Abandoned Oz - The Sirius Project - Sydney
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The Sirius Project Sydney
The Sirius Building is an apartment in The Rocks district of Sydney.
Designed for the Housing Commission of New South Wales is 1978/1979 by commission architect Tao Gofers, the building is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture in Australia.
Sirius being notably the only high rise in The Rocks had 79 apartments ranging from 1 to 4 bedrooms.
Sirius was built to house displaced public tenants after The Rocks was redeveloped in the 60’s and 70’s.
Sirius was sold with the last resident out of the building in 2018.
Work began in October 2021 to transform Sirius and have people living in the building again.
This video shows Sirius as it is today filmed in May 2024.
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It wasn’t abandoned. It was sold by state government to private developers for rich people to live it.
Exactly what I was going to say. It was already public housing, but for poor people, who got turfed out so rich people could have the view. Disgusting.
@@Shazzadut1 And the money from the sale went to build and acquire more public housing where they could supply housing for more people than what were displaced.
The rich should get the view they pay taxes not for the poor
I'd forgive altering the original architecture if the building was still kept as public housing, but it's just been converted for the rich to live in.
And the money from the sale went to build and acquire more public housing so they could supply housing for more people.
The Sirius building was never ugly. And it gave some of Australia's most disadvantaged people accommodation with some of the best views in the world. But that's all gone now 😢
I’m not sure this project is creating more housing. It previously housed public housing tenants who were kicked out . With reno, it will still house the same number of people - they’ll just be richer . Fun fact- original architect based design on his daughter’s Revlon eyeshadow palette !!
Hi Phil 👋 I remember when the original building was constructed for the then" Housing Commission" and the controversy surrounding the allocation of units to the disadvantaged. Many of the occupants seized on the opportunity to collect extremely high rents from those wanting to take advantage of the million dollar views across the harbour. The building was considered a gold mine because of its location, with the government eventually selling the property and evicting/relocating the residents much to their dismay.
So, firstly, though there was some controversy surrounding the fact this was a housing commission building, it was the Brutalist design that caused the most controversy. Att no one really cared if housos lived there or not as panned out in the following years, but the design criticism lived on. Secondly, how do you know the tenants of Sirius seized on their opportunity to collect extremely high rents from their housing commission flats. You obviously don't know how this system works. Think about it, if you are caught, you lose your flat & any chance of ever getting another one again. Your income, pension or whatever, will be garnished for the money you made & you may be criminally charged, certainly a risk not worth taking. Thirdly, yes, the site was considered a goldmine. Yes, it sold & yes, evictions occurred much to residents dismay, thanks for the heads up, captain obvious 😉
@originalsusser When the building was let for social housing, there was much controversy regarding the million dollar views at very minimal rent. There were indeed residents who sublet illegally to gain a very good income over and above their minimum wage/pension and this was done without the "new" tenant signing a lease with full knowledge of the fraud they were committing. I know this, not only because it was a featured news item but because my sister was a housing officer at the time for the Housing Commission.
@aussiejohn5835 In the late 80s, I worked at the Old Sydney Inn, now Parkroyal on George St, The Rocks. I made friends with a workmate who lived in Sirius & spent many hours at their flat. Through this person, I met many others who lived there & was trusted. It was a situation where everyone knew everyone & many got along together & hung out.
Any housing commission property can experience undeclared tenants who pay rent 'off the books' but it is risky & I'm telling you, regardless of your sister, that no one there made 'big money' doing this the way you describe. They may have had ppl stay there with them paying something undeclared, but it's still a total housing commission building, not the Connought or any other serviced building with a doorman or whatever. It's a place where busybodies with nothing better to do will dob you in at the 1st sniff of something off. If you'd ever experienced it personally, you would know it never happened the way you're describing it
@originalsusser I must tell you that it definitely did happen as I described it but not in huge numbers. The units themselves were nothing out of the ordinary, but the units had knock-out views, and the location was amazing. Some did have people "staying over," and there was big money being made by some, but I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this point.
@aussiejohn5835 I'm sure there was the odd donut who tried it on, but that really doesn't make it a 'thing' the way you're describing. You make it sound like the norm instead of the exception. I know someone who died hang gliding. Does that mean most who tries hang gliding dies? That's kind of your position the way you framed your comment when really it hardly ever happened. I don't know about you but as a renter I wouldn't pay big money for a bedroom that faces the HB in a pokey little flat, where the stairwells were shabby even back then, where I would be kicked out onto the street at the drop of a hat if a bust were to occur. Agree or not, but just think about it from your own perspective, not some newspaper report or urban myth
Also, have you been there? They were through flats from one side to the other, so all had some lookout. But I wouldn't say the location was amazing. They weren't double glazed, so were extremely noisy owing to the HB being 30m away. There was no parking anywhere att, tons of steps if you walked down to George St & it was kinda located in the back of nowhere. I suppose amazing is a perspective based notion, but the views are amazing, not the location
They resemble a stack of shipping containers piled on top of each other. Quite ugly but i guess necessary to house people, who would otherwise be homeless. Thanks again for your insightful video vlogs.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Yeah you just gave me an idea. On empty government land, shipping containers can be assembled and then stacked on top of each other, hang up a few wires, convert these containers into homes, instead of building expensive sewerage, have a sewage truck come weekly alongside the rubbish trucks to collect the shit and piss, than have a water truck drop off clean water. And to cut costs just use dirt roads. These mag sound like slums but hey it’s better than nothing
The people who would otherwise be homeless are homeless. They were all evicted or moved to other less glamorous public housing so the government could sell it to developers who could then sell it to rich people. Poor people aren’t supposed to have nice views. Only the rich.
@@electro_sykesWhy should some people have to live without basic facilities like water and sewage connection just because they were once homeless? Who decides who the second class citizens are? Here’s a dog kennel. You can live in that because it’s all you deserve? Come on.
@@Shazzadut1 all you deserve more like all you can afford?. And its not possible for everyone to have detached single familly homes a that promotes car dependency
Yep more housing for multi millionaires
Love the new Sirius building, it is nice.
I see this building every morning on the bus across the bridge. I’m really not a fan of this project turning housing commission into ultra luxury apartments (most likely for the Chinese market as that’s who tends to buy these apartments as no on else can afford them). They aren’t even being turned into moderately expensive apartments that locals could buy, no they are being turned into an enclave of the super wealthy. It is such a great encapsulation of all that’s wrong with developers running Sydney.
Agree 100%
I grew up in Sydney now in Melbourne and I 110 % agree with you so wrong what they've done
I always loved this building, I don't know why they had to ruin it!
The Harbour bridge Walk and its environs could do with a decent pressure wash. Why does everything look so dirty?
It's called smog.
because 160,000 vehicles with their associated air polution cross the bridge every day.
Its carbon from emissions and algae. They both love sandstone.
Does it get cleaned regularly? Please excuse my ignorance as I don't get into the city very often but I know the "Rocks" area has undergone a lot of upgrades in the past few years but this area looks third world to me
A wonderful building in its day. Public housing at its best. Sold by the govt. so the rich could move in. What a pity.
I am sure a lot of them would make lovely airbnb getaways
I always loved the building and I can't understand anyone who doesn't. Some people have no taste.
Its an important part of Sydneys architectural heritage, I agree that victorian style mansions or workers cottages should not be the only type of construction that should be protected/preserved.
The original building (1980) was unlike anything else I knew of in the CBD. The St James Arcade/Centre in Castlereagh St is contemporary, and is also in the Modular style, but the Sirius was much bolder in concept, the more so for its dominant location. It looked like a kid's stack of building blocks, which for me gave it a certain lighthearted and whimsical charm. Though many hated them, I even loved the huge ventilation shafts on the roofs painted lurid purple, which faded in the sunlight to an equally incongruous nursery shade of violet. The 1980's trend to bright colours in design was perhaps the first aspect to look "dated"...
I do wish they had kept the modular facade fully intact; the visual impact of the long frontage is now dissipated with add-ons. The new look isn't ugly, just bitty. "Updating" the exterior to suit modern tastes means it will always look like a renovated mashup. There should have been a heritage order put on it -- and including the heritage colours, too.
I walk past it often. You get good views from the Bridge walkway. The appliances going into the new kitchens are pretty top notch.
Used to be a Housing Commision building. Cannot have the great unwashed with Harbour views. So they were moved out. Used to know someone in there, all about selling to the rich.
Hey Phil...thanks so much for this video of the Sirius Building..... this building was depicted in the movie "Playing Beatie Bow" the main character Abbie, played by Imogen Annesley, lived in one of the units in the movie. I have been wondering if it was still standing... good to see that it is, but sad to see that it will only be for the rich now......
Buggered it totally. I used to proudly point out to visitors that this once beautiful building with wonderful views was in fact public housing. Sad to see that $$$ talks, but it now looks tacky.
Correct it’s Brutalist. Wiki says “Designed for the Housing Commission of New South Wales in 1978-1979 by commission architect Tao Gofers, the building is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture in Australia.”
Sydney has some amazing architecture if you know where to look. I, glad you know where to look, because I have no idea.
I personally think that building is atrocious, but the walk there was amazing.
This project is not providing more housing. It's just privatisation.
Thanks for sharing this, very interesting but they remind me of the "stacks" in the movie Ready Player One🤣😂😂
The ''are you serious?" building.
Named after the first fleet ship.HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, which set out from Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales, Australia. In 1790, the ship was wrecked on the reef, south east of Kingston Pier, in Slaughter Bay, Norfolk Island
Its still a bloody eyesore...looks like an incompetent crane operator dropped a heap of of shipping containers unevenly onto one another...I'm Sirius 😂🤣
I swear there was a guy in a green vest standing on the roof watching you towards the end. I doubt that the average person would be able to afford this housing and I don’t think I personally would like living in such a confined space myself. Looks like a stack of shipping containers placed hap hazardly
How much for a 2-bed apartment? I guess 2.2 mil
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It was housing commission
On govt benefits paying $120pw ( if that) to live in an apartment overlooking the harbour of the most expensive city to live in in the world. What did the tenants expect would eventually happen? and what was the govt thinking of putting houso there to start with? Obviously, nobody was thinking at the time . the whole of the houso in that area that is being emptied for the same reason. when you rich you get what you can afford. when you poor you get what you're given ( if anything). way it always has been and will be
So according to your logic where should social housing (housing commission) be, they moved away from having suburbs that were predominantly social housing years ago to make sure that they weren't just creating ghettos. They closed these ones and also towers at Waterloo, all of those people need to go somewhere and when they don't have that figured out first it is a big issue especially when you consider that the waitlist can be easily 20 years depending on where you live.
When these buildings and others clise to the city were built, places like Woolloomooloo, Waterloo Surry Hills, The Rocks..no self respecting person wanted to be seen dead living there. THATS why the govt built them there. Now they have become trendy and affluent so we can't possibly have poor people living there! Being poor is not always a choice. Here's hoping it happens to you one day and maybe you learn some empathy...
@@colleenjanehepburn3808 Why do assume i wasn't brought up dirt poor? I suppose you are right . I should be punished with poverty for stating the obvoius. Well done . Your virtue signaling leftie qualities are intact and you can feel good about yourself like those supporting the Hamas protestor crowd who pat themselves on the back KNOWING what "good" they are doing 👐👐👐
Millionaires row..state government took it now for the financially burdened.
Dude love your posts but always like two months behind 😅
Don't abandon your heart for wealthy people pushing out poor people. Wealthy people are poverty of love.
Not the prettiest but now worth a fortune
Is that the building that was the main live in for the main character of 'Playing Beattie Bow' in the film in the 1980's ,?
Yes.......
Seriously suggest you educate yourself before posting. It was never abandoned, it was previously public housing, built for low income people at a time when no self respecting person would be seen dead living at the rocks. It provides hones, and community for many people. Highly, highly unlikely and totally illegal for them to have "re nted out to rich people" as one of your commenters said. Hardly going to supply people in need of housing shelter now, as you so flippantly said, "guess anything better than nothing" ridiculous! Sold off for mega millions to overseas and weathy people. Alan Jones owned a huge unit nearby, hardly supplying him with "much needed housing" I don't think! The po eople there have been moved out,communities lost. The money that was raised has not gone directly into new public housing for poor people, nor indeed supplied one extra home for a needy person. Do some research..then make your comments.
you don't know anything about this building you're too young. do some research.
Why should housing commission tenants get to enjoy a luxurious view at a fraction of the cost. Thank god they got booted out and that the ultra rich who can actually afford the rent or to buy will move in and enjoy it!
So where should they be housed then, there is already a years long wait list, in the city they closed those and the towers in Waterloo.
“Thank god they got booted”
You’re shit
I thought they were going to be demolished.
That is what I thought too, I know that there was a push for them to be heritage listed because they are a good example of brutalist architecture, so maybe that got enough traction that someone changed their mind (or maybe it even did get listed)