Kensington Street Development, Sydney Urban Renewal Development, Chippendale Architecture Images
Kensington Street Development in Sydney
Contemporary Outdoors Development in New South Wales, Australia ? design by Turf Design Studio
22 Apr 2018
Kensington Street
Location: former Carlton & United Breweries site, Chippendale, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Landscape Architects: Turf Design Studio
Kensington Street: A new benchmark for urban renewal

Photos: Simon Wood
An abandoned back alley at the former Carlton & United Breweries site has been transformed into Sydney?s latest cultural hub. Connected via an innovative brick-paved ground plane, the street?s heritage terraces and industrial warehouses have been reimagined into vibrant galleries and event spaces, creative businesses, restaurants and bars.
A leading example of urban renewal, the series of new walkways and pedestrian links stitch Kensington Street back into the fabric of Chippendale and the Central Park precinct, while the pedestrianising and adaptive reuse of buildings and kerbs has successfully reactivated a once neglected street.
Kensington Street?s transition from slum to sought-after destination illustrates the power of placemaking, and the impact quality public spaces have on building communities and revitalising cities.

Kensington Street forms part of Tooth and Co brewery?s original 6.5 ha ?mini city? established in 1835, which included hotels, warehousing, administration and workers? hou...