Project Overview

Like a magnificent yacht moored at an exotic port, these luxury residences will be home to fortunate few, yet admired by all. These residences will offer a life of Exotic beauty where every day is extraordinary and everything is at your fingertips. Occupying a prime north facing position right next to Sydney Olympic Park Ferry Wharf, this truly is the Jewel of Sydney Harbour.

Organisation

PAYCE Consolidated Limited and Sekisui House

Team

PAYCE Consolidated Limited, Developer
Sekisui House Australia, Joint Venture Partner
Sydney Olypmic Park Authority, Land Owner
Iconic Management, Project Management
Stanisic Architects, Architect
Rice Daubney, Concept Architect
Turner, Interior Architect
Context, Landscape Architect
Footprint, ESD
Northrop, Green Star
Sutherland & Associates, Planning

Project Brief

Jewel will be home to the most iconic, memorable and beautiful residences ever created in this spectacular location. It commands the best position on the entire peninsula, catching the best northern sun and aspect with footstep proximity to the Sydney Olympic Park Ferry Wharf and Australia’s largest natural urban parklands. Jewel offers a glittering new world of truly radiant harbour living. The 256 apartments represent the culmination of many years of dedication and vision in breathing life into what is now regarded as Sydney’s leading resort peninsula. Jewel, a collaboration between PAYCE and Sekisui House Australia, builds on the long, shared histories of transforming places and building communities - the absolute “jewel in the crown”.

The views are astonishing, and the architecture impressive. Its stunning, gold-sheathed design is destined to create a new focus for this important harbour front site. In creating Jewel, the world-class team have put their heart and soul into every detail. Every aspect underlines its status as Sydney’s most coveted new landmark – HDR | Rice Daubney’s initial concept design, Stanisic Architects’ radiant architecture, the interiors by celebrated Turner and landscape design by Context.

Project Innovation/Need

We wanted to create something memorable – a memorable place and a memorable building. Jewel has these elegant, slender finger forms draped in this beautiful gold sheath, a veil of golden screening that mimics the Harbour’s reflected and refracted light.

It’s a very dynamic piece of architecture with the ground floor activated by the retail sphere and this shifting landscape of gold activating the entire building. In contrast to the bold gold veil, beautiful soft grey hues and sandblasted glass allow the gold to be the hero.

What makes this an award winning concept design?

We’ve created a piece of architecture that stretches out to the water like slender fingers. This not only allows amazing views and light into the entire building, but also seamlessly links the waterfront, ferry wharf and Jewel’s new retail precinct into the entire suburb.

Design Challenge

Both PAYCE and Sekisui House Australia hold a shared philosophy of cultivating community and instilling heart and soul within their developments.

In designing Jewel, the team was focused on the creation of architecture that both inspires and innovates. A development that looked beyond the obvious outcome of providing an iconic marker to the suburb of Wentworth Point, but rather, the development took an entirely different tack and sought instead to solve the issues of how this development would complete the much harder task of connecting existing infrastructure (the ferry wharf), new infrastructure (the proposed school) and amenity (the harbour, waterfront and parklands) back to the suburb through a rich and seamless public domain experience formed by the built form.

We believe the team on Jewel are extremely proficient at creating high quality, innovative solutions, that are responsive to the marketplace and to their end user’s needs. The collaboration between all disciplines on Jewel, significantly contributed to the successful outcomes that have translated into a marketable design concept. They all took a hands-on approach by conveying their knowledge and ensuring that outcomes were achieved in an expedient and professional manner.

Sustainability

Jewel undertook a fundamentally different approach where the built form creates the opportunity to link the existing waterfront with the suburb of Wentworth Point.

- The built form creates a series of public spaces which link activation and movement.
- The public and private uses of the building are integrated and enrich each other.
- The role of the building as an icon means it provides a visual benefit to the community.
- The Ferry Wharf is reinforced by the sight lines through the site, drawing connection and orientation.
- The open air plaza of ‘ferry walk’ celebrates the outdoors and proximity to the water.
- The opportunity to connect with the proposed school to the east is complemented by a pedestrian link.
- Vehicular traffic, such as the retail car park and the residential car park, are accessed from different roads.
- The loading dock is aligned with the major retail.
- Bike parking is grouped at access points to the site.
- Roads have been designed to allow for special event bus parking and turning circles for buses.
- Pedestrian linkages allow greater levels of activity.