AWA Building and Tower c.1939 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
AWA Building and Tower c.1939 / Sydney Heritage
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | See where this picture was taken. [?]Council approval for the building was obtained in August 1937 and excavation completed by December of the same year. Construction of the building commenced and was finished towards the end of 1939.Originally the building housed a number of different uses. A restaurant was located in the Basement, the Ground Floor contained a sales room, major Vestibule and Beam Chamber, whereby the public could dispatch radiograms. The upper floors contained office space (Amalgamated Wireless being major occupiers), a radio school and broadcasting studios. The building is comprised of 12 office floors, a ground floor and basement. The frontage along York Street is 18.3 metres and 21.3 metres along York Lane. The building is surmounted by a steel tower which gives the building an overall height of 111 metres above street level. The building is steel framed and faced in brick with polished trachyte facing at the ground floor. (Graham, Alcock Giles Tribe)The building is vertically modelled to give a skyscraper appearance. A Pegasus is depicted in relief sculpture on a plain brick parapet at the top of the building. Pegasus, a winged horse, was chosen by Sir Ernest Fisk as a suitable association with the work of Australia's great wireless undertaking. The building retains the original Fisk system of double glazed windows. The communications tower was designed as an integral part of the building and its supports are part of the structure of the building.The York Street Entry Foyer and Lift Lobby is faced with Wombeyan Russet marble with simple Art Deco streamlined detail and the letter AWA over the entrance. The former Vestibule (main ground floor) interior retains its silver ash timber panelling. Above the panelling there is a series of symbolic plaster relief's executed by Otto Steen. Three relief's comprise three 'themes'. In each corner are figures representing the four ancient elements - earth, water, fire and air. Over the entrance surrounding an AWA symbol are the signs of the zodiac. A series of small relief's along the north and south walls represent various nations, symbolising the unification of the world throughout radio. (Graham Alcock Giles Tribe) The former Entrance Lobby interior retains a map of the world incised into the polished trachyte wall above the auditorium doors.Other significant interiors include the fifth floor Boardroom, ancillary offices and executive bathroom |
| 撮影日 | 2012-02-09 13:42:14 |
| 撮影者 | Sydney Heritage |
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| 撮影地 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | Canon PowerShot G11 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 5479.452055 dpi |