I mentioned yesterday that the shops next to Maggio’s Italian Cafe in Cammeray were being demolished. I took some photos but didn’t have time to upload them yesterday, so I thought I’d show them today. Here’s a view of the rear of the properties:
This is close to where I sit on a bench while I eat the lunch that I’ve bought from Maggio’s Bakery. There’s a nice shady bench where I can sit and eat while Scully hangs out nearby. So I saw the demolition work in progress while I was eating yesterday. And then when we left, I walked out to the street at the front of the buildings:
Here you can see Maggio’s Cafe (not the Bakery, which is in a separate shop a couple of doors to the left). The yellow facade used to be a small grocery store, and the white one next to it is also being demolished – I forget what sort of shop used to be there. (Google Streetview just helped – up until mid-2022 at least it was a place that did casual art classes, where you learn to paint while sipping wine, and then in early 2024 it became a display suite for new apartments. Possibly apartments which are now about to be built on the site.) It looks like the old brick facade is being kept – you can see it is intact, but all of the building behind, seen through the windows, is gone.
I suspect the plan is to build shops at street level, with a few floors of new residential apartments above. There’s quite a bit of this sort of urban renewal going on around the local suburbs at the moment.
I also took a photo today, at the University of Technology Sydney.
I liked the building shapes here. The left and right buildings are part of the university. The greenery-covered building with the suspended solar reflector is so-called Central Park tower across the road. I don’t quite know how the reflector is supposed to work, since the mirrors are angled downwards.
Okay… I found a website with some engineering information about it! There are also heliostat mirrors on the lower roof level of the adjacent tower, which reflect sunlight up onto the suspended mirrors. Interesting! In fact I think you can see one of the roof-mounted heliostats at the lower right corner of the sky in my photo.
I was at the uni of course for this week’s image processing lecture. The professor talked about machine learning in an image recognition context.
In the evening I made lemon pepper pasta for dinner, using another of the free lemons I got last week.
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