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ART, PLACE LANDSCAPE examines the city through its evolving attitude to the design of it's public domain, and the elements that they contain; art, architecture and landscape.
For the Eora people, the trees were an embracing home. For Europeans these same trees were full of mystery, shadows and darkness. Starting in the modern forest of concrete, skyscrapers and hard paved surfaces at Edge of Trees by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley, we walk outwards to the green harbour wedge,...
Moving from the broad to the particular, the historic to the contemporary, SYDNEY conjures a heady urban narrative revealing the political, cultural and environmental patterns and forces shaping Sydney. We will concentrate on two contemporary iconic structures; Aurora Place and Governor Phillip and Macquarie Towers, and the work of three architects; Renzo Piano, Denton Corker Marshall & Jørn Utzon.
Renzo Piano is a virtuoso in the world of architecture and someone...
Getting beyond the postcard view of the city and its two shimmering icons, HARBOURINGS reveals Sydney at her rawest and most spectacular, her most self-conscious and most corrupt.
The route is diverse, spectacular and full of surprising contemporary projects in and amongst the gritty industrial history of the Rocks.
We will pluck out surprising contemporary projects by Lindsay and Kerry Clare, Ed Lippmann and look at the Sirius Apartment building by Tao Gofers...
Both an in-depth and textured portrait of enigmatic Danish architect Jørn Utzon, as well as a narrative of one of the 20th Centuries greatest buildings, UTZON draws the listener into the amazing visionary world of the architect of the Sydney Opera House.
His work was beautiful yet transcended the purely aesthetic. He worked hard yet projected the image of a balanced life. He benefited from ancient precedents whilst formulating innovation, proclaimed himself a 'builder'...
See Sydney - on and off the tourist track - on this entertaining 2-hour guided walk. You'll see where the plague ran rampant in The Rocks, discover the modern dramas of the Opera House, hear of the World War II battle in Sydney harbour, visit the site where Mission Impossible II was filmed, walk through Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, unravel the tales of Sydney eccentrics.... and more.
A tour through the heart of Sydney's red-light, artistic, bohemian, criminal, passionate and deviant hotspot, KINGS CROSS.
Explore Kings Cross and its speckled history of fame, fortunes, murders, drug-obsessions, mysteries, crimes & romances. Stand on the site of one of Sydney's greatest unsolved mysteries, hear of the sly grog and razor gang days, visit the heart of old Sydney bohemia... and more. Don't miss this rare opportunity for a taste of Sydney's...
Woolloomooloo's history is all about the bay itself the ships, the fishing boats, the hot and cold sea baths, the wharfs, the timberyards and the people who worked them. Families lived in tiny terraces deep in the valley behind the bay, overlooked from the cliff above by the nobs on Woolloomooloo Hill.
Elizabeth Macquarie, the Governor's wife, had her own chair carved out of the rock on the point, children swam far out into the bay and ate oysters collected from its shores. Soldiers...
Under the cover of darkness, we'll show you a bizarre and fascinating side of Sydney you never knew existed, in the comfort of one of our beautiful Cadillac hearses. This is the history they don't put in the text books. This is the Sydney they don't put in the guide books. And this is the tour that shines the spotlight onto the tantalising skeletons in Sydney's closet.
Sydney is a city that began as a poorly planned solution to Britain's overcrowded prisons and it was only by good luck...