Different views of downtown featuring the Infinity Tower ("Meriton Building"), the tallest in Brisbane at 249 metres when it was opened in 2014 shortly after my visit. The first photo was taken from my train ride in from Taringa, the second looks northeast from the Victoria Bridge, and the last looks southeast from the William Jolly Bridge.


This giant cicada sculpture is outside the Brisbane Cultural Centre bus station on the south side of the Brisbane River. I can't consider this a Big Thing because it's commissioned art.


Coming out of the Roma Street railway station, I am greeted by King George's bedroom.


Heading west from there, this is the prolix E. E. McCormick Place Park Fountain.


Into the Petrie Terrace neighborhood, this old lodge sits on Caxton Street at Weetman Street.


Well south of there, I barely caught the 1912 gas stripping tower across the river in West End.


Pivoting back around, the 1889 Albert Street Uniting Church (née Methodist Church) is on Albert Street, naturally, at Ann Street just northwest of downtown.


Now I'm on the east side of downtown, facing north on Margaret Street, looking left and right along Edward Street.


Also built in 1889, the Customs House on Queen Street.


St. John's Cathedral, seen travelling south on Ann Street, built in 1910 with additions throughout the century. The Anglican Records and Archive Centre is in the foreground of the 1st photo.


Just beyond there on Ann Street and just newer, we have the 1930 Masonic temple.


Hotel Orient is at the confluence of Queen and Ann Streets.


Accelerating away from downtown, the next photos are from the 1891 Exhibition Building and Concert Hall, built in 1891 for use by the Queensland National Agricultural and Industrial Association, and later converted to its current namesake as the Old Museum.


Our final stop is up in the suburb of Newstead, for which this house is eponymous. The first part of this house was built in 1846 and was named for Newstead Abbey in England, not for anyone who lived here.


A 1920s tramway electrical substation happens to be located on the property as well. It was closed in 1969 and now serves as the office and resource centre for the Newstead House.

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