This is the story of how a major infrastructure project could rehabilitate a city’s nature and biodiversity. It may also help heal Australia’s relationship with our First Nations people.
North East Link (NEL) is on Country of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people. Fundamental aspects of its design grow from their living knowledge and history.
The 25km transport corridor in suburban Melbourne is not all engineering. BKK collaborated with Warren and Mahoney Architects, landscape architects TCL and Indigenous design experts Greenaway Architects and Greenshoot Consulting to design it for the Spark Consortium.
For our team of urban designers, architects and landscape architects (UDALA), the project is the places surrounding the road. It’s about the social and ecological restoration of the neighbourhoods it traverses.
