堪培拉宪法大道

堪培拉宪法大道
Constitution Avenue, Canberra

吉拉：在1912年堪培拉的竞赛获奖计划中，沃尔特·伯利·格里芬和马里恩·马奥尼·格里芬展示了街道的潜在力量，提出了一个街道城市，展示了与该地点的深刻共鸣、对自然的敏感性以及对澳大利亚民主社会的清晰准确理解和愿景。这条街道网络的最高部分是现在所知的大林荫大道或宪法大道。仿照世界上最大的林荫大道，它将成为该市商业和住宅建筑密度最高的商业街和首要地址，同时也为毗邻伯利格里芬湖的娱乐区的一些主要文化建筑提供地址。我们的团队实现了狮鹫大道系统和格兰德大道，这一点都不怀旧，但仍然富有远见。作为一个城市项目，它有潜力彻底改变堪培拉的交通方式——改善行人出行、驾驶体验、纳入高容量交通模式的潜力，以及大大改善堪培拉市中心的城市特征和功能。就像巴黎的香榭丽舍大街或华盛顿的宾夕法尼亚大道一样，宪法大道的成功升级使其成为世界上值得纪念的城市大道和远景之一。
JILA: In the 1912 competition winning scheme for Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin presented the potential power of streets, proposing a city of avenues that demonstrated a deep resonance with the site, sensitivity to nature and a clear and precise understanding of and vision for Australian democratic society. The crowning piece of this street network was to be the Grand Boulevard, or Constitution Avenue, as it is now known. Modelled on the world’s greatest boulevards, it will be the city’s high street and premier address with the highest density of commercial and residential buildings, while also providing an address for some of the main cultural buildings of the recreation areas adjacent to Lake Burley Griffin. Our team realised Griffin’s Avenue system and Grand Boulevard, which is by no means nostalgic but remains visionary. As an urban project it possesses the potential to overhaul the way Canberra is traversed – improving the pedestrian journey, the driving experience, the potential to include high capacity transit modes as well as greatly improving the civic character and functioning of central Canberra. Just like Paris’ Champs-Elysses or Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue’s successful upgrade establishes it as one of the memorable urban boulevards and vistas of the world.

Constitution Avenue, Canberra

Data

Collaborators: Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, MEC
Location: Canberra ACT
Client: Roads ACT for ACT Government
Cost: $42,000,000
Project Period: 2012-2016
Images: John Gollings

Urban Equipment:
Design: Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects,
Manufacturing: Street Furniture Australia