Barangaroo: Lend Lease/Richard Rogers

[christarrant]

Originally Posted by CULWULLA

so after reading that, maybe the hotel wont go on a pier? wtf
but LL are adament they want it on pier, suppose it depends on design excellence?
and c3 and c5 will be slimmed down on upper levels. well i could see that coming. as long as the height of c3 stays min 200m.im pretty sure c5 was always coming down from 180m to 160m or thereabouts.
but then again, thats from smh.
some positive news from todays teleG.-
MINISTER STRIPPED OF POWER
summary-
ofarrel has powers over hazzard now and found the luxury hotel jutting out on harbour not good policy., despite LL having full rights to build it.
After being on hold for 12months,LL is now able to hand a $60mil tender to dig out basement levls for the 3 office towers and taking the site from caretakers to 3000 workers a day.

I would think that reducing LL's total floor space of the development will be non negotiable, so if towers are to be slimmed down then hopefully that means more height.

[Brizer]

Yes, I wondered about that.

[Fabian]

Altius - Sadly they couldn't and thats why Utzon walked out of its construction back 1966. They said it was "impossible" to build but they did it.

[Fabian]

One happy person following the review is non other than Mr. Paul Keating

Central Magazine (17/8/2011): http://sydney-central.whereilive.com...ted-by-report/

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Lend Lease's Barangaroo South newsletter is available HERE

In the newsletter, LL sets out its next phase of planning applications to the Department of Planning and when they are expected to be lodged:

C3 - Anticipated to be lodged early October 2011
C5 - Anticipated to be lodged November 2011
R8 and R9 - Early 2012
C2 and C6 - 2012

Also mentions the review and recommendations etc.

[CULWULLA]

big dancing banana time!

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Barangaroo Cultural Space within the Headland Park

The creation of the Headland Park provides an unprecedented opportunity to reserve a space for a future use on Sydney Harbour. This is a rare opportunity to create such a unique space for our city.



The Headland Park is an opportunity to create a spatial and sensory sense of place, of a uniquely created natural/urban/cultural landscape that is Sydney. It brings buildings and landscape together to create a unique space for our city.

Kiong Lee, of Johnson Pilton Walker, architects for the cultural space, envisages it as an extension of the park experience.

"Where the inside space is part of the landscape outside and the parkland is as much part of the cultural space as the inside. After all, the whole headland is an extension of the city which itself is a cultural space," Mr Lee said.



The inspiration for the cultural space has come from the many sandstone foreshore platforms of Sydney's headlands in the harbour. The construction of the cultural space adjacent to the dramatic sandstone cliff-face will create a unique space. People will experience a dramatic cave like entry that leads into a large space with natural light reflecting off the warm sandstone wall from skylights above.

Skylights and openings respond to the character of the landscape, drawing it deep into the building, providing natural light and ventilation to the space.

Cultural institutions grow and change over time. Flexibility is the key to success for modern museums and galleries, with constantly refreshed displays, requiring installations to be varied to suit. The most famous example of this approach is the Pompidou Centre which was built as a flexible shell to adapt over its life to a variety of uses.

The Barangaroo cultural space is capable of providing a diversity of spaces to suit a wide range of exhibition and performance, allowing multiple configurations, heights and views, there are few limitations on how these spaces could be used.

Barangaroo has an exciting opportunity of developing a green architecture where building and landscape are designed together. Around the world, new approaches to integrating buildings and landscape are being explored from an environmental and aesthetic perspective. Barangaroo creates a unique building and park, extending this exploration with an environmentally responsive approach to architecture in its integration with nature.

Internationally renowned landscape architect Peter Walker has described Barangaroo as ".... a unique setting in Sydney and an unprecedented opportunity to reclaim the industrial waterfront, reinterpreting the historic 1836 form as an exemplary park for the 21st century. There are not many projects in the world that aspire to such a high set of goals."

Australian examples

The MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART (MONA) ( www.mona.net.au ) in Hobart, designed by Fender Katsilidis, is a recent cultural facility that has most of the exhibition spaces underground. The main foyer, called the 'void' is a dramatic underground space with a 12 metre high excavated sandstone wall as its feature.

The CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC in Sydney, designed by the NSW Government Architect and Jackson Dyke, is located on the edge of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) and has been designed to integrate landscape with the building. The green roof garden is maintained by the RBG and is a seamless part of the gardens. Most of the functions require acoustic isolation which works well below ground and these spaces open onto a dramatic foyer with a high sandstone wall that represents the history of the site. Along the wall are display cabinets containing items excavated from the site. The foyer is filled with natural light from the extensive skylight above.

International examples

The CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ( www.calacademy.org) designed by Renzo Piano in San Francisco is designed as an integration between the building and the landscape.
Renzo has described the design as "like lifting up a piece of the park and putting a building under it." The roof of the building has a series of rolling landscaped hills spread over two and a half acres. As the academy incorporates natural history the landscaped roof becomes part of the scientific display of the facility.

The FUKUOKA PREFECTURAL INTERNATIONAL HALL AND OFFICE in Japan was designed by Emilio Ambasz ( www.emilioambaszandassociates.com ). The building carries an adjoining park up the stepped form of the building so the building reads as an extension of the park. The Ambasz web site is titled "Green over the Gray" to represent the firms design approach of integrating green landscape over their building designs.

http://www.barangaroo.com/news-media...land-park.aspx

[CULWULLA]

i reckon the cultural centre under the headland will be incredible. such a great space and location.

[brizguy]

The nimbus won't like this, all they want is some grass and car parking

[Fabian]

and a cruise ship terminal to cater for the locals going on booze cruises around the South Pacific .

[CULWULLA]

http://www.barangaroo.com/news-media...ouncement.aspx

Premier launches tender process for Barangaroo's Headland Park
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell today kicked off the tender process for the construction of Sydney's newest harbourside park at Barangaroo. This unique project - which will create a six hectare park inspired by Sydney Harbour's 1836 sandstone shoreline - is worth tens of millions of dollars of investment to NSW and will create an estimated 200 on-site construction jobs.

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http://www.barangaroo.com/media/5483...026.9.11ch.pdf

[Fabian]

The E-Bulletin also announced that Archaeological investigations are set to begin at the headland park as well. It will be interesting to see what they dig up.

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Architects slam Premier's decision to ignore rethink on Barangaroo
Matthew Moore
October 3, 2011

LEADING architects have condemned a decision by the Premier, Barry O'Farrell, to dump the principal finding of a design review he commissioned into Barangaroo, which warns current plans for three office towers are so big they ''create the effect of an homogenous mass''.

In his first involvement on the city's biggest construction project, NSW government architect Peter Mould, along with two other architects, said making two of three towers ''taller and thinner'' could help reduce ''the overall perception of significant visual bulk and a 'wall' of buildings''.

But Mr O'Farrell rejected the recommendations on what has been one of the most contentious parts of the Barangaroo project, insisting a redesign could take 12 months even though plans for only one tower, known as C4, have so far been approved.
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''If we keep debating the design it will never be built,'' Mr O'Farrell said at the weekend. ''Given the volatile nature of world markets, we simply cannot afford to delay Barangaroo while we look at alternative designs.''

Architects said it was ridiculous to claim it would take up to a year to change the designs, which were at the concept stage.

An emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Sydney, Peter Webber, said he was ''a little surprised and very disturbed'' that Mr O'Farrell had ignored the panel's findings.

''Any experienced architecture firm could develop a number of alternative concepts within a matter of weeks or several months,'' he said.

''It's very disappointing the Premier took no notice of what would have been worthwhile reforms.''

Professor Webber is an organiser of a group of more than 60 architects who have been lobbying the government over changes they want at Barangaroo, pushing especially to reduce the bulk of the office towers.

In repeated submissions to the government, the City of Sydney Council has also argued the towers be made thinner at higher levels, arguing they have grown too bulky as the government has increased the total floor space of the commercial part of the project by 40 per cent.

Along with Mr Mould, Mr O'Farrell appointed independent architect Ray Brown to the review panel which was chaired by Shelley Penn, a Melbourne architect who co-authored a broader report on Barangaroo released in August.

Their report praised the design for the building named C4 undertaken by the British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, calling it ''of a very high quality'', and predicted an ''excellent outcome'' for the tower's final design if the developer Lend Lease and the Barangaroo Delivery Authority continue their support.

But it said the two other towers, C3 and C5, had been conceived as ''siblings'' to C4 and three highly similar forms were ''inadequate to ameliorate the perceived mass and bulk of the towers as a group''.

Either the existing architects should be asked to review their designs or new architects brought in to ''consider towers of more diverse form, expression and visual identity'', they said.

Their report contains numerous criticisms of the approach to design of the podiums on which the towers sit, describing it as ''well intentioned but ultimately very limited in its ability to deliver a high quality outcome''.

While rejecting a tower redesign, Mr O'Farrell said he will accept ''most of the recommendations'' on podium design and the need for better connections to the city.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/architects...#ixzz1ZdE8OE87

[Marty_]

Some people need a hobby. The fatness of the towers is one of their great appeals to tenants... The project has to be both visually pleasing and commercially viable.

[Dimethyltryptamine]

I agree. Heaven forbid a wall of skyscrapers would block.... a wall of skyscrapers.

[Brizer]

And in a CBD?!
Whatever will they come up with next?!
Streets lined with tall buildings?
Heaven forbid, Muriel...

makes your brain ache at times.

[PD]

Well the guy is advocating the buildings should be taller and thinner, this being SCC why are we not agreeing with him.

[Dimethyltryptamine]

I would love nothing more than for them to be taller, but look at the stink the NIMBY's have kicked up already (too tall, too wide, too many). We all know thay they'll whinge no matter what the proposal is. Come on, I too wouldn't want to lose my view of a bitumen landing strip...

[Alphaville]

I walked nearly the entire length of the site today (from Erskine St right up to Walsh Bay along Hickson Rd) and I dont understand how there can be any NIMBYism. It's windswept, and abandoned.

I can see why the tramline proposal is in place for Hickson Rd, its a very wide, Melbourne style street. Also it will be good to make the Walsh Bay arts venues more accessible to the rest of the city, its an amazing precinct and aside from shows at the theatre, its quite dead.

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by PD

Well the guy is advocating the buildings should be taller and thinner, this being SCC why are we not agreeing with him.

But there has been too much twitching of the design already. C4 has been approved and not far off from construction so you cannot do much about that tower.