2024 National Trust of Australia Heritage Awards Shortlist

Sub Base Platypus Torpedo Factory has been shortlisted in the 2024 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards in the Education and Interpretation category.

Congratulations to Harbour Trust for stewarding this significant project.

The submission states “the Sub Base Platypus Torpedo Factory Renewal Project has created a new multifunctional public space within the former 1943 Torpedo Factory. As part of these works a suite of innovative interpretation elements have been incorporated within the building design and landscape elements that interpret the site’s rich and layered history from First Nations contact and the subsequent colonial phases, 1870s gas works, Second World War torpedo assembly and then from the 1960s as a submarine base."

On Friday 15 September, the Minister for the Environment and Water, the Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, officially opened the new Torpedo Factory Precinct at Sub Base Platypus. Harbour Trust Executive Director, Janet Carding, oversaw the proceedings, which began with a memorable Welcome to Country by Alison Page, Acting Chair of the Harbour Trust. A special highlight of the ceremony was an address from Commander Sandy Coulson CSM, the first female Executive Officer (XO) at an operational naval base.

Turf Design Studio was engaged by the Trust to design, develop and document both the landscape and interpretation works, working with the following amazing group of collaborators:

Triggerdesign interpreation design (Blast wall exhibition)
Dennis Golding and @Vicki Golding: Artists
Yerrabingin Pty Ltd First Nations consultant
The Gujaga Foundation Community Engagement Support
Iguana Creative Fabrication and installation
Guida Moseley Brown Architects

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