Macquarie Centre is an iconic regional shopping centre located in North Ryde, to the North of Sydney’s CBD and is home to over 360 stores set over four levels. From incorporating specific structural requirement of key retail, dining and leisure tenants, through to major alterations and additions to the existing trading centre, including expanding the car parking by over 800 spaces, MPN delivered full structural design, documentation and site-inspection services that helped transform the Macquarie Centre into the modern Town Centre we see today. [read more]
Originally constructed as a commercial office tower in 1971, the ‘Residence Hyde Park’ at 14-24 College Street was redesigned and developed into a luxury, inner-city apartment building. The project included a newly relocated, centralised lift and stair core, extra floors of penthouses at rooftop (replacing the original plant-rooms), an indoor 25m swimming pool, and more basement car spaces (created by underpinning the tower footings to install car stackers). Approximately 70% of the original structural concrete was retained, earning the project Green Star points and planning concessions from the City of Sydney. [read more]
MPN was engaged to deliver structural design and engineering services for a major redevelopment of Westfield Fountain Gate, Australia’s second largest shopping centre. This included new parallel malls over two levels, a relocated new format Coles supermarket, an expanded Target store, expansion of the cinemas complex and the inclusion of 122 new tenancies; adding a further 34,600 square metres of gross lettable area to the existing shopping centre.
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As part of our ongoing relationship with the centre MPN was engaged to deliver detailed structural design and engineering services for the $475 million redevelopment project. The works consisted of two new levels of car parking over the existing structure, alterations to the including infilling retail voids and inserting new loading docks/ramps and a new precinct consisting of three levels of basement parking, four retail levels and a steel cinema/roof structure. [read more]
Located on Spring Cove adjacent to Sydney’s North Head National Park, the development consists of 38 luxury dwellings, including a 16 apartment residential building and 22 detached houses, with dedicated basement car parking. An ecologically sensitive site, supporting endangered wildlife this development settled seamlessly into the surrounding landscape. [read more]
MPN provided structural design and onsite engineering services for the redevelopment of the heritage listed ‘ACA Building’ located at the corner of King and York Streets in Sydney’s CBD. The steel framed building was constructed in 1935 and was redesigned to accommodate a food and beverage tenancy in the basement, retail tenancies at ground floor and commercial offices on levels 1 to 13. [read more]