Stonehenge In Pyrmont

At a secret location

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Destroy Destroy

Notwithstanding the works of lauded architect Philip Cox being demolished, our former premier Barry O'Farrell decided to replace them with big glass boxes, I don't see this as a step forward in beautifying or sitting with present architecture in Darling Harbour. Well BO'F is now history, his name besmirched by corruption, but his legacy we have to live with. The old story of rogue property development.

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Eveleigh

Always a good photographic subject, this visit we chanced upon some giant disco ball, probably courtesy of the biennale.

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In The Hood

Home turf Glebe, love it or hate it, with fifty percent of the suburb welfare housing, it certainly keeps the yuppies out. So below we have my front garden, Derwent Street, one of the most beautiful streets in Glebe, big trees, unique houses, all of it welfare housing. which would be fine it they weren't so trashed and left to deteriorate? Lastly, a brick wall, yeah.

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Charles Perkins Precinct

Blurring the boundary between Sydney Uni and RPA, this new precinct is beautiful...iPhoned.
Or maybe I should have called this, blue shadows.

Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto

My traveling companion, better half and avowed nipponophile, has been trying to see this icon for decades.
After snail mail correspondence from Australia she finally got the precious passes, one for her and one for me!
I know I have been complaining about the heat this summer of 2013 in Japan, but the heat this day was incredible. So after all that...you don't actually get to see the interior of the villa, and only see the villa from a distance. The garden is incredible, but aren't they all? The teahouse, or moon gazing house is indicative of the villa in that despite its C17th origins looks contemporary. It was disappointing not seeing inside the villa.
Maybe a note to Prince Katsura delivered by a geisha, the note held in her mouth of course.

Tadao Ando

These are shots from the Ando Museum on Naoshima, an attractive traditional house from the street, it has a sleek concrete underground interior, and it was cool. The main Ando building on Naoshima is the spectacular Benesse House. Didn't get there, oops. Tadao Ando is the bad boy of Japanese architecture, autodidact and ex pugilist.