Australian Technology Park

The Australian Technology Park is a business and technology centre in Eveleigh, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 3 km south of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to Redfern railway station spread over 13.9 hectares of land.

Established in 1887 with the Eveleigh Railway Yard as its centrepiece, the Australian Technology Park was once the location of Australia’s largest industrial complex.

After the slow decline of the steam age, this magnificent but neglected site was given a new lease of life in 1995, when four of Australia’s leading Universities secured a combined investment from the NSW State and Federal Governments.

This marked the start of a vigorous transformation that both embraces the future and celebrates much of its rich cultural heritage. 

Due to the position and the hight of the buildings, they can create a big shadow.

The NICTA(Australia's information and communication Technology) Research Centre of Excellence. 

The typography of this area, infrastructures are built on different levels.

The inside of Technology Park. A lot of heavy machines. There are not in use and are protected by the fences now.

It is an open space for conferences. Offices are on the second floor, stairs are nicely connected each floor.

The East Wing of Technology Park. A very large open space. Sunshine can only go through the windows a little bit and one side of this area is really dark. 

Tracks are built at the top for transferring goods between offices.

Urban Graffiti near Redfern Station

I've found many urban graffiti near Redfern Station. They can always express underlying social and political messages. I couldn't read the meaning of these graffiti, however they bring vitality and colours to the city.

City of Sydney Model

Really grand model in the Town Hall building. The scale is 1:500.

The City of Sydney model is one of the finest urban models of its kind. It includes all existing buildings and proposed building development in the Sydney local government area. The model can be used to test shadows and sun access. The model is constructed from timber and plastics and finished with automative paint.

The buildings in the model are colour coded according to their current building and development status as follows:

cream-coloured: existing development

brown: individual heritage buildings

blue: development approval (construction not commenced)

red: under construction 

white: pending development approval and building study envelopes

GuangZhou, China - David Holm

COX Architecture's new project calls for a new financial CBD distinct from the existing traditional social and cultural CBD. Their current work captures the key points in major developments that utilize existing infrastructure, curiously overlooked in re-establishing a community grain with dense cities. Their winning design establishes a strong connection with the dynamic Pearl River and engages the new typology of a quay that will allow increased waterside development and pedestrian activity. The project is looking to establish urban controls for a new 4 million square metres of floor space and their strategy organises this around a central park, the new quay and a major transport hub that sits beneath the iconic sustainably driven high rise tower.

MLC Centre

The MLC Centre is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. The office building is 228 metres high and has 60 storeys.

The building is a stark white, modernist column in an octagonal floorplan, with eight massive load-bearing columns in the corners that taper slightly towards the top. It is one of the world’s tallest reinforced concrete buildings.

The building was designed by Sydney architect Harry Seidler. The MLC Centre has many entrances and connected with the underground food court and railway station. The open square is surrounded by bars and cafes with nicely arranged white umbrellas to protect customers from bad weathers.

Building frontages on Belfour Street

The building frontages are quite special on Belfour Street. They have small gardens, stairs to access the building and an open space with random stuff which looks cluttered. I think although things in the open area are in a mess, the residents still use this area for a rest sometimes. They've got umbrella, sofa, chair, small tables and plants are used to decorate the area a little bit. And not only one unit building has this kind of frontage, all the units on this street has the same building frontage which makes it quite unique.

Alexandria

Alexandria is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Alexandria is located 4 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney.

It is an industrial area in Sydney, trucks increase the local noise level. The biggest changing form past to now is the increasing number of cafes in this area.

Streets are the fundamental to create city shape. When observe a street, we should observe its width, function, traffic flow, bicycle lanes and residential around. We passed by the streets and lane ways which are parallel to Botany Road and cross with Reserve Street. We discussed the reasons to have parking areas in front of the buildings which can increase window shopping. The residential building types around are typical Australian terraces. As mentioned before, it is a noisy place, street trees can help to absorb noise.