A pearl on the harbor, or just the shell? How can one building - James Packer's proposed $1 billion hotel and casino complex at Barangaroo (left) - inspire such wildly different aesthetic judgments? Former prime minister Paul Keating, who was chairman of the Barangaroo Design Excellence Review Panel: ...heading in the direction of being a significant building for Sydney. Joe Agius, NSW president of the Australian Institute of Architects: Mr Packer's misguided comparison of his designs with the Sydney Opera House - a public cultural building that is highly responsive to its context - is both ludicrous and offensive... [The designs are] so unconscious of their context they may as well be in Dubai.