Getting beyond the postcard view of the city and her two shimmering icons, ‘Harbourings’ reveals Sydney at her rawest and most spectacular, her most self–conscious and most corrupt!
Sydney’s spectacular harbour edge will be our guide, from Circular Quay, through the city’s great depository of memory – The Rocks – up Observatory Hill and on to Walsh Bay. The route is diverse, spectacular and full of surprising contemporary projects as well as gritty historical reminders of the cities maritime-industrial past.
We will focus on two projects in particular. Sydney’s brutalist masterpiece, the radical Sirius Apartment building and the breath-taking Walsh Bay Finger Wharves, a family of early 20th-Century industrial buildings that extend out into Sydney’s harbour. They are amongst the largest timber structures ever built, romantic symbols of Sydney’s industrial maritime history, recently reimagined as a cultural and residential precinct.
