I would like to steer away from criticizing at length particular Sydney city projects that are on the horizon – in reality it does not take any architectural training to know that what is being produced is instinctively unsatisfying. Nor do I really want to get too involved in the substantial topic of what these projects should be providing to the urban realm – Jan Gehl’s ‘public space, public life‘i report for Sydney Council already articulates this. I would rather focus on running some ideas and drawing vectors to abstract locations of thought; in the hope of stumbling across some useful minerals that might begin to crystallise concepts of how the fine grain can be sought. « Read the rest of this entry »
