Sydney Tower Eye
Soaring observation tower with a glass-floored skywalk overlooking the harbour from 268 meters up.
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This guide to Sydney Tower Eye in Sydney opens with architect Donald Crone sketching the tower on a napkin in 1968, an idea blocked for years by a height limit set to protect flying boats that once landed on the harbour. It follows the years-long argument over how tall Market Street could rise, and the unusual way builders assembled the golden turret near street level before jacking the whole ring up the shaft as the tower grew beneath it. Photographs from those years show the golden turret hovering just a few meters off the ground, waiting for the rest of the tower to catch up.
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