Stairways to heaven: The amazing history of Sydney s most impressive steps
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Away from the cameras surveilling Sydney, public stairs remain among the few places where people can still be private in public , says architect Jennifer Preston.
As poet A. A. Milne wrote: Halfway up the stairs isn t up, it isn t down . It isn t really anywhere, it s somewhere else instead.
And in the case of the Steps to Nowhere on Hickson Road, Barangaroo, they lead up and down, but will take you absolutely nowhere.
A detective at the bottom of the Argyle Stairs in the Rocks c.1930