The verdict on Barangaroo
Construction started on one of Sydney’s largest urban renewal projects 10 years ago and after backflips, clashes and dead deals, the Barangaroo precinct is almost complete. The Herald looks at what has worked, what hasn’t and what lessons can be learnt for Sydney’s future city-building.
How Barangaroo’s Crown Tower has changed Sydney’s skyline
Viewing Sydney’s CBD from its north, east, south and west vantage points highlights just how much development at Barangaroo has shaped our city.
- by Anthony Segaert
Opinion
What are you all smoking? Barangaroo is fine - it might even be great
It was never going to please everybody, and it’s important to have a healthy debate - but Sydney, please, must we complain so much?
- by Michael Koziol
‘Bedevilled from the start’: What Barangaroo can teach Sydney about planning
Planners, architects and even the premier agree: in current and future state significant projects, the government must take more control.
- by Michael Koziol and Megan Gorrey
Opinion
Barangaroo stole our skyline and belittled the Opera House
So dominant is its feature excrescence, the Crown casino, that Barangaroo has transformed the way we see our city.
- by Margot Saville
Exclusive
Barangaroo: From the Hungry Mile to Australia’s most expensive neighbourhood
As rags-to-riches stories go, Barangaroo’s is a doozy: from a Depression-era road known as the “Hungry Mile” to the most expensive real estate in the country.
- by Lucy Macken
‘One lady shed tears’: Battle to recognise Barangaroo’s rich Indigenous history
Barangaroo fought for her headland home but Indigenous culture is now lost among “tall buildings and casinos”, leaders say
- by Julie Power
Opinion
Barangaroo’s ‘phallic forest’ a monument to Sydney’s impotence
Barangaroo is, sadly, a great example of developer-led city-making that gifts public land to private interests without community benefit.
- by Clover Moore
Old enemies cop it sweet in Keating and Perrottet’s architecture double act
The Premier could only watch in bemusement as the former prime minister took aim at the Institute of Architects, Lord Mayor Clover Moore and even the Herald.
- by Michael Koziol
‘A symbol of wealth’: Architects give their verdict on Crown’s Barangaroo tower
At 275 metres, One Barangaroo is Sydney’s tallest building, but architects find it hard to see its beauty.
- by Julie Power
Crown Barangaroo bets on Asian tourism
Crown Barangaroo’s new owners will target high net-worth tourists as part of a plan to revitalise the gambling giant’s $2.2b investment.
- by Colin Kruger
Opinion
Public interest consistently sacrificed in Barangaroo evolution
Successive modifications to Barangaroo have seen public interests sacrificed in favour of commercial ones.
- by Helen Lochhead
Exclusive
‘One chance to get this right’: Government orders shorter, smaller buildings at Central Barangaroo
Premier Dominic Perrottet will visit Barangaroo with former prime minister Paul Keating on Thursday after rejecting developer Aqualand’s plans.
- by Michael Koziol
A giant cavern beneath Barangaroo is about to bridge gaps to greater Sydney
The precinct has been a hive of activity as the construction of buildings, parks and dining strips transform the foreshore. It’s been buzzing below the surface too.
- by Matt O'Sullivan
Opinion
Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across Sydney
The prized site stands as the manifestation of a corrupted process. They should have tossed this plan in the bin, not our winning design.
- by Philip Thalis
‘What are the next steps?’: Final stage of Barangaroo in limbo
Sydney’s long-awaited Central Barangaroo development has been dogged by a high-stakes Supreme Court battle, public backlash and ministerial intervention.
- by Megan Gorrey
A gift or a curse? Keating’s Barangaroo vision 10 years on
Construction started on one of Sydney’s largest urban renewal projects 10 years ago. After backflips, clashes and dead deals, the Barangaroo precinct is almost complete. Has it been a success?
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Ugly concrete slab to shining jewel: mission accomplished at Barangaroo
The NSW premier writes that, 10 years on, the bold vision for Barangaroo has been realised, and it reclaims the grandeur of the landmark that predated the flat concrete wasteland of recent times.
- by Dominic Perrottet
Exclusive
Central Barangaroo tower developer should be compensated, says Keating
Aqualand warned the viability of the project is under consideration after Planning Minister Anthony Roberts’ intervention to kill off a proposed luxury tower.
- by Michael Koziol
Unrealised Barangaroo: The plans for the precinct that never eventuated
More than 130 architects entered the 2005 design competition for what is now Barangaroo, with ideas for canals, waterside pools, and green roofs. Not one proceeded. Not even the winner.
- by Julie Power
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