Designs revealed for Parramatta's new Powerhouse Museum | LindaMorrissmh MeganGorrey
A towering structure of criss-crossing lines, vast windows and cavernous spaces will house the new Powerhouse Museum at Parramatta, the first designs for the controversial project show.
An international jury met in recent weeks to select the architects of the winning concept designs from a shortlist of six teams, comprising local and international firms.Moreau Kusunoki is a French-Japanese firm of architects who in 2014 won a design competition for the Guggenheim Helsinki museum in Finland, although that design was later shelved.
The designs for the new museum building include demolishing an 1886 Italianate villa known as Willow Grove, and a row of seven terraces known as St George’s Terrace. The government previously said it wouldBut plans to build commercial and residential towers above the new building have been abandoned, in a coup for the museum's chief executive officer Lisa Havilah and its chairman Barney Glover, who lobbied hard for a stand-alone museum that did not share its site with big business.
''If that is Parramatta’s longed-for, city-defining iconic building I would be very worried for their future tourism marketing. I doubt that many tourists will be getting on the ferry to see it."Parramatta MP Geoff Lee has previously said the building "will be a museum that people in Parramatta will be proud of".
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