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Something different for today, four photos devoted to a single building: the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building.
As the first Australian building designed by Frank Gehry, the celebrated Canadian architect, the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building is a flagship project of University of Technology Sydney’s billion-dollar-plus City Campus Master Plan.
It provides teaching, learning, research and office accommodation for the Business School – as well as extensive public spaces – across 11 occupied floors. While it is available to all students, it has a focus on postgraduate and executive education, and bringing UTS researchers together.
The building is named for Australian-Chinese businessman and philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing, who donated $20 million to the project, along with an additional $5 million for Australia-China scholarships. Dr Chau Chak Wing’s son studied architecture at UTS.
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has more than 20 buildings within its campus. The architectural styles of each building varies too from brutalist to a terrific Frank Gehry designed flagship for business studies.
The building you see here is the FEIT building ‘Faculty of Engineering and IT’. Thanks to its distinctive facade made from shiny aluminum sheets punctured with binary code, many just refer to it as ‘The Cheesegrater’. Mmmm cheese :)
Street Photography
Broadway, Sydney
July, 2019
To view modern architecture at its best, the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building is the place to visit. I visited on a Saturday morning shortly after it opened. There was nobody about and the security person let me have the run of the building to take photos. I suspect he could track me on CCTV everywhere I went.
The interior of the building is just as innovative as the exterior; if you like modern architecture you will love this. It's an oddity, bizarre, startling, unique, unreal. If you love to take photographs, go all the way around the outside of this building. It's worth it because each side of the building is different - for me, the side that is entirely made of glass was glorious.
Having been referred to as a “cluster of tree houses”, a “crumpled paper bag” and an “urban sandcastle”, the Dr Chau Chak Wing building’s unique masonry façade—contorting and twisting in a three-dimensional plane for the full height of the 14-storey structure—created structural engineering challenges requiring innovative solutions.
In collaboration with UTS and the brick supplier, AECOM (an infrastructure consulting firm) developed a unique brick, tie, mortar and backing system that solved the load, constructability and complex geometrical issues, allowing a near impossible feat of engineering to be realised. This unique solution makes this brick facade one of its kind.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
The exterior of the Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building has two different but related personalities; an east-facing, undulating brick facade acknowledging Sydney’s sandstone heritage and a western facade of angular glass shards reflecting its contemporary surrounds. Here we see detail from the brick facade.
Up close, the plastic, fluid quality of the building creates an encounter and connection that are wholly physical. Its extraordinarily complex construction included five custom-made brick types manufactured specifically for the building by Bowral Bricks and laid with great skill by master bricklayer Peter Favetti. The undulations of the brick facade and the abundance of idiosyncratic visual and tactile detail make “being there” a highly engaging and personal experience.
If you're ever in Sydney, be sure not to miss this iconic building.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
A young woman strolls through the city on a quiet Saturday afternoon. I like the composition of this shot with the reflections and hard barriers on the right. I also applied a vintage filter to try to help make up for some rather disappointing results from my latest attempt at some street shots using my old Nikon FE2 film camera :)
Candid Street Photography
Broadway Sydney
July, 2019
UTS is known for its 1960’s ‘Brutalist’ tower landmark on Broadway where the university’s administrative units are located. Currently under construction, UTS building 2 will become a new student, faculty and research hub when it is completed.
Broadway, Sydney
July, 2019
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
Silver & Gold
U2
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence, it's crawling
It crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something
I am someone, I am someone
I am someone
Captain and kings
In the ships hold
They came to collect
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Seen the coming and the going
Seen them captains and the kings
See them navy blue uniforms
See them bright and shiny things
Bright shiny things
Have been wanting to shoot the spiral staircase at UTS Sydney for a few years now. Today, as it bucketed down with rain in Sydney, I caught the train into the city, and shot it.
Here is my interpretation of this much photographed icon of Sydney.
Hope you like "Silver & Gold"
Cheers, Mike
One of a few of the spiral staircases in UTS Central (aka Building 2). All UTS buildings are locked to all but students during the Christmas week so alas I could not get in but I did find this interesting perspective from outside looking up to the glass floor of one of the staircases. Looking forward to returning later in the new year.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
In between the FEIT Buiding and UTS Central, two of the newer architectural wonders at the University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Located next to the UTS Tower and opposite Central Park on Broadway, UTS Central (aka Building 2) is a striking, 17-storey, glass-encased building that has redefined the southern gateway to Sydney’s CBD. It adds to the architectural diversity of the UTS campus, joining iconic buildings including the Frank Gehry-designed Dr Chau Chak Wing Building.
Sydney CBD
October, 2019
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building is a business school building of the University of Technology Sydney in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and the first building in Australia designed by Canadian American architect Frank Gehry. - Wikipedia
October, 2018
Sydney’s Frank Gehry Building boggles the mind!!! What does it make you think of? If you have not heard of the contemporary architect Frank Gehry then I suggest you look him up pronto! Some of his most famous designs are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Dancing House in Prague and The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle... just to name a few. His building in Sydney is part of Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS) and houses the Business school. The inside is just as imaginative as the outside and would have a huge impact on the minds having their education inside! Normally I would shoot these shots with a polariser on my lens to see through the glass but with the beautiful blue skies with high white clouds it suited the images to have them act as mirrors to the sky! Franks designs are associated with the Deconstructivist movement, which is a postmodern architecture movement that appeared in the 1980s. This building was completed November 2014, so it's fairly recent.
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UTS Central with a glimpse of the UTS Tower building in the back at the University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia.
An intertwining double helix staircase made from Australian steel and curved glass connects levels 4 to 7 in UTS Central, Building 2 at the University of Technology Sydney. The double ribbon spiral design originated with architects FJMT and is inspired by the double helix structure of a DNA molecule.
In between the FEIT Buiding and UTS Central, two of the newer architectural wonders at the University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia.
UTS Library entrance on the 7th floor in the UTS Central building at the University of Technology Sydney.
Continuing my adventures in night time long exposures, this one was taken in and amongst the University of Technology in Sydney late one night a couple of weeks ago.
Better bigger and on black.
The spiral staircase is located within UTS Building 2 (UTS Central) and is located along Broadway in Ultimo. The spiral is inspired by the double helix structure of DNA molecules. It was designed by the Australian firm FJMT.
Here is a bottom-up view of the staircase.
Broadway, Ultimo
December, 2022
Building 7 (Science and Graduate School of Health Building) of UTS (University of Technology Sydney). Also known as Vicki Sara Building.
Distinguished external features of this 7-level building are curved walls with mosaic-tiles and large circular skylights on the walkways along the sides of the building.
Ultimo, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 10 May 2017)
Making a student orientation week video. Pentax ME Super; Pentax M50 1.7; Ilford FP4 125; Epsom V550.
Inside Building 11 (Faculty of Engineering and IT Building) of UTS (University of Technology Sydney).
A crevasse-like atrium runs through the centre of the building, providing natural light and pedestrian access via a series of stairs and escalators.
Designed by architect Denton Corker Marshall, this 14-level building houses 500 staff and 4,300 students and has a 5-Star Green Star Rating.
Ultimo, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 10 May 2017)
What you're looking at is a flight of stairs reflected in a curving stainless steel sheath which is perpendicular at stair level and then gets wildly curvy as it goes up, giving a hall of mirrors effect. This staircase is usually photographed from the outside of the structure and not from this perspective which is just as interesting.