An atlas of the grand stone and sandstone buildings raised across Australia's colonies, the records, the architects who drew them, the towns that built far above their station, and the ones that burned. Presented as found. You decide what it means.
// The Atlas
Browse the documented record of each building: its architect, its town, the official account, the photographs across the decades, and the recurring marks of the era, the fires, the rebuildings, the tunnels, the stone.
All 1,484 buildings, searchable. Start anywhere.
52 places, each with a map, its buildings and its population over time. From Sydney to Toodyay.
The men credited with hundreds of buildings each. Their works, in order.
The palaces and halls that burned or were pulled down. The Garden Palace and the rest.
Filter the whole atlas by what its records describe: fire, rebuilding, tunnels, stone, metal roofs.
The game. Dropped at a building, guess where on Earth it stands.
// The game
Dropped somewhere in the old world with only the structure in view, guess where on Earth it stands. Score by distance on the North-centred Gleason map or a standard world map. Over 158,000 places in the deck.
Play GeoGuess// Start exploring
Open the atlas, pick a town, and follow it: building to architect to city and back again. Every record links to the next.