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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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