North East Link’s Primary Package was designed by BKK Architects in collaboration with Warren and Mahoney Architects, landscape architects TCL and Indigenous design experts Greenaway Architects for the Spark Consortium.
Construction begins in 2022 and completion is expected in 2027.
For our team of urban designers, architects and landscape architects, the project has been an urban-renewal opportunity. We have focused on the places surrounding the new road – the social and ecological restoration of the neighbourhoods it traverses.
It includes more than 34 kilometres of shared use paths, revitalised wetlands, water-sensitive urban design and active recreation spaces. There are land bridges with pedestrian trails and parklands alive with native plants that repair the local ecology. There are over 30,000 new trees. Operations buildings and noise walls are clad in photovoltaic cells, so that NEL harvests around two thirds of the energy it uses.
