Surry Hills, library and community centre

The Surry Hills Library and Community Centre is located on Crown Street, opposite Shannon Reserve. This iconic building, which was completed in 2009. features a high standard of design and sustainability. The southern facade is all glass, providing high levels of natural lighting throughout the building. The pedestrian mall and nature strip has been created by blocking off Collins Street to Crown Street.

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Surry Hills, stack

This chimney stack rises above a former industrial building in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. It dominates the skyline behind Shannon Reserve and is much taller than the chimney stacks on the residential terrace houses beside it. Surry Hills is a suburb that once contained a lot of heavy industry and manufacturing but has gone through gentrificaton, with many of the old buildings redeveloped. This stack is redundant now since the building is used for residential and commercial purposes.

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Surry Hills, restaurant

This former grocery shop with residential space above is in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. This heritage building built in 1912 has now become an Italian restaurant known as Essenza Italian. It has been beautifully restored with an eye-catching colour scheme.

Prince Alfred Park, Oh Alfred!

Prince Alfred Park is a park in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills which is currently being reconstructed. A new children's playground, tennis and basketball courts have opened but the new swimming pool is still to be completed. The 'Oh Alfred! Reflections of Prince Alfred Park' was an art project that was part of the Art and About Sydney festival. The Surry Hills community of residents and school children worked with artists to turn the fences around the construction area into artwork.

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Prince Alfred Park, Oh Alfred!

Prince Alfred Park is a park in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills which is currently being redeveloped. The hoardings around the development site have been decorated with artwork by artists and the community. It is part of the Art and About Sydney festival, in a project titled 'Oh Alfred! Reflections of Prince Alfred Park'. This sculpture by John Doe and Lachlan McGuiness celebrates the power of wind as a source of energy and is inspired by new environmental initiatives being installed in the park.

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Darlinghurst, art

I stumbled across this sculpture recently in a courtyard behind an office building that contains the Darlinghurst Post Office. The building is located at 1 Oxford Street, on the border of the inner city suburbs of Surry Hills and Darlinghurst. The artwork is called Naissance Bronze by Arthur Sherman. The plaque reads: A symbolic representation of Australia, the sculpture from a distance appears as a burst of energy, its surface texture capturing the quality of lava, its foundation the kangaroo. Other figures representative of Australia evolve out of the kangaroo in marsupial fashion. The Aboriginal and White race are interlocked yet pulling apart at the top of the work. As in Aboriginal x-ray painting, the bones and muscles of the kangaroo, Aborigine and Captain Cook are exposed, merging with the roots of a Moreton Bay Fig Tree.

Sydney Mansions (Theme Day: The Tenin Technique)

Sydney Mansions is a block of flats located in the inner city suburb of Surry Hills. This building is a redeveloped former warehouse of iconic department store Mark Foy's. Their stores were located in nearby Oxford Street and Liverpool Street which is now The Downing Centre.
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Surry Hills, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Surry Hills was the first Greek Orthodox church in Australia, consecrated in 1898. This week is Holy Week leading up to Easter, for Eastern Orthodox denominations. The reason for the variation is complicated and goes back to the 4th century when the Church of Rome decided that the date of Easter would be computed independently of any Jewish calculations to determine the date of Passover, so that Easter is observed on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox. The Eastern Orthodox Churches continue to use a lunisolar cycle to calculate the date of Easter, which is also used to calculate the date of Jewish Passover.

Sharpie's Golf House

Sharpie's Golf House is an unremarkeable shop at Surry Hills near Central Railway Station. However, it features a remarkeable neon sign above it that has become a Sydney landmark. For decades, train commuters out of the city at night have seen the golfer sinking the golf balls in the hole here.