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Design Inc with Lacoste and Stevenson, and Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Built on the land of the Dharug people

It’s been a bit rough since 2016, don’t you think? In times as turbulent as these, it’s human nature to become nostalgic for simpler days. Reflecting as they do the desires and fears of society, architects are not averse to a little nostalgia. The new Parramatta civic centre, or Phive (the address is 5 Parramatta Square), is not nostalgic – but then, it was commissioned by design competition in 2016. Before all of this.

Phive is designed by Australian firms Design Inc, and Lacoste and Stevenson, with French firm Manuelle Gautrand Architecture – whose manifesto to “re-enchant the city” is tantalisingly hopeful, almost optimistic.

Parramatta is becoming a city of spires, not in the way of the medieval perpendicular, but in the manner of the speculative tower. Spikey, at a

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