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‘It’s a terrible syndrome’: What’s with our love of international ‘starchitects’?

With rare exceptions, Australia still prefers to use architects based overseas for local public projects. Globalisation at work, or cultural cringe on a grand scale?

  • Nick Bryant

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A 60-year-old Port Jackson fig has been planted at the northern end of Watermans Cove.

Harbour foreshore's 'missing link' at Barangaroo opens to the public

Watermans Cove will eventually be part of a continuous ribbon of public spaces along the foreshore, winding from Rozelle Bay to Woolloomooloo.

  • Megan Gorrey
Crown Sydney thrusts itself into your view.

So blatant, so needy: Why is James Packer not embarrassed by Sydney's new casino tower?

The first thing I see at sunrise these days, and the last thing at night, is that erect and shiny immensity.

  • Elizabeth Farrelly

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