145 Hall Street Bondi Beach NSW 2026

Demolition of existing boarding house, garage and all structures, and construction of a four-storey boarding house with basement parking

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(Source: Waverley Council, reference DA-196/2020)

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  1. CM commented

    A real shame to lose another building from the inter-war era to be replaced by a bland block of flats. This looks to be a (what is now pretty rare in Bondi with so much demolition of our history) Spanish mission style home that adds to the character and streetscape of Bond, unlike what is proposed to replace it.

  2. Skye commented

    Completely agree with previous comment. This is character filled Spanish mission style architecture which reflects some history of Bondi. To be knocked down and replaced with another common box style apartment block is really sad. We should be trying to preserve some of these older character and history rich buildings.

  3. Lisa Helen commented

    This is a unique building and reflects Bondi’s rich and interesting history. It needs to be preserved at all costs. I agree with previous comments. Please stop this Demolition and retain some of our fast disappearing suburb

  4. Andrew Schonberger commented

    I hope the Council will keep the public bench, where we oldies take a rest while climbing the hill. After construction is finished, the bench should be put back into place.

  5. Charlie Fine commented

    Walking through Sydney today, I am reminded of Churchill’s dictum: “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us”. The anxiety of modern life partly arises from its conspicuous ugliness.

    Beauty should not be the preserve of an wealthy minority. It should be a public dividend. The ambitions of the great civilisations are wrought in their architecture. The Classical order of Parthenon and the Pantheon, the Gothic treasures of Prague and Venice or the slender lines of the Sydney Opera House lift us, by their numinous beauty, beyond the maelstrom of appetite and instrumentalism.

    Conversely, communities choked beneath a poultice of concrete and glass are being denied access to a fundamental aspect of human existence: the need for beautiful and well-planned spaces.

    Bondi Junction lays bare the risks of piecemeal urban planning. An eczema of concrete and glass, it assaults the sinuous, shifting topography of the east, as if somebody had taken a Sharpie to a Turner landscape.

    The problem with modern development is also echoed in the disposability of so many consumer goods: electronic devices, obsolescent within a year; cheap clothing manufactured by exploited labour; or the mountains of plastic that make up our supermarkets.

    The repurposing of heritage architecture is key to sustainable development. The natural proportions and subtle ornament of a Federation house anchor our place in the world; they are distinctly Australian. Such a building is loved and appreciated and can be repurposed as an office, a surgery or a school.

    Good architecture is not original or ambitious; it follows the forms and repetitions laid down by tradition. The genius of a Gaudí or an Utzon is too rare to justify the full creative licence which contemporary architects are afforded.

  6. Charlie Fine commented

    I urge council to reject this proposal. Sydney’s diminishing built heritage should be preserved. Why not preserve and renovate the existing building? Again greed triumphs over good.

  7. Shane and Am Tatham commented

    What an intelligent read Mr Charlie Fine....traditional and beautiful buildings ...heritage or not, removed and vandalised by would be designers, developers and architects.Once gone always gone. Again ‘greed triumphs over good’
    One look at the facade of the beach view ( looking from a southerly direction) from Ben Buckler tells a true story of a fading and damaged facade of buildings in Bondi.

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