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[Suitman]

 

[Suitman]

Parramatta's 8 Phillip Street wins 2024 Urban Developer Award
Edited by Clemence Carayol

Parramatta's 8 Phillip Street wins 2024 Urban Developer Award | Architecture & Design​

Coronation Property has won the coveted Urban Developer Award for Industry Excellence in Construction Innovation for 8 Phillip Street, at a gala event held on the Gold Coast.

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Coronation Property has won the coveted Urban Developer Award for Industry Excellence in Construction Innovation for 8 Phillip Street, at a gala event held on the Gold Coast.

The awards celebrated the best development projects across the country and were judged on a range of criteria including the degree of project difficulty, quality, innovation and new technologies used. This year saw a record number of high-calibre submissions from across Australia and New Zealand.

Led by Coronation, 8 Phillip Street is a dramatic presence on the Parramatta skyline, the site also has a historical significance with the preservation of the heritage-listed St Andrew’s Church Hall integrated into the completed project.

Joe Nahas, Owner of Coronation, says that as a fully integrated business, Coronation is well positioned to deliver excellence across each stage of the property life cycle.

“As Coronation rapidly grows, we’ve always been driven by our ability to recognise the possibilities in every opportunity, and to remain true to our mission – that we’re here to create design-conscious, high-quality, and transformative places that better the future,” he says.

“Being recognised for awards across Development, Construction and Brand is a testament to our team and our collaborator’s dedication to bringing our vision to life.”

With its twisting rhomboid design and mesh-embedded glass cladding, the Woods Bagot-designed tower will be a first for Western Sydney, ensuring the building’s status as an instant Parramatta icon.

Incorporating striking contemporary design elements, including high-quality joinery and innovative windbreak balconies, 8 Phillip Street will offer residents configurable outdoor living spaces as well as a pool on the 18th floor. While the boutique QT hotel accommodation will provide Parramatta with its first five-star hotel.

Construction of 8 Phillip Street is slated to be complete by 2026.

 

[Twizzle]

wouldn't want to roll over of the side of that closest deck chair

 

[Suitman]

So, there was an incident at the Gadigal OSD (Over Site Development) today. A crane removing scaffolding had a strap snap and it all landing on an Australia Post vehicle. Thankfully, no one was killed. It was all to do with the OSD developer. Nothing to do with the metro station that is already complete.
But let's wait for MSM go into overdrive, regardless of the facts. Particularly the SMH and 9.

 

[Suitman]

Oh dear. It just drags on and on....


https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...ous&mode=premium&v21=GROUPA-Segment-2-NOSCORE


Opening date is still a mystery as Metro debacle lingers on

The safety sign-off for the $21.6 billion rail line is now a formality but the Minns government has still not been able to set a date for when the troubled project will launch.




The Minns government is refusing to say when Sydney’s $21.6 billion Metro project will open, despite the national safety regulator finally receiving everything it needs to give final sign-off.
In a statement, the National Rail Safety Regulator said it has “now received the evidence to support the operational safety case”.
It is “continuing its assessment” of the Metro, and “working as quickly as possible,” the statement said.
“The assessment is now well advanced with finalisation subject to the standard verifications/clarifications.”
The Daily Telegraph understands that evidence was received on Friday, after the firefighters’ union said the safety issues that had been preventing the Metro opening had been resolved.
Despite the resolution, a spokesman for the Fire Brigade Employees Union (FBEU) on Friday still gave no guarantee that it would sign off on the project.
The FBEU is currently locked in talks with the government demanding a 20 per cent pay rise over three years.

NSW Secretary Leighton Drury has previously said the pay negotiations are separate to safety concerns that have plagued the Metro’s opening.
A ban on FBEU members conducting safety drills in Metro tunnels was blamed in part for the project’s delay. The union raised dozens of safety failures with the government, which have now been fixed.
In a statement, a spokesman for Transport Minister Jo Haylen said the metro is “not far off”.
“(We) are awaiting final approval from the office of the national rail safety regulator,” he said.
“Once we receive approval from the national regulator we will have more to say.”
Ms Haylen was embarrassingly forced to postpone the Metro’s opening last month because it did not yet have final safety approval.
The delay has angered local businesses who were counting on the increased patronage from the $21.6bn project.
“Due to the delays we’re losing a lot of foot traffic, we’re already facing struggles at the moment taking that away and having a delayed development is really impacting our business,” Avenue on Chifley owner Bianca Austin said.

Ms Austin said her cafe had seen a “rapid decrease in revenue” since Covid.
“Without people coming in we have no business, without business I can’t hire staff or give them the hours that they require,” she said.
“It’s a little embarrassing being like ‘hey we’re here, we’re open.’”
In a further embarrassment, the Telegraph revealed last week that Transport for NSW was selling single-use Opal tickets to stations which still have no opening date.
On July 30, the day the Metro’s opening was delayed, Premier Chris Minns said the project would be open in “a couple of weeks”.
Now, two weeks later, there is still no date set in stone.

 

[Delboy]

The Labor party have to pay the piper who calls the tune, the union movement basically underpins their finances and election funding. Seems we are moving down the road where the promise of less disputes under Labor is as always, poor budgeting and money to public service and the union movement.

 

[the phantom menace]

The Labor party have to pay the piper who calls the tune, the union movement basically *underpins their finances and election funding.

*builds all the public and transport infrastructure we rely on