Harbourside
Gadigal and Wangal Country / Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
Harbourside is the renewal of one of Sydney’s most recognisable waterfront sites. Spanning approximately 240 metres along Darling Harbour, the project brings together residential, commercial, retail, dining, entertainment, and public domain to create a new mixed-use precinct at the edge of Cockle Bay.
The development includes a 42-storey residential tower, premium retail and food and beverage spaces, commercial workplace, and a generous public realm structured around new connections, waterfront gardens, and civic gathering spaces. The project sits on Tumbalong / Darling Harbour, a place of long cultural significance to Gadigal and Wangal peoples, and the design developed by Snøhetta and Hassell draws from the layered histories of water, sandstone, ecology, movement, and gathering that have shaped the site over time. The projects ambition aimed at shifting focus from “building” to “place”, with Harbourside conceived as a shared waterfront precinct rather than a singular object.
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Client: Snøhetta
Status: Ongoing
Area: 113,805m² GBA
Project Role:
Harbourside is a Snøhetta and Hassell project for Mirvac. Moraene’s contribution sits within the project’s continuity through delivery. The directors of Moraene were significantly involved in the project while working at Snøhetta, contributing across competition, concept design, schematic design, design development, and construction phases. Moraene is now engaged by Snøhetta to provide construction phase consultancy services.
Our role is focused on maintaining project knowledge through delivery, including construction phase design support, technical coordination, shop drawing review, site inspections, and the design and documentation of selected project modifications and facade-related works.
Harbourside represents an important thread in Moraene’s story: a project carried across office structures, phases, and scales; from early design thinking through to the realities of construction.
