的私人公寓、一个224车位的地下停车库、宽敞的公共休息厅/图书馆空间，以及市政广场本身。该项目显示出在城市规划与设计中融入可持续发展理念，在经济上对于发展商是可行的，并能为环境以及生活和工作于其中的人们带来实际利益。