Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney, jellyfish

These light balloons representing giant jelly fish floating above Sydney Harbour were located on the foreshore of Circular Quay West, as part of the Vivid Sydney festival. "Jellight" was created by Simon Lee, Aamer Taher and Pascal Petitjean from Australia, Singapore and France. The jellyfish are departing the polluted oceans to escape into the universe like UFOs.

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The Rocks, Cadman's Cottage, Vivid Sydney

Cadman's Cottage, was one of the heritage buildings that was lit up for the Vivid Sydney festival. The colourful and playful display of lights on the exterior of this museum, called "Cadman's Playground", was created by Steve Furzey and Kam Dahtt.

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Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney, statues

 This artwork is located along the Circular Quay East foreshore, as part of the Vivid Sydney festival which ends tonight. "Positive Attracts" is created by Singapore artist Edwin Cheong. These life-size light statues have infra red sensors to detect when people are in close range and trigger changing rainbow LED lighting effects. Each one is named after a real life hero which visitors can guess from a famous quote at the base of each statue.

Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney, pylons and walkway

These pylons and walkway at Circular Quay have been illuminated for the Vivid Sydney festival which runs until Monday night. "(B)right on time" was created by Tim Carr, Tim Hunt, Jo Black, Carter Leung and Mark Gilder. The bridge above carries the railway line to Circular Quay station and the Cahill Expressway sit above that. The vibrations of the trains coming and going above are synchronised with pulsating lights, varying the colour and intensity.

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The Rocks, Rocks Square, Vivid Sydney

This lighting design artwork is hanging above Rocks Square, just off Playfair Street at the Rocks, as part of the Vivid Sydney festival. "Illuminate", created by Daniel Mercer and Richard Neville, with highly efficient light sources using less power than the existing lights normally in the square. The 140 hanging tubes filled with individually controllable LEDs produce 9000 pixels of light, lighting the space with continuously changing colours and patterns.

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Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney

Circular Quay and the Sydney skyline illuminated for the annual Vivid Sydney festival which runs until this Monday night. These are just some of the colours featured in "Skyscraper Illuminati" created by 32 Hundred Lighting but there are also quite a few animated designs this year which are difficult to photograph. This view is from the Overseas Passenger Terminal looking towards the Circular Quay ferry wharves and Circular Quay railway station, rising up to the city skyscrapers.

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Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney, bench

As part of the Vivid Sydney festival, this bench has been installed along the Circular Quay foreshore, leading up to the Sydney Opera House. The artwork is called "C/C" and is created by Singapore's Angela Chong. It is illuminated at night with low energy, colour changing LED lights. I thought it was worth photographing during the day because it has such a spectacular backdrop. It's a shame the view was partly blocked by the hoarding around the escalators which are being repaired.

Customs House Square, Sydney Ice Bear

Sydney Ice Bear was an ice sculpture of a male polar bear that was located in Customs House Square this week. British sculptor Mark Coreth carved out the life-sized melting ice sculpture of a polar bear on Friday (top). By Monday, the sculpture had melted away to reveal a bronze skeleton (bottom). The display was timed to coincide with World Environment Day on Sunday, as a metaphor for the human impact on our environment and to create awareness of climate change. This is the sixth Ice Bear Project carving following on from those in London, Copenhagen, Montreal, Toronto and Manchester.

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The Rocks, Argyle Street, Vivid Sydney

These artworks, located along Argyle Street at The Rocks and Millers Point, are part of the Vivid Sydney festival. "Web of Light" (top) created by Ruth McDermott and Ben Baxter hangs above two buildings at the entrance to Cambridge Street. It highlights the beauty and mystery of a spider's web using around 1000 chandelier crystals to refract natural and artificial light to mimic water droplets on a web. "Eye See You" (bottom) created by German artist Zymryte Hoxhaj is located in front of the cliffs of Observatory Hill. Coloured lights reflect off more than 300 handmade, printed puppets who watch you with their giant eye.

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Millers Point, The Garrison Church, Vivid Sydney

The Garrison Church at Millers Point is one of many buildings that has been lit up around the city for the third annual Vivid Sydney festival which this year runs from 27th May to 13th June.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, viewed from the Sydney Opera House forecourt. This was taken from the same spot as the illuminated forecourt shot yesterday but looking west across Sydney Harbour. The bright lights near the northern pylon are from Luna Park at Milsons Point.

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Circular Quay, Vivid Sydney, forecourt

This was the view of Circular Quay and the Sydney skyline from the Sydney Opera House last night. Vivid Sydney is a festival of light, music and ideas which this year runs from 25th May to 13th June. Some buildings in the city have been lit up with coloured light projections. "Halls Balls" involved the lamps along the Circular Quay foreshore being coloured blue and pink which produced some wonderful reflections on the Opera House forecourt.

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Chippendale, stack

This chimney stack at the former Kent Brewery in the inner city suburb of Chippendale dominates the skyline. The old brewery had also been known as the Carlton and United brewery, the Irving Street brewery and the Tooth brewery. The stack and these heritage buildings have been retained to be incorporated in the new Central Park redevelopment. This shot was taken late in the afternoon, in the golden glow of the setting sun.

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Chippendale, Local Memory

A temporary public art project called "Artists In Residence" occupies the heritage brewery buildings during redevelopment of the Central Park site, in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. "Local Memory" by Brook Andrew comprises of a series of portraits of people who worked in or were associated with the brewery's history between 1909 and 1998. The 18 portraits are almost 3 metres high each and fit neatly into the exposed grid of floors and walls on the northern exterior wall of the old Irving Street Brewery building. Each portrait is illuminated by a neon frame which flahes on and off in a series of programmed sequences. I missed out on photographing this artwork the previous week due to poor light but unfortunately when I returned last week workmen had just erected a billboard advertising beer. A workman can be seen here climbing down a rope, securing power cable conduits to the wall.

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Chippendale, brewery (Theme Day: Under Construction)

The former Carlton and United brewery in the inner city suburb of Chippendale has partly been demolished and a redevelopment is currently under construction. Some of the heritage buildings and the stack have been retained and will be incorporated in the mixed purpose development. The 5.8 hectare Central Park site will contain a mix of residential, commercial and public spaces. A temporary artwork has been erected on one of these buildings, featuring the faces of former brewery workers and residents.
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Chippendale, Co-Masonic Temple

This Co-Masonic Temple on Regent Street in the inner city suburb of Chippendale was built in 1898. It was originally the hall of the Wesleyan Methodist Church on this site. The church became St Alban's Liberal Catholic Church in 1918 and the Co-Masons bought the hall. The church closed in 1966, as the walls were becoming unstable and during demolition the south wall fell and wiped out most of the rear of the temple, later rebuilt. An unsuccessful development proposal was lodged in 2000 to demolish this building and replace it with a nine storey apartment block. Luckily it was decided that the temple is of historic significance due to its strong physical link to the Wesleyan Church and the Co-Masons. Co-Masonry or Co-Freemasonry is a form of Freemasonry which admits both men and women. In 2008, a successful redevelopment retained the temple for commercial use. A hall was demolished and replaced with more suitable residential buildings up to five storeys beside and behind the temple building.

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Hyde Park Barracks

The Hyde Park Barracks is at the southern end of Macquarie Street. The building was designed by colonial architect Francis Greenway and constructed by the convict labour between 1818 and 1819. It was the principal barracks for male convicts in the state of New South Wales, providing lodgings for convicts working in government employment around Sydney. From 1848 it was a dormitory for newly arrived female immigrants. From 1887 to 1979, state government offices were based here and today it is a museum operated by the Historic Houses Trust.

Drummoyne, Parramatta River, Old Gladesville Bridge

This sunset on the Parramatta River is viewed from what remains of the abutment of the first Gladesville Bridge at Howley Park in Drummoyne. The bridge replaced a ferry service that ran across the river from Abbotsford Point to Bedlam Point. It opened in 1881 and was a two lane swing span iron bridge, with a swing at this southern end that opened to allow through ferries, sailing boats and steamers with high funnels. By 1910, the electric tramway travelled across this bridge from the city to Ryde. The second Gladesville Bridge with a clearance of 30 metres was built nearby and opened in 1964.

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Parramatta River, sunset

The sun at sunset is reflected across the Parramatta River, viewed from the inner west suburb of Drummoyne towards Chiswick, Abbotsford and Henley.

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Parramatta River, sunset

This sunset view of the Parramatta River is from the inner west suburb of Drummoyne. The riverside suburbs seen here are Chiswick and Abbotsford on the southern side, with Henley on the northern side.

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Bridge Lane, nightclub

The entrance to Fake nightclub is located in Bridge Lane. Fake Club is part of Tank nightclub which is in this redeveloped warehouse building. Quite a colourful sign and door for this otherwise drab laneway. Bridge Lane is almost deserted during the day but comes alive at night.

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Woolloomooloo, Finger Wharf

The Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf on Wooloomooloo Bay is the largest timbered-piled building in the world. The wharf and warehouse on it were built in 1915 in the Edwardian architectural style and remained part of a working port until the 1970s. The warehouse building was redeveloped in the 1990s into a hotel and apartments, with restaurants along the boardwalk and a marina beside the wharf.

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Redfern, St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College

St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College is located on Cleveland Street, in the inner city suburb of Redfern. It was founded in 1986 and is the only accredited Orthodox tertiary institution of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located beside the Cathedral of the Annunciation Of Our Lady Theotokos, a Greek Orthodox Church in Cleveland Street.

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Redfern, Cathedral of the Annunciation Of Our Lady Theotokos

The Cathedral of the Annunciation Of Our Lady Theotokos is a Greek Orthodox Church on Cleveland Street, in the inner city suburb of Redfern. This bell tower and a corner turret are peeking above the trees that surround it. This heritage listed sandstone church was formerly St Paul's Anglican Church, built in 1848 and designed by Edmund Blacket.

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Walsh Bay, bridge

This small bridge on Walsh Bay at Dawes Point, links pier one to pier two at the Walsh Bay wharves. The orange & white banners and flags are for the 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival which has been running for the past week in many of the theatres and venues around the Walsh Bay precinct.

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Walsh Bay, crane

This crane on a barge seen here on the weekend moored on Walsh Bay at Dawes Point, between pier one and pier two, was being used for maintenance work around the Walsh Bay wharves on weekdays.

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