This project, was commissioned by the Blue Mountains City Council to re-vitalise the Civic Centre and establish new pedestrian links to the impending Cultural Centre behind. In collaboration with JILA and Nobis Architecture, Stage 1, re-makes the upper and lower courtyards, and demolishes 3 rear bays of the Civic Centre to open up this courtyard to the Cultural Centre at the rear. A larger, more public forecourt addresses Katoomba Street and heralds twin portals that frame the courtyard, connect to the Civic Centre and mark the path to the cultural centre. The Civic Centre works, necessarily largely to do with maintenance and BCA compliance issues also give the building a greater public persona, with increased glazing and more active edges.