Stages of construction

Completed works

Play space

A large-scale public artwork, the play space features equipment secured to large bluestone boulders and includes:

• slides
  
• monkey bars  
  
• swings
  
• a sand pit
  
• bluestone walls and seating
  
• Australian trees
  
• garden beds
• soft-fall surfacing. 
  

Neighbourhood parks

Kavanagh Street to Moore Street:

• central lawn area  
• new benches, tables and seating  
  
• additional trees  
  
• large feature rocks  
  
• irrigation 
  
• bluestone paving. 
  

Civic space

• New lawn areas and bluestone paving
  
• Planting and new trees
  
• Provision of power and communications to cater for events and broadcasts
  
• Installation of seating, picnic tables, benches and barbecues
  
• Further tree planting in the area undertaken in April 2021 during the tree planting season
  

Arts gateway 

• Stone installation and landscaping in front of the Melbourne Recital Centre and Southbank Theatre
  
• Bluestone footpath works to the front of the Buxton Gallery and Melbourne Recital Centre
  
• Installation of 55 large native trees, 16 large grass trees and a variety of ground level planting, seating, furniture and lighting
  

St Kilda Road to City Road 

• Realigned and rebuilt roadway
  
• Traffic signal and other utility installation works
  
• Public lighting installation
  
• Road re-asphalting
  
• Preparatory tram works including the installation of new tram poles
  
• New kerb and channel construction
  
• Relocation and under-grounding of services such as power lines
  

Tram works

• Construction of a new central island platform and new tram infrastructure
  
• Reconstruction of tram tracks on a new alignment
  
• New greening between tram tracks