Darling Harbour Woodward Water Feature
Darling Harbour Woodward Water Feature, Water fountain in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia.
The Woodward Water Feature creates rippling water patterns through ten spiraling paths set within a saucer-shaped depression on the waterfront promenade.
Robert Woodward designed this water feature, which opened in 1988 as part of the redevelopment of Darling Harbour for the New South Wales Bicentennial celebrations.
The fountain received multiple architectural awards, including the NSW Chapter RAIA Civic Design Merit Award and National RAIA Walter Burley Griffin Award in 1991.
The fountain operates with a flow rate of 5 litres per second across 360 square meters, using the same capacity as a standard domestic swimming pool filter.
Over 3000 weir stones create interference patterns in the water flow that produce wave formations not found in natural water systems.
Location: New South Wales
GPS coordinates: -33.87310,151.19990
Latest update: March 4, 2025 19:16
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