{"id":32464,"date":"2016-06-10T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32464"},"modified":"2016-06-09T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:26:54","slug":"sandstone-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/sandstone-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandstone Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between my many and all-good speculative Sydney meetings I also got to walk between meeting places and see something of “sandstone Sydney” at the same time.<\/p>\n

I say “sandstone” because many of the heritage buildings that remain are constructed of this material, which is local to the Sydney area. Although it’s not all<\/em> sandstone, since there is also the iconic Harbour Bridge in the mix.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my snaps of inner city Sydney experience, starting with my hotel, The Grace, a 1930s art deco (and sandstone) building that has been re-purposed as a hotel.<\/p>\n

\"Grace_2a\"<\/a>The Grace Hotel, York Street<\/pre>\n
This next photo is of an older-era sandstone house, not far from the offices of Hachette Australia:<\/p>\n
\"Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0The house, in its turn, was not far from the new (or so I understand) Barangaroo waterside park, where sandstone also features:<\/p>\n
\"Barangaroo_1a\"<\/a>Again, note the extensive use of sandstone<\/pre>\n
And from which I obtained my first view of the Harbour Bridge:<\/p>\n
\"Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n
Later, I was able to get entirely more up close and personal to the bridge, although I did not<\/em> do the walk over it (no time, dear readers, no time for that!): \"Bridge_2a\"<\/a><\/p>\n
And tomorrow – the Opera House and a little on “Vivid” Sydney!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In between my many and all-good speculative Sydney meetings I also got to walk between meeting places and see something of “sandstone Sydney” at the same time. I say “sandstone” because many of the heritage buildings that remain are constructed of this material, which is local to the Sydney area. Although it’s not all sandstone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32485,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions\/32485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}