Light Line Social Square - Tallawong

Light Line Social Square is the line-wide artwork for the 8 Metro North West stations from Cherrybook to Tallawong. The artwork is embedded in the design of each station. It is made up of artful landscapes, sculptural furniture, coloured glazing in skylights, facades, lifts, stairs and escalators, train activated platform lighting, glazed tiled walls, playful paving and cooling mist installations. The artwork draws upon the recent agricultural history of the region. The geometry of the orchard groves, and the colours of their fresh produce, are translated into the grid of the station landscapes, and the signature colour at each station. In this way, Light Line Social Square references the past and connects it to the present and the future. The artwork orchestrates an interplay of colour and light, expressed over time. It is immersive and dynamic - continuously changing throughout the day, according to the light and weather conditions, and over the seasons, across the year.

Tallawong is the last, and the first, of three open cut stations on the Sydney Metro North West line. The platform cutting is framed by the intermittent rhythm of Terrace Lines of lime green glazed tiles, and Urban Grove terrace landscapes of sweetly perfumed evergreen orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) trees and with an understory of Vinca minor ‘Alba’. Light Line, the programmed platform light installation, glows an illuminated green as trains enter the station. Transparent pink glass in lifts and stairs cast swathes of pink light over station surfaces. The Urban Grove of Evergreen Ash (Fraxinus griffithii) trees at the street level plaza, frames a suite of Social Sphere sculptural furniture, with lime green, cast aluminium inlays.