Buckingham Palace has been consulted on the design of a new public square, to be named Queen Elizabeth II Place, at Sydney’s old Registrar General’s building.
Demolition works have begun to return one of Sydney’s most prominent historic sandstone buildings to its former glory while paving the way for a new public square dedicated to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
These changes are deemed necessary to restore the 1913 neo-gothic building to its original design and open up access to its curtilage and the wider historic precinct. Buckingham Palace has been consulted on the design of a new public square – to be named Queen Elizabeth II Place – that will be created from the footprint of the demolished blocks at the rear of the Hyde Park Barracks.
Vernon designed the former Land Titles office in 1908, six years after the opening of the Art Gallery of NSW, and together they represent two of his crowning architectural achievements among a vast portfolio of public buildings. Some $120 million has been set aside to transform the eastern side of Macquarie Street and its collection of heritage buildings over the next 20 years into a civic boulevard that prioritises people, arts and culture.
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