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    The Department of Lands building is a heritage-listed state government administrative building of the Victorian Renaissance Revival architectural style...
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    with the nearby Department of Lands building, to become a luxury hotel, currently marketed as "the sandstone precinct". The building occupies an entire...
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    significant buildings and sites. The following were listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate. The Department of Lands Building is a sandstone...
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    The Lands Department is a government department under the Development Bureau responsible for all land matters in Hong Kong. Established in 1982, it comprises...
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    The Strand Arcade (category Buildings and structures in Sydney)
    Strand Arcade is one of Sydney's best known and loved buildings and is significant for the continuity of occupation and uses. The building contains significant...
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    a pupil of Augustus Welby Pugin, the most prominent architect of the Gothic Revival movement. Polding was impressed with Wardell's building of St John's...
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    Sydney central business district (category Suburbs of Sydney)
    some of the city's most significant buildings and structures. The Sydney CBD is an area of very densely concentrated skyscrapers and other buildings, interspersed...
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    Macquarie Place Park (category Buildings and structures completed in 1810)
    original Department of Lands building, which was the department responsible for surveying and mapping New South Wales. In 1883, a statue of early Australian...
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    AWA Tower (category Office buildings completed in 1930)
    in the state of New South Wales, Australia built for AWA. The AWA Tower consists of a radio transmission tower atop a 15-storey building. It is located...
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    1982-1986 it existed under the Building Development Department, and from 1986-1993 under the Buildings and Lands Department. In March 2021, the BD was criticized...
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    Capitol Theatre, Sydney (category Retail buildings in New South Wales)
    adjacent space of the Haymarket and this proposal was adopted in the following July. The principal contractor for the building was Alexander Allen of Summer Hill...
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    building in the Federation Anglo Dutch style located on a prominent corner site on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Goulburn Street. The building features...
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    for Lands gave notice of the closure of Martin Place from the eastern side of Pitt Street to the western side of Macquarie Street, exclusive of cross...
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    improved the garden, building a protecting wall on the harbour side and constructing and landscaping a road running around The Domain, north of the Government...
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    Government House, Sydney (category Government buildings in Sydney)
    investigation of Western Terrace path system. Department of Public Works & Services, Heritage Group, Buildings Branch (1997). Excavation Permit Application...
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    Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney (category Buildings and structures completed in 1816)
    Bidwill was offered the post of Commissioner of Lands, Wide Bay. Moore was a Scotsman who had trained in the Botanic Gardens of Trinity College, Dublin. Moore...
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    Sydney Trades Hall (category Buildings and structures in Sydney)
    Hall, also known as the Trades Hall Building and the Trade Unions Hall, is a heritage-listed trade union building located at 4-10 Goulburn Street in the...
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    on Trust Building, entry number 676 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and...
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    Downing Centre (category Art Nouveau retail buildings)
    building is aesthetically significant as a high point of department store architecture in Australia for its time. It contains many fine examples of design...
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    Phillip Street Terraces (category Commercial buildings in New South Wales)
    mixed commercial buildings, offices and restaurant located at 39-47 Phillip Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government...
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    Anzac Memorial (category Buildings and structures awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal)
    with offices in the ANZAC Memorial building helped members with their applications to the Repatriation Department and assistance with medical needs. Each...
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    St Stephen's Uniting Church (category Gothic Revival church buildings in Australia)
    Australia. It is part of the Sydney Presbytery and the NSW-ACT Synod. Founded initially as St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, the building was designed by Finlay...
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    Federal lands are publicly owned lands in the United States managed by the federal government. Pursuant to the Property Clause of the United States Constitution...
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    district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Designed by the architect George McRae, the Romanesque Revival building was constructed between...
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    The Judges House (category Office buildings in Sydney)
    Building Department reacted promptly to this report. On 27 May the Deputy City Building Surveyor wrote to Grosvenor, reminding the Company of its responsibilities...
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    Martin Place Department of Lands Building, Bridge Street[citation needed] Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Domain State Library of New South Wales...
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    Hinchcliff House (category Commercial buildings in New South Wales)
    1860 the firm of A Hinchcliff, Son & Co had built a stone wool store next door. In the late 1880s the iron shed was replaced by a building matching the...
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    Sydney Water Head Office (category Office buildings in New South Wales)
    (former) (1939 building), entry number 1645 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning...
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    The Sydney Club (category Bank buildings in New South Wales)
    of Sydney.: 3.7  The Sydney Club is a five-storey masonry building located in the corner of Pitt and Rowe Streets in the central business district of...
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    development of the Sydney CBD in the late 1920s and 1930s, with large department stores constructed around the stations. The station head house building is a...
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