Week7 - 17April 2013 – Sydney Hospital


17April 2013 – Sydney Hospital


Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Macquarie Street facing to the Westside of Martin Place. It is the oldest hospital in Australia. The hospital site was constantly added to and modified to accommodate the growing population of Sydney after 20th century, with a number of additional buildings erected in the hospital grounds facing Hospital Road. The most recent work was the construction of the clinical services building and accommodation for the Sydney Eye Hospital. Therefore, a small garden with a fountain was created in the middle of hospital area, which Administration block has created a barrier between the noise Macquarie Street and quiet hospital garden. This heritage site could be seemed an isolated area from the many high modernist structures of this metropolis; as well as, a shortcut run through from the financial and insurance centre – Martin Place to a large Public green space – the Domain, which a transfer media between flourishing and leisure in the city.


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