Barangaroo is one of, if not the largest urban development megaproject in Sydney over the course of the last decade. Interestingly, Barangaroo is “named after a powerful Cammeraygal woman who lived in the area at the time of early colonial settlement. She was a key figure in local Aboriginal culture and community, and remains so today.”
Spending a week in room 2222 in the “6-star” Crown Towers hotel meant having an excellent vantage point from which to mull over this now nearly completed and highly controversial redevelopment. I haven’t quite organized by thoughts and musings on it all but I will return to it shortly. For now, I will simply insert a few images as placeholders…
As glitzy and phallic as the Crown Tower looks, architect Chris Wilkinsen claims to have gotten his main inspiration for the award-winning design from nature – stating that the tower’s form “emanates from three petals that twist and rise together.”
Here are some published early sketches of the design:
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In October 2022, the Sydney Morning Herald published a 19-part series of articles entitled “The Verdict on Barangaroo,” including one on how the Tower had changed the city’s skyline.
The Spliced City 
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