Parramatta Aquatic Center

Parramatta Aquatic Centre by Grimshaw and Andrew Burges Architects with McGregor Coxall has won the Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design in the 2024 National Architecture Awards. The design effortlessly integrates a large program of pools, a gym, a cafe, change rooms and multipurpose rooms hidden in plain sight with sensitive layering of built and landscaped form. The seamless integration of landscape provides a protected sanctuary for pool users, while the partial burying of the centre gives a restored ecosystem back to the surrounding neighbourhood.

By McGregor Coxall