Lizard Log Amenities: A Park Built to Patina
- Location
- Parramatta, NSW, Australia
- Year
- 2009-2012
- Status
- Completed
- Filed under
- PublicUrban
Designed in collaboration with McGregor Coxall, this much-awarded project called for a new playground, amenities blocks, event space with adjoining events pavilion, car parking, shade and BBQ facilities.

The park design was a response to the scale and character of the greater site context with a strong environmental agenda. The amenities buildings and shelters were driven by an adaptive design response to the existing structures on the site. Rather than demolishing the existing structures the new designs continue the tectonic language and introduce robust materials that age and patina over time.
Lizard Log Amenities site plan.
The roof is elegantly decoupled from the amenities pods below it.
Photography by Brett Boardman.
Building and landscaping bleed into one another.
Photography by Brett Boardman.
The event pavilion.
Photography by Simon Whitbread.
A communal washbasin greets you upon entry.
Photography by Brett Boardman.
A lightweight timber and steel roof floats over the landscape.
Photography by Brett Boardman.The Events Space Building is a multi functional pavilion and forms part of an ensemble of amenities and shade structures which are distributed throughout the park. The building provides a back drop to the major events space within the park and continues the language of the other park structures through materiality and detail.

The events pavilion plan.
Refined gutter detail.
Photography by Brett Boardman
Lizard Log Amenities.
Photography by Simon Whitbread.Credits
- Architect
- Completed at CHROFI
- Client
- Western Sydney Parklands Trust
- Engineer
- Northrop Engineering
- Builder
- Timber Creations
- Landscape
- McGregor Coxall
- Photography
- Brett Boardman, Simon Whitbread
Awards
- Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture
- AIA National Awards
- 2017
- Winner
- Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards - Steel Architecture
- 2017
- Winner
- Australian Institute of Architects NSW Awards - Public Architecture
- 2017
- Winner (Overall Park)
- AILA Premier's Peoples Choice Award
- 2012
- Winner
- Australian Institute of Architects NSW, Geberit Award
- 2011
