The former Rachel Forster Hospital was started in the 1920's and was officially closed in 1993. The building is a prime example of Inter-war functionalist style hospital architecture and is recognised as such in the South Sydney Council LEP.
The re-development and re-zoning plans we established by Redfern Waterloo Authority, an initiative of the Labor State Government and headed until recently by former Minister for Planning Frank Sartor. The area was re-zoned as medium-density residential...
Sites such as this raise dynamic questions about the future of urban, inner-city spaces and therefore the affects of gentrification itself. Who has a right to an opinion about the future of this building? Planners, Architects, Politians? And where is the opinion of the existing population of Redfern, until more recently working-class and Indigenous Australians, who are in essence being displaced by this process...
