Rouse Hill Town Centre

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Rouse Hill Town Centre

Vibrant Mixed-Use Center Fosters Community Connection 

Rouse Hill Town Centre is regarded as the benchmark development for new town centers. It seamlessly blends commercial, residential, education, civic and retail into a format that delivers not only a high level of public domain, but also a sound and commercially viable proposition. The project broke paradigms by bringing together opposite and quite often competing interests, creating a core to the suburb which focused the life of the community around a series of public spaces used to connect the various uses. The careful design allows for clearly defined public and private domains ensuring the various uses have individual identities.

The town center connects itself to the wider context of the suburb through publicly accessible streets and pedestrian paths linking to adjacent residential areas, schools and athletic fields and therefore is well connected to the existing infrastructure of the suburb. The town center serves to create an amenity not only for its residents but for the whole suburb, creating a vibrant hub for civic, dining and entertainment uses while ensuring they create a sense of community and are flexible to allow the towns activities to evolve over time.

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Client
Contractor Clients
Location

Rouse Hill, NSW
Australia

Size
730,000 SF (68,900 m²)
Services

Awards

Global Awards for Excellence, Winner (2010)
Urban Land Institute
Excellence in Construction Awards (2009)
Best Retail Building (over $80,000,000)
Master Builders Association of New South Wales
Innovation & Excellence Awards, Winner (2009)
Shopping Centre Development Category
Property Council of Australia
Masterplanned Development Awards (2009)
Urban Development Institute of Australia, New South Wales
New South Wales Architecture Awards, Winner (2008)
The Lloyd Rees Award for Urban Design
Australian Institute of Architects, New South Wales Chapter
Awards for Environmental Excellence (2008)
People's Choice Award
Banksia
National Architecture Awards (2008)
Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design
Australian Institute of Architects