LOCATION: Perth City, Murray Street, Western Australia

PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Commercial / Urban Infrastructure / Architectural Service to Documentation Stage

Murray Street Footbridge 1989. Designed and documented by Mike Edwards as a young graduate working for Etherington Coulter & Jones Architects.

This challenging project involved Mike devising the bridge deck construction system consisting of a southern T-pylon, four main large steel beams and precast concrete coffered soffit infill segments to negotiate different building levels on opposite sides of Murray Street, the curved shape of the main beams and pedestrian gradients.

The steel and polycarbonate roof, steel and concrete pedestrian deck connects Myer with David Jones across the Murray Street Mall in Perth’s central shopping area.