Further Idea/Narrative Development - The Street

What is at the heart of Newton?


King Street.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_New_South_Wales , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Newtown)


Musings on the street by Lois Khan:

• "The street is a community room; its walls are the buildings, sky is the ceiling, but it truly is a room."
• "Most cities now don't have little streets, they have great dividers that erase the street quality. When you see little streets in cities that are dead-ended, they still look like community rooms. And those that go straight for great distance have lost their character as rooms.”
• “Streets must be given back to the residences as their community rooms, to the shopping areas as their community rooms.”
• "They are meeting places in full meaning of the city. Roads are not streets.”

Redeveloped concept:

Create a “street” emulating the good of King Street (communality, village-like atmosphere, shops interacting with the streetscape, elements of discovery e.g looking into shops from outside) and eliminating the bad (street traffic – turning the street into a road, noise, fast-paced nature).

SOLUTION: create a street linking King Street to the car park and Camperdown Park at rear, slightly removed from the busyness of King Street, where one can leisurely peruse varied works of art both internally and externally.


Queen Street... an aptly named complement to King.