Commissioned in 2007 and completed in July 2009, Ballast Point Park is a 2.6 hectare park 7 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. One of the park’s best features is the way in which the site’s history has been bought to life for visitors through design, art, poetry and signage. The dot typeface, which is used throughout the park, represents the thousands of rivets and tank shapes that were used in the former park. In the afternoon sunlight the punctured words cast shadows over the surrounding surfaces.
The park has won numerous awards including: AILA National Landscape Architecture Award for Design 2010, NSW National Trust Heritage 2010 Award and the AILA NSW 2009 Award for Design in Landscape Architecture and a Special Jury Citation for New Directions.
