Architect Peter Stutchbury Architecture
Green Square Town Centre, on the southern edge of the City of Sydney, has us all holding our collective, professional breath. The subject of unprecedented scrutiny in terms of urban design, public infrastructure and “design excellence,” it is now one of the fastest growing development sites in the world. As each piece is completed, the sum of the parts is being progressively laid bare. We will soon know whether a flourishing urban culture has translated an industrial expanse into a mixed and newly energized part of the city – or whether business as usual prevails and we have simply acquired more of the vapid lip-service of the early twenty-first-century property boom.
An inept urban structure and some truly ghastly urban housing have been a devastating beginning.
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