‘Learning from past disaster’: Rejected visions for Sydney that were never realised | juliepower
Sydney’s The Rocks was set to be razed in the early 1960s to make way for a Brutalist-style complex of up to 40-storey high-rise apartments catering to office workers and “middle-class families” spread across treeless podiums above street level.
The exhibition includes official and unofficial plans, competition entries, unsolicited proposals, design challenges and ideas festivals for major projects. “Alongside the proclaimed technological and mobility advancements came serious community resistance for the first time in Sydney ... We have fortunately taken some learnings from past disaster.”Sydney was the only city in the world to have a statutory requirement for a design competition for major projects, said Freestone who has written extensively on the topic. These mandated design contests had produced “excellent buildings far more conscious of their settings”.
Not even Utzon’s original vision was realised. The exhibition includes some beautiful drawings with gold leaf of a floating foyer facing north between the two halls.
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