tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post6269982931785609988..comments2024-02-22T13:40:45.894+11:00Comments on Happy Antipodean: Brutalism thirteen: Former Qantas International buildingMatthew da Silvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07158988637117138260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-32039649202687071272021-02-05T05:31:15.455+11:002021-02-05T05:31:15.455+11:00Thanks for your comment. Fascinating. I really app...Thanks for your comment. Fascinating. I really appreciate the effort you took to give readers this information. It's strange how little we really know about that period, probably because it's still considered to be relatively recent. Perhaps as time goes by more details like this will come out. If you want to help making a follow up post, please do get in touch. Matthew da Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158988637117138260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-50837964777238393952021-02-04T20:54:30.896+11:002021-02-04T20:54:30.896+11:00Originally Stage 2 was to be the new Wentworth Hot...Originally Stage 2 was to be the new Wentworth Hotel (Wentworth Hotels at the time were a Qantas Owned operation) The whole thing came unstuck in 1980 when the Federal Government who were the Qantas Shareholders, forced Qantas to sell off it's property if it wished to purchase any new planes. The then GM likened this to the "cocky" selling off his property and then renting it back ndibshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03287276526129189474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-38508761181256036912019-09-05T10:49:56.235+10:002019-09-05T10:49:56.235+10:00Doesn't surprise me. In those days people had ...Doesn't surprise me. In those days people had lots of big ideas. "Grade separation" was one (it's talked about in this post). It meant putting in things like bridges and tunnels, to get pedestrians away from cars. Cars were going to take over, the thinking went, and people had to be gotten out of the way. The bridge that was built for this building was, in the end, dismantled. Matthew da Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158988637117138260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-67763593628331077492019-09-04T21:25:01.916+10:002019-09-04T21:25:01.916+10:00There were also some vague plans for a helipad to ...There were also some vague plans for a helipad to be constructed on either Tower 1 or Tower 2 to ferry people directly to the airport from the CBD much like as happened in New York in the 1960’s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-64567721386495962702018-08-14T13:00:36.986+10:002018-08-14T13:00:36.986+10:00There's a series of posts about brutalist buil...There's a series of posts about brutalist buildings in Sydney on the blog. If you do a search using the word "brutalism" you should find them. They date from the middle and end of last year.<br /><br />The material for the blogposts is kept in the archives at the City of Sydney's offices in the CBD. I accessed their records for each one, except for the one about the Bidura Matthew da Silvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158988637117138260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21277069.post-28728366539119764562018-08-14T12:17:04.567+10:002018-08-14T12:17:04.567+10:00Heya love the article! wondering where you got you...Heya love the article! wondering where you got your info? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11034947043355932270noreply@blogger.com