Park
Roma Street Parkland
Sculpted subtropical garden of arid, fern, and rainforest zones on a former railway goods yard.
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About this audio guide
Roma Street Parkland in Brisbane sits on top of a nineteen-twenty railway excavation, and this guide follows the site from pick-and-shovel goods yard to an engineered nineteen-ninety-one parkland. It traces the landscape consortium's biophysics study of the old railway cut, the hidden irrigation system built to sustain wildly different microclimates side by side, and the ambitious international research partnership the park's designers pursued. Stand at the top of the escarpment, and you are standing on spoil dug out by hand nearly a century ago.
This audio guide was created using AI.