St Mary's Cathedral, Lights of Christmas

St Mary's Cathedral featured a light projection show, Lights of Christmas, from 13 December to 25 December 2012.

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St Mary's Cathedral, Lights of Christmas

The facade of St Mary's Cathedral is featuring a light projection show, Lights of Christmas, until tonight. These images of "The Madonna and Child" have been reproduced with permission of the Acdemia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy. The artworks are by artists Titian, Bellini, Cravelli, De Lani and Vivarini. Merry Christmas.

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St Mary's Cathedral, Lights of Christmas

The facade of St Mary's Cathedral, located along College Street, has been featuring Lights of Christmas, a light projection show running until Christmas Day. This view is across Cathedral Square in Cook and Philip Park. In celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the artworks that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, the iconic image of "The Creation of Life" is featured, in which God reaches out and gives life to Adam with the touch of his finger.

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David Jones department store, Christmas windows

The Christmas display windows at the Elizabeth Street store of the David Jones department store. This year the animated characters portrayed the Christmas carols "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer", "Deck The Halls", "Do You Hear What I Hear", "Angels We Have Heard On High" and "Away In A Manger".

Westfield Sydney, Christmas lights

These large Christmas light decorations currently hang in Westfield Sydney. They flash and change colours to display a variety of different patterns to create a festive mood. Formerly known as Centrepoint, this shopping centre is bounded by Pitt Street Mall, Market Street and Castlereagh Street.

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Sydney Town Hall, restoration

Sydney Town Hall is a landmark sandstone building on the corner of George Street and Druitt Street. It was completed in 1889 in the grand Victorian Second Empire architectural style and is currently undergoing a $33 million restoration. The project involves extensive restoration works to the George Street side of the hall and clock tower. The 20 metre photograph of the sandstone façade and the 30 metre photographs of the clock tower have been printed onto custom-made mesh which is wrapped around scaffolding while the restoration works take place.

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The Rocks, Playfair Street

These traditional style Christmas star decorations adorn lamp poles in The Rocks, a historic locality west of Sydney Cove. This lamp is located in Playfair Street, in front of a former warehouse building, now used as a hotel. Beside this doorway is a ghost sign for a former occupier of the building that reads: "Storm Wood Prod Pty Ltd 5th Floor".
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The Rocks, Christmas tree

The Rocks 'living' Christmas tree is located along George Street, next to First Fleet Park at The Rocks. It is made from almost 600 living plants, 143 metres of aluminium pipe and 1,000 stainless steel pot scourers. The tree is designed in the shape of a traditional fir tree with the irrigation pipe that winds around the outside evoking a garland of tinsel, while the plants and scourers are designed to resemble baubles. It was created by Brendan Moar, a landscape architect and Australian television host. This is a sustainable tree so the plants will be reused and the pipe will be recycled after Christmas festivities are over.

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The Rocks, warehouse

This former warehouse building is located at the corner of George Street and Hickson Road at The Rocks. Bushells Warehouse was built in the late 1800s in the Victorian Free Classical style. It was altered by the Government Architect, W.L. Vernon, who designed the additional floors and remodelled the eastern façade to harmonise with the additions in the Federation Warehouse style. In 1923 it became the headquarters for the Bushell's Tea Company, which utilised the building for sorting, blending, storing and packaging tea and coffee, until 1975. It is now used for retail, commercial and office space.

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The Rocks, First Impressions, The Soldier

"First Impressions" is a sculpture located in Playfair Street in The Rocks. This sandstone relief was created by Bud Dumas in 1979 as a memorial to the convicts, soldiers and settlers who made up the original settlement at The Rocks. This side of the sculpture features "The Soldier". The First Fleet arrived in 1788 with 211 marines to protect the settlement and preserve good order among the convicts. The soldier represented here is modelled on the New South Wales Corps, which was raised as a permanent body of troops for the new colony, with the first 100 strong detachment arriving in 1790 with the Second Fleet. This monument also features "The Convict" and "The Settlers".

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The Rocks, Foundation Park

Foundation Park is located between Gloucester Walk and Playfair Terrace at the Rocks. It features the ruins of houses that were built into a sandstone cliff face from 1874 to 1878. The narrow multi-level houses had been demolished by the 1940s and became a small park in 1972. After archaeological excavation in the 1990s, parts of the original dwellings were brought back to life with low dividing walls and steel furniture designed by sculptor Peter D. Cole. The rooms were no larger than 3 metres by 3 metres which would have been quite cramped with furniture.

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Circular Quay, ship

This cruise ship, Radiance of the Seas, was moored at the Overseas Passenger terminal at Circular Quay this week, opposite the Sydney Opera House.

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The Rocks, Foundation Park

This monument is located at Foundation Park, off Gloucester Walk at the Rocks. Foundation Park features a collection of housing remains in the middle of this historic area. The ruins of eight houses that were built into a sandstone cliff face from 1874 to 1878 were transformed into a park in 1972. This monument demonstrates the size and shape of the houses and their features.

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The Rocks, Gloucester Walk

This redeveloped warehouse building is located at The Rocks with the top floor housing an Italian restaurant. It is accessed from the Gloucester Walk laneway which features this sculpture of an old gas light and a sign post pointing to nearby landmarks.
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Farm Cove, yacht

This yacht is seen here sailing in Farm Cove, beside the Royal Botanic Gardens. It was a glorious summer day to be out on Sydney Harbour.

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Botanic Gardens, The Boxers

This is one of a pair of marble statues known as "The Boxers", located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. This two-metre high sculpture is a copy of "The Greek Boxer Kreugas" by Antonio Canova which was completed in 1802 and is now in the collection at the Vatican Museum. This statue is one of several made in Italy and installed in the Botanic Gardens in the 1880s.

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Botanic Gardens, Herbarium

The former Maiden's Herbarium was a herbarium and museum in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It was built in the Arts and Craft architectural style and opened in 1901. After a new Herbarium was built in 1982, it became an administrative building and is now known as the Anderson Building, named after Chief Botanist and Curator Robert Anderson who unified the Botanic Gardens and Herbarium in 1959 to create the Royal Botanic Gardens. After the opening of the Robert Brown Building in 1982, it is now used for administration and contains the Maiden Theatre, in memory of a previous Botanic Garden's Director, Joseph Henry Maiden.

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Botanic Gardens. Oriental Garden

This pergola is located at the entrance of the Oriental in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is flanked by a pair of bronze lions known as "Temple Dogs". They were made in Thailand and were donated by the Friends of The Gardens in 1998. The garden features wild and cultivated plants from warm-temperate and sub-tropical areas of China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and Bhutan.

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Botanic Gardens, Lotus Pond

The Lotus Pond is located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is linked to the Main Pond and sits beside the Oriental Garden. The fountain in the middle of the pond is almost swamped by the lotus or water lilies which are thriving at this time of year. A sandstone Japanese lantern can also be seen in the distance, one of two that were made in 1921 by Mr F.J. Read, Outer-Domain Stonemason.

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Arncliffe, street

A sunset view from a typical street, in the southern suburb of Arncliffe.
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Customs House Square, beach club

This temporary beach club was last week located in Customs House Square, at Circular Quay. It was set up as a summer promotion for a computer company, featuring beach chairs, sun umbrellas, a beach bar, life preservers, a lifeguard's chair and real beach sand.

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Circular Quay, ferries

This view of Sydney Harbour to the Sydney Harbour Bridge was from the viewing platform above Circular Quay railway station. These two First Fleet Class ferries are seen here departing from the Circular Quay ferry wharves. They are named the Scarborough and the Charlotte after two of eleven ships of the First Fleet that sailed to Australia in 1787. These two Sydney Ferries were acquired in 1986 and 1985.
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Chippendale, Symbiosis

"Symbiosis" is an artwork at the Central Park redevelopment site, in the inner west suburb of Chippendale. This sculpture created by Caroline Rothwell is a giant red nylon inflated tree fed by white PVC pipes which the artist says symbolises “the artificial, technological and the human circulatory system”. Located on the southern facade of the heritage Irving Street Brewery building, it is the latest temporary artwork in a public art collection.

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Lavender Bay, St Francis Xavier Church

St Francis Xavier Church is located along Mackenzie Street, in the north shore suburb of Lavender Bay. This sandstone building was designed by William Wardell in the Gothic architectural style and opened in 1881 as a Catholic school with four classrooms. When a new school was erected on the grounds in 1901 it became a church. 

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Lavender Bay

The view from the north shore suburb of Lavender Bay, looking across the bay to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Luna Park, the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour. The cruise ship which had just departed from the Overseas Passenger Terminal is the Voyager of the Seas, one of the largest in the world.

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Arncliffe, street (Theme Day: My Street)

A sunset view of my street.

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