Slyvia Park Dining Lane | Auckland

The landscape of the upgraded Dining Lane extends the treatment of the new, adjoining plaza to create a unified, yet diverse, new dining and public space precinct for Sylvia Park. The new stone paving treatment is continued from the new proposed plaza, as well as the distinctive timber benches. The benches form public seating pockets around the new canopy columns, and a varied palette of pots and planting adds a more intimate scale of landscape to the lane, which invites dwelling.

A new retractable canopy will provide shelter when needed, and introduces a unique architectural feature to the lane (refer architects drawings). Its tree-like columns are set into the existing, disused tree-pits, which are also refashioned into garden beds. The gardens will continue the plaza’s ‘pacific’ planting palette and also support climbing plants, which will partially green the canopy columns through a series of additional climbing cables fixed to the structure.

The new landscape creates an intimate and flexible lane that supports easy movement, but offers numerous opportunities for dwelling. The upgraded dining lane provides a complementary, linking space between the comparatively open plaza and cone. Together the spaces offer a range of unique, but unified public spaces.

AWARDS:

– NZILA 2019, Commercial Award of Excellence.