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Sydney Architecture Images- Glebe Burley Griffin Incinerator |
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architect |
Walter Burley Griffin |
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location |
end of Ferry Street |
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date |
1933 |
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style |
Inter-War Art Deco |
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type |
Government utility |
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Built in 1933, this was the smallest of
thirteen incinerators in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia
designed by Walter Burley Griffin, designer of Canberra, and his partner Eric Nicholls. Others included those at Pyrmont (now demolished) and Willoughby. Prior to building the incinerator, Glebe Council used to load garbage onto barges at the Council depot in Forsyth Street, tow it 10 kilometres out to sea and dump it: this resulted in beaches being polluted by refuse carried in by the currents. Griffin and Nicholls promoted their incinerators as hygienic, efficient and aesthetically pleasing. Now only the shell of the incinerator remains, incorporated into the redevelopment of foreshore industrial land for housing. The City of Sydney’s 2004 Glebe Foreshore Plan also provides for its restoration. |
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