Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across Sydney

Barangaroo is a symbol of squandered opportunities to make a better Sydney. I was part of the winning team – Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and Paul Berkemeier Architect – for the 2005-6 international competition for this 22 hectares of publicly owned foreshore, a 1.2km-long stretch of the city centre’s harbour front. Of 137 entrants, this scheme was unanimously selected by the NSW government-appointed jury.

An “exploitation that squanders opportunities for public land for future generations”. That is architect Philip Thalis’s assessment of Barangaroo.A range of new public places and facilities was proposed, including theatres, community buildings, outdoor event spaces, major site-specific public art, a playing field, and floating harbour pools beside the green headland.

Any self-respecting jury would have tossed it straight in the bin. Yet this is precisely the outcome that successive NSW governments have imposed on us at Barangaroo. Like Barangaroo, all these proposals are “development-led”. That is, without a committed, compelling and strategic public-space plan at their heart, and with scant public program to make these vast tracts of public land benefit the wider city.

What an absolute rubbish article. Complete and utter detritus.

I almost believed the writer until he cited Green Square as an example of getting urban development right.

It really isn’t rubbish. I know that it isn’t just my opinion because every time I go down there, there are lots of people there & major organisations re-located there. There are also major organisations who have moved into the offices there.

Being salty about your scheme not being used after 16 yrs….you’re gonna have to get over that Comes across as a bit self serving tbh….on Green Square as well as Barangaroo. But to be fair, so were Keating’s remarks

PhilipThalis cityofsydney NSWDPE UDIANSW PaulJKeating SeaLevelRiseOrg Check by how much the Barangaroo metro station entry SydneyMetro will be above sea level. Read here:

the Balmain cruise terminal is the result of strange decision making in Barangaroo

Yes, this is an ugly stain on Sydney Harbour foreshores. This development will come back to haunt the LNP government.

Spot on. And Keating is defending the indefensible.

Glad I read this. What a scandal! There needs to be a way to stop these things happening.

Thank you PhilipThalis.

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