The Barangaroo precinct on Sydney Harbour has attracted its fair share of criticism in the past week after prominent architect Philip Thalis accused successive governments of betraying the original winning design for the site.
Thalis pulled no punches in a diatribe in the Sydney Morning Herald, describing "fragmented and diminished parks atop massive car parks, mean streets with no connection to the harbour, cursory cultural investment, dictated by development cartels delivering a shiny 75-storey casino hotel plonked right on the foreshore and a phalanx of bulky commercial and glassy residential towers hogging the foreshore and despoiling historic vistas".
