Paddington Water Tower
Paddington is an inner suburb west of Brisbane city, and is very hilly and trendy. In hot old Brisbane, it is said that you should live on a north east face of a hill to catch thebreeze.
Paddington Heights was a dress circle because "suburban differentiation in Brisbane does not follow the more usual pattern of working-class, middle-class and elite suburbs". The hills and dales of a subtropical city created a different pattern: "Wealthy people on the heights with the views and catching cooling breezes, and less affluent housing on the slopes and in the valleys."
The Paddington Water Tower built in 1927, is a rare example of an elevated reinforced concrete water tank. It is probably the only one of its type in Queensland being a reinforced concrete tank and is supported on a structural framework of twelve columns and octagonal grids of haunched beams.
The water tower is 70 feet (21.34 metres) high and the tank has a capacity of 100,000 gallons.
The Board had striven for 12 years to obtain the £12,000 necessary to build the Paddington Tower, and at the time was the most expensive single structure ever to have been constructed in the town of Ithaca.
The Paddington Water Tower is important for its aesthetic qualities as a readily recognisable landmark. It is one of Brisbane's most prominent landmarks, but is now surplus to water supply requirements and is no longer in use.
Now the tower is covered by mobile phone antennas, like many high structures around the city, and while they do try to blend them in, they are a blight on the landcape.
Sorry, I have to go now, my mobile phone is ringing.
For 7 Days of Shooting, 20th Century Pre-WWII Architecture theme
Paddington Water Tower
Paddington is an inner suburb west of Brisbane city, and is very hilly and trendy. In hot old Brisbane, it is said that you should live on a north east face of a hill to catch thebreeze.
Paddington Heights was a dress circle because "suburban differentiation in Brisbane does not follow the more usual pattern of working-class, middle-class and elite suburbs". The hills and dales of a subtropical city created a different pattern: "Wealthy people on the heights with the views and catching cooling breezes, and less affluent housing on the slopes and in the valleys."
The Paddington Water Tower built in 1927, is a rare example of an elevated reinforced concrete water tank. It is probably the only one of its type in Queensland being a reinforced concrete tank and is supported on a structural framework of twelve columns and octagonal grids of haunched beams.
The water tower is 70 feet (21.34 metres) high and the tank has a capacity of 100,000 gallons.
The Board had striven for 12 years to obtain the £12,000 necessary to build the Paddington Tower, and at the time was the most expensive single structure ever to have been constructed in the town of Ithaca.
The Paddington Water Tower is important for its aesthetic qualities as a readily recognisable landmark. It is one of Brisbane's most prominent landmarks, but is now surplus to water supply requirements and is no longer in use.
Now the tower is covered by mobile phone antennas, like many high structures around the city, and while they do try to blend them in, they are a blight on the landcape.
Sorry, I have to go now, my mobile phone is ringing.
For 7 Days of Shooting, 20th Century Pre-WWII Architecture theme