Download or read book Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge written by John Nicholson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of a national icon.
Download or read book The Bridge written by Peter Lalor and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sydney Harbour Bridge written by Vashti Farrer and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book The Day We Built the Bridge written by Samantha Tidy and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Blue Mile written by Kim Kelly and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sydney Art Deco written by Peter Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sirius written by John Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Engibear s Bridge written by Andrew King and published by Little Steps Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Public Sydney written by Philip Thalis and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bridging Sydney written by Caroline Mackaness and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 30 Days in Sydney written by Peter Carey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.
Download or read book To the Bridge the Journey of Lennie and Ginger Mick written by Corinne Fenton and published by Black Dog Books. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning team of Corinne Fenton and Andrew McLean tell the story of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick, a boy and his pony who crossed Sydney's Harbour Bridge on 19th of March, 1932 and marched into history. Nine-year-old Lennie Gwyther dreamed of seeing the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. With his father's blessing, he rode his pony Ginger Mick across Australia, inspiring crowds of supporters to greet him in cities along the way, as he made his way to Sydney. It was there that he saw the bridge that had captivated his imagination and inspired his brave journey. And it was then that he and Ginger Mick became a legend.This inspiring historical story is about persistence, resilience, bravery, courage and hope. It's about pursuing a dream and the impact that journey can have on those who follow.
Download or read book Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge written by Henri Mallard and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1976 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Significant Sites written by Lenore Coltheart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building a Masterpiece written by Anne Watson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a masterpiece explores some of the untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion -- of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia.To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, this new edition of Building a Masterpiece will include a new chapter on another little known and much misunderstood story: the architect who took over from Utzon and completed the project.
Download or read book The Proud Arch written by David Ellyard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sydney Harbour Bridge Conservation Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
