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Fish Lane, Town Square, South Brisbane
Rainforest laneway of tree ferns beneath a railway bridge, kept cool with harvested rainwater and misters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fish Lane Town Square in South Brisbane follows the landscape architects who pitched turning a hot concrete underpass beneath a working railway bridge into what they called a Gondwana-like rainforest. It traces how the lane got its name from a nineteenth-century laundryman, George Fish, and why a church that once stood here sank below street level. Best heard standing in the shade of the bridge itself, where the plants are working hardest.
This audio guide was created using AI.