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McGregor Coxall

Seven Metre Bar

Client: City Of Sydney

Project Type: Commercial
Location: Underwood Street, Sydney,Australia
Partners: Richard Goodwin, Russell Lowe
Services Provided: Urban Design
Project Description: At the 7 Metre Bar On 1 October 2009, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP officially opened the By George! Laneways festival. Created by landscape architect Adrian McGregor, artist Richard Goodwin and 'architect/gamer' Russell Lowe, is one of eight installations that have transformed under-utilised laneways in Sydney’s city centre as part of Art&About 2009. This installation combines the landscape of weather, an architecture of catastrophe and the technology of games. Intense weather projections that build in ferocity in response to increasing bar patrons flicker across storm surge detritus. The 7m Bar hidden in Underwood Street, near Circular Quay, sits at an elevation of 7 metres above sea level. If the ice poles melt we will experience a 75 metre sea level rise according to NASA scientist James Hansen. At 8 meters Underwood Street will be underwater. The installation has cars, boats, building materials and bodies tangled within building columns like seaweed at the edge of beaches. The project was chosen by the jury from over 500 registrations and 68 submissions.

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