With great interest I read Jade Lazarevic's article, "Behind the design of Quay Project" (Newcastle Herald, 25/5), regarding the announcement of DOMA's plans for the remainder of the Honeysuckle Foreshore. I read the list of architectural companies that worked together on this development.
When I viewed the accompanying rendered images, I was truly disappointed. We have enough buildings that are basically rectangular prisms. When checking some of these companies' websites, their portfolios show the rectangular prism is their stock standard unit of design with, in my opinion, little variation. There are other 3D shapes and other ways to use rectangular prisms. Newcastle deserves better. This is to be the focus for becoming "the centre of the city".
