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Demolish Packer’s Pecker and reclaim the park it was meant to be – The Age
After the scandal Crown’s casinos, we could turn its Sydney tower into public housing and call it Packer’s Penance. Better still, tear it down.
Portent 1: last weeks tale of woe from the supertall Manhattan resi-tower, 432 Park Ave. Panels cracking, materials igniting, people dying and buildings becoming uninhabitable with no proper redress; were used to such sagas from rented towers. But 432 Park Avenue, designed by Uruguayan starchitect Rafael Viñoly and construction-managed by our very own Lend Lease, is at 427 metres among the tallest, slenderest and most astonishingly expensive blocks of flats in the world.
In 2016, reports The New…
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