‘A symbol of wealth’: Architects give their verdict on Crown’s Barangaroo tower | juliepower
Built to resemble three petals twisting 275 metres into the sky like a living artwork, One Barangaroo was the late British architect Chris Wilkinson’s most polarising work.
Some architects admire One Barangaroo’s design and shape, likened to a large glass sail, but the vast majority interviewed by thewere blind to any beauty or aesthetic appeal because of how it came about. In an architectural version of cancel culture, some architects won’t enter the building.the idea for the tower was pitched by former Crown chief executive James Packer at a private lunch in 2012 with Barry O’Farrell, then premier, and broadcaster Alan Jones.
WilkinsonEyre won the design competition held by Crown competing against a who’s who of international architects.But it was “an ordinary and banal piece of corporate architecture,” said Mossop. “Architects play around with facades and shapes as we see here but it’s basically a container for very rich people and a symbol of their wealth.”
“I want this hotel resort to be instantly recognisable around the world and feature on postcards and memorabilia promoting Sydney. That’s how you attract international tourists, create jobs and put Sydney on the map,” he toldThe public loves the building, concedes Shaun Carter, a vehement and constant critic of failures in the planning processes that allowed Crown’s unsolicited proposal to build a tower to proceed.
In 2015, developers Lend Lease successfully gained approval to increase the tower’s height by 75 metres to 275 metres, arguing it would make the “hotel building the tallest tower on the site, and one of the tallest buildings in Sydney”.Mould says the large podium that accommodates swimming pools, tennis courts and the high-roller rooms in the casino is too vast, denying the opportunity for human-scale smaller streets: “It is longer than a football field and equivalent to 12 residential storeys.
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