Saturday morning we got up fairly early to head over to Paddington Reservoir. It’s another adaptive reuse project by Tonkin Zulaihka Greer. This time, Tim Greer, one of the firm’s principals met us at the reservoir to give us a tour and explain the project. The project, as you may have guessed, was a reservoir that TZG redesigned as a public park, leaving the remains of the reservoir as a ruin and adding new materials that play off the existing to create a really interesting space. You get the ideas implied by the ruins of the reservoir creating an interesting dialogue with the new materials and generating a very relaxing environment to spend time in, interesting that it gave me this feeling with materials being brick, concrete, steel, aluminum and heavy timber.
We then walked down the street to the Australian Photo Gallery, then Paddington Market, full of odd trinkets, jewels, artwork, wooden bowls, and some pretty delicious looking food (mmm cheese steak). The market was pretty overwhelming and quite odd, but an interesting experience.
Reservoir_Illustrates Existing vs New Materials
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