
Chatswood Civic Centre, Victoria Road, Chatswood.
'Brutal' styles from the 60s and 70s
They aren't appreciated at all it seems. An example is Civic
Place in Chatswood, where there are plans to demolish
the Council building, Town Hall and Library.
If Willoughby City Council is to be believed, the buildings
are not popular with residents -- however, this council's
track record on heritage matters isn't a good one. As Society
Chair Roy Lumby noted in a recent newsletter editorial: "Chatswood
has been transformed in a period of thirty years from a pleasant
suburban township into a congested and anonymous business
precinct with little human scale and an incoherent and chaotic
visual character.
Losses have included the Kings and Arcadia Theatres, the original
Grace Bros. department store, the Hotel Charles and the original
Christ Scientist Church. Now three more buildings of consequence
are to go." The Society has taken Willoughby Council
to task about the buildings, but their future looks grim.
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