I drove from Palm Beach to South Head Sunday, managed to get a few pics along the way and some from The Gap towards the CBD and Manly.

Started photographing while driving down The Spit/Military rd. through Mosman. Mosman has a listing on Emporis but all buildings are under North Sydney.

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I got a few shots of North Sydney from just before the freeway and on it.

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Travelled through the tunnel and out in Kings Cross.

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And past the Cross

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And back through Sydney

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nice!!

^^ That first shot of North Sydney makes it look quite big and quite on its own. Great shots!!!

Some nice ones in there lenny.

So Townsville's Holdiay Inn isn't the only building in Australia with an obliqely truncated cylinder on it's roof. Elan Apartments has one too! (9th and 10th pics)

Yeah lennyr, great pics :) Mosman, Cremorne etc has a lot of those blonde brick shockers tho'.

Some nice ones in there lenny.

So Townsville's Holdiay Inn isn't the only building in Australia with an obliqely truncated cylinder on it's roof. Elan Apartments has one too! (9th and 10th pics)Victoria Towers on Sydney's Castlereagh Street does too: Victoria Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=108067&aid=8)

Yeah lennyr, great pics :) Mosman, Cremorne etc has a lot of those blonde brick shockers tho'.

Victoria Towers on Sydney's Castlereagh Street does too: Victoria Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=108067&aid=8)

Well, that's Spit Road and not representative of Mosman. All suburbs - even beautiful Mosman - have a smelly armpit.

I wonder about all the 60's and 70's buildings that went up in suburbs all over Sydeney. There are so many from such a narrow time period (mostly 60's), that there would have been simultaneous construction at every corner. usually in Mosman wherever there is big 60's building (whether 3 or 8 stories) there was once a large mansion.

Ahh the Elan - Brings back memories.

The Elan is great for finding 'ones' way home when 'one' is slightly off ones face :) Its a great landmark.

I finished the day with a trip to the Gap on Sydney Harbour South Head

Towards the city

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Towards the North Shore

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Towards Manly

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and the Pano

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Thanks guys. I'm quite fond of Elan, that roof and the way it stands out all alone. It seems very tall, at least without the cbd skylie behind it.

I guess one good thing about the Mosman shockers is you don't notice them till your on the road next to them. They'd be visible for miles in the flatter suburbs.

Nice pics. Shame Sydney doesn't have a a super tall.

As much as I'd love Hong Kong style supertalls all along the harbour, seeing views like this makes it worth it to have the limit...

Stuff it, I want a supertall or ten in Sydney/North Sydney. :rant:

Perhaps one day when there is demand (ie. population) for construction and planning policy to allow it there will be some truly tall buildings in Sydney. Maybe even somewhere like Strathfield if all the other spaces are taken by big buildings by then. I'm looking forward to seeing new skylines grow over the years.

Nice pics. Shame Sydney doesn't have a a super tall.

The real shame is that Australia doesn't have a super tall (the bar has been shifted for a supertall these days). But we do well considering our population.
Centerpoint in that pic is 320m/RL (roof is 275m) and looks swamped.

btw looking at that pic. JB is going to really fill that gap from that angle. Should look great.

I'll be looking forward to that then. The gap I see extends from MLC to Citigroup, I hope that whole area gets filled in eventually.

One thing I find dissapointing is the 120m height limit in North Sydney. I can't understand the reason for not allowing higher there. It's small enough that transport is not an issue, wonderful position, views, no centrepoint tower to impede upon. Should allow 200m at least

Nice job lining up the church steeple with Sydney Tower in that last pic. :)

I actually like those red-brick apartment blocks. In the CBD they'd be hideous but here and there in Sydney's leafy suburbs I reckon they really suit.