We did this job for Rail Infrastructure Corporation. Another architect had completed the preliminary design but we completed the design and added our detailing.

Like all public projects there is much joy in seeing people use it every day in their travel to and from work. It is the threshold for so many and brings a certain interest in a public building where there may not have been. We would have liked to have the pink and aubergine colour scheme but alas.

Penrith Railway Station lies on the Western outer rim of the Sydney Metropolitan Railway Network. This project was part of a larger project, initiated by the State Government, to refurbish certain key stations in time for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

The design takes prompts from an earlier master-plan document completed by other architects.

The steel structure defers to the existing industrial yet institutional nature of earlier platform and station buildings adjacent. Extruded architectural forms in steel are used for simplicity of structure. The details of these forms are borne out of a development of the idea that steel can have a tactile quality if shaped in an appropriate manner. Internal light shelves and deep eaves result from this approach.