SYDNEY OLYMPICS 2000 — FIG GROVE
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Celebrating water at the high point central to the site, the Fig Grove fountain is composed of three meter high jets of water, arcing over pathways that extend the paving patterning of Olympic Plaza through the site. These 25 meter long tunnels of water pulse into the grove and symbolically tie the beginning of the Plaza to its end at Haslam’s Creek to the north. Ten mature figs, relics of the site’s historic abattoir past, have been transplanted here imbuing the grove with a strong sense of place and of magic at the heart of Homebush Bay.