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Sydney Architecture Images- Pyrmont
Australian National Maritime Museum |
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Philip Cox Richardson Taylor and Partners | |||||||||
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Darling Harbour | |||||||||
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1986-88 | |||||||||
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Late 20th-Century Structuralist | |||||||||
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steel truss vaults, floating barges Land-based and floating Oceanarium with underwater walkways. |
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Museum | |||||||||
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| The Australian National Maritime Museum, opened in 1991, was designed by Phillip Cox. The high walls and diving roof forms were designed to accommodate the masts of boats contained in the museum. The Museum also contains floating attractions including the ex-RAN Oberon class submarine Onslow, moored next to the Daring Class destroyer Vampire. Historic vessels visiting Sydney tie up here. | ||||||||||
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"The major NSW Bicentennial project for 1988
in Sydney was the Darling Harbour redevelopment. Cox's firm produced
three major structures. Amid a veritable armada of tall buildings, the
small, unusual, and exciting Sydney Aquarium looks like a beached whale
or some prehistoric sea beast, shiny and full-scaled. It differs from
all the other buildings in that it was a privately funded building and
focuses on an activity below the water rather than on top! In fact it is
part building, part barge. It has three sections: an earthbound display;
an exhibition and visitor centre; and a restaurant. To its north are
three floating and semi-submerged freely moving tanks in which an
Oceanarium is situated, allowing spectators to walk literally through
walkways surrounded by water, and varieties of sea life. The third
structure, the Maritime Service Board Wharf No. 10, also to the north,
houses the support services and labs. The tanks, looking like small
barges or ships moored to the wharf are covered by fabric roofs hung
from masts and steel cable, all of which further extend in terms of
maritime metaphors. The sensation of walking in a boat rather than on
hard land is an important feature of this enterprising exhibition."
— Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p398-9. |
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Sources on Sydney Maritime Museum
E. M. Farrelly. "Out of the Swing of the Sea, Darling", Architectural Review. April 1989, Vol 185 Number 1106. p63. drawing of site plan, p63. drawing of plan, p66. Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photos, p399. Jennifer Towndrow. "New Australian Functionalism." RIBA Journal. April 1989, Vol. 96, No. 4. Color photo of exterior, p40. |
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Special thanks to http://www.australianheritagefleet.com.au |
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www.sydneyarchitecture.com | |||||||||
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http://www.australianheritagefleet.com.au | |||||||||
