Hunter Street is one of the oldest thoroughfares in Sydney, originally known as Bell Street and renamed for Governor John Hunter, the second man to serve as the colony's leader. While the street now connects George Street to Macquarie…
Sydney Midcentury Modernism
This walk traces the rise of post-war architectural optimism in Sydney's CBD, highlighting bold, space-age skyscrapers and public plazas. We will look past the Victorian sandstone to see how Seidler and his peers reshaped the city with glass, steel, and concrete.
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1. 70 Hunter St
2. Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
The Sofitel Sydney Wentworth is identifiable by its distinctive horseshoe-shaped tower and a massive, sweeping copper canopy that hangs over the entrance. Opened in December nineteen sixty-six, this building was designed by the American…
3. Reserve Bank of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia building stands at sixty-five Martin Place as a defining landmark of post-war modernist architecture in Sydney. Completed in nineteen sixty-four, the twenty-story tower was designed by the Commonwealth…
4. 25 Martin Pl
Twenty-five Martin Place is an octagonal skyscraper defined by its stark white concrete structure and tapered load-bearing columns. When it opened in nineteen seventy-eight, it stood as the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere and…
5. Australia Square
Australia Square is defined by its fifty-storey circular tower that rises one hundred and seventy metres above the surrounding city streets. Completed in nineteen sixty-seven, the building was the first true skyscraper in Sydney and, at…
6. 13 Bridge St
Liner House at thirteen Bridge Street is identifiable by a stylized ram’s head etched into the red granite lintel above its entrance. Completed in nineteen sixty, the building sits on a site that once functioned as the Government Lumber…