developing our city \ Experts share their ideas on how to make the most of the Royal Children’s Hospital site, writes SARAH MARINOS.
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he Return to Royal Park project will see parkland reinstated on the site of the old Royal Children’s Hospital. By 2014, the corner of Gatehouse Street and Flemington Road in Parkville will be a new entrance to Royal Park. The City of Melbourne is seeking community feedback on how best to shape and create the site. We asked five landscape architects and designers what they would do. Bruce Echberg, director of Urban Initiatives, landscape architects and urban design consultants. lived in nearby Princes Hill in the late 1960s and played cricket in the area with the now-defunct North Carlton Cricket Club. He was a finalist in the master plan competition for Royal Park in the early 1980s and has been a professional adviser to the Royal Botanic Gardens for the past 20 years. “This area is a small, highly damaged – but very accessible – part of Royal Park that deserves special consideration. Royal Park has been the subject of gradual redevelopment since the Second World War and I think it is very much underutilised by the standards of the great urban parks of the world,” he says. “I’d create an urban garden that contrasts with, and complements, the existing park and is much more active and intense. Introduce an active built edge including buildings, landform walls or structures along the Flemington Road frontage to house meeting spaces, galleries, cafés, greenhouses, indoor/outdoor music and Experience the flavours of traditional & modern Greek, Mediterranean cuisine cooked on open charcoal, with special events and functions our specialty.
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