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Thursday October 2 2003
TOUR
1 : SYDNEY CITY AND ENVIRONS WALKING TOUR
Tour organiser : Peter Kohane
The tour focuses on the civic and commercial buildings in the centre of Sydney and flats in Kings Cross.
We meet at 10 am outside the Dendy Cinema at East Circular Quay, not far from the Sydney Opera House.
The first part of the tour begins with a talk by Andrew Andersons, who will explain his design work at East Circular Quay. Philip Thalis will then lead us through the Rocks. This is followed by an account by Peter Kohane of James Barnet’s major public buildings, such as the Lands Department and the General Post Office. Several major recent buildings are also visited, including Renzo Piano’s Aurora Place and DCMs Museum of Sydney.
The second part of the tour is a walk through Kings Cross and Potts Point. We meet by the Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross at 1pm. James Weirick and Caroline Butler-Bowdon will speak about the development of flats from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
TOUR 2 -
MAGICAL MULTICULTURAL MYSTERY TOUR!
Tour organiser : Susan Thompson
Welcome to multicultural Sydney! On this tour you will explore some of
the suburban areas in Western Sydney where migrant communities have settled
and established themselves. We will be looking at different multicultural
landscapes, focussing on the built form, and the ways in which they serve
the special needs of the local community.
TOUR 3 -
CONTEMPORARY HOUSING
Tour organiser : Rachel Neeson
A tour of houses and units in the Eastern suburbs by some of Sydney’s leading contemporary architects, including Durbach Block, Engelen Moore, Rick le Plastrier and Peter Stutchbury.
TOUR 4 –
NORTH SHORE SMORGASBORD
Tour organiser : Harry Margalit
We will travel through Sydney’s leafy North Shore visiting buildings that respond in a number of ways to its Arcadian ideals. We start with the UTS Lindfield campus (formerly Kuring-gai CAE, 1978), visit some Sydney School outliers by Bruce Rickard and others, and finish at the Rose Seidler house.