Barangaroo is a premier, sustainable, mixed-use waterfront precinct in Sydney, transformed from a former container terminal into a vibrant hub for business, luxury residential living, dining, and public recreation. It features premium office towers (International Towers), the six-star Crown Sydney hotel and casino, diverse restaurants, and the 6-hectare, native-landscaped Barangaroo Reserve parkland.
Once a disused container terminal, Barangaroo has been transformed into a vibrant cultural, residential, business, and civic hub, offering some of the best things to do in Sydney.
Barangaroo is Sydney's newest and buzziest waterside precinct. An ambitious urban renewal project transformed this former container terminal into a hub boasting beautiful parkland, fantastic shopping, delicious restaurants and innovative architecture, including Crown Towers Sydney which was completed in 2021.
Barangaroo South's 15-year transformation of Sydney's waterfront officially complete. Sydney, 30 October 2025: Lendlease's Barangaroo South precinct is officially complete, marking the culmination of a 15-year urban regeneration project that has revitalised Sydney's harbourfront.
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Is Barangaroo open to the public?
Welcome to Barangaroo Reserve. What was once a disused container storage site is now 6 hectares of beautiful, public park on the waterfront. Barangaroo Reserve has been returned to the people of Sydney.
Barangaroo was a powerful Cammeraygal woman and a key figure in local Aboriginal culture and community during the early colonisation of Australia. Selected from some 1,600 entries submitted to a State-wide naming competition in 2006, the name Barangaroo was officially announced in 2007.
How deep is the water under the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
"The water depth under the Sydney Harbour Bridge varies, with the main shipping channel generally 16 meters deep, though there's a significant 45- meter deep hole just west of the bridge, while the tunnel below is 25 meters deep ; the average depth in the harbour is around 13 meters."
The standard three-part test for Aboriginality in Australia requires a person to prove they have biological descent from an Indigenous Australian, self-identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and be accepted as such by their Indigenous community, a definition used by many government bodies and institutions for benefits and programs. This test ensures identity beyond just genetics, incorporating cultural recognition, and stems from definitions adopted by the Australian Government in the late 1970s.
In the second half of the 20th century, Sin City was in every way a fitting nickname for Sydney. Organised crime held a grip on the city and corruption was rife, infiltrating the top levels of politics, law and justice.
Canberra and Queanbeyan take the crown as Australia's most sustainable city, thanks to having the lowest carbon emissions. A total of 100 per cent of the ACT has its energy coming from renewables compared to only 35 per cent of NSW, the areas combined top the index with a score of 97.94/100.
Our dress code throughout Barangaroo House is appropriate smart casual. Specific to Smoke Bar: Dressier in the evening and do not allow thongs, slides, high-vis, tracksuits, workout gear. Dress code is at venue managements discretion.
Barangaroo honours Australia's shared history and rich Aboriginal culture. Barangaroo was a key figure in the local Aboriginal community at the time of European colonisation.
Barangaroo also refused to wear European clothes or drink their wine and was one of only a few women who had a pierced septum. When she did visit the colony with Bennelong she was 'dressed up' with a bone through her nose and painted herself with white clay - a proud statement of her spirituality and culture.
There were so many different tribes that there wouldn't be one single name. In a lot of the Dreamtime stories that have survived, individual islands have been named, but Australia as a whole tended to be referred to as "the land", rather than having a name.
What is being delivered at Central Barangaroo? Central Barangaroo will be the vibrant heart of Barangaroo, a world-class destination in its own right. The 5 hectare site will be transformed to include residential, retail, hospitality and community uses together with a new entry to the Barangaroo metro station.
Homelessness is highest in the northern most part and central Australia and in small pockets of our major cities • The rate of homelessness in the Northern Territory is almost 15 times the national average.
Kangaroos are found only in Australia because their marsupial ancestors migrated to the continent before it became geographically isolated. Land bridges connected South America to Australia via Antarctica during the Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 million years ago).
