Sirius building
New South Wales, Australia
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The Sirius Building is a Brutalist apartment complex in Sydney's historic Rocks district, designed by Housing Commission architect Tao Gofers in 1978–1979 and completed in 1980. Housing seventy-nine apartments ranging from one to four bedrooms—arranged as single-storey units and two- to three-storey walk-ups—the building stands as the only high-rise development in The Rocks and a prominent example of Australian Brutalism. Its design features striking repetitive geometries influenced by Japanese metabolist architecture. Built to rehouse public tenants displaced by the area's controversial redevelopment in the 1960s and 70s, the complex later became the subject of heated debate when the NSW Government rejected its heritage listing in 2017 and put it up for sale, despite opposition from heritage advocates and the Heritage Council of New South Wales. In 2018, it received the Enduring Architecture Award from the NSW Australian Institute of Architects.
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