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Circular Quay 1965

Circular Quay 1965

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(Len Stone / Vic Solomons Collection: 397)

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Bridges

Commercial building

Wharves

AMP Building

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Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

Cahill expressway

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Overhead road that crosses Circular Quay above the elevated railway line.

Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

Circular Quay

Quay built between 1837 and 1855 and originally known as Semi-circular Quay, because of the shape of the stoneworks built with convict labour to stabilise the new shoreline reclaimed from mudflats.

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