Saturday 10 July 2010

Treasury Building, Macquarie Street

The old Treasury Building in Macquarie Street has been incorporated into the Hotel InterContinental Sydney. The original sandstone building designed by Walter Liberty Vernon was built in 1896 and the hotel tower was built in 1984. The building has used for the former Colonial Secretary General and then for the New South Wales Premier’s Office. I took this photo during the recent Vivid Sydney festival which featured light projections on many buildings in Macquarie Street. The simple lighting on the facade of this heritage building also looks impressive to me.

15 comments:

  1. I have really enjoyed seeing your Sydney building illumination photos.It may be art for the masses, but very effective. How good is is it that the hotel has taken over the old building.

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  2. What a beautiful building, I could stay there over night !

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  3. Hi
    molto bello questo monumento storico... molto imponente :-))
    Buon fien settimana.

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  4. Wonderful to have a use for this beautiful old building that maintained its facade and history.

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  5. I like the solid sandstone buildings down in this part of the city.

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  6. Great. Sydney seems to be a great city with many special places.
    Your pictures are very good.

    Cheerings,

    Roberto

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  7. Nice old-standard building! I'm enjoying seeing your beautiful photos every time....

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  8. Sydney is clever in the use of colored lights to decorate the cityscape. I really enjoy your blog.

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  9. love the lighting..been to sydney several years ago..reliving it thro yr blog

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  10. It is a great old building and the light is soft even nicer than some of the way out vivid stuff.

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  11. Fantastic shot, nice lighting of the building.

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  12. I didn’t see the Vivid Sydney display, so I appreciated seeing your brilliant photos of the event.

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