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The street layout of modern central Sydney is based upon a street plan established by Macquarie.

The colony's most prestigious buildings were built on Macquarie Street.

Some of these still stand today.

What has survived of the Georgian ' Rum Hospital ' serves as the Parliament House of the state of New South Wales.

It is probable that the hospital was designed by Macquarie himself, in collaboration with his wife.

The building's wide verandas were evidently inspired by Macquarie's familiarity with English colonial architecture in India.

The elaborate stables which Macquarie commissioned for Government House are part of the modern structure housing the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Both of these buildings were constructed by Macquarie in defiance of the British government's ban on expensive public building projects in the colony and reflect the tension between Macquarie's vision of Sydney as a Georgian city and the British government's view of the colony as a dumping ground for convicts to be financed as cheaply as possible.