A Walk Through Sydney Uni

Sydney University January 2010

Near Central Re-visited

 

Revisit

Enmore Road Sydney

a deco delight

 

© 2012 Anne Bentley

Walking by Percival Road Stanmore

I was already stretched for time as I walked to a friend's house another 2 suburbs over - but it was such a lovely Sunday (early March 2012)

Tiles on the stair

Art Nouveau tiles sell for quite a lot of money nowadays - depending on the size and make, prices range from $45-$95 up to $400 each.  In the inner west of Sydney, there are a wide variety of 100+ year old tiles adorning the front stairs of many houses.

Here are some for starters but don't go adding up the till yet - try removing them without breaking any... because of this, it's mostly the unused tiles that sell for a bucket load.

From the train window

Green Square, Sydney Australia © 2011 Anne Bentley

Factory for lease - Cleveland Street Chippendale

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they made it look right pretty

Sydney laneway October 2008

from the ferry

groovy apartment building spotted from the ferry on the way to Manly, NSW Australia

art nouveau in buildings

air vent - late 1800s Department of Lands building, Sydney NSW Australia

Portico - mixing modern & heritage

York Street Sydney - for me where modern looks way better than heritage
(photograph by Anne Bentley 2010)

Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects

getting tricky

any-which-way you look at it...

image © Anne Bentley 2010

Near Central, Sydney

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Blues Point Tower - McMahons Point North Sydney

Built in 1962 & designed by architect, Harry Seidler (and Associates), Blues Point Tower has 24 levels and stands at 83 metres tall.
As a singular building, it really stands out, just the other side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge by ferry but Seidler had originally proposed a 29-building apartment development when council zoning laws were being changed.
(ref: Wikipedia & SMH 28 Sept 2002)

While waiting for Heaven...

seeing as it's Easter, I thought I'd run with the theme & post this shot I took 4 or 5 years ago of Saint Mary's Cathedral on a sunny afternoon in Sydney.  It was built in 1868 (3 years after the first one burnt down... hmm who threw the lightening bolt then??) & is a good example of gothic revival architecture, designed by William Wilkinson Wardell.
I used a 1962 Ricoh fixed lens rangefinder that I'd scored for $20 - a big brick of a thing with the film advance lever on the bottom.  It lasted one roll of film (but is repairable - maybe one day...).  I included this image in my 2007 exhibition; Heaven (is looking up).

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Taking a shortcut home

Not quiet Harry Seidler* - well, not at all really.., bar the little windows and that it's white but it's the thought that counts.
I came across this nonetheless interesting spot on a shortcut home via the grounds of Sydney University Camperdown.  One of the best shortcuts a person could take - there is much to be viewed in the grounds of this 150 year old university, which I will revisit in this blog.

© 2010 Anne Bentley * http://www.annebentley.com.au/



Harry Seidler  AC OBE 25 June 1923 Vienna — 9 March 2006 Sydney

Down the road from where I live

A block of old flats one can easily walk straight past but shouldn't - a little deco amidst the stucco
Salisbury Road Camperdown, Sydney 15 February 2010

(© 2010 Anne Bentley * http://www.annebentley.com.au/)

Buildings and Things Begins

Starting with Oxford Street, Darlinghurst (Sydney) - number 241 and the irony that this is above a real estate office - they know structure!
Taken January 2009 (from a bus window I think)

(image © 2009 Anne Bentley  * http://www.annebentley.com.au/)