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A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis. Sydney architect and Jørn Utzon expert, Eoghan Lewis. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis

The Sydney Opera House is Sydney’s most recognisable asset and a cornerstone of Sydney architecture. Every time we return to Sydney and we see it, we’re home. The story behind the commissioning and construction of the Sydney Opera House is a narrative that leaves few participants with any honour in the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable structures.

The participant who comes out with the most dignity is the Opera House’s Danish architect, Jørn Oberg Utzon. We knew about Utzon and his heartbreaking story, but it wasn’t until we recently did a tour with Sydney architect Eoghan Lewis, director of Supple Design, who runs Sydney Architecture Walks, that Utzon’s story was vividly and somewhat tragically brought to life.

We’ll be bringing you a review of that walk very soon, but in the meantime, meet passionate Sydney architect and Utzon authority, Eoghan Lewis to talk about Sydney architecture.

For more interviews with locals from Sydney and beyond see our Local Knowledge series of interviews with local experts and insiders from around the world.

A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis

Q. Sydney architecture in a nutshell.

A. A little schitzophrenic; derivative, conservative, nostalgic and 30 years out of date on the one hand (95%); hearty, unexpected and sometimes even inspiring on the other. But somehow all is forgiven by this landscape! The most interesting projects tend to be private houses.

Q. Describe the lay of the land in terms of architectural scope and styles.

A. Traditionally we pinched our ideas from cold climate cities like London (Georgian, Victorian) and New York (Deco) but with a 30-odd year lag and little adaptation or modification to this climate. From the mid-50s we grabbed a few poor ideas from Los Angeles (replacing public transport with freeways, the shopping mall, project homes rubber stamped on the ever-growing periphery, even poker machines found there way here from LA).

A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis. Sydney architect and Jørn Utzon expert, Eoghan Lewis. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Q. Pivotal moments in Sydney’s architectural history?

A. * Jørn Utzon – the arrival of the shy, fair-haired, dyslexic, 6”4’ Dane with a penchant for British suits: Jørn Utzon in July 1957. Sydney would never be quite the same again.
* The Sydney School – a group of practitioners in the 60s and 70s who began to value the Sydney landscape and respond to its characteristics and materials in an intelligent and hearty, not an uncritical and nostalgic, way.
* Green Bans – a direct response to the Askin Liberal government‘s urban policies of the late 60s and early 70s that led to the BLF (Builders Labourers Federation) and local residents banning demolition on whole swathes of Sydney’s worker-housing suburbs like The Rocks and Paddington.
* Clover Moore – and her attempts to pedestrianise the city, shift our Victorian alcohol laws, and spend money on public spaces and art.

A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis. Sydney architect and Jørn Utzon expert, Eoghan Lewis. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Q. Sydney’s most notable must-see buildings?

A. * Aurora Place by Renzo Piano, Corner Bent and Macquarie Streets, Sydney – Piano doesn’t do bad buildings and this is one of his better ones. The eastern façade of the Macquarie Apartments is a thing to behold from a conceptual, poetic and environmental point of view.
* Barcelona Building by Durbach Block on Roslyn Street, Potts Point – this is a really cute new building by a firm that many outside Sydney would not recognise.
* Walsh Bay Finger Wharves at Hickson Road, Millers Point – a set of early 20th century finger wharves that comprised, when built, the largest timber structure in the world and a gritty reminder of Sydney’s maritime industry past. They were upgraded at the beginning of the 21st century by PTW and Transfield.

Q. Notable architects within the current architectural scene?

A. The scene is healthy. There is work. There is money. There is an incredible climate and often incredible opportunities afforded by site and client. And there are loads of good architects here. Key practitioners are small firms like Durbach Block Jaggers, Peter Stutchbury, Neeson Murcutt and Chenchow Little. LAVA, the Laboratory of Visionary Architecture, is also very interesting. Larger practices like JPW and FJMT also produce very good work.

Q. Of Sydney’s current and new architecture, what’s worth seeking out?

A. Gehry’s UTS business school will be interesting. Fraser’s Broadway is well under construction on Broadway with buildings by Foster, Nouvel and others. Neeson Murcutt’s Prince Alfred Park public pool looks beautiful. South of Central Station. Durbach Block Jaggers’ UTS Thomas Street Building also looks like it will be quite lovely.

Q. The terrace house is ubiquitous in Sydney and gives the inner-city its charm, yet you’re critical of that early architecture, adopted from the Northern hemisphere and how unsuitable it was for the climate.

A. I am critical when style is borrowed but ideas are not. That is, when one only takes the physical thing free of the understanding of causal relationships that led to that thing in the first place then something is lost in translation. When ideas are understood and adapted that is an entirely different thing altogether. What’s great about the terraces is the density they afford and the quality they give to the street. Many were also built with material integrity so over time they age gracefully. What’s not so great is how dark they are internally and how seldom they were adapted to respond to this climate and not the cold European climate they came from. But I also think we would have been better off had we pinched our architecture from temperate, Mediterranean climates. Perhaps the Spanish or the Portugeuse should have got here sooner.

Q. You said Sydney was 30 years too late and modelled on New York and London. Why did this happen? How would you reimagine Sydney? What might it have looked like instead?

A. We are a nostalgic culture, made up, originally at least, of more convicts and mariners then settlers. The architecture of this city reflects a longing for a history they never had. Timothy Flannery and Robert Hughes write about how we have lived in this place like renters, not owners. We imported European pests, ripped out native plants to make space for rose gardens, said our kids were ‘going native’ when they ran around in baggy hats and no clothes (in fact they were adapting to the climate), and built our cities in the image of European cities. We are aspirational, so in the 20th century that image shifted to New York. But in pinching our architectural ideas from cold-climate styles there was generally a 30-year lag. Tried and tested. No risk taking here, please! Some buildings buck this trend like Alan Bond’s Chifley Place, which is 60 years out of date (New York Deco built in the late 80’s).

Q. Why is Sydney Opera House one of the greatest architectural works of the 20th century? Best way to experience it?

A. It is a miracle of imagination, engineering and bloody-mindedness in the face of fat round men whose pockets were stuffed full of money. It took the architectural world 20 years to discover what Utzon had achieved here. In fact, he only built half the building he intended. The six years he spent designing the glass walls, major and minor halls, furniture, light fittings and so on were never realised (see above and the Askin Liberal government) The best way to experience this marvel of the imagination is to come on a SAW tour; twelve years of research and a no holds barred Utzon tour-de-force. The second best way is to buy a ticket to see something there but avoid the minor hall if you can.

A Local Guide to Sydney Architecture by Local Architect Eoghan Lewis. Sydney architect and Jørn Utzon expert, Eoghan Lewis. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Q. The philosophies/influences of Utzon have been an influence on your work as an architect. What have you learned most from Utzon? What could Sydney learn from Utzon now?

A. Utzon would begin every project with a set of questions or certain lines of enquiry. He would research, agitate the context, then respond directly to what he found, developing a simple and robust conceptual framework for each project that would guide the design. By definition, if you ask the same questions and the parameters change then the solutions come out unique. Every time. As I practice and teach, as well as talk about architecture, Utzon is a profound influence for me as his method is incredibly simple to use and to communicate to students.

Q. Sydney’s planning has lacked focus/vision in the past with bad public transport, the failed monorail, etc. What will it take to make Sydney a better city for visitors?

A. Cities are made, not found. They are the places where the sharpest oppositions play out; commercially, politically, culturally and socially. Government’s role is to control the money to a degree and to encourage outcomes that have the best public interest. It’s also to have a vision for the future. This takes guts as well as inspiration and on both counts we have been let down by state and city. The current Lord Mayor, however, has both these qualities, so let’s see how she goes.

Q. Best neighbourhoods or streets to explore for architecture?

A. * Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay – the densest part of Sydney, a wonderful bohemian, pedestrian network of windy streets lines with predominantly Art Deco apartment buildings. Still affordable so a rich mix of characters.
* Bondi Beach; Hall, Gould, Curlewis Streets – it’s got to be the world’s best urban beach. The architecture is dreadful. Sigh.
* Surry Hills; Crown and Bourke Streets – deep in a process of gentrification and a wonderful place to wander with still enough rough edges to keep things interesting.

Q. Your top tips for a fan of architecture visiting Sydney?

A. * Buy tickets to a performance in the Major Hall of Sydney Opera House (interior by Peter Hall) – then have a cocktail in the baby shell (Guillaume at Bennelong) and take in the city.
* Cocktails at The Summit – the top floor of Seidler’s Australia Square; it rotates once every 90 minutes!
* Walk from Bondi Beach to Coogee and finish at Wylie’s Baths South Coogee – the coast is extraordinary, every beach has its own distinct culture, orientation and scale, there are a bunch of curious houses to peer into as you go, the water is clear, and your head will be too.
* North Sydney Pool – an open-air Olympic sized swimming pool. If you do back stroke you look up under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Q. Ultimate Sydney viewpoint?

A. Sydney Opera House from every angle.

Q. Best souvenir to buy for an architecture buff friend back home?

A. One of those kangaroo scrotum cigarette lighter holders or a nice book on Utzon!

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Do you seek out great architecture when you travel? What do you think of Sydney’s architecture? Is the Opera House one of the world’s greatest 20th century building? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Sydney Architecture Walks and the super-knowledgable Eoghan Lewis hosted us on this superb tour.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. Jo (The Blonde) says

    January 12, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    The Opera House is my favourite building in the world. I remember the first time I saw it and I just couldn’t stop looking at it. It was so beautiful.

  2. Lara Dunston says

    January 14, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    Isn’t it beautiful? It’s one of my favourites in the world too.

  3. Henry / @fotoeins says

    February 17, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    To echo your initial statement, every time I’ve ended up in Sydney, I’ve taken the train to Circular Quay and stepped out to “check” that the Opera House and the Coathanger are still there. It’s completely irrational, of course, but I’m all about that emotional memory.

  4. Lara Dunston says

    March 18, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    Don’t worry, Henry. I get it :)

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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