No public artwork comes without debate - here are some comments from our business and arts leaders: “We congratulate the City for its commitment to The City’s public art in the city. Art is always subjective and the fact is, this sculpture will be a major talking point and will enhance the city’s pulling power.” public art program Business Chamber Executive Director Patricia Forsythe.

“Public art can really make a place come to life; it’s We recently released an updated design for Cloud Arch – our significant capable of transforming otherwise ordinary places into living landmarks, drawing visitors and defining new public artwork outside Sydney Towngives ourHall, city centreto be a truebuilt people’s by March place where 2019. the areas where people gather and meet.” pedestrianised George Street will meet . Designed by visionary Japanese artist and architect Mirvac CEO Junya Ishigami, Cloud Arch is a majestic steel arch Cloud Arch is the most significant public artwork to be Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz. that will soar 58 metres above George Street. built in Australia for decades and will be a culmination October 2017 Moore Park Making our city work better for the people in it every and focus for our main city artery where people will “The increase in the scale of Ishigami’s proposed day has been a key priority over the last decade. have priority over cars. design greatly adds to its appeal and promises to Light rail and the transformation of George Street finally be even more compelling than the original concept.”

Art Gallery of NSW Director Dr Michael Brand. Forgotten Songs Other exciting works include In Between Two Worlds, by artist Jason Wing, which forms “Cloud Arch will be the most exciting design to the centrepiece of the City of Sydney’s upgrade to Little Hay Street, Factory Street and Kimber emerge on the Sydney scene since the Opera House. Lane in Haymarket. I know it will become a Sydney icon.” Moore Park under threat again Penelope Seidler AM. We worked with artist Lindy Lee to transform In the 1970s, the NSW Government pursued freeways through historic Glebe and Newtown, wholesale destruction of Thomas Street, Haymarket, into a space of In Between Two Worlds “Cloud Arch is a sublime work arching towards The Rocks and Woolloomooloo, and demolition of priceless heritage buildings, such as the Theatre Royal and Australia Hotel. harmony with thoughtful Scholar Rocks and the sky defining Sydney’s ambition. It is a The rampant destruction was stalled only by massive public outcry and green bans. stone seating that replicates the natural great example of what public art can offer.” form of boulders. Now, it’s on again, with the NSW Government This Utopia-sounding ‘connectivity The government and the Centennial and John Kaldor AO. using state significant development and upgrade’ is a direct highway from Moore Park Trust seem to be unable to We Are Here is a giant mural along Foley unelected authorities to push through WestConnex to Moore Park and Allianz prevent it. Street in Darlinghurst, inspired by the hundreds unpopular and destructive projects. Stadium, where powerful entities are 20 million people visit the Centennial and of parades that have taken place in the area. pressuring the NSW Government into The Sydney Motorway Corporation Moore parklands annually, while just prioritising public funds to rebuild the The songs of 50 birds once heard in central controlling WestConnex is beyond the two million attend Allianz stadium and stadium, despite poor attendances, no Sydney have been brought back to life in scrutiny of Parliament, ICAC or the public. the SCG. The needs of the majority must support from major football codes and Forgotten Songs by Michael Thomas Hill. A Its expanding toll road network cost has be prioritised. With three out of every four no credible business case. chorus of birdcalls filter down from the canopy Celebrating Eora risen from $10 billion to $17 billion, and people in the City of Sydney area living in Scholar Rocks of birdcages suspended above Angel Place. The Eora Journey is a City project that recognises and celebrates the living will reach $50 billion including additional But that’s not all. Next door in the former apartments, Moore Park is our backyard Here, an Echo by Agatha Gothe-Snape combines stages and connector roads, pushing Showground, the consortium that leases and increasingly important as leisure space. culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Sydney. congestion into new areas. the Entertainment Quarter is secretly the acts of reading and walking with 14 words Moore Park is also public land, our land planning redevelopment that services and phrases in Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills. At the St Peters interchange, the Roads and its future must be planned openly We’re working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander professional sports, when community and Maritime Services is now proposing a and in full consultation with us – its Caroline Rothwell’s two bronze Youngsters artists to create seven major public art projects. sport facilities are desperately needed. sculptures in Sydney’s Barrack Street are a So far we’ve launched: six-lane highway through residential areas owners and users. including Green Square to Moore Park for And the Park Trust plans to expand five playful take on identity. Please contact Premier Berejiklian on • Welcome to Redfern by artist Reko Rennie, a striking the 120,000 extra vehicles a day that will car parking sites, despite new light rail, 02 8574 5000 and let her know what Discover more at cityartsydney.com.au mural covering an entire terrace house at The Block come into the city and congest local roads. and without any traffic and transport plan. with vibrant graphic designs and murals of inspiring you think. Visit fixwestconnex.com.au We Are Here Youngsters Aboriginal leaders At the eastern end of this new highway Pushing all this is the Sydney Cricket and my lord mayoral minute at near Moore Park, a $500 million 12-lane and Sports Ground Trust which includes cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/moore-park • YININMADYEMI Thou didst let fall by Tony Albert, intersection will require pedestrians to the former head of WestConnex. Also for more information on the destructive a memorial in Hyde Park to acknowledge Aboriginal and cross five sets of lights and will alienate on the trust is former Premier O’Farrell, ‘WestCongest’ project. Torres Strait Islander men and women who served in yet more of our parklands. whose $38 million Tibby Cotter bridge

the nation’s military would appear to have been built to Welcome to Redfern Protecting the magnificent fig trees at connect car parking on west Moore • born in darkness before dawn by Nicole Foreshew, Waterloo Oval and Moore Park should a temporary artwork made up of nightly Park to the stadiums. Here, an Echo be beyond question, but this government @CloverMoore projections of the personal histories has destroyed whole avenues of trees for In 2010, the former Chair of the of Aboriginal women that transformed light rail and WestConnex, rejecting more Sports Trust admitted it had been the wall of the on sensitive design solutions. trying to control Moore Park for Sydneysiders will have an opportunity to explore William Street. years and didn’t plan to stop. our rich history and heritage in a major exhibition We’re now working on Monument for marking the 175th anniversary of the City of Sydney the Eora. This major public artwork will Council – Our City: 175 Years in 175 Objects. thank and honour the Aboriginal people Open daily from Friday 27 October to Sunday of Sydney, and recognise the Gadigal Sydney City 12 November, the exhibition will showcase 175 clan as the traditional custodians of the objects from the City’s civic, history and archive City of Sydney local area. collections dating from 1842 to 2017 – many of This new work will be in the heart of is 175 years old which have never been seen by the public. our city and a landmark of national and Highlights include a letter from American inventor international significance. Thomas Edison, a Domain Baths swimming born in darkness before dawn competition shield from 1921 and an 1850s minute book featuring doodles and sketches by the artist If you require this information in an alternative format please contact: and town clerk, John Rae.

City of Sydney: 02 9265 9333 [email protected] The exhibition will be open from 11am to 4pm in the Translating & Interpreting Service (TIS):13 14 50 Lower Town Hall of Sydney Town Hall. Free entry. by 27 October For more information visit the City’s What’s On website. How to contact the City Visit: City of Sydney, Town Hall House, 456 Kent Street, Sydney Post: GPO Box 1591, Sydney NSW 2001 T: 02 9265 9333 Email: [email protected] Special meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney for its 100th anniversary, 20 July 1942. Online: cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au Your councillors are (IND) / Jess Miller (IND) / Robert Kok (IND) / Jess Scully (IND) / Philip Thalis (IND) / Christine Forster (LIB) / Craig Chung (LIB) / Linda Scott (LAB) / Kerryn Phelps (IND) / Angela Vithoulkas (IND) To subscribe to Sydney City News online: cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/subscribe To keep up to date with all Sydney events, sign up to our What’s On newsletter at whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au ‘WestCONgest’ plans expansion

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2 3 Lachlan St Moore McEvoy St Proposed St Peters interchange Park Artist’s impression The planned $500 million ‘continuous flow intersection’ at Anzac Parade will have Green 12 lanes of traffic, with light rail through the middle. Pedestrians will wait at five sets of Square The ‘WestCongest’ interchange at St Peters, adjacent to , lights to cross it. It carves off parkland and threatens more mature trees. TODAY will cover 27 hectares with a spaghetti junction of roads 38 metres high, ACTION designed for truck speeds of up to 100 km/h. Euston Rd 3 TAKE

The state government has started construction for the St Peters interchange READ THE LORD MAYORAL MINUTE THAT years earlier than scheduled. They are trying to lock-in this destructive project 2 DESCRIBES THE CRITICAL SITUATION before public outrage grows despite there being no final designs or approval FOR MOORE PARK. for stage three of ‘WestCongest’. cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/moore-park To manage the 120,000 extra vehicles that will pour out of St Peters each VISIT:  fixwestconnex.com.au day, the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) now proposes road widening Sydney to read more about ‘WestCongest’ and clearways for a six-lane highway (the scale of the Pacific Highway) to be called the Alexandria to Moore Park connector, with vehicles travelling Park TELL THE PREMIER WHAT YOU THINK at 70 km/h through densely-populated Green Square, along Euston Road, 02 8574 5000 O’Riordan St CALL: McEvoy Street and Lachlan Street to Moore Park. Botany Rd The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian MP A vague ‘preliminary concept design’ fails to disclose the threats WRITE:  AFTER GPO Box 5341 of more tree removals, parkland alienation, compulsory property On South Dowling Street near Dacey SYDNEY NSW 2001 acquisitions and increased pollution and traffic congestion. BEFORE Avenue, 14 35-year-old fig trees and @GladysB The City opposes this project and has called on the RMS to limit 10 mature figs planted around 1900 are 11 Washington palms planted in the 1920s work on key intersections. Our densely populated neighbourhoods threatened by road widening next to are at risk. Also threatened are 41 mature figs including Green Square’s 60,000 residents and 20,000 workers need At Euston Road we’ve lost 19,294 square metres of Sydney Park and planted in the 1960s along Dacey Avenue. 238 trees, including 159 well-established paperbarks, for ‘WestCongest’. Waterloo Oval and Mt Carmel Reserve, with .net .seeklogo effective public transport, not more fast moving through-traffic and http://www more congestion. Buses will be stuck in the extra traffic and unable up to 100 street trees also at risk. to run on time, rat runs on residential streets will be created and clearways will increasingly replace parking. Airbnb Streets ahead in Green Square What you think aboutmajority did not think short-term letting should IN SYDNEY PARK be allowed in investment properties, which CITY FARM The NSW Government has released an options Our City Farm is set to open! Sydney City Farm is an paper on the approach it should take to short- could have an impact on housing affordability urban agricultural project that has been specially term letting platforms like Airbnb. and residential amenity or be exploited by designed for seasonal food production, volunteer tourist operators. Short-term letting can be a positive experience and education programs and plant demonstrations. for residents and tourists, but it can also have Two-thirds of residents supported strata City farms are being set up around Australia to major impacts on the amenity of neighbours committees having more power to manage provide connections between the country and city impacts such as anti-social behaviour, but and strata costs. and to allow city children to learn about farming Artist’s impression of Geddes Avenue they were evenly split as to whether strata and agriculture. The City recently commissioned a survey to committees should have the authority to better understand the views and experiences of prohibit short-term letting in their building. Join us for the launch on Sunday 29 October Green Square residents will soon enjoy two new tree-lined streets in the heart of the town centre, our community. between 10am and 2pm in Sydney Park, St Peters. The new Paul Street runs between the The survey highlighted the diversity of views with work on Paul Street and Geddeseast. Avenue It includes almost a single complete.travel lane in each future Zetland Avenue in the north and Just over one-third of residents thought within our community, especially between You’ll be able to take a tour of the farm site and The new streets are part of the City’s direction and a central lane with right-turn Geddes Avenue in the south. The northern short-term letting was already occurring in younger residents and tenants who were chat to the volunteers about how you can get efforts to prioritise walkers and bike riders, bays, accessible pedestrian islands and section includes two lanes in each direction their buildings. 15 per cent of residents have much more positive about short-term letting involved. There’ll be cow milking and butter and with hundreds of new trees, extra-wide signalised intersections. and right turning lanes at each intersection themselves let out a room, and 50 per cent cream making demonstrations. Kids can meet to improve traffic flow. than older residents and owners. footpaths, elegant street furniture and of residents have used short-term letting as a the animals and get hands-on with craft activities A two-way cycleway on the southern side separated cycleways being built across New garden beds will separate the footpath visitor elsewhere. We are now preparing a submission to the and seedling planting. of the street will be separated from traffic the area. from the road providing a direct pedestrian NSW Government based on your feedback. by a wide median strip with street trees The survey found a clear majority support short- View the discussion at See sydneycityfarm.com.au for more details. The new Geddes Avenue connects Botany and gardens. connection to the plaza. Bus stop bays will term letting within a resident’s property whilst sydneyyoursay.com.au/short-term-letting Sydney City Farm Road in the west and Portman Street in the also be incorporated. they are living there or on holidays. However, a