Author: John Nicholson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082585
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The inside story of a national icon.
Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Author: John Nicholson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082585
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The inside story of a national icon.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082585
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The inside story of a national icon.
The Bridge
Author: Peter Lalor
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781741750270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781741750270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Author: Vashti Farrer
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781741699531
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, "Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays."' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits soaring. Both Alice and Billy tell the story of building the spectacular Harbour Bridge which will link the north shore to the working class suburbs of the south and unify a separated city.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781741699531
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
'I said to Mum that the sky-workers must have really good heads for heights, but she said, "Either that, or they have a family to feed and will do anything for a job that pays."' It is 1932 and Sydney has hit hard times but the construction of a bridge that will reach across the harbour is setting spirits soaring. Both Alice and Billy tell the story of building the spectacular Harbour Bridge which will link the north shore to the working class suburbs of the south and unify a separated city.
The Day We Built the Bridge
Author: Samantha Tidy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925227437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
There are moments in history that connect us and define a country. In our hearts and minds, some moments rely on us to hold onto a dream, face tough challenges, and put in a great deal of effort.Big dreams can take generations. It can also take six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel.The Day We Built the Bridge celebrates our connection with one another, and declares that despite the greatest of challenges, together we can make history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925227437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
There are moments in history that connect us and define a country. In our hearts and minds, some moments rely on us to hold onto a dream, face tough challenges, and put in a great deal of effort.Big dreams can take generations. It can also take six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel.The Day We Built the Bridge celebrates our connection with one another, and declares that despite the greatest of challenges, together we can make history.
Sydney Art Deco
Author: Peter Sheridan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992389666
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
First photographic reference book on Sydney's Art Deco architecture and lifestyle in the 1930s and 1940s containing contemporary and vintage images. The book covers commercial, residential, cinemas, pubs, civic and industrial buildings with Art Deco features.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992389666
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
First photographic reference book on Sydney's Art Deco architecture and lifestyle in the 1930s and 1940s containing contemporary and vintage images. The book covers commercial, residential, cinemas, pubs, civic and industrial buildings with Art Deco features.
Sirius
Author: John Dunn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980834758
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is about Sirius, one of Australia and Sydney's best known brutalist buildings and social housing successes. Through numerous battles and green bans, confrontation, arrests in the 1970s, The Rocks Green Ban was lifted for Sirius to be built for local residents who were displaced by The Rocks redevelopment. It has been a rare example of successful public housing since it opened in 1980. By 2015, the NSW Liberal government wants the building and its residents gone. Protection of the building was rejected by its own NSW Heritage Council recommendation to list Sirius on the State Register. This book celebrates Sirius the place, and its history and people. It is one of the few architectural social history books tracking the fight to save the building throughout 2016-2017 and discusses the many long time residents, advocates and the original design by Tao Gofers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980834758
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is about Sirius, one of Australia and Sydney's best known brutalist buildings and social housing successes. Through numerous battles and green bans, confrontation, arrests in the 1970s, The Rocks Green Ban was lifted for Sirius to be built for local residents who were displaced by The Rocks redevelopment. It has been a rare example of successful public housing since it opened in 1980. By 2015, the NSW Liberal government wants the building and its residents gone. Protection of the building was rejected by its own NSW Heritage Council recommendation to list Sirius on the State Register. This book celebrates Sirius the place, and its history and people. It is one of the few architectural social history books tracking the fight to save the building throughout 2016-2017 and discusses the many long time residents, advocates and the original design by Tao Gofers.
Engibear's Bridge
Author: Andrew King
Publisher: Little Steps Publishing
ISBN: 1925117316
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The children at Munnagong Primary School decide on a dinosaur design for their new bridge. It's a big job so Engilina, the town's chief engineer, asks her friends, Engibear and Bearbot, for some help. Follow the team as they work through the year to create a roar-inspiring attraction.
Publisher: Little Steps Publishing
ISBN: 1925117316
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The children at Munnagong Primary School decide on a dinosaur design for their new bridge. It's a big job so Engilina, the town's chief engineer, asks her friends, Engibear and Bearbot, for some help. Follow the team as they work through the year to create a roar-inspiring attraction.
The Blue Mile
Author: Kim Kelly
Publisher: Brio Books Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922598283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An engaging, entertaining read set in 1930s Sydney against the backdrop of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge...evocatively drawn.' - Books+Publishing Broke and hopeless in 1929, Yo O'Keenan flees the violence of his home in Chippendale, and by some miracle charms his way into a job on the Harbour Bridge, a new start for himself and his little sister, Agnes. Meanwhile, on the north side of Sydney, in her cluttered cottage at Lavender Bay, a young and ambitious costumier, Olivia Greene, works on her latest millinery creations, dreaming of taking her colours to Paris, London, New York. A random encounter in the Botanic Gardens sparks a powerful attraction, even as the gulf between this pair seems wider than the blue mile of harbour that divides the city. By mid-1932, the construction of the Bridge is complete, but Sydney is in chaos, on the brink of civil war, as the Great Depression begins to bite - hard. And then Yo disappears. Against the glittering backdrop of Sydney Harbour, The Blue Mile tells of the cruelties of poverty, the wild gamble a city took to build a wonder of the world, and the risks the truly brave will take for a chance at life.
Publisher: Brio Books Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922598283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An engaging, entertaining read set in 1930s Sydney against the backdrop of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge...evocatively drawn.' - Books+Publishing Broke and hopeless in 1929, Yo O'Keenan flees the violence of his home in Chippendale, and by some miracle charms his way into a job on the Harbour Bridge, a new start for himself and his little sister, Agnes. Meanwhile, on the north side of Sydney, in her cluttered cottage at Lavender Bay, a young and ambitious costumier, Olivia Greene, works on her latest millinery creations, dreaming of taking her colours to Paris, London, New York. A random encounter in the Botanic Gardens sparks a powerful attraction, even as the gulf between this pair seems wider than the blue mile of harbour that divides the city. By mid-1932, the construction of the Bridge is complete, but Sydney is in chaos, on the brink of civil war, as the Great Depression begins to bite - hard. And then Yo disappears. Against the glittering backdrop of Sydney Harbour, The Blue Mile tells of the cruelties of poverty, the wild gamble a city took to build a wonder of the world, and the risks the truly brave will take for a chance at life.
Public Sydney
Author: Philip Thalis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876991425
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
For the first time, see the making of Sydney and all its public buildings and places in exquisite drawings in this new book. For anyone who cares about Sydney, or cities in general -- whether a passionate city dweller, architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer or historian -- it offers a deep appreciation of the city's evolution.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876991425
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
For the first time, see the making of Sydney and all its public buildings and places in exquisite drawings in this new book. For anyone who cares about Sydney, or cities in general -- whether a passionate city dweller, architect, landscape designer, planner, engineer or historian -- it offers a deep appreciation of the city's evolution.
Bridging Sydney
Author: Caroline Mackaness
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876991227
Category : Arch bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bridging Sydney commemorates the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's iconic bridge structures. From the earliest concepts for a harbor crossing to the complexities of construction during the Depression, the bridge's story is rich and complex. A remarkable feat of engineering, it signified Australia's industrial and social maturity and had a dramatic impact on the city of Sydney. In its spectacular location on Sydney Harbour, in close proximity to the Opera House, the bridge has inspired generations of artists and writers, and has become an internationally recognized symbol of Australia. This publication is the result of extensive research and is illustrated with images from public and private collections, including plans, photographs and many works of art. These images have been brought together with original sketches of alternatives for the bridge and oral histories to provide a unique perspective on this much-loved Australian icon, placing it in the context of international bridge construction and 20th century engineering.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876991227
Category : Arch bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bridging Sydney commemorates the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's iconic bridge structures. From the earliest concepts for a harbor crossing to the complexities of construction during the Depression, the bridge's story is rich and complex. A remarkable feat of engineering, it signified Australia's industrial and social maturity and had a dramatic impact on the city of Sydney. In its spectacular location on Sydney Harbour, in close proximity to the Opera House, the bridge has inspired generations of artists and writers, and has become an internationally recognized symbol of Australia. This publication is the result of extensive research and is illustrated with images from public and private collections, including plans, photographs and many works of art. These images have been brought together with original sketches of alternatives for the bridge and oral histories to provide a unique perspective on this much-loved Australian icon, placing it in the context of international bridge construction and 20th century engineering.