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Seaforth is a suburb on the route to Sydney's northern
beaches. Inter-war houses are a feature of the area
around Ponsonby Parade and
Seaforth Crescent.
Manly has architectural gems from virtually
every decade of the twentieth century. There are many
fascinating houses and apartment blocks in the streets
around Manly Wharf. Don't miss the 1960's Ting
Hao building on Darley Rd, which rises like a modernist
pagoda on the hill behind East Esplanade. (Apparently,
Ting Hao means Mountain Sea in Cantonese.)
Ting Hao, Manly
The streets around East Esplanade are rich with treasures.
Then, on the other side of Manly Wharf, is West
Esplanade featuring remarkable 1930s Brighton
Hall on Fairlight Street, and other gems. There
are also many interesting things to be seen in streets
along Manly oceanfront.
Brighton
Hall, Manly
Fairlight, up Sydney Rd west of Manly, has many
flats, houses and shops
from the 20s and 30s through to the 50s and 60s.
Inter-war houses are a feature of many Sydney
suburbs, but they often get demolished, cement rendered,
or modified beyond recognition. Fortunately though,
this remarkable house on
The Boulevarde in Cammeray has recently been painstakingly
restored.
In the centre of the city is the Sydney
Harbour Bridge, and the Sydney
Opera House. The Sydney CBD also has some
great buildings (and quite a
few not so great).
The oceanfront
in Manly is well worth exploring.
Main picture: 215 Edinburgh Rd,
Castlecrag. Designed by Eric Nicholls in 1940, and built
in 1942 for Stan Moriarty and his family.
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There are many high quality structures and a wide range
of 20th century architectural styles to be found in
Canberra, Australia's national
capital.
Killara has grand
houses and plenty of greenery.
Castlecrag is closely associated with Walter
Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin, but
there's also much to be seen that's the work of other
architects and builders.
In Lane Cove, there's something appealing
about the lines of the Central
District Ambulance Building.
Central
District Ambulance, Lane Cove
Willoughby is home to the Willoughby
Incinerator, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and
Eric Nicholls. The suburb is made up of fairly modest
houses, mainly California
bungalows. The Australian version of this style
is quite different in some ways to the American original,
and if you'd like an introduction to our version, you
can download
one here. Willoughby also features quite a range
of other interesting buildings from the 20th century.
Neville Gruzman was well-known as
one of Sydney's more colourful characters. He was also
an architect who designed some very
fine houses.
Wahroonga is where you'll find one of the most
influential 20th century houses in Australia.
Rose Seidler House was designed by Harry Seidler
in the late 1940s. It features authentic period furnishings
and is open to the public. Every year there is a Fifties
Fair at the house, which is extremely popular. Rose
Seidler House is open to the public via the Historic
Houses Trust.
Not far away in Killara (although
not open to the public) is the less well known, but
equally outstanding Harry
& Penelope Seidler House.
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