Waverley Council is vowing to fight any redevelopment proposal by the site’s owner, Harry Triguboff, who says he has no plan to build apartments there “at this stage”.
Waverley Council has vowed to protect the Harry Seidler-designed Yeshiva College and synagogue after the state’s Independent Planning Commission found it should not be heritage listed, opening the door to redevelopment.
Yeshiva College in Bondi designed by legendary architect Harry Seidler, and the billionaire founder of Meriton, Harry Triguboff.The plan sparked a war of words between Triguboff and Seidler’s family. The late architect’s daughter Penelope says the “beautiful space” ought to be preserved and, not necessarily religious ones. The building was opened in 1961 by then-chief justice Herbert “Doc” Evatt, also Penelope’s uncle.
“We did all this so it could be used, and nobody told me it was heritage,” Triguboff wrote. “I admire work, but his involvement cannot constitute heritage listing. Would every building that I have built one day be heritage? We must progress and council’s cannot use heritage to fight a planning outcome they don’t like.”
The Independent Planning Commission says the Yeshiva Centre and synagogue should not be heritage listed unless and until it is restored.The commission said the buildings had heritage value, particularly due to the “technical and architectural features of the thin concrete shell roof”, and their connection to the Jewish community. But it also said alterations and additions had significantly undermined the site’s heritage value, and there was no practical way to reverse them.
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