On your typical Saturday morning or night, Marrickville’s Illawarra Rd is a feast for the senses. In the morning, there’s … More
Category: High-rise
Is it the ‘Dalek’ or the ‘Kevin’? Debate rages about Sydney’s new skyline monster
When you’re building a landmark new 39-storey office building in Sydney’s CBD, what could possibly go wrong? Budget blowouts? Maybe. … More
Little house lost: The plan to bury this historic wooden worker’s cottage beneath a $33m tower
In 1905, a boilermaker called Thomas Eardley constructed a humble single-storey wooden worker’s cottage at Kogarah in southern Sydney. Just … More
Canterbury locals were promised a new “Little Venice”: all they received was this broken water feature
If the artist’s impressions were to be believed, Sydney’s Canterbury town centre was going to discard its inglorious past as … More
Why Sirius should come down – ASAP
About 1,000 people today rallied to save the Sirius building in The Rocks – and I wasn’t one of them. … More
Why is Sydney enjoying the high life?
There was a time when high-rise buildings were the natural enemy of community activists. They were practically seen as the … More
High-rise has always had its NIMBYs
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the phrase ‘NIMBY’ – meaning a ‘Not in My Backyard’ resident activist – first appeared … More
Changing Sydney 