by Adrian Marshall
Landscape Architecture Australia
No. 130, May 2011
pp. 62-64
Trainshed Way at the intermodal transport hub at Geelong Railway Station was featured in the May 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia. The space is a carefully-paved hardscape that starts near the station's current main entrance and incorporates a secondary exit from the station, the vehicular access to the station car park from Mercer Street, pedestrian access from the station's north-east catchment, and the station's kiss-and-ride activity.
The article notes that Trainshed Way also serves as a gateway to the city for rail passengers and strengthens the link between the station and the Geelong foreshore.
The author concludes that, "this project succeeds as a design statement entrance to Geelong. It has a good feel. It succeeds as a treed avenue beginning to create a greater, structural connection to the waterfront. And it succeeds as a landscape waiting for its adjacencies to happen: Barwon Water is moving its head office here and there are plans for a reconfiguration of the station."
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