Week10 - 6 May 2013 – Town Hall house (Sydney City)


6 May 2013 – Town Hall house (Sydney City)


Sydney Town Hall is a landmark building in the heart of Sydney City.  It is a sandstone structure sanding opposite Queen Victoria Building and next to St Andrew’s Cathedral, which the popular meeting place in the Central Business District. In architectural aspects, The Sydney Town Hall was inspirited by the Beaux-Arts tradition, with a heavily articulated facade of neo-Classical features designed to express the seat of civic power. The Town Hall area has been defined as a social space in the location, which it has been embraced by a large scale of city central business and commercial area. Town Hall building has not only been seemed as a major city landmark for historic heritage in architecture aspect, but also it has provided a meeting point, a traffic junction and social activity place.  Opposite Woolworths Town Hall has supplied household products to people who either living in city area or taking the train to suburb, which economic benefit is obviously found in this place.

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