Drew Brian Hoy is trying to save Sydney’s historic homes and buildings, one photo at a time | juliepower
Hoy’s theory? “If you can take a beautiful photograph of a building, you can raise awareness of it, and people build an emotional connection towards it. And if they find out that a building in their neighbourhood is going to be demolished, it will probably be protected,” said Hoy, a banker who completed an architecture degree before deciding it wasn’t for him.
She has no time for people who make judgmental comments online about the homes that she loves and posts online. “I don’t put up with negativity,” she said. Heritage expert Dr Zeny Edwards said the pandemic allowed people to look more closely at Sydney. “Nostalgia has loomed large,” said Edwards, an architectural historian.
Posting about an apartment block called Amse Court, Hoy wrote: “I love it when homes and buildings have names. It’s likely there was a story behind it which we will probably never know, but it adds to the character.
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