Program Highlights
• Presented by Sydney Living Museums, Sydney Open is a weekend-long celebration of the city’s architectural history. • Explore over 60 buildings and spaces across the Sydney CBD, Redfern and Eveleigh from the much-loved heritage landmarks to some of the city’s most innovative, contemporary architectural spaces. Saturday 4 November Focus Tour highlights: • Climb Central Station Clock Tower and come face to face with Sydney’s largest public timepiece. • Explore the disused Platforms 26 & 27 at Central Station constructed in the 1970s but never brought into operation, the abandoned stationmaster’s office and bathrooms remain eerily intact. • Peer inside a rare, meticulously restored London-style Gentleman’s Residence, Georgian Townhouse (Emmett Residence), 22 Lower Fort Street, Dawes Point. • Visit restricted-access laboratories of the Powerhouse Museum in the behind the scenes tour and learn about conserving and preparing museum exhibits. • Follow the transformation of this industrial site from power station to museum in the Powerhouse Museum Architecture & History tour. • Visit the City of Sydney’s oldest church in continuous use, St James’ Church designed by convict architect Francis Greenway under Governor Lachlan Macquarie and be on the lucky ones to ascent St James’ Bell Tower to see the original timber mast supporting the landmark spire above St James. • Explore Bradfield’s unfinished underground city rail loop,St James’ Station Tunnels that served as war-time bunkers. • Climb the tight spiral staircase of St Mary’s Cathedral Belltower and take in the spectacular views of the city. • Trace the epic journey of Bennelong Point in the Sydney Opera House tour from a small tidal island to the world’s most recognizable ‘sails’. • Go underground to see The Tank Stream that once supplied fish to the Gadigal people and fresh water to the early colonists. • Take the architecturally-themed tour at Elizabeth Bay House to see parts open for the first-time to the public. • Hear from Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects about their transformation of the old Eveleigh carriage workshops into Carriageworks contemporary art icon.
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Sunday Sydney Open Pass highlights: • Step inside some of Sydney’s best architectural practices from the highly anticipated, new Grimshaw 333 George Street studio, a stunning new glass-wrapped building in the heart of Sydney’s heritage sandstone district to JPW’s Studio in the Plaza Building, Australia Square and the stunning DKO Architects situated in the old Redfern Post Office. • Gain insights into the fascinating, heritage buildings at King Street Court Complex with access to Courts 1 and 3, Alexander Dawson Room as well as the St James Road Banco Court all steeped in rich history, legal practice and life changing rulings. • Marvel at the beautiful adaptation of Beaux Arts 50 Martin Place, Australia’s largest heritage building with a Six Green Star rating and the Abercrombie Building at the University of Sydney. • See the stunning Queen Victoria Building Dome from the inside and witness world-leading sustainability and workplace design come together at the EY Centre, 200 George Street with its interlocking towers wrapped in a warm timber and glass façade. • Explore enduring favourites from previous Sydney Open programs from Sydney Masonic Centre’s heroic foyer and the 24-storey Civic Tower above it to Hong Kong House, The Great Synagogue, Grosvenor Place, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, The Mint and Susannah Place Museum. • Take in the spectacular views of Sydney Harbour in all its glory from the viewing deck of the AMP Building – the first building to exceed Sydney’s long-imposed 46 metre (150ft) height limit and sneak into one of Harry Seidler’s landmark buildings: Grosvenor Place and Australia Square. • Step inside one of Sydney’s finest lobbies with an impressive collection of modern abstract art and sculpture of the Reserve Bank of Australia. • See inside some the city’s corridors of power, where big decisions are made and legal battles played out in Culwulla Chambers, One Farrer Place, Parliament House and Sydney Town Hall. • Walk inside the cells and check out the chilling collection of criminal weapons at the Justice & Police Museum. • Sydney Open Passholders can also enjoy a rich program of talks from architects and building experts drop-in tours and musical performances at select sites. • For more information on the full Sydney Open program visit slm.is/open.
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Media enquiries: Emma Heath Media Manager, Sydney Living Museums M 0413 768 588 E [email protected]
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The Historic Houses Trust of Images on page 1, left to right: NSW, incorporating Sydney The University of Sydney Business School; 50 Martin Place. Living Museums, is principally Photos © Brett Boardman for Sydney Living Museums; funded by the NSW Government. Carriageworks, Bays 22-24. Photo © Zan Wimberley