The original two-storey Georgian structure was designed by Mortimer Lewis and featured 13 large and expensive windows in the facade to afford a clear view of shipping activity in Sydney Cove.
Now subsumed into a large modern hotel complex, this former government office was built in two stages,
Perspective including ground floor plan of art school, published in The Building News, June 6th 1879.
Block bound by Bridge, Loftus, Bent and Gresham Streets and constructed in two stages by State architects James Barnet and his successor Walter Liberty Vernon.
The Federation Free Style building is a three storey plus basement brick former office building constructed on a steep site on what is a prominent Macquarie Street corner.
In the 1870s an Academy of Art was established in Sydney ‘for the purpose of promoting fine arts through lecture,
Opened on 4 August 1906, Central Station is the third station to be built in its vicinity since the first station opened 51 years earlier.
Work on the Mitchell Wing began in 1906 and finished in 1910 based on designs prepared by Walter Liberty Vernon,
