Category:Architecture of Sydney

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The Architecture of Sydney is not characterised by any one architectural style, but by an extensive juxtaposition of old and new architecture that has developed over the city's 200-year history, from its modest beginnings with local materials and lack of international funding to its present-day modernity with an expansive skyline of high rises and skyscrapers. Early architectural variations, including the use of balconies and verandas on terrace houses that were largely based on terraces in the UK, reflect the influence of climate on the city.

Under the tenure of early nineteenth-century Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the works of Francis Greenway were the first substantial buildings for the fledgling colony. Later prominent styles were the Victorian buildings of the city centre created out of local Sydney sandstone, and the turn of the century Federation style in the new garden suburbs of the time.

With the lifting of height restrictions in the post-World War II years, a large portion of central Sydney's older stock of architecture was demolished to make way for modernist architecture and high rise buildings. Restrictions enforced over the last thirty years have resulted in implementation of heritage status to protect the remaining older architecture within the city. Some of the most notable contemporary buildings were designed by the Austrian-Australian architect Harry Seidler, as well as by international architects such as Jørn Utzon, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster or Frank O. Gehry.

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