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Erskineville Town Hall
The Erskineville Town Hall is a landmark civic building in Erskineville, New South Wales, Erskineville, a suburb of Sydney. It stands at 104 Erskineville Road. It was opened in 1938 in the Australian non-residential architectural styles#Inter-war Mediterranean, Inter-war Mediterranean Revival architecture, Mediterranean style by Lindsay Gordon Scott. The Town Hall was the seat of Municipality of Erskineville, Erskineville Municipal Council from 1938 to 1948 and was the seat of the City of South Sydney, South Sydney Councils from 1968 to 1982 and 1989 to 2003. Since 2004 the town hall has been a community centre for the City of Sydney servicing the local area and is listed as a heritage item of local significance by the City of Sydney. History and description The original Erskineville Town Hall was built on an adjacent site in the 1880s following the incorporation of the Macdonaldtown Municipal Council in 1872. The original town hall replaced a small building which had been used f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Gordon Scott
Lindsay Gordon Scott Royal Australian Institute of Architects, ARAIA (1898 – 4 January 1941) was a prominent Sydney architect best associated for his design of the Erskineville Town Hall and numerous surf pavilions in New South Wales, including several on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Early life Scott was born to John and Isabella Scott in 1898 in the town of Grafton, New South Wales, Grafton, in the Northern Rivers region of Colony of New South Wales, New South Wales, and moved with his family to Sydney in 1901 at a young age. Scott received his architecture diploma from the School of Architecture at the Sydney Technical College. Architectural practice In 1923, Scott joined the prominent Sydney architectural firm oRobertson and Marksas an assistant, and from 1925 was working within another prominent firmRoss and Rowe In 1925 he was admitted as a member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, New South Wales Institute of Architects. While at Ross and Rowe, in 1926 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, county or shire, and of the executive arm of the municipality (if one exists distinctly from the council). By convention, until the middle of the 19th century, a single large open chamber (or "hall") formed an integral part of the building housing the council. The hall may be used for council meetings and other significant events. This large chamber, the "town hall" (and its later variant "city hall") has become synonymous with the whole building, and with the administrative body housed in it. The terms "council chambers", "municipal building" or variants may be used locally in preference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decoration And Glass
''Decoration and Glass'', was an English-language trade journal, issued from 1935 to 1949, and published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History ''Decoration and Glass : journal for home builders, architects and decorators'' was the official journal of the Australian Glass Manufacturers Company. While the earliest edition of Decoration and Glass was issued May 1935, the journal was published simply as ''Glassbetween 1934 and 1935. The earliest editors of the journal were Walter Glover, as managing editor and publisher, and Don Angus, as art director. Angus later established himself as a commercial artist in his own right, operating out of a studio in Hunter Street Sydney, and later became the vice-president of the Australian Commercial and Industrial Artists Association in Victoria. While Glover, was the same Walter Frederick Glover, who went on to some degree of infamy as the champion of the art of Rosaleen Norton, and the publisher of a book of her art, resulting in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Deco Architecture In Sydney
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts. The nature of art and related concepts, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Establishments In Australia
Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Of Sydney
The architecture of Sydney, Australia’s oldest city, is not characterised by any one architectural style, but by an extensive juxtaposition of old and new architecture over the city's 200-year history, from its modest beginnings with local materials and lack of international funding to its present-day modernity with an expansive skyline of high rises and skyscrapers, dotted at street level with remnants of a Victorian era of prosperity. Under the tenure of early nineteenth-century Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the works of Francis Greenway were the first substantial buildings for the fledgling colony. Later prominent styles were the Victorian buildings of the city centre created out of local Sydney sandstone, and the turn of the century Federation style in the new garden suburbs of the time. With the lifting of height restrictions in the post-World War II years, much of central Sydney's older stock of architecture was demolished to make way for Modern high rise buildings â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Town Halls In Sydney
This is a list of Town Halls in Sydney, Australia, with local municipality listed after it. Its main town hall is the Sydney City Hall. * Alexandria * Annandale * Balmain * Botany * Darlington * Erskineville * Glebe * Granville * Hornsby * Hunters Hill * Leichhardt * Manly * Marrickville * Newtown * North Sydney * Paddington * Parramatta * Petersham * Randwick * Redfern * Rockdale * Ryde * Sydney Town * Warringah * Waterloo * Willoughby * Woollahra See also *List of Sydney suburbs *Local government areas of New South Wales References {{Town halls in Sydney * Town Halls in Sydney A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ... Sydney-related lists Local government-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockdale Town Hall
The Rockdale Town Hall is a civic building located on the corner of the Princes Highway and Bryant Street in Rockdale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History Rockdale Town Hall was opened by The Rt Hon. The Lord Wakehurst , Governor of New South Wales, on 12 October 1940. The building was designed by then-local architect Douglas Gardiner, who became a Melbourne-based partner of Bates Smart & McCutcheon after World War II. Built at a cost of A£20,000, the council chamber was at the time of construction and the auditorium was . It is built of face brick detailed with stone at copings and around window architraves. The building entrance is marked by a stone portico and brick tower. The hall's interiors have elaborate art deco style plaster details to it walls and ceiling. The building is listed on local government heritage register within the New South Wales Heritage Database as "a fine representative example of a late inter-war stripped classical building wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersham Town Hall
The Petersham Town Hall is a heritage-listed town hall located at 107 Crystal Street in Petersham, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia. It was built in 1937–38 in the Inter-War Stripped Classical architectural style by architects Rudder & Grout, and replaced the first Petersham Town Hall on the site, which was designed in the Victorian_Renaissance_Revival style by Thomas Rowe in 1880–1882. The Town Hall was the seat of Petersham Municipal Council from 1938 to 1948 and from 1948 to 1974 was the seat of the Municipality of Marrickville, which absorbed Petersham. When the council moved to new offices across the street in 1974, the town hall has primarily been used as a meeting hall, community centre, filming location and archival office. First Town Hall, 1880–1937 The foundation stone for the town hall was laid by mayor M. McMahon on 18 December 1880, with W. H. Pigott MLA opening proceedings. The Italianate structure was designed by Thomas Rowe, and the compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clover Moore
Clover Margaret Moore (née Collins, born 22 October 1945) is an Australian politician. She has been the List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney, Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and is currently the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney since the creation of the City of Sydney in 1842. She was an Independent (politics), independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2012, representing the electorates of electoral district of Bligh, Bligh (1988–2007) and electoral district of Sydney, Sydney (2007–2012). Her "recurrent motif" is described as "making Sydney more liveable for individuals and families". Moore is the first popularly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. Early life and background Clover Margaret Collins was born in 1945 and grew up in the suburb of Gordon, New South Wales, Gordon, on Sydney's North Shore, one of three daughters of Kathleen and Francis Collins. She attended Loreto Kirribilli at Kirribilli, New South Wales, Kirr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskineville Town Hall August 1938
Erskineville is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 6 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Erskineville is a diverse suburb homing to a wide variety of ethnicity from its varying Southeast Europe and Aboriginal community. Erskineville is colloquially known as ''Erko''. Erskineville is bordered by the suburbs of Newtown to the west, Redfern to the north, St Peters to the south, and Alexandria to the east. The locality of Macdonaldtown sits over the north-west border. Erskineville is a residential suburb. Erskineville Oval is located on the eastern border of the suburb. History The suburb was originally called after an earlier subdivision in 1846 in the south of Erskineville owned by Stephen Macdonald. The streets around the early Macdonaldtown subdivision are named after relations of the Macdonald family - Amy, Flora, Eve, Coulso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redfern, New South Wales
Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney located 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Strawberry Hills is a locality on the border with Surry Hills. The area experienced the process of gentrification and is subject to extensive redevelopment plans by the state government, to increase the population and reduce the concentration of poverty in the suburb and neighbouring Waterloo (see Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington). History The suburb is named after surgeon William Redfern, who was granted of land in this area in 1817 by Lachlan Macquarie. He built a country house on his property surrounded by flower and kitchen gardens. His neighbours were Captain Cleveland, an officer of the 73rd regiment, who built Cleveland House and John Baptist, who ran a nursery and seed business. Sydney's original railway terminus was built in Cleveland Paddocks and extended from Cleveland Street to Devonshire Street a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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