13 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Sydney
13 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Barangaroo Reserve
Barangaroo, Australia
This six-hectare headland park is named after a woman who told the colonists to get absolutely stuffed, and the fact that the precinct is not even on her traditional lands just adds to the irony.
Customs House
31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000
Walk into the ground floor of this building and look down.
Garrison Church (Holy Trinity)
Lower Fort St, Millers Point, 2000, Australia
The first military church built in colonial Australia is sitting one block from the pub with the kidnapping tunnel.
GPO Clock Tower (Martin Place)
1 Martin Pl, Sydney, 2000, Australia
From eighteen ninety-one to nineteen thirty-nine, the clock tower on the General Post Office was the tallest point in Sydney at eighty-three metres.
Hyde Park Barracks
Macquarie St, Circular Quay, Sydney, 2000, Australia
The architect who designed this building was a convicted forger.
Macquarie Lighthouse
Old South Head Rd, Rose Bay, 2030, Australia
Australia's first lighthouse, and it was designed by the same convicted forger who built Hyde Park Barracks.
Mortuary Station
49-53 Regent St, Central Park, Chippendale, 2008, Australia
Sydney built a train station exclusively for dead people, and they made it gorgeous.
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
255a Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
This place looks like you have stumbled into ancient Roman ruins, but it is actually a water reservoir from the eighteen-sixties that collapsed, sat derelict for two decades, and was reborn as a sunken garden.
Queen Victoria Building
455 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
There is a sealed letter inside this building that nobody alive today will ever read.
St Mary's Cathedral
Saint Mary's Rd, St James, Sydney, 2000, Australia
Most people walk past St Mary's Cathedral and think nice church, keep moving.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney NSW 2060
Look at those four massive granite pylons at each corner of the bridge.
Sydney Opera House
Benelong Rd, Cremorne, 2090, Australia
You are looking at a building that almost never existed.
The Strand Arcade
195-197 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Between eighteen eighty-one and eighteen ninety-two, Sydney built five covered shopping arcades.
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