Sydney Architecture Walks

Tours

• SAW Bike Tour - Five Suburb Sydney Derivé The Situationalist International drifted through the city randomly, deliberately disrupting familiar ways of experiencing the The Situationalist International drifted through the city randomly, deliberately disrupting familiar ways of experiencing the city; organised spontaneity. 'Dérivistes or 'drifters' seek to experience bizarre encounters in unfamiliar places and left-over city spaces.
  
  This tour intends to explore Sydney tangentially, beginning with the city's quiet industrial western edge before meandering through the back streets of its most dynamic and rapidly changing suburbs; Ultimo, Chippendale, Redfern and Surry Hills plucking out the most interesting and provocative urban and residential projects along the way.
  
  The route and the conversation will be loosely structured around a number of contemporary architectural and urban projects, contested sites and politicised themes but the rapid gentrification of these dynamic suburbs will be a constant theme.

  Special cruises and itineraries operate on selected dates

  Start Locations:	Highlights:
  Explore Sydney, Ultimo Museum of Sydney, Sydney	Explore Sydney, Chippendale Explore Sydney, Ultimo
  Travel by:	Duration:
  Bicycle	Half Day or less.
  Price*:
  $80.00-$90.00 Tour Only Plus $30 if you need to hire a bike

• SAW1 - The City, Sydney Moving from the broad to the particular, the historic to the contemporary, 'The City, Sydney' Moving from the broad to the particular, the historic to the contemporary, 'The City, Sydney' conjures a heady urban narrative revealing the social, cultural and topographic patterns and forces shaping Sydney.
  
  The tour will concentrate on two contemporary iconic structures; Aurora Place and Governor Phillip and Macquarie Towers, and the work and ideas of three architects; Renzo Piano, Richard Johnson and J';rn Utzon. SAW's study of these buildings works on many levels. SAW will explain Piano's environmental and social agenda, the irony of using a suburban-inspired material palette in the most corporate of environments,and the ways in which his apartment building does at a large scale what Aussie icon Glenn Murcutt does at a small scale in terms of specific environmental response.

  Special cruises and itineraries operate on selected dates

  Start Locations:	Highlights:
  Museum of Sydney, Sydney	Governor Phillip Tower, Sydney
  Travel by:	Duration:
  Walk	Half Day or less.
  Price*:
  $25.00-$35.00 Tour Only Per person

• SAW2 - Utzon and the Sydney Opera House This tour is at once an in-depth and textured portrait of Danish architect Jørn This tour is at once an in-depth and textured portrait of Danish architect Jørn Utzon, as well as the story of the 20th centuries most ambitious architectural project.
  
  Discussing the sources of the architectø inspiration, working methods and influences, you will chart the development of Utzonø ideas and their realisation in the platform, concrete shells and ceramic skin of Sydney Opera House. You will discover the influence of towering 20th Century figures like LeCorbusier, Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe.
  
  SAW2 finishes with the recently completed Opera House refurbishment with which he was intimately involved.

  Special cruises and itineraries operate on selected dates

  Start Locations:	Highlights:
  Museum of Sydney, Sydney	Sydney Opera House, Sydney
  Travel by:	Duration:
  Walk	Half Day or less.
  Price*:
  $25.00-$35.00 Tour Only Per person

• SAW3 - Harbourings Join SAW on this stroll around Sydney's spectacular harbour edge, from Circular Quay, through Join SAW on this stroll around Sydney's spectacular harbour edge, from Circular Quay, through the city's great depository of memory to Walsh Bay. Getting beyond the post-card view of the city and its two shimmering icons, SAW3 reveals the city at her rawest and most spectacular.
  
  Beginning with Circular Quay, SAW will discuss Utzon's vision for the Quay, controversial plans for the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Toaster and explore the beautiful ferry terminal conversion by Queensland duo Lindsay and Kerry Clare. The radical Sirius Apartment building by Tao Gofers and Lippmann Associates' KGV Sports Hall will also be discussed. SAW3 focuses on the breathtaking Walsh Bay Finger Wharves.

  Special cruises and itineraries operate on selected dates

  Start Locations:	Highlights:
  Museum of Sydney, Sydney	Walsh Bay
  Travel by:	Duration:
  Walk	Half Day or less.
  Price*:
  $25.00-$35.00 Tour Only Per person