Opened in 2019, the new Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre in Western Sydney replaces an uninspiring municipal building that was burnt down in January 2015. It’s the first public project to be realised since the client, Blacktown City Council, established its City Architect’s Office in 2015 that will service around 12,000 people from Woodcroft and surrounding suburbs including Maryong, Doonside to the west and south, Blacktown to the east, and Bungarrabie, in the Western Sydney Parklands.

Photography: Brett Boardman, Ben Guthrie