Relics of Demolished Buildings & Structures - Sydney, Australia
S 33° 51.670 E 151° 12.825
56H E 334765 N 6251801
An artistic display of the relics of demolished buildings and structures is preserved in the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens. Tour bus drivers refer to it as "Sydney's Stonehenge."
Waymark Code: WM72G8
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 08/23/2009
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A sign amidst these architectural remnants reads as follows:
"Memory is Creation Without End" Kimio Tsuchiya. This spiral of sandstone blocks embedded into the Tarpeian Way consists of relics from demolished buildings & structures such as the Pyrmont Bridge. Each piece of stone, carved by stone-masons long ago, now darkened with age, testifies to their lost function & to the loss of those old buildings in the collective memory. Once quarried for the city's early sandstone buildings & to provide fill for the creation of Circular Quay the Tarpeian Way is now but a thin veneer of earth covering the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. 'Memory is Creation Without End' symbolises the circular connection of past, present & future. In salvaging & reconfiguring the stones into this spiral unification of sculpture & landscape the artist endows them with new life, meaning & memory. Installed: April 2000. Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.