And of course, the luminescence of the place would be achieved through glass of various transparency and tints. Apart from the mostly horizontal flooring, most surfaces would show a curve ball trait — including information digital screens — large and small interactive surfaces — that would resonate expressedly with the other side of the city forefront, the Sydney Opera House. Without being a mirror image, this idea would balance off the city.

Call in the engineers, I am game to do the structural drawings after doing full-detailed architectural drawings.

Please also note the glass front at water level and below the water level, that would show a submerged rockery with sea-life... Of course an engineered system of window cleaning would be used to keep these spotless...

The main level would of course take the rising sea level into consideration. After a while the biblical basement would get naturally flooded.

Maxine, you demanded Sydney became a "bolder' place to attract more international intention...

At present, the Barangaroo plans are very 1999, not 2050. When the Eiffel Tower was built, it was done to show the courage of a nation... Many glass palaces were also built in the best cities of the world, but commercial function has compromised many these grand places, including by demolition. In the renaissance, churches and duomos where built to astonish the people. Now London has its ferris wheel and a gherkin, poor ideas of building glory...

So as most world cities compete to have the tallest phallic symbol piercing the blue sky, Sydney can't compete in that league, so what do we do with Barangaroo? we conceive an ordinary extension of the city with a small park for the people... No grand vision that would tell the world: look at that!.

This is why the design at the top of these comments would do what you desire. Instead of a finger pointing as at the sky, we need to think, metaphorically of course, of a curvy fluid near female horizontal form with ample bosom and sails, transparent, ethereal, abounding in the daring, in the giving and the knowledge. With new parks designs (no lawns) and cruising vessels-berthing of course. As well, this glorious place would be acting as a second gateway to the city, with newfangled ferry terminals.

One would have to consider though that sea level by 2300 might have risen by at least 4 metres. Thus the main platform would stand above the present sea level at 6 metres. Everything below this main platform would have to be watertighted as necessary except for the creationist section which by 2100 would be a thing of the past.

Energy would be daringly supplied by wind tunnels and solar panels able to provide half of the entire city electricity needs.

Voila. Maxine. No need to raze Chatswood...

As a partner to Bennelong and the Opera House, Barangaroo should be brilliant, but it's way too polite, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.

One night in August, as Clover Moore was given a standing ovation by several hundred cyclists outside the Town Hall, she was all but booed off the stage by a similar number of Barangaroo protesters inside. Why? For choosing to be ''in the tent'' on a development over which she has no formal control, compromising herself in hope of improving the outcome.

Now, after relentless criticism from the Greens, the National Trust, and council colleagues, the lord mayor has resigned from the Barangaroo Delivery Authority, citing persistent breaches of the transparency and consultation principles that have shaped her political career. Was she right? Is the process that bad? Or is her string being jerked, as the Premier says, by internal council politics? Should she have stuck with a flawed process to improve the end product?

Depending on where you sit, Barangaroo is either ''gross overdevelopment'' or the most exciting project this century, capable of making Sydney the financial hub of the southern hemisphere. Either way, as perhaps the biggest single development on the planet just now, we need to get it right. So it is good that we debate, passionately - but bad that it didn't happen five years back, when it could actually have made a difference. It's worth remembering two crucial facts. One, that cities are made, not found; they are fundamentally culture, not nature. Two, that city-building is one area where the end must justify the means. Process does not equal product. Paris is the obvious example; tyrannical process, beautiful product. Equally the process may be flawless but the product a committee-designed camel.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/bring-on-drama-and-boldness-20101001-160zm.html

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From the image provided by the Herald, the project looks like a field of ribbed phalluses... Usual for male dominated and dominating designs... see image of Gus' proposal at top...

I am presently working on detailed plans of my concept of Barangaroo... It may take a while but be patient. please...

This is the view that the developpers of Barangaroo have come up with:

Now pay attention at the plonking of 1960-70 style buildings in front of the vista... Don't they look UGLY? What do they mean? Extra apartments for public housing? Should you go with this design of plonking buildings in this sacred sites of maritime history, would it not be better to keep CLEAN UNCLUTTERED lines?

See below and compared the two views:

My personal opinion....

Sri Lanka's main opposition party has demanded the arrest of Australian gambling tycoon James Packer, saying his plan to build a $US400 million ($426 million) casino in Colombo has no proper licence.

Mounting opposition by Buddhist religious leaders and some political parties has already led the Sri Lankan government to delay approval for Mr Packer's Crown Ltd planned casino resort - the flagship project in a government plan to draw in Indian and Chinese gamblers.

Harsha de Silva, a lawmaker for the main opposition United National Party, said the casino should be located offshore rather than in the heart of Colombo, where it would "pollute" customs.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-12/sri-lankas-opposition-calls-for-james-packer-to-be-arrested/5084614

Meanwhile In Sydney, the best view of course would be more public space as intended before Bazza and James robbed you of it...:

Worst of luck, Bazza and James...

In her 2012 book Ground Control, Anna Minton details the insidious privatisation of public space in British cities by multinational development corporations and “acronym-laden quangos”. One of the companies she mentions is immediately recognisable to Sydneysiders.

Lend Lease is currently designing the major part of the 22 hectare waterfront redevelopment at Barangaroo and an additional 20 hectares to its south, at Darling Harbour. The future of the entire western side of the city rests in its hands, and all of it is publicly owned land.

Opened in 1988, Darling Harbour was supposed to be Sydney’s bicentennial legacy project, but lacked a clear structure of public streets and spaces that would fuse it into the surrounding urban fabric. It became a place apart – a retail and tourism folly that lasted just 25 years.

Such a stunning failure in recent memory should have ensured that the renewal of Barangaroo and the second attempt at Darling Harbour were more adeptly handled. Inconceivably, the mistakes of the past have been repeated and compounded.

I was involved in the proposal that won the East Darling Harbour international design competition in 2006, but have had no professional involvement in Barangaroo since. It has been depressing to see how every attempt to set an urban framework that would protect public rights, make the sites an inclusive part of the broader city and ensure long-term adaptability, has been undermined by commercial interests. Rather than inclusive and lively public streets, parks and squares, we are offered exclusive places to spend, and ever-diminishing open spaces surveilled by the lofty eyries of the international elite.

The guardians of the public interest, state governments of both political stripes, have capitulated. The local authority, the City of Sydney, with its unparalleled expertise in making memorable public places, has been wholly excluded from these projects. The civic fundamentals that these sites should have delivered are subjugated to corporate self-interest at best, and completely absent at worst.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/12/barangaroo-and-darling-harbour-are-civic-failures

See scheme at top...

The prospect that lower-income earners could enjoy a pad at Barangaroo is in doubt after it emerged Lend Lease is wavering on a commitment to build affordable housing next to James Packer's luxury casino.

The change in stance follows an admission by the state government that a taskforce set up to help solve Sydney’s housing affordability crisis has not met for more than a year, or delivered the housing policy it promised, despite previously saying "doing nothing" was not an option.

Fairfax Media has learnt that Lend Lease has been eyeing off locations away from Barangaroo on which to build the affordable housing component it pledged in return for developing public harbourside land.

Under current approvals for Barangaroo south, 2.3 per cent of 100,000 square metres of residential floor area must be “key worker housing” – homes rented to lower-income public sector workers such as police, nurses, teachers and paramedics.

However it has emerged Lend Lease has been in talks with not-for-profit housing groups about building the homes off-site – potentially allowing it to reap a greater profit from the Barangaroo residential floorspace.

It is understood the developer has considered nearby Millers Point as a potential site. The government is controversially relocating 465 public housing tenants from that suburb as part of a property sell-off.

A source at one community housing provider confirmed the organisation had met with Lend Lease, but questioned whether heritage restrictions at Millers Point would allow affordable housing development.

Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life. The planned Quayside neighborhood will house 5,000 people when built, expanding to host another 5,000 within three to four years, its creators say.

In running the neighborhood as efficiently as possible, Sidewalk Labs will utilize a range of innovative technologies. Sensors will manage street crowds and time traffic signals appropriately, cameras will watch over parks and public spaces, planners will be able to track the movement of every vehicle, person and drone, and garbage cans will monitor their owners’ trash to optimize waste management.

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https://www.rt.com/news/442188-toronto-google-surveilance-city-privacy/

I placed this item under my own "plans" for Barangaroo, which for all intent and purposes were going to avoid the "spying" and encourage the "free-thinking" of sciences flourish away from the tight-arsed religious hubris which tends to rule our moneyed hypocrisy and foster greater ignorance. This is where a writer like Thomas Janoski, in his book Citizenship and Civil Society misses the MAJOR point of being human — that of being able to lie for a buck. In his work, there is not a word about criticism of the social construct, neither about the crappy beliefs that rule and nor about humour and satire that can help to refine or reject the crap.

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An underwater garden is being planted in Sydney Harbour in an attempt to revitalise marine habitats destroyed by a "legacy of pollution". 

• Developer Lendlease has teamed up with the Sydney Institute of Marine Science to bring the garden to life
• Seaweed will be harvested from other sites in the harbour and transplanted to the Barangaroo garden
• The project's First Nations advisor says it's the responsibility of developers to protect country

Concrete tiles 3D-printed to mimic four occurring marine habitats have been installed below the sea at Barangaroo.

"We are really trying to capture both the marine life that we have lost and the marine habitats that they like to live on," Macquarie University Marine Ecologist Doctor Katie Dafforn said. 

The project has been 10 years in the making and has been designed to attract sea life that has disappeared because of pollution and development.

The concrete tiles have been installed on three levels, stretching about six metres below the water.

Global construction company Lendlease and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science have teamed up to bring the underwater world to life.

"We do have a bit of a legacy of pollution, unfortunately, in the inner harbour," Dr Dafforn said.

"But projects like this where we are trying to encourage native species like seaweed and oysters, these can really help to clean up the water even further."

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-05/sydney-harbour-underwater-garden-to-copy-marine-habitat/12948546?

Well read from top, especially: 

"Please also note the glass front at water level and below the water level, that would show a submerged rockery with sea-life... Of course an engineered system of window cleaning would be used to keep these spotless... 

The main level would of course take the rising sea level into consideration. After a while the biblical basement would get naturally flooded."

Please also note that Barangaroo is still "resembling an agglomerate of concrete and recycled tyres used as bumpers for ship berths" but now in the shape of vertical phallic buildings, plus a suppository...

Given a choice between sensationalism and straight reporting, the Herald will invariably go for sensationalism. This is what it did on Monday with its cover story on Barangaroo and a proposed Aboriginal museum. Questioned by the Herald, I gave it information it refused to publish in its story.

1. The Cutaway, the space under the Barangaroo Headland, was created by me and the then CEO of the Barangaroo Delivery Authority, John Tabart. I took the decision to create the Cutaway space as chair of the Design Excellence Review Panel. It was created by John Tabart and me and no other persons, Aboriginal or otherwise.

2. The Barangaroo headland, which exclusively was my own landscape conception, was vigorously opposed by the Sydney Aboriginal community. They supported the retention of the concrete container wharf as part of the Thalis scheme. They had completely bought the agnostic Herald line against Barangaroo and the headland park.

3. Now, the headland is supposedly “theirs” and I’m the supposed villain denying them the space underneath it.

4. The first I ever heard of the word “Buruk” and the Create NSW Aboriginal scheme was in Monday’s Herald. And the reason I had not heard of it was because the proposal was never before the government for consideration. It was but a twinkle in the eye of bureaucrats in Create NSW, acting mainly for self-appointed Aboriginal people and some Aboriginal organisations.

5. When I was engaged by the former premier, the then treasurer and planning minister, there was, to my knowledge, no proposal for a dedicated Aboriginal museum afoot at the time. And there were no “private” meetings – the one meeting with ministers was official and on the public record.

6. Some bureaucrat in Create NSW writes an email saying an alternative flexible use museum space is “so disappointing” and the Herald goes into apoplexy. We are then enjoined to reach for our handkerchiefs.

7. Nathan Moran, from the Aboriginal Land Council, in a display of arrogance said, “I don’t see how Paul Keating’s proposal ... was ever relevant”. The answer to that is because Paul Keating created the space in the first place and the headland above it. And the government, not unreasonably, asked him for his views on the future of the Cutaway, as he had created it – shocking!

8. The “government” made the decision as to a flexible rather than dedicated use, not me. But I am sure it is the right decision. And its flexibility will allow for Aboriginal cultural displays, presentations and uses anyway. 

Paul Keating, Potts Point

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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/is-paul-keating-now-sydney-s-development-arbiter-20221219-p5c7cu.html

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don't read this bullshit: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/how-keating-proposal-left-barangaroo-indigenous-centre-dead-in-the-water-20221212-p5c5hx.html

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