Sydney Architecture Festival 2012

Overview

The Sydney Architecture Festival 2012 is so much more than just a celebration of our city’s architectural heritage. Closely connected to the Super Sydney project, it seeks to open a discussion the future of our diverse and continually evolving metropolis.

The programme contains the usual tours and peeks inside the city’s gems you would expect — including the biennial Sydney Open — but it goes far beyond this with a plethora of talks, exhibitions and activities taking place throughout Sydney and its surrounds. These explore the challenges that collective living poses, both social and environmental. Innovators from Australia and elsewhere offer creative solutions from a whole range of perspectives and provide an excellent opportunity to learn about urban planning and our future.

The time is yet to come for our wonderful city, as it works to find its identity and share its wealth with all. But that time is near. Though the issues of affordability, housing and transport continue to beset us, great changes are most definitely afoot.

Image: 1 Bligh St, looking up, Courtesy DEXUS, DWPF & Cbus.