The Chinese Garden of Friendship is defined by its high, perimeter walls that enclose a landscape of waterfalls, lakes, and pavilions designed according to Taoist principles. It occupies a space at the corner of Day Street and Pier Street…
Chinatown and Haymarket Walk
We'll trace the evolution of Sydney's Chinese and Asian diaspora through the vibrant streets, historic markets, and contemporary food hubs of Haymarket. Along the way, you'll experience how heritage ceremonial gates and hidden art-filled lanes meet the neighborhood's modern energy.
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1. Chinese Garden of Friendship
2. Darling Square
Darling Square is identified by a circular, six-story building known as The Exchange, which is wrapped in twenty kilometers of spiraling, pale Accoya timber strips. This modern precinct occupies the site where the Sydney Entertainment…
3. Kimber Lane
Kimber Lane is a narrow, paved thoroughfare in Haymarket that stands out for the thirty suspended metallic figures that hang overhead. By day, these silver forms shimmer against walls decorated with painted blue clouds. As dusk falls, they…
4. Chinatown Sydney
Sydney's Chinatown is marked by two ceremonial paifang gates, featuring pagoda-style roofs and gold leaf inscriptions, that stand at either end of the Dixon Street pedestrian mall. This district in the Haymarket quarter has been a center…
5. Paddy's Markets Haymarket
Paddy’s Markets in Haymarket is recognizable by the constant movement of crowds and the dense array of stalls packed beneath the roof of the Market City building. This site traces its origins to eighteen thirty-four, when Governor Richard…
6. Golden Water Mouth
The Golden Water Mouth stands ten point seven meters high at the intersection of Hay and Sussex streets, catching the eye with its trunk of yellow-box eucalyptus partially covered in twenty-three-carat gold leaf. Installed in nineteen…
7. Capitol Theatre
The Capitol Theatre on Campbell Street is a grand brick building with stone decorations, terracotta capitals, and tiled panels. Its exterior retains the arches of the original eighteen ninety-three Belmore Markets, a reminder that this…