Powerhouse Parramatta will open on Saturday, finally giving the public the chance to see whether the 12 years, $1 billion and seemingly endless controversy it took to build western Sydney’s first major cultural institution were worthwhile.
On the side fronting the Parramatta River, an enormous egg-shaped sculpture by British stage designer Es Devlin – featuring her renderings of 244 endangered local species – announces the new Powerhouse as a spectacle as surely as the 12,000 tonnes of steel in its “milk crate” exoskeleton.
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