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The City of Sydney has proposed new planning rules that aim to transform the Oxford Street precinct by creating more employment and cultural floor space. The new draft planning rules, which were recently endorsed unanimously by Council, will unlock redevelopment opportunities, encourage investment, stimulate business, and activate streets and laneways.
The proposed controls could create more than 42,500sqm of employment floor space and 11,000sqm of new creative and cultural floor space along Oxford Street from Greens Road, Paddington to Whitlam Square, Surry Hills.
The draft planning rules are expected to activate the precinct’s day and night economy, while protecting its significant heritage and character, Lord Mayor Clover Moore said.
âIâm astonished my life has lasted so longâ At 100, artist and digger Guy Warren embraces mortality but reveals thereâs lots of life â and art â in him yet.
Art & Theatre by Margaret Rice
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Subscriber only The interview with Guy Warren starts with the obvious question, since he turned 100 on April 16, although that question could be offensive or at the very least, indelicate. Does Guy s prolific brushstroke, bursting into life-affirming art for most of his 100 years, ease fears of death, soothe anxieties about mortality? Guy has left such powerful marks of his existence, so do these protect against becoming nothing?
âIâm astonished my life has lasted so longâ At 100, artist and digger Guy Warren embraces mortality but reveals thereâs lots of life â and art â in him yet.
Art & Theatre by Margaret Rice
Premium Content
Subscriber only The interview with Guy Warren starts with the obvious question, since he turned 100 on April 16, although that question could be offensive or at the very least, indelicate. Does Guy s prolific brushstroke, bursting into life-affirming art for most of his 100 years, ease fears of death, soothe anxieties about mortality? Guy has left such powerful marks of his existence, so do these protect against becoming nothing?
Artist Robert Owen - the subject of a current survey at Heide - accumulates ideas like a bower bird. But some pieces hint at deeper currents of meaning.