Winning Design of the New Western Sydney Stadium ASPECT Studios, along with team partners Lendlease and ASPECT Studios is an Australian-born international company that Populous, has won the bid to design and deliver a new $300 designs for people and place. With offices Melbourne, Sydney, million stadium precinct to replace Pirtek Stadium in the western Brisbane, Adelaide and Shanghai, ASPECT is united by critical Sydney suburb of Parramatta. thinking, sustainability and a strong social conscience and is changing the way people interact with the spaces around them. Located on a sweeping bend of the Parramatta River on the Its successful bid for the Pirtek Stadium will be the latest addition western edge of the CBD, the 30,000-seat Pirtek Stadium is to an award-winning portfolio of influential projects, including home to local rugby league team the Parramatta Eels, as well as Sydney’s Goods Line, Victorian Desalination Plant and Ecological the A-League team the Western Sydney Wanderers, the Greater Reserve and Port Adelaide Renewal: Hart’s Mill Surrounds. Sydney Rams and the NSW Surge, and is set to become a new city landmark within a picturesque World Heritage setting. Key points • It is a Populous, ASPECT Studios and Lendlease The design of the public realm, led by ASPECT Studios, collaboration integrates the stadium facility within the surrounding city and • $300 million stadium precinct parklands through a series of connecting pedestrian and cycle • Starting in early 2017, it is expected to be completed in 2019 paths, new planting and a range of complementary outdoor • Transforms the western edge of the city event spaces. Full team: An active urban park located along O’Connell Street will form the Lendlease – Project Managers / Developers heart of the public experience and will re-energise the western Populous – Architects / Lead Consultants edge of the CBD. The park’s terraced design will provide a ASPECT Studios – Landscape Architects dynamic setting for multiple uses and activities, including giant Aurecon – Hydraulic / Civil / Structural Engineering slides, sporting facilities and water play. The park will also form A.G. Coombes – Services Specialist a new meeting place to encourage everyday engagement for Stowe – Lighting / Electrical all walks of life and has the capacity to transform into an event Cini Little – Kitchen / Hospitality space during game days at the stadium. AMBS – Ecology and Heritage Demolition of the existing stadium is due to commence early next Location: Parramatta, Sydney NSW Australia year and completion is expected in 2019. .