Metropolitan Elevations *3

One Shelley Street

Most Ecological Building

One Shelley Street (The King Street Wharf precinct) is one of the most recognisable new commercial premises in Sydney. The development by Multiplex consists of 33,000 square metres of office space over 11 storeys and feature a unique ‘diagrid’ support façade. Upon completion in mid 2009, One Shelley Street is the only diagrid constructed building in Sydney.

The $350 million development is a state-of-the-art building employing cutting edge technologies throughout.

The Green Building Council of Australia have awarded this building "A6 Green Star - office design rating", which is the highest enviromental building rating achievable in Australia, demonstrating world leadership in sustanable building design. " Ecological features of this building: passive chilled beams and harbour water for heat rejection to cool the building, carbon dioxe monitoring, enhanced indoor air quality by substantially reducing formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds through the careful selection of finishes, automated lighting controls, minimising PCV throuth using enviromentally sustainable timber.

The King Street Wharf precinct (consisting of other new developments such as; Amex, KPMG and Westpac) is set to have over 20,000 people working in the area in 2009 and is now the gateway to the East Darling harbor precinct. With this development complete it will finally restore public access to this part of the harbor for the first time in many years.

Metropolitan Elevations *2

Modern Walsh Bay

Breathtaking early 20th Century Walsh Bay Finger Wharves, a family of timber wharves and shore sheds that extend out into Sydney's harbour. They are the largest timber structures in the world, romantic symbols of Sydney's maritime history and the first structures in Australia to be nominated as a World Heritage Site. Over the last few years the wharves and shore sheds have been reworked into a modern residential and cultural precinct by Bates Smart, Australia's oldest architectural firm with the help of renowned French architect Phillipe Robert. Now one of Sydney’s most exclusive harbourside addresses.

QVB

The Queen Victoria Building, now affectionately known as the QVB, was designed by George McRae and completed in 1898, replacing the original Sydney markets on the site. Built as a monument to the long reigning monarch, construction took place in dire times, as Sydney was in a severe recession. The elaborate Romanesque architecture was specially planned for the grand building so the Government could employ many out-of-work craftsmen - stonemasons, plasterers, and stained window artists - in a worthwhile project. Originally, a concert hall, offices, showrooms, warehouses and a wide variety of tradespeople were accommodated, Now QVB contains mostly upmarket boutiques, coffee shops and "brand-name" shops.

Interior of Queen Victoria Building

Macquarie Visions *3

Governor Macquarie was passionate about horses and commissioned convict architect, Francis Greenway to design the extravagant stables for Government House. The neo-gothic style building is now the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Macquarie Visions *2

Governor Macquarie laid the fundation stone for St Mary's Catholic Cathedral in 1821.

Macquarie Visions

Macquarie Visions is public event celebratingin imersive light displays the 200th anniversary and story of two visionary liders, Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife Elizabeth.

From 1810 to 1821 the Macquaries made an unparalleled contribution to the growth of NSW and Australia, instaling hundreds of ground-bracking public programs and championing the importance of agriculture, education, justice, benevolence and "fair go" for all.
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie are attributed with much of the infrastructure building of NSW including churches, schools, hospitals, roads and banks.







Macquarie Visions illuminates the incredible legacies and achivement of Macquarie's 11-year tenure as Governor of NSW through innovative, theatrical and contemporary light displays of Macquarie Street linking St Mary's Cathedral to the Opera House as a part of Vivid Sydney Festival.

Rhodes apartments *2

Rhodes apartments

In ‘Architecturally inspired’ waterside community at Rhodes Peninsula every new design of apartments has been selected by competition. The waterfront site slopes toward Homebush Bay with views across the water and mangroves to the Olympic Stadium.

The concept evolved from a desire to offer north facing water views with solar access and cross ventilation to the maximum number of apartments.

Each building has a combination of single level apartments and two storey crossover apartments with corridors at every two floors. This apartment typology ensures all apartments enjoy natural cross ventilation and receive good solar penetration to living areas.

Broadway

Broadway - road and Sydney urban locality, historically important because it is one of the first roads built in the colony of New South Wales, in 1794.
Broadway was once home to the flagship building of department store chain Grace Brothers until 1995, operating there for 90 years. It was visited by Queen Elizabeth II during her 1954 visit to Australia. Today this site contains the Broadway Shopping Centre and the Hotel UniLodge Sydney.





Broadway provides a link between the University of Sydney and the University of Technology.

Religions of Bonnyrigg *4

Khmer Temple

Religions of Bonnyrigg

Bonnyrigg is a suburb of Sydney located 36 kilometres west of CBD.
Religion in the Bonnyrigg area has a vitality, and also a prominence, that you don't find so often in older areas of Sydney. In some parts, the main roads are literally lined with large places of worship, many on land provided by government.

Parkside Church is next to a Laotian Buddhist Temple (they sometimes use each other's car park). The Chinese Presbyterian Church is next to a mosque, which adjoins a temple and pagoda.

12 places of worship within two square kilometres. All these communities live next to each other with absolutely no problems.



Khmer Temple

Lao Temple

Turkish Mosque

City faces *2

Clean face of the Church

St Mary’s Basilica was commenced in 1868, soon after fire destroyed the first cathedral. It was finally completed in 2000 with the addition of the spires.
This Cathedral represents the spiritual origins of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is one of Sydney's most treasured historic buildings and one of the finest examples of English-style gothic churches in the world. William Wilkinson Wardell, the 19th century architect, dreamed of a gothic structure shaped from the local yellow-block sandstone on which this city is built. The building was finally completed 100 years after the architect's death. The Cathedral is dedicated to Mary Help of Christians. It is the spiritual home of Sydney’s Catholic community, and the seat of the Archbishop of Sydney.

The work of renovation of this masterpiece began in 1996 and this huge task of conserving St Mary’s is still continued.


Fresh facade of the St.Marys Cathedral

Metropolian Elevations

Quayside

Queen Victoria Building

The Queen Victoria Building, or QVB, is a Victorian building in the Sydney central business district, in Australia. The Romanesque Revival architecture building is 190 metres long by 30 wide.
The QVB site was once home to the George Street Markets, and was selected for the construction of a grand government building. Architect George McRae designed the QVB in a Romanesque style to employ a great number of skilled craftsmen who were out of work due to a severe recession. The building was completed in 1898 and named the Queen Victoria Building after the monarch.

The completed building included coffee shops, showrooms and a concert hall. It provided a business environment for tradesmen such as tailors, mercers, hairdressers, and florists. The concert hall was later changed to a municipal library and offices for Sydney City Council. The building steadily deteriorated and in 1959 was threatened with demolition. It was restored between 1984 and 1986 by Ipoh Ltd at a cost of $86 million, under the terms of a 99-year lease from the City Council and now contains mostly upmarket boutiques and "brand-name" shops.

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Obecnie QVB stanowi ekskluzywne centrum handlowe z markowymi produktami.

Great Australian Clock - jeden z dwóch wiszących wielkich zegarów w QVB



Statua królowej Wiktorii, prezent Irlandczyków

Sydney Opera House *2

Churches of Sydney

Mary Immaculate Church at Waverley in NSW is the mother-church in Australia of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. It also fulfils the function of parish church in the Catholic parish of Saint Charles Borromeo in the archdiocese of Sydney. It is the fourth physical building to serve as the Catholic pastoral centre of Waverley.

In style Mary Immaculate church is a Romanesque Renaissance single-naved basilica with east and west transepts. Very early in the history of the Franciscan Order this became in Europe a traditional architecture for its churches because of its direct sight lines to both altar and pulpit.
At Mary Immaculate's 1913 opening it was still without its designed facade of twin towers, narthex and pillared portico, all of which were added in 1929-1930. Internally the church's most striking feature is the seven great paintings depicting the Franciscan Crown (or Rosary) of the Seven Joys of Our Lady Mary. These, the work of Italian artist and art Professor Cesare Vagarini, fill the three arched bays of the nave and the blind rear wall of the sanctuary. Mary Immaculate possesses a particularly fine organ installed in 1979 to commemorate the centenary of the Franciscan Friars in Waverley.
from the Parish web side

Waverley is an eastern suburb of Sydney located 7 kilometres from central business district.