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The argument over what should become of the old White Bay power station and adjoining land in Rozelle has been raging for 40 years, with more than a dozen proposals from casino to naval base.
As Jamie Parker, the state member for Balmain and former mayor of what was then Leichhardt Council, puts it: White Bay is the graveyard where thought bubbles go to die.
The White Bay power station lies defunct in 2020.
Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
The defunct coal-fired power station, built before and during World War I, looked set for demolition after it closed in 1984. But instead it survived long enough to be appreciated for its historical and cultural value, and was listed on the heritage register in 1999.
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This article was originally published on Common Edge as Presenting Architecture as Progressive, but Practicing Through Exclusion.
For a profession that likes to congratulate itself about how well-meaning it is, and sees itself as liberal, diverse, open, and progressive, British architecture has a serious problem with diversity of pretty much every kind. It is dominated by people from well-off backgrounds. It trains a lot of brilliant female architects but doesn’t pay them as much as men, and loses many of them after 30 when they are not supported in balancing work and family life. Its ethnic makeup is very, very white, considering that it’s 2020. A supposed beacon of success is the acceptance of the LGBTQ community within the field, but as with women and those from and religious and ethnic minorities, stories of unprofessional comments, inappropriate jokes, and insidious forms of jovially “innocent” othering and the diminution of identity-specific concerns abound.
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