The Millers Point Community Resident Action Group
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The Millers Point Community Resident Action Group
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MILLERS POINT
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New South Wales
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Name Withheld
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Margaret Wright
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Margaret Wright
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Miller Point
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New South Wales
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Vittorio Brescia
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Vittorio Brescia
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Anne Keating
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Anne Keating
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MILLERS POINT
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New South Wales
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I am very familiar with the site, walking by it several times a week and overlooking it from my home in Kent Street. Whilst the buildings on the site have little architectural merit they do form a very pleasant historic precinct on Observatory Hill and there is harmony and some space between them.
I am dismayed that the architects have designed little more than a series of boxes, filling almost all of the available land. I object to its height and the impact it will have on so many view lines. I disagree with the classification of these obstructions on your website as being low to moderate, when they are anything but, especially from the Agar Steps and from the Harbour Bridge. It’s height also has a very big impact on the views from the Harbour Bridge to the Crown Casino, a building of considerable architectural merit now partly obscured by these boxes.
I also object to the proposed light colour of the buildings. Rather than create something to blend into this very historic precinct the architects have ensured it stands out, repeating the misguided thinking of architects who defiantly resist blending in with colours and moods of historical sites. There appears to be a preference for ugly modern additions in different colours with the sole aim of differentiation as though this were a worthy aim per se.
This crowded architecture will destroy the school precinct on Observatory Hill just as the LEGO block addition destroyed the MCA on west circular quay where a beautiful Art Deco building was wrecked forever.
The neighbouring National Trust building on Observatory Hill was once a hospital in the early days of the colony. Thankfully the hospital was moved when it outgrew the building. With today’s thinking, the lovely classical building would have had an ugly addition. Our forebears had more sense.
This school is in the centre of a circle surrounded by the Cahill Expressway. It is hard to imagine a less healthy site for a school. The circular expressway should be covered over, restoring Observatory Hill to its former state and protecting the lungs of the children. No new development of this site should take place until the Cahill Expressway is covered. Even then the size of the expansion should be limited.
If these public buildings become too small for their purpose we should move the institutions, not destroy the historical settings just because the buildings are no longer fit for purpose. We have so few historical precincts left to protect in the city.
Anne Keating
I am dismayed that the architects have designed little more than a series of boxes, filling almost all of the available land. I object to its height and the impact it will have on so many view lines. I disagree with the classification of these obstructions on your website as being low to moderate, when they are anything but, especially from the Agar Steps and from the Harbour Bridge. It’s height also has a very big impact on the views from the Harbour Bridge to the Crown Casino, a building of considerable architectural merit now partly obscured by these boxes.
I also object to the proposed light colour of the buildings. Rather than create something to blend into this very historic precinct the architects have ensured it stands out, repeating the misguided thinking of architects who defiantly resist blending in with colours and moods of historical sites. There appears to be a preference for ugly modern additions in different colours with the sole aim of differentiation as though this were a worthy aim per se.
This crowded architecture will destroy the school precinct on Observatory Hill just as the LEGO block addition destroyed the MCA on west circular quay where a beautiful Art Deco building was wrecked forever.
The neighbouring National Trust building on Observatory Hill was once a hospital in the early days of the colony. Thankfully the hospital was moved when it outgrew the building. With today’s thinking, the lovely classical building would have had an ugly addition. Our forebears had more sense.
This school is in the centre of a circle surrounded by the Cahill Expressway. It is hard to imagine a less healthy site for a school. The circular expressway should be covered over, restoring Observatory Hill to its former state and protecting the lungs of the children. No new development of this site should take place until the Cahill Expressway is covered. Even then the size of the expansion should be limited.
If these public buildings become too small for their purpose we should move the institutions, not destroy the historical settings just because the buildings are no longer fit for purpose. We have so few historical precincts left to protect in the city.
Anne Keating
Fort Street Public School P&C Association
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Fort Street Public School P&C Association
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PYRMONT
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New South Wales
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