Pyrmont Bridge, Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour has been open for many years now but it's never really "done it for me".  It tries hard to be something but somehow the architecture and the spaces give very little.  Everything seems temporary and cheap (not that cheap has to be tacky).  It's like a World Expo site (which it never has been) that should've been redeveloped / repurposed many years ago.

We spent this weekend seeing a couple of Sydney Festival shows (Humans 2.0 and Sunshine Super Girl) staying in a room with a view (this view), which was great of course, but it drove home just how unattractive it is - in the daytime at least.

I'm not much for night "views" but Darling Harbour is a rarity in that it's better to look at, from a little way off, at night.
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I took a photo of a staircase under construction at the end of "Wheat Road" in Darling Harbour in 1979.  That staircase has now been removed (I visited the site and you can clearly see the scar left from the stairs).

Now I think about it, I seem to recall that Darling Harbour was hurriedly completed in time for the Bicentenary (1988).  And that's about it in a nutshell,  Half done for years, slapped up in a hurry as a showcase, bits of it torn down and added to.  Pretty lights and average food.