The marine birdlife is particularly divergent at this location, and there is a keen group of bird watchers living in the area, who wished for a specialised viewing platform to be provided.

We designed the double story steel structure to stand on screw piles in the water on the edge of the lake, with a bridge linking the structure to the bank. The walls of the building were discreetly defined by hardwood fins to screen viewers from the birdlife.

Challenges were to minimise disruption to the natural Typha plants growing at the water’s edge, and to locate the building floor above the seasonal high-water mark, and to obtain geotechnical soil profiles of the soil under the lake.

Construction has begun on this project with an estimated completion of December 2025.