The historic grandstand which has graced Marrickville’s Henson Park for more than 80 years could get a radical and modern…
Marrickville’s eccentric industrial icon to be replaced by affordable housing
It’s been immortalised on tea towels, greeting cards and posters and lampooned for its outrageous lime mint colour scheme and…
Heritage dreams now a pile of rubble
Before being sold in November 2019, the large Federation home at 436 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville was described by its real…
Time to repeat the urban legacy of the Great Depression
Every day, residents of Sydney’s Inner West enjoy historic public spaces which were built during the Great Depression. Some of…
Sydney Tools forced to rip down garish Dulwich Hill signage
The Dulwich Hill community and Inner West Council has scored a major victory by forcing the Sydney Tools hardware store…
Sad fate of this once-proud timber home shows the need to better protect our heritage
The near destruction of a Dulwich Hill heritage home – which has been stripped to its original wooden bones and…
Secrets undermining the quest to protect the Inner West’s magical hidden place – the Dibble Avenue waterhole
Cities, by and large, are bad for the soul. Motorways, office buildings, shopping centres, apartment buildings and housing estates play…
Our rare opportunity to create an Inner-West riverside oasis
There are many great reasons why Sydney’s inner-west is a great place to live, including our heritage neighbourhoods, buzzing main…
It’s time to ‘think small’ about our cities
Residents of cities across Australia are regularly urged to ‘think big’. It’s become commonplace for State and local governments, often…
Why Sirius should come down – ASAP
About 1,000 people today rallied to save the Sirius building in The Rocks – and I wasn’t one of them.…
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