The Lands by Capella reopens a Sydney landmark

There’s always a risk, with buildings like this, of doing too much.Sydney’s former Department of Lands building doesn’t exactly need help asserting itself. It’s already one of the city’s most recognisable civic buildings — heavy, formal and for a long time, largely inaccessible. The challenge isn’t how to make it more impressive. It’s what to do with it now that it’s no longer what it was.The Lands by Capella — designed by Hassell with