Perhaps I was too hasty when I suggested the old White Bay power station should be demolished. This week, I visited the site with Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne and my colleague Planning Minister Rob Stokes, whose transcendent wisdom and insight bestowed upon me, mere mortal, a fuller understanding of its historical significance.
I like the power station. But I am incensed that it has been decaying for decades, and it would likely cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars just to make it habitable. Once such a monstrosity is built, it never goes away, because there’s always some dedicated fan club to proclaim its heritage value and demand its eternal preservation in our nation’s ever-expanding architectural pantheon of cinder blocks.Steve Lunam
Well, I for one am happy to leave the juxtaposition to the juxtaposeurs. As the late philosopher Roger Scruton remarked: “If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless.”In a world wounded by ugliness and misery, beauty is what we yearn to find and, better still, create. A city as beautiful as Sydney should be filled with beautiful architecture.
One for gorakaunhai. I am starting to come around on the Dom. Not only does he want to get rid of stamp duty but also bulldoze the RBA (and all other brutalist buildings).
They'll be saying the same thing in 30 years about half the buildings getting built today
After Keating, we have another wanna-be architect, Dom_Perrottet
I'm not sure the faux obnoxious character translates outside the bear pit... but prove me wrong I guess
Perrottet need only be concerned about prison architecture. That's where he will be after he is convicted of defrauding the workers compensation scheme so he can have extra RWNJ staff.
So the Treasurer is an Architect now? Hey, mate, go study for Architecture and Urbanism for 6-8 years and then give me your opinion!
Horrible architecture? What about all the eyesores that you are building? Those being the huge pollution stacks for your never-ending obsession with tolled road tunnels. The stacks in parks & near schools - visual pollution as well as toxic pollution. More hypocrisy Mattonews
Someone’s realised they needed a quick image correction (spin) so they still had a chance at the top job when Gladys goes. Nice writing by his marketing team
I'd say start with the iCare building.
I wonder if he knows any property developers just waiting to put up their own monstrosity?
What about the Balls point tower , Ohh that's on the Nth Shore
10/10.
The UTS building. Please.
The LNP aren't even hiding their intentions anymore. Being open about destroying Sydney's iconic heritage buildings is pure insanity, but also a sign of the times that they can get away with it. Protect the past. Sydney Heritage NSWpol AuspolSoCorrupt auspol2020 Auspol
He has already destroyed an historic bridge and the early colonial features of the oldest public square in Australia.
Agree with all of this.
Why is pencil neck giving us his opinion on architecture? I would have thought he would be spending his time working tirelessly on doing something about NSW’s horrendous debt.
Says the crook who still hasn’t been held to account for the iCare scandal.
He’s right.
Needs shooting for including the wonderful MLC centre. Seidlers finest
where is this Twitter, can't find it.
I'd probably start will vales point power plant.. oh I cheated it's not in Sydney
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