Barnet’s city buildings all have an integral relation with public space. His Australian Museum has the expanse of Hyde Park; the Colonial Secretary’s Office, the empty site of the first Government House across the street to the west; Customs House its square facing the quay; the Lands Department, the broad Macquarie Street and the General Post Office, Martin Place. This pairing is demonstrative of the contribution of Barnet’s architecture to civic order and indicates that perhaps Barnet’s civic institutions play some role in creating the open space itself. In particular, journeying from Customs House, along Macquarie Street, passing the Lands Department and through to the General Post Office on Martin Place, one notices, a “sequential, even
