New development reveals lost heritage

Architect: Cox Architecture

About the project: The development of the Hyatt Regency Sydney into Australia’s largest hotel continues a Cox Architecture tradition of doing more with less.

The key sustainable initiatives include:

• Development not taking not taking place on green or brownfield sites
• The new public space to Slip St, the heritage interpretation of our shared history and the mixed-use nature of the development ensures social sustainability
• Utilising and refurbishing existing structures reduce the embodied carbon of the project
• One of Australia’s first closed cavity façade installations that allows the western facade to embrace the views, whilst balancing the projects sustainability agenda with function room functionality (e.g. room blackout)
• A detailed reiterative process of pairing back sun shading on the tower façade ensured every piece of tower façade was passively effective
• Efficient folded plate steel roof design reduced embodied carbon.

Story by: Trends