Silo Park.

I was researching about Auckland's urban features and I stumbled upon the 360 Urban website. I looked through it and saw current and planned projects around New Zealand. What caught my attention is Silo Park in Jellicoe St, Auckland.

The project is to transform the once industrial area into an adrenaline fueled adventure park with NZ's funkiest playground, retail, dining and views of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Currently, the project is still under construction. Rain gardens for drainage has been made and are being filled with soil to be planted with native plants.

What Jellicoe St. looks like now.
Photo credit: Waterfront Auckland

Once finished, Jellicoe St. Wynyard Quarter will hopefully look like this:

Public open space, retail and dining services and views of the harbour. Not bad at all.
Photo credit: Waterfront Auckland

The nearby Silo Park will be an open space that will offer views of the Westhaven Marina and Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Photo credit: Waterfront Auckland

Silo Park will retain the cement silo and 'six pack' to recognise the industrial heritage of the area. It will offer great public open space with views of the Marina and the Harbour bridge and a cinema during summertime. The key uses of the park will be for recreation, water treatment, events and as a play area as shown in the photo below.

Photo credit: Urbika

I think this is a great project. Auckland's waterfront is not really something to be proud of due to the tanks and ugly ships docked in the viaduct. Projects like Silo Park will make the waterfront visually appealing and also accessible to people.

To see more photos and plans of Silo Park, go to Urbika and Waterfront Auckland. An animation of what the waterfront would look like has been made and you can view it here.