About this survey

Sydney Architecture is a survey of the city’s buildings, arranged under six headings: sandstone, brick, Art Deco, modernism, brutalism and contemporary. It is a selection, not a complete record.

Drawings

The elevations were made for this site from photographs and published descriptions, and all are shown at one scale. They are interpretive drawings and not measured surveys, and some proportions are estimates. Each entry says so where it matters.

Text

Each entry and explainer lists the sources it was checked against, and says so where they disagree. Many are public web pages, including Wikipedia, which reproduces much of the text of the NSW State Heritage Register. The register’s own pages could not be read directly, so wording from the listings comes through those copies.

Photographs

Photographs, including historic pictures, are from Wikimedia Commons, under the licences credited beside each one, and have been resized, converted for the web and shown slightly desaturated.

The walk

The Sandstone Walk is routed along footpaths mapped in OpenStreetMap. If you ask it to use your location, your position is used only on your own phone and is never sent anywhere or saved. Check the route as you go: footpaths close, and maps can be wrong.

Maps

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Building footprints are as mapped there.