Tamarama, Sculpture By The Sea

The Change Room by Peter Zappa

Kaleidoscope Cube by Alex Richie

Sculpture: Shelter <> Flow: Resistance_Beacon_v2.0 by Michael Dickson



Dump by Paul Caporn

The 16th annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition is currently running along the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama. These sculptures at the beach at Tamarama have the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop.

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Tamarama, Sculpture By The Sea

Sea's Nest by Zhang Yangen

Barrel Roll by Peter Lundberg 

Embrace-Sentinel Series by Richard Rhodes

Twice Twist Bands

-Done- by Thomas Reifferscheid

Sculpture by the Sea is the world's largest annual free public outdoor sculpture exhibition. The 16th annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition is running from 18th October to 4th November 2012. It is located on the two kilometre coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama. These sculptures at Marks Park in Tamarama have the Pacific Ocean and North Bondi as a backdrop.

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HSBC Centre, 580 George

HSBC Centre is a 37 storey skyscraper in a contemporary art deco architectural style, that was completed in 1988. It is located on the corner of George Street and Bathurst Street. Also known as 580 George, this building contains commercial office and retail space. The main entrance to the commercial tower is on George Street and the retail section can also be accessed via a pedestrian underpass from Town Hall railway station.

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Anzac Bridge

The view from the Anzac Bridge walkway, looking towards Pyrmont and the city skyline.

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Parramatta, obelisk

This obelisk was erected in Parramatta Park in 1890 to mark the location of an astronomical observatory that once stood here. According to the inscription, Parramatta Observatory was founded in 1822 by Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales. The transit stones, which remain in their original location, formed a stable base for the transit instrument – a telescope that moved on a north south axis which was used to measure longitude and the exact positions of the stars. In 1828, Surveyor Thomas Mitchell used these stones as a meridian mark for the first trigonometric survey of Australia. The observatory was closed in 1848 and the building was demolished in 1876 after it became dilapidated.

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Parramatta, The Bath House

The Bath House is a historic structure in Parramatta Park, in the western suburb of Parramatta. It was designed by Colonial Architect S. L. Harris and built in 1823 for Governor Thomas Brisbane. Water was pumped into it from the nearby river, while used water was run off into a nearby duck pond. In 1886, the bath house was converted to a pavillion for picnics or as a bandstand. Unfortunately the domes and turret were removed at this time.

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Parramatta, Boer War Memorial

The Boer War Memorial is located in Parramatta Park, in the western suburb of Parramatta. It commemorates Australian participation in the Boer War. The Volunteer Lancers were the first Australian troops to arrive in South Africa in 1899. The memorial was erected in 1904 using four Doric columns, the entablature blocks and the cornice from the former Parramatta Courthouse, designed by Mortimer Lewis in 1837. In the centre of the memorial, a broken pillar signifies "life broken short" to remember the lives lost in the war.

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Parramatta, Prince Alfred Park, rotunda

This rotunda is located in Prince Alfred Park, in the western suburb of Parramatta. This 1.6 hectare park was originally the site of Australia’s first gaol which was completed in 1797. The park honours Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who was the second son of Queen Victoria and the first British monarch to visit Australia in 1867-68. On his second, whilst picnicking in the beachfront suburb of Clontarf on the 12 March 1868, he was wounded in the back by a revolver fired by Henry James O'Farrell.

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Parramatta, Gollan Memorial Clock Tower

This sandstone clock tower is located in Prince Alfred Park, in the western suburb of Parramatta. The park honours Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who was the second son of Queen Victoria. The Gollan Memorial Clock Tower was erected in 1954 to commemorate the services to the district of the Honourable G C Gollan, Member of the Legislative Assembly and former cabinet minister.

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Parramatta, Buttons Bridge

Buttons Bridge crosses the Parramatta River, in the western suburb of Parramatta. This pedestrian bridge was built in 1931 and links historic Parramatta Park to the central business district of Parramatta.

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Undercliffe, Cooks River, sunset

A sunset view across the Cooks River towards Waterworth Park, in the southern suburb of Undercliffe.

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Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club

 
The Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club sits on the cliff above Tamarama Beach, in the eastern suburb of Tamarama. The club was one of the first surf life saving clubs established in Australia in 1906. This club house was built in 1939 to replace the original wooden building which was destroyed by fire. The Surf Club Project involves a paint company and local tradesmen painting every surf club in Australia. The project was kicked off at Tamarama in 2011. Original colours are used and the iconic sign writing was also reproduced.

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Leichhardt, rotunda

This rotunda is located in the middle of  Pioneers Memorial Park, in the inner west suburb of Leichhardt. This unique, contemporary rotunda was built in 1988 for Australia's Bicentennary, which marked the anniversary of European settlement in Australia in 1788.

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Leichhardt, war memorial

This war memorial is located in Pioneers Memorial Park, in the inner west suburb of Leichhardt. The grey marble obelisk with a sculpture of a lady was created in 1922 as a World War 1 memorial and originally stood at the corner of Marion Street and Norton Street. This site was originally Balmain Cemetery which was used for burials until 1908. It became a public park in 1941 and the graves were moved to other cemeteries. The war memorial was moved to the park in 1949 and also became a monument for soldiers killed in World War 2. 

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Leichhardt, Pioneers Memorial Park

The Norton Street entrance of the Pioneers Memorial Park, located in the inner west suburb of Leichhardt. The site was formerly Balmain Cemetery and became a place of recreation in 1941, when it was renamed to pay tribute to the pioneers of the district. The war memorial and a rotunda can be seen from here.

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Pyrmont, Giba Park

Giba Park is on a cliff-top at Pyrmont Point overlooking Sydney Harbour, in the inner city suburb of Sydney. These benches carved from sandstone provide views of the city skyline and Pyrmont wharves.

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Wolli Creek, Cooks River

The heritage listed Tempe House, on the foreshore of the Cooks River, is now surrounded by high rise apartment buildings in the southern suburb of Wolli Creek.
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Kyeemagh, Botany Bay, rainbow

The end of the rainbow appears in the middle of Botany Bay, viewed from the southern suburb of Kyeemagh.

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Glebe, Jubilee Park, tram stop

This tram stop is located at Jubilee Park in the inner city suburb of Glebe. It was opened in 2000 as part of the Metro Light Rail line, which runs from Central railway station to Lilyfield. It utilised the former Darling Harbour branch of the Metropolitan Goods railway line.

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La Perouse, Bare Island

Looking across Conwong Bay to Bare Island on Botany Bay, which is linked by a bridge to the eastern suburb of La Perouse. This view is from the New South Wales Golf Club.

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Matraville, Pioneer Memorial Park

Pioneer Memorial Park is part of the the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, in the eastern suburb of Matraville. It was created in 1976 as a memorial of early pioneers and prominent citizens of the colony of New South Wales. It features 746 surviving memorials that were transported here in 1901 from the early Sydney burial grounds, Town Hall Cemetery, beside St Andrew's Cathedral and the Sydney Burial Ground, also known as Sandhills or Devonshire Street Ground Cemetery.

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Balmain, public buildings

This heritage building is located along Darling Street, in the inner west suburb of Balmain. It was designed by James Barnet with elements of Victorian Academic Classical, Victorian Free Classical and Victorian Italianate architectural styles. The building was completed in 1887 and contains the Balmain Post Office with a clock tower, the Balmain Court House with a dome and the Balmain Police Station.

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Birchgrove, Ballast Point Park, walkway

This walkway runs along the northern side of Ballast Point Park, in the inner west suburb of Birchgrove. It provides great views of Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Rozelle, Bridgewater Park

This walkway is along the edge of Bridgewater Park, in the inner west suburb of Rozelle. The marina is on Iron Cove, opposite Birkenhead Point.

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Drummoyne, Birkenhead Point

The glass roof above the Birkenhead Point Outlet Centre, in the inner west suburb of Drummoyne. It spans between two former warehouse and factory buildings built in the 19th century, that were converted to retail space in the early 1980s.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge

The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge at dusk, viewed from Circular Quay.

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Lumiere, Bathurst Street

Lumiere is a residential and commercial building along Bathurst Street. This 56-storey tower was built in 2007. There's a glimpse of St Andrew's Cathedral in the foreground.

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Wolli Creek, Cooks River, sunset

This sunset over the southern suburb of Wolli Creek and reflected in the Cooks River was viewed from Kendrick Park at Tempe.

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Paddington, Reservoir Gardens

The entrance to the Paddington Reservoir Gardens on Oxford Street, in the inner city suburb of Paddington. This former underground reservoir was renovated in 2009 to provide an urban sanctuary with lawns, flower beds, shaded seating and a water feature fish pond. The sign is embedded in the design of the gate.

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Woollahra, fountain

This Victorian fountain is located in Davies Reserve, on the corner of Queen Street and Oxford Street, in the eastern suburb of Woollahra. It was restored and installed in 1987 by the Queen Street and West Woolhara Association in conjunction with Woolhara Municipal Council. It is also located opposite one of the entrances to Centennial Park.

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Glebe, St Scholastica's College

This magnificent heritage building is part of St Scholastica's College, located in the inner west suburb of Glebe. This historic house, known as Toxteth Park, was designed by John Verge and built in 1829 in the Victorian Italianate architectural style. The estate was purchased by the Catholic Church in 1901 to become a convent and school. The building is now used as the Good Samaritan Congregational Centre by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan.

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Annandale, mural

This is part of a large mural located on a wall along The Crescent, in the inner west suburb of Annandale. The retaining wall supports the metro tram line from Glebe to Lilyfield. The artwork is actually known as the "Glebe mural" and it features past and present images from the local area. It was commissioned by Leichhardt Council in 1980 and painted by Richard Monk..

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Glebe, Johnstons Creek

This footbridge over Johnstons Creek is located in the middle of Bicentennial Park, in the inner west suburbs of Glebe.

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Rozelle, Johnstons Bay

A sunset view of Johnstons Bay to Anzac Bridge and Glebe Island, in the inner west suburb of Rozelle, from Waterfront Park.

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Kings Cross, The Elan

The Elan is an apartment building that stands above the William Street tunnel at Kings Cross. At street level, it fronts Victoria Street, between Kings Cross Road and Craigend Street, technically in the inner city suburb of Rushcutters Bay. This 40-storey tower which was completed in 1997 contains residential and commercial space. To construct such a building above the road tunnel, required the main transfer beams which carry the load to be an average one metre wide, five storeys high and be anchored 20 metres into the bedrock.

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Kings Cross, billboard

This Coca-Cola billboard is located at the intersection of William Street and Darlinghurst Road at Kings Cross, in the inner city suburb of Potts Point. The original neon logo billboard was erected in 1974, with the additional billboard on the left added in 1990. This famous billboard, attached to the Millennium Hotel, is the biggest in the southern hemisphere and viewed as an iconic landmark.

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Little Bay

These scuba divers have just entered the water at Little Bay and are heading out into the Pacific Ocean.

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Little Bay, Coast Hospital

This heritage building was part of the former Prince Henry Hospital in the eastern suburb of Little Bay. Originally known as the Coast Hospital, it had its origins managing patients with infectious diseases such as the smallpox outbreak in 1881, the bubonic plague in 1900 and the spanish flu pandemic in 1919. The Coast Hospital was renamed the Prince Henry Hospital in 1934 and operated until 2001. The Prince Henry site has since been sold and is being redeveloped for housing. The restored 1914 wards of the hospital now house the Nursing and Medical Museum and a Community Centre.

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Little Bay, clock tower

This clock tower is located along Brodie Avenue at the former Prince Henry Hospital site, in the eastern suburb of Little Bay. The clock was made in Blenheim, Germany in 1878, brought to Australia for the Sydney Exhibition held in the Domain in 1879. It was moved to the Botanical Gardens in 1882 and later to Bourke as the town clock. In 1898 it was erected at the Coast Hospital on a wood and corrugated iron tower. The three storey high brick clock tower with a copper roof and wind vane was built in 1953 as a memorial tower dedicated to those that served in the World War 2 airforce.

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Little Bay Beach, seagulls

Looking across the rocks at Little Bay Beach to the Pacific Ocean, in the eastern suburb of Little Bay. A warm winter's day brought a few swimmers to the beach yesterday but they were vastly outnumbered by these seagulls.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge, sunset

The Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset, viewed from the Sydney Opera House forecourt.

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Sydney skyscrapers

These two Sydney skyscrapers are viewed from the walkway beside the Cahill Expressway, above Circular Quay railway station. The one on the left is 1 Bligh, a 29 storey office building completed in 2011. The one on the right is The Winter Garden, an office tower and retail complex.

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Elizabeth Bay, The Jar

This contemporary sculpture is located in Beare Park on the Sydney Harbour foreshore, in the eastern suburb of Elizabeth Bay. "The Jar" was created by Timothy Perrett and carved from a hebel block, an autoclaved aerated concrete block. It was originally part of an exhibition of three artists, developing works in progress on the public footway outside the court house at Taylor Square at Darlinghurst in the mid-1990s and was later purchased by the City of Sydney for this park.

Rose Bay, signs (Theme Day: Numbers)

This signpost is located on the foreshore of the eastern suburb of Rose Bay. It is located beside the Sydney Seaplanes base on Sydney Harbour at Lyne Park. The signs show flight distances in miles, on the traditional Empire Flying Boat route from Sydney to: Brisbane (480), Townsville (1200), Darwin (2404), Singapore (4681) and London (12847). 

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