An upside to global warming????

Reflection of your intrepid photographer and the Circular Quay area, as Guinness use global warming to advertise their stout , and have a bit of a "Pommy bash" at the same time! (The other up-side is that the curve of JC Decaux's advertising space makes my legs look long and lean! That's the real reason French women don't get fat - JC Decaux doesn't let them!)

Bus shelter and kiosk

On Monday I showed you one of the newer JC Decaux bus shelters. Here is one of the more traditional shelters and kiosks (selling newspapers and snack foods) , a hundred metres or so along the same street. It is at the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool Streets in the corner of Hyde Park.

It dates from the early 20th century and is an example of the "Federation" style of architecture, so named because it was popular at the time of Australian Federation (1901), when all the former colonies were federated as a single country. The architectural style, sometimes also called Edwardian, was a version of the Queen Anne style from England. It is an extremely popular style and Federation houses command high prices.

The French Connection

Sydney City's "street furniture" is provided by French company, JC Decaux. This includes bus shelters (which some people complain don't shelter you from the sun in summer, or rain!), power poles, rubbish bins, toilets, telephone booths.

Here's an example in Elizabeth St in the city. You can see Hyde Park through the glass.

There's some pics of a Decaux toilet on my other site, Sydney Daily Photo Extra. Just quietly, they appear better maintained than the free toilets you find around Paris these days.