Barangaroo

The Wilkinson Eyre design: An architectural 'postcard'

Packer plans luxury apartments at Barangaroo casino site

Sean Nicholls James Packer is pushing for his proposed $1 billion hotel and casino at Barangaroo to contain multimillion-dollar apartments at its highest levels to offer soaring views over Sydney harbour and the...

Barangaroo asbestos path closed

Sean Nicholls A public walkway through the northern end of Barangaroo will be closed and moved after an expert report found it would be ''imprudent'' to allow its use while asbestos-contaminated soil was excavated...

Call to scrutinise Barangaroo deal

Sean Nicholls THE NSW Greens are calling for a review of the amount paid for land at Barangaroo by the developer Lend Lease to ascertain if the company was given a ''billion dollar gift'' by the former Labor...

Absent Holmes a Court quits Barangaroo board

Sean Nicholls THE Sydney businessman Peter Holmes a Court has stepped down from the Barangaroo Delivery Authority board after missing three meetings while on sabbatical in France.

Barangaroo developer unveils plan

Matthew Moore LEND LEASE has shaved the length and reduced the mass of the first of three giant office towers planned for Barangaroo in a bid to defuse opposition to the controversial development.

The big end of town gets behind Barangaroo as opponents line up

Josephine Tovey The battle for hearts and minds in the Barangaroo debate has intensified, with business heavyweights and the former premier Bob Carr joining the state government in supporting the redevelopment.

A clash of views as the city fights Lend Lease's vision for Barangaroo

Matthew Moore URBAN AFFAIRS EDITOR THE City of Sydney and Lend Lease are embroiled in an increasingly strained argument about what the city's biggest development will look like, with both sides issuing widely differing images of the...

Hotel moved from habour in new Barangaroo vision

Kelsey Munro URBAN AFFAIRS ALMOST 60 independent architects and planners have united to back an alternative scheme for Barangaroo, which would have smaller towers, remove the hotel from the harbour and jettison the...

Premier lashes lord mayor over Barangaroo

Matthew Moore URBAN AFFAIRS EDITOR THE PREMIER, Kristina Keneally, has accused the lord mayor, Clover Moore, and the City of Sydney of ''playing politics'' with the biggest development in the CBD and has assumed ministerial control to...

Public delighted by Barangaroo: Lend Lease

Matthew Moore Developers of Sydney's biggest urban renewal project have lashed out at criticism from the Australian Institute of Architects, saying most people are delighted with the plans for 60-storey buildings...

30 years to clean up Barangaroo

Jim O'Rourke IT WILL take at least 30 years to get rid of a plume of toxic chemicals from the $6 billion Barangaroo development, a report into the Sydney harbourside project warns.

Barangaroo plans are 'deeply flawed'

Matthew Moore PLANS for Sydney's biggest urban renewal project at Barangaroo were so flawed the government should reject them and start the planning process afresh, says the body representing NSW architects.

More Barangaroo space means transport crush: planners

Matthew Moore The state government's decision to abandon the Sydney Metro project means Wynyard station will ''exceed safe operational capacity'' in evening peaks once Barangaroo is built, city planners have...

State's seizure of Barangaroo land angers mayor

Kelsey Munro URBAN AFFAIRS A STATE government move to seize control of roads around Barangaroo has angered City of Sydney council, and the lord mayor, Clover Moore, says it removes crucial oversight of the clean-up of the...

Moore quits over Barangaroo 'railroading'

Matthew Moore The lord mayor, Clover Moore, has quit the board in charge of Sydney's biggest development, claiming the public is being ''railroaded'' on the Barangaroo project.

It's no Barangaroo, but Coalition plan is worth millions

Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR THE Sydney Entertainment Centre would be demolished and incorporated into a $700 million ''world class'' convention and entertainment complex at Darling Harbour to open by 2015 under plans being...

Barangaroo site highly polluted, say documents

Brian Robins POTENTIALLY embarrassing documents relating to the Barangaroo development site reveal the extent of contamination on the site of the multibillion-dollar property development.

Financial details of Barangaroo project withheld

Matthew Moore URBAN AFFAIRS EDITOR SIX months after signing a $6 billion redevelopment agreement for Barangaroo, the state government has released the contract but with almost all financial information removed.

Moore rejects conflict of interest over Barangaroo

Kelsey Munro AUSTRALIA'S biggest development project, at Barangaroo, is dividing the City of Sydney, with councillors split over the position of the lord mayor, Clover Moore, on the board of the Barangaroo...