Finger Wharf

The Finger Wharf or Woolloomooloo Wharf is a wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, Australia. The structure is the longest timbered-piled wharf in the world, and was completed in 1915. During its working life for around 70 years it mainly handled the export of wool, but also acted as a staging point for troop deployment to the World Wars as well as a disembarking point for new migrants arriving in Australia.Today it has been redeveloped as a fashionable complex housing a hotel, restaurants and residential apartments.DescriptionThe wharf, with a length of 410m and width of 64m, is composed of two side sheds running almost the length of the jetty, connected by a covered roadway between. The roofline is three parallel gable roofs and the external elevations are distinguished by a repetitive gridded structure.At the north end a carpenter's workshop used to exist, and has now been replaced by a concrete and steel apartment building detached from the main wharf building. On the west side is a promenade running the length of the wharf with a marina on the waterfront and restaurants at the south end. On the east side is a roadway for vehicular access to a carpark for residents.The Ovolo hotel (formerly the W & the "Blue" hotel) occupies most of the south part of the wharf building while apartments mainly make up the rest of the structure.HistoryThe wharf was built by the Sydney Harbour Trust between 1911 and 1915 with the charter to bring order to Sydney Harbour's foreshore facilities. The Trust's Engineer-In-Chief, Henry Walsh, designed the massive waterfront building.