A brief history of COFA’s redevelopment project

In 2002, COFA lodged the ad-hoc DA 1431 with Council for the construction of an Art Museum & Gallery on the Selwyn Street residential frontage of its campus. No small project, this would be the third largest gallery in Sydney.

The Community objects and requests a Masterplan for the whole COFA Campus site that would reorient the campus and Gallery towards its non-residential frontages on Oxford Street and Greens Road.

In June 2004, UNSW withdraws DA 1431 and agrees to work with Sydney City Council and the community on a comprehensive Masterplan.

Karaoke for COFA

Here in our (currently) calm and peaceful little precinct, we like to gather around the piano or karaoke machine and sing songs. We're an artistic lot, and uniting in song lifts our spirits, helps us shed the anguish of our daily toil and draws us closer together. The songs are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes sad.

In that way the rich knowledge and life experience inherent in each of us is passed on to each other, and to our children.