Do you know where the oldest park in Australia is? Sydney people proud to count its history, but also lucky to enjoy its beautiful environment.
One of Sydney's iconic sights, Hyde Park (Hyde Park), was built in 1810 to illustrate the problem.
Hyde Park, about 1.5km from Sydney Opera House (Sydney Opera House), is Australia's oldest park.
Today's Hyde Park is elegant and even luxurious, but its history is like a long fat play: abandoned, destroyed, decorated, renovated and built, completely knocked down, rebuilt, and now this beautiful city garden has a neat flower bed. Bright streets, large lawns, more than a hundred years of towering trees.
early stage
In 1729 there was only a place for ordinary firewood and grazing, but Governor Macquarie gave it more meaning. He named it after Hyde Park in London and consulted designer Francis Greenway, to design it as a new classic "large quadrangle."
The idea of turning the city into green was abandoned when Governor Macquarie returned to England. Sydney city historian Liila Ell moons explains. Instead, it became a favorite racehorse race and cricket ground for modern Australians.
Hyde Park South was the place where natives commemorated bloody fights like boxing, darts, fights until 1820. Racing and cricket are considered to be the civilized stage of Hyde Park, and the first citizen monument was set up in 1857. Located at the entrance to the park, the obelisk, about 125 feet high, was unveiled by the then mayor, George Thornton. Beneath the obelisk are sewers, nicknamed "Thornlon's perfume bottles".
Hyde Park was renovated to welcome Queen Victoria's son, Prince Alfred, to Australia in 1868 and held a grand ball. But soon the prince met shoot in Clontarf. After his recovery, he devoted himself to public service and was respected, and a nearby hospital was built under his name.
A bleak page
Hyde Park has also had several murders. In 1909, Robert Macey and his lover Mary Agnes Brooksbank quarreled on the park bench. He shot his lover with a gun and then drank himself to death. In the early 20th century, Hyde Park "thieves and vagrants" pouted. But it was soon cleaned up.
Government cut the fig tree in 1919, built the circular railway and two railway stations, and began rebuilding Hyde Park in 1926. Throughout the process, it was reported that six ounces of gold had been discovered, nothing special.
rebuild
With or without gold, Hyde Park has begun its most enthusiastic change.
Hyde Park is a small area, divided by a road north-south two parts, the south is mainly the Australian New Zealand Legion Memorial North of (Anzac Memorial), there are a lot of towering trees.
The French Archer fountain, built in 1932, is one of the landmarks of today's Hyde Park, but the fountain is more characteristic of the 1930s.
The project, built before the Australian-New Zealand Legion Memorial, provided many jobs for government during the recession. The Australian-New Zealand Legion Memorial was also the only memorial left in Hyde Park during World War II, and Sandringham Garden was the center of a meal break for soldiers and sailors during World War II.
"We always think Hyde Park is a blank, but there have been a lot of buildings over the years," Ellmoos said. She was also involved in the construction of kindergartens in 1950, but was knocked down in 2000.
modern times
Hyde Park's modernisation is due to Norman Weekes, who won the 1926 design competition.
"Lights Road, Central Road and Memorial Hall are all representatives of the 1930s," said Ellmoos. David Jones also attracted a lot of wealth. Sydney's plutocrats still like to come here, overlooking the park in luxury apartments and up the park at the Royal Mint and Sydney Hospital (Sydney Hospital), and Alfred (Alfred) Hospital. Prince Alfred was founded by shoot.
Since then, moral issues have made the park a legal centre, Hyde Park's former barracks a busy court, and Queen's Square now a Sydney courthouse and law school.
prospect
In the south of the park, municipal planning will build three high-rise buildings in 20 years, most notably King & Phillip, which will also be the most luxurious residential building. It is only a step away from the former prisoner's dormitory. Its extravagance is by no means a gold skyscraper made of unframed glass, rock, red pottery, wood and expensive copper, which is expected to be completed by mid-2020.
Justin Brow, president of CBRE, said: "the design, tone and color of the architecture are in harmony with the park."
The 92-meter King & Phillip building will stand at the junction of Elizabeth King and Phillip, surrounded by colonial antiquity.
"We can see the unique arrest of King & Phillpi, the perfect location, the courthouse encircling. We believe Sydney has a lot of demand for such high-end properties. "
Designed by Francis Jones Morehen Thorp (HJMT), built in the style of Hyde Park in the 1930s, it is also an award-winning work by Weekes, another century after the memorial.
Many buildings overlooking Hyde Park will be built, and the night will be like a shiny back garden. Lucky people can have an apartment here, watch an opera and lead a happy life.