It is perhaps Freddie Mercury’s vision of flying through the Metropolis of 1927 lamenting our love of ‘the new’ and disregard for ‘the old’, which sets the appropriate melancholic and cynical tone for this piece. The beloved city of Sydney is once again standing over a precipice and facing another architectural crisis, with the impending doom of selling three iconic sandstone structures along the all too historic Bridge Street – The Colonial Chief’s Secretary Building, the Department of Education and Training Building and the iconic Lands Department Building.
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