Only a few decades ago Circular Quay was old-fashioned, austere and spacious, rimmed by Victorian buildings with occasional pockets of simple early colonial ware houses and woolstores.

• 就在几十年前，环形码头还是一片过气的、未经修饰的广阔区域，维多利亚式建筑和一片片简易的早期殖民地仓库和羊毛制品商店矗立在它的周围。