Seeing the magnificent Victorian Italianate Goulburn Courthouse for the first time brought back to my mind some of the grand colonial buildings I have seen in India. I certainly hadn’t anticipated coming across such a structure here in what I might unfairly call sleepy old Goulburn. Continue reading “Goulburn Courthouse – “More for ornament than use””
Latvian Academy of Sciences Building
It would be pretty difficult to visit any part of Riga south of the Old City and not notice this massive building to the south/south-east of the Central Market. Buildings do not get any more Soviet than this one and, architecturally, I found it very much to my liking. Continue reading “Latvian Academy of Sciences Building”
Culwulla Chambers – Sydney’s First Skyscraper?
Dwarfed by high-rises and skyscrapers on all sides is the Culwulla Chambers – Sydney’s first ‘skyscraper’. I draw it to your attention as otherwise you would surely miss it. Continue reading “Culwulla Chambers – Sydney’s First Skyscraper?”
The Rambling Wombat 