Hotel moved from habour in new Barangaroo vision

ALMOST 60 independent architects and planners have united to back an alternative scheme for Barangaroo, which would have smaller towers, remove the hotel from the harbour and jettison the "naturalistic" headland championed by Paul Keating.

Missed steps on painful and tormented path

YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD

FOOTPATH ART

With China's terracotta warriors still in residence at the Art Gallery of NSW, another warrior site is being unearthed in Martin Place. Well, not quite. The Australian chalk artist Jenny McCracken is creating a 3D artwork of the unearthing in 1974

Oldest ground-edge stone tool found in Arnhem Land

THE piece of stone was so small that at first no one noticed it. It was only when he returned to Melbourne from the Northern Territory that archaeologist Bruno David gave it a second glance.

Face to face with 10,000 year-old carvings

AN AUSTRALIAN scientist searching for the fossilised bones of giant rats in a cave in East Timor has discovered ancient stone carvings of human faces, the first found on the island.

Engineer warns of Barangaroo toxins

IT WILL take at least 30 years to get rid of a plume of toxic chemicals from the $6 billion Barangaroo development, a report into the Sydney harbourside project warns.

Tiny tipper poised to make a big impact

Size matters for the small yet mighty Isuzu NLR 275, writes Steve Skinner.

COVER PROPERTY

PADDINGTON 81 LEINSTER STREET $3 million+

Xstrata excavates a $5.12bn result

ZUG-BASED Xstrata has kicked off the profit-reporting season in style for the world's big miners.

Opera House's underground show

A THREE-YEAR $152 million program to build a series of tunnels and a loading dock deep beneath the Sydney Opera House officially starts today.

PAY TV

KIDS Rating: 3.5/5 HOUSE OF ANUBIS Mon-Fri, 6.30pm, Nickelodeon LIFESTYLE Rating: 3.5/5 FOOD DETECTIVE Thursday, 8.30pm, Discovery Science DRAMA Rating: 3.5/5 THE GLADES Sunday, 8.30pm, W DOCUMENTARY Rating: 3.5/5 HIDDEN WORLDS: UNDERGROUND ROME Monday, 9.30pm, NatGeo Adventure

Last-ditch bid to halt harbour projects

A LEGAL challenge is under way to halt two major projects at the Barangaroo site over contamination issues, amid claims the government's approval of the work is invalid.