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A beautiful spring sunset over Sydney Harbour and the skyline. Sydney's skyline has been slowly transformed over the past years. On the right of the image is towers of Barangaroo, dominated by the Crown Casino tower. On the left is the new AMP building.
Excerpt from discovery.stqry.com:
The Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) building, designed by Louis Hay, was completed in 1935, following the destruction of the original building in the 1931 earthquake. The 2 story concrete building is an example of the Chicago School/Prairie Style.
During World War II, the upper floor was occupied by the Army. After the war, it was occupied by the Rehabilitation Department.
In 1990, AMP attempted to sell the building at action, although no sale resulted. AMP said they would not sell the building until a buyer could be found with the interest of protecting and restoring the building. The building was sold to one such buyer – Gerald Patterson – who then quickly sold it on again to AMP Building Partnership. AMP Building Partnership leased the building to law firm Callnicos Gallagher, secured the original building plans and then set about full interior restoration, which was completed in March 1993.
The building now boasts distinctive exterior and interior features, including large safe doors, bronze grilles on counters and impressive lamps.
The AMP Building is now home to the New Zealand Wine Centre, which hosts the largest selection of Hawke’s Bay wines in the world, as well as aroma awareness rooms, wine appreciation theatres, a wine museum and library.
Travelling on ferry back from Mosman Bay to Circular Quay.
Original AMP building - gold - AMP tower in background being demolished. It was at some point the tallest building in Sydney. Cruise ship in port. 30 second b+w sketch- render later.
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Opened on 28 September 1872, the GPO is located between Queen Street and Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In 1873, the Queensland Museum was housed in the General Post Office building, but moved in 1879 to the William Street building. Directly opposite the GPO building is Post Office Square
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Date and Time: 11 March 2010 4.32pm
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Start of 115m descent. Looks easy. You just walk backwards. Just kidding.
Urban Descent, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia (Friday 22 October 2010 @ 3:32pm).
AMP building built in the 1960s one of Sydney's first high rise buildings - shining in the beautiful winter morning sunshine. The building is dwarfed by all that has happened since it was built. Still a nice building the way the curved facade addresses Circular Quay.
A view of Sydney Harbour from the AMP building on Sydney's Circular Quay. Below are ferry wharves, and Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas is berthed at the OPT (passenger terminal).
Amazing to find a late '70's Sydney song, XL Capris' 'My City of Sydney' [www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkspJuX7J9I] (didn't know there was a video!)
In keeping with trying to get something different from Vivid 2014, here's a funky depiction of Vivid light show from the Cahill Expressway using the Pentax 17mm f4 Fisheye lens on the Sony a7r. I was fortunate to be shooting with a fellow Sony a7r enthusiast who has great arsenal of Pentax lenses and so I borrowed his Fisheye for a couple shots.
AMP Building on the left - overlooking Circular Quay - one of the first modernist high rise buildings in Sydney - still stands the test of time.
Sulphide Street Railway Station which was the terminus of the Silver Tramway Company track. It is now a Migration Museum and railway museum and two other museums. Across the roundabout is the Information Centre.
Broken Hill Mine and town. The Barrier Ranges were discovered by Captain Charles Sturt in 1844 but it was not until 1876 that silver was discovered at Thackaringa near Silverton by Paddy Green the storekeeper of Menindee. Sturt had taken samples of mineral rocks back to the SA governor in 1844 but they were lost! The silver rush at Thackaringa did not begin until 1880. At that time the NSW government sent a police officer and magistrate to Silverton. In 1883 Silverton was surveyed as a town and its own silver rush began. A year later it had a population of 1,745 with 3,000 near the town. There were dozens of silver mines and mining companies within thirty miles of Silverton. Then in September 1883 Charles Rasp an employee of the Mount Gipps sheep station saw a part of the ranges that looked promising for minerals so with other employees James Poole and David James he pegged off the Broken Hill mining lease as it looked like almost pure tin. Once aware of this mining claim George McCulloch, the leaseholder of Mount Gipps, held a meeting of all his station men. The seven men formed a syndicate pegging 7 more mining leases in the ranges covering all that is now Broken Hill. The syndicate was: Rasp boundary rider, McCulloch station leaseholder, George Urquhart sheep overseer, George Lind station bookkeeper, Philip Charley station hand, David James contractor and James Poole offsider of James. Within a year others took out the North Broken Hill blocks and others the South blocks. Early returns were poor and the lodes not rich but all lodes showed both silver and lead. By the end of 1884 chloride ores of lead and galena ores of silver and lead and some zinc were being mined. The first smelters were built at the mine. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was floated in August 1885. Only four of the original group of seven in the Broken Hill Mining Company were in the new BHP Company. The shares that were sold from the old syndicate for around £110 were worth one million pounds six years later! The new company offered 1,600 shares at £20 each in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. New shafts showed the lode went down almost vertically and was over 20 feet thick in places. The head office of BHP was located in Melbourne and the town of Broken Hill emerged around the BHP mines. Within days of the share release some shares were foolishly being sold for £13 a share. But in the first two months of operation the big mine produced over £44,000 worth of silver and lead. The first share dividend was given out three months after the company was formed! The first Broken Hill Post Office opened in 1885 as Silverton town and mines declined. The BHP mine shafts were over 200 feet by January 1886. By April BHP shares were worth £47 each. The BHP smelters opened in May 1886. In the next four months £67,000 worth of ore was obtained. By the end of 1886 shareholders had received over £4 for their initial share price of £20. The completion of the Peterborough to Silverton to Broken Hill railway set up BHP for more production in 1887. Original shareholders were going to be wealthy for at least the next 100 years or more. But the BHP mine was not the only mine- the other main ones were the South, Central, British, Block 14 and Block 10 mines. In 1888 BHP £20 shares reached £417 and their mine produced over £900,000 worth of ores including tin. In 1888 BHP was paying a regular dividend of £2 per share. In its first six years to 1891 BHP paid out £3,320,000 in dividends and produced over £7,000,000 worth of minerals. In its first four years BHP spent £175,000 on land, buildings, its smelters and machinery. By 1906 BHP had paid nearly £12,000,000 in dividends. By 1908 BHP employed 4,850 men and they were just one of several major companies in Broken Hill. BHP miners received a minimum of 10 shillings per eight hour shift in 1908. Three shower and bath rooms able to accommodate 500 men each were provided for those ending a shift. A major decision made by BHP in its early years was to end its smelting in Broken Hill in 1892 as there was not enough water there. Instead BHP developed their smelters at Port Pirie and railed the ores to that city from 1890 onwards. The British Broken Hill Company had established a smelter at Port Pirie in 1889 and BHP took this over and enlarged it. Eventually the smelters at Port Pirie smelted for five major Broken Hill mining companies. SA salt was required for the smelting of zinc in the Pirie smelters.
By the end of 1888 Broken Hill was the third biggest city in NSW after Sydney and Newcastle. It had a population of over 10,000 people by the beginning of 1889 but in April 1886 there had been only 34 inhabitants! The first building there was the mine manager’s house for the Day Dream mine in 1885. The town was surveyed in April 1886. The first church as the Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1885. The Customs House was an important early structure levying goods from South Australia but mainly collecting revenue from ores produced. The first hotel, the Bonanza was licensed October 1885. More followed. Hotels, houses and hovels had been built all over Broken Hill by the end of 1888 and in 1908 there were 61 hotels in Broken Hill. The town was declared a municipality in 1888. By 1890 many stone shops and offices in Argent Street had been completed and the town had a population of 26,000 by 1891. But progress had not been smooth. Strikes had closed mining operations for short periods, a major fire had destroyed wooden buildings in Argent Street in 1888, a water famine was experienced in 1892 and a bigger strike occurred in 1892 and in 1893 several banks had failed as depression and crisis hit all of Australia. The first of many serious mine accidents occurred in 1895 when nine men were killed and many wounded followed by another accident killing three men in 1897. But early in the 20th century the city was well endowed with churches, halls and government buildings. In 1905 there were wooden Anglican, Salvation Army, Baptist, Congregational and four wooden Methodist churches in the town. There were also three stone Methodist Churches, the stone Catholic Church (now the Cathedral), the stone Presbyterian Church in Lane Street and a stone Anglican Church in Railway Town. The Town Hall was built in 1891 as was the current Post Office. The Courthouse was finished in 1889 and the Police Station was built in 1890. The first Trades Hall was built in 1898.
As luck would have it a large container ship was leaving port during the time I was taking these photos of the full moon rising over the city of Melbourne and its bow can be seen entering the frame on the left.
Vivid Sydney is where art, technology and commerce intersect. Vivid Sydney 2015 will be held from 22nd May - 8th Jun 2015.
Next door to the Palace Hotel in the former Bank of South Australia. Built in 1889 but during the bank collapse 1893 the building became the AMP. Built in classical style with pilasters and rectangular windows with no decoration. Great symmetry and balance. Triangular pediments over the street doors. It still has the AMP logo statue across the roof line although it is now a finance office.
Adrenalin filled fundraiser for Sir David Martin Foundation.
Each jumper had to raise $1,500+ to abseil off the top of AMP Building.
This is a 115m drop.
No need to ask. I knew my limits.
Did something I could manage, i.e. take photos. LOL!
Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia (Friday 22 October 2010 @ 3:18pm).
A yellow water taxi in Sydney Cove, near Circular Quay. Photograph taken from our ferry as we arrived at Sydney Cove from Cremorne Point (via Mosman Bay).
Broken Hill Mine and town. The Barrier Ranges were discovered by Captain Charles Sturt in 1844 but it was not until 1876 that silver was discovered at Thackaringa near Silverton by Paddy Green the storekeeper of Menindee. Sturt had taken samples of mineral rocks back to the SA governor in 1844 but they were lost! The silver rush at Thackaringa did not begin until 1880. At that time the NSW government sent a police officer and magistrate to Silverton. In 1883 Silverton was surveyed as a town and its own silver rush began. A year later it had a population of 1,745 with 3,000 near the town. There were dozens of silver mines and mining companies within thirty miles of Silverton. Then in September 1883 Charles Rasp an employee of the Mount Gipps sheep station saw a part of the ranges that looked promising for minerals so with other employees James Poole and David James he pegged off the Broken Hill mining lease as it looked like almost pure tin. Once aware of this mining claim George McCulloch, the leaseholder of Mount Gipps, held a meeting of all his station men. The seven men formed a syndicate pegging 7 more mining leases in the ranges covering all that is now Broken Hill. The syndicate was: Rasp boundary rider, McCulloch station leaseholder, George Urquhart sheep overseer, George Lind station bookkeeper, Philip Charley station hand, David James contractor and James Poole offsider of James. Within a year others took out the North Broken Hill blocks and others the South blocks. Early returns were poor and the lodes not rich but all lodes showed both silver and lead. By the end of 1884 chloride ores of lead and galena ores of silver and lead and some zinc were being mined. The first smelters were built at the mine. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was floated in August 1885. Only four of the original group of seven in the Broken Hill Mining Company were in the new BHP Company. The shares that were sold from the old syndicate for around £110 were worth one million pounds six years later! The new company offered 1,600 shares at £20 each in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. New shafts showed the lode went down almost vertically and was over 20 feet thick in places. The head office of BHP was located in Melbourne and the town of Broken Hill emerged around the BHP mines. Within days of the share release some shares were foolishly being sold for £13 a share. But in the first two months of operation the big mine produced over £44,000 worth of silver and lead. The first share dividend was given out three months after the company was formed! The first Broken Hill Post Office opened in 1885 as Silverton town and mines declined. The BHP mine shafts were over 200 feet by January 1886. By April BHP shares were worth £47 each. The BHP smelters opened in May 1886. In the next four months £67,000 worth of ore was obtained. By the end of 1886 shareholders had received over £4 for their initial share price of £20. The completion of the Peterborough to Silverton to Broken Hill railway set up BHP for more production in 1887. Original shareholders were going to be wealthy for at least the next 100 years or more. But the BHP mine was not the only mine- the other main ones were the South, Central, British, Block 14 and Block 10 mines. In 1888 BHP £20 shares reached £417 and their mine produced over £900,000 worth of ores including tin. In 1888 BHP was paying a regular dividend of £2 per share. In its first six years to 1891 BHP paid out £3,320,000 in dividends and produced over £7,000,000 worth of minerals. In its first four years BHP spent £175,000 on land, buildings, its smelters and machinery. By 1906 BHP had paid nearly £12,000,000 in dividends. By 1908 BHP employed 4,850 men and they were just one of several major companies in Broken Hill. BHP miners received a minimum of 10 shillings per eight hour shift in 1908. Three shower and bath rooms able to accommodate 500 men each were provided for those ending a shift. A major decision made by BHP in its early years was to end its smelting in Broken Hill in 1892 as there was not enough water there. Instead BHP developed their smelters at Port Pirie and railed the ores to that city from 1890 onwards. The British Broken Hill Company had established a smelter at Port Pirie in 1889 and BHP took this over and enlarged it. Eventually the smelters at Port Pirie smelted for five major Broken Hill mining companies. SA salt was required for the smelting of zinc in the Pirie smelters.
By the end of 1888 Broken Hill was the third biggest city in NSW after Sydney and Newcastle. It had a population of over 10,000 people by the beginning of 1889 but in April 1886 there had been only 34 inhabitants! The first building there was the mine manager’s house for the Day Dream mine in 1885. The town was surveyed in April 1886. The first church as the Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1885. The Customs House was an important early structure levying goods from South Australia but mainly collecting revenue from ores produced. The first hotel, the Bonanza was licensed October 1885. More followed. Hotels, houses and hovels had been built all over Broken Hill by the end of 1888 and in 1908 there were 61 hotels in Broken Hill. The town was declared a municipality in 1888. By 1890 many stone shops and offices in Argent Street had been completed and the town had a population of 26,000 by 1891. But progress had not been smooth. Strikes had closed mining operations for short periods, a major fire had destroyed wooden buildings in Argent Street in 1888, a water famine was experienced in 1892 and a bigger strike occurred in 1892 and in 1893 several banks had failed as depression and crisis hit all of Australia. The first of many serious mine accidents occurred in 1895 when nine men were killed and many wounded followed by another accident killing three men in 1897. But early in the 20th century the city was well endowed with churches, halls and government buildings. In 1905 there were wooden Anglican, Salvation Army, Baptist, Congregational and four wooden Methodist churches in the town. There were also three stone Methodist Churches, the stone Catholic Church (now the Cathedral), the stone Presbyterian Church in Lane Street and a stone Anglican Church in Railway Town. The Town Hall was built in 1891 as was the current Post Office. The Courthouse was finished in 1889 and the Police Station was built in 1890. The first Trades Hall was built in 1898.
Next door to the Palace Hotel in the former Bank of South Australia. Built in 1889 but during the bank collapse 1893 the building became the AMP. Built in classical style with pilasters and rectangular windows with no decoration. Great symmetry and balance. Triangular pediments over the street doors. It still has the AMP logo statue across the roof line although it is now a finance office.
A Saturday smoggy view of the eastern side of Sydney's CBD, from about 9 kilometres away. Some of the taller buildings: at left, Sydney Tower Centrepoint, Sydney tallest structure; the Seidler-designed MLC Centre; the Norman Foster-designed Deutsche Bank Place has the step structure and trellis; the red criss cross marks 8 Chifley Square; behind it is the Capita Centre; Chifley Tower rises above the Gresham vanity sign; Aurora Place has the sloping roof; then Governor Macquarie and Governor Phillip Towers; the AMP Building was Australia's tallest tower in 1976-7; behind NAB House (red star) it's a bit of a surprise to see the emerging Barangaroo tower, as it's on the other side of the city. Presumably that's only possible because Sydney's Town Hall's urban planners have maintained a policy of low-rise buildings near Circular Quay, preventing everything south being put permanently in shadow.
Taken on the 2014 Kelby Worldwide Photowalk from Watson's Bay. In the foreground is Vaucluse and Nielsen Park; then Garden Island and Elizabeth Bay; the Royal Botanic Gardens and the CBD.
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic age of sail and two world wars. The photos in the collection were taken mainly in Sydney and Newcastle during the first half of the 20th century.
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The 26th of January 2024 besides being Australia Day and India's Republic Day was also the occasion of a full moon. This image of the full moon rising over the city of Melbourne was taken from Newport on the western side of the Yarra River and is looking down a gap between buildings on Bourke and Lonsdale Streets.
The storm gathers over Australia Day...but there wasn't too much rain. At left, the taller buildings along Macquarie Street front Sydney's CBD from the east. At centre, the AMP building was once Sydney's tallest building before Centrepoint (slightly obscured behind a stepped building on the left) was built. From this angle, the smallish building in front of the AMP Building is Government House. Behind the AMP building is Governor Phillip Tower/ Governor Macquarie Tower, the setting for Mission Impossible 2. To the right are the taller buildings along Circular Quay. You'll guess which one's the Opera House.
The original AMP Society building was replaced with a new building, now knwon as MacArthur Chambers, in 1930.
IBERIA at the new Overseas Passenger terminal, Circular Quay. Taken from the then new AMP building viewing area on ADOX film on 6 Feb 1963
Taken on Kodachrome 1 from Circular Quay Railway station shows some historic buildings.
This was built as the Head Office of the Department of Road Transport and Tramways.
Picture taken from Circular Quay Railway Station on 7 Feb 1960.
26-year old Sally Pearson, 2012 London Olympics 100m hurdles gold medallist, doing promotion work for AMP.
AMP Building, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia (Friday 19 Oct 2012 @ 10:34am)
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A state government photo of the Adelaide Skyline scanned from a book "Living In The City of Adelaide" published by the State Government.
Seems like @hilkoguitars (from Belgium!) is making amps as well now: ・・・ Getting there. What do you think??? The #celestion gold is in place. Cut the logo out. Painted the baffle black. Have to go and buy some Lprofile to secure the amp. #ampbuilding #tubeamp #vintage #style #guitarporn #geartalk #gearfreak #tone #ampporn #tubeamp #boutiqueguitars #boutiqueguitarshop #boutique #funky #tad #tubeampdoctor #mojotone #mojo #handmadeinbelgium #tintin #hilko #hilko6973, via Instagram: bit.ly/1SDW9VG
Left-Right: Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Deutsche Bank Place, Chifley Tower, ANZ Bank Centre, Governor Phillip Tower, AMP Building.
Sydney Open.
A bi-annual event run by Sydney Living Museums in conjunction with the Sydney Architecture Festival.
50 buildings around the heart of Sydney open their doors to the public.
Some of these buildings are not usually open to the public.
Purchasing a ticket called City Pass gives you access to these buildings for a full day.
There are also special Focus Tours that provide guided tours of more restricted buildings.
In 2014 these included tours of Harry Seidler buildings and also historic places like the Tank Stream & the QVB Dome.
Free courtesy buses provide transport for the event.
I spent the day hanging out with Ian Burrows and had a great time.
Ian does great some work & you can check out his photography here: Beetwo77
The former Mail Exchange building was built in 1917 and has been meticulously restored. Located at the corner of Bourke & Spencer Streets, Melbourne, it now houses the Whitehouse Institute of Design on the top floors and a pub/bistro on the lower ground floor.
Detailed history and background:
The site was acquired from the decedents of Robert Hoddle at the turn of the last Century and construction on the Mail Exchange Building began in 1913. It was completed four years later in 1917.
Designed by Commonwealth Home Affairs architect John Smith Murdoch (1862 - 1945). Murdoch was Australia’s first Commonwealth Government architect and went on to design the Old Parliament House, completed in 1927.
Originally built to relieve the congestion at the nearby Melbourne GPO on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Bourke Street, it was a conscience effort to modernise the postal system in the early 20th Century.
Over the years, the building has been known as the Chief Parcels Office, the Parcels Post Building, the Postal Workshops, even for a period (1917 - 1964), as the General Post Office.
Subsequently it became the Melbourne Mail Centre and more recently, the Mail Exchange, the signage of which, is still clearly identifiable on both facades.
The building was administered by the Post Master General’s Department until 1975, when the Department was separated into Telecom (now Telstra) and Australia Post.
When Australia Post vacated the building, it was subsequently acquired in the mid 1980’s as the headquarters for the Figgins Shoe empire.
With the eventual relocation of the Figgins Group in 2006, restoration became possible and the building underwent a progressive and significant, internal and external upgrade completed in 2010..
Information source: www.mailexchangehotel.com.au/html/s31/History-T4.aspx
Aerial view of Adelaide taken from above Montefiore Hill looking south to Victoria Square 1969 - Reference 3554.026.054
AMP was formed in 1849 as the Australian Mutual Provident Society in the days of bushrangers and the gold rush, as a non-profit life insurance company. It was demutualised in 1998 The emblem adopted by the AMP was Amicus Certus in re Incerta, translating as ‘a true friend in uncertain times’. It represents the value of insurance in daily family life.
The image initially was of a maternal ‘Goddess of Plenty’ with a palm of victory in one hand and a cornucopia in the other side, flanked by a man and a woman and infant whom she would protect, thereby conveying the idea of a faithful friend. In 1960 the new building at Sydney Cove, Circular Quay required a new emblem. Tom Bass was asked to redesign the traditional emblem for the context of this new building. In his concept of Amicus Certus in re Incerta, Bass redesigned the Goddess of Plenty, the central figure, as a modern, almost sensual being and there was some discomfort about this re-interpretation of the previous maternal looking woman.
Bass argued that the modern woman needed to be represented and her abstract forms are typical of his figurative work. There is also a particularly Australian quality to the man, a farmer and the mother and child, from the cornucopia generous quantities of vegetables pour forth. Her left hand rests on the single mother. Originally modelled in clay it was then cast by a Copper deposit electrolytic process that Bass had evolved in the 50’s to cast his body of large public sculptures.
To this day, the Sydney Cove building remains the Australian headquarters of AMP. AMP Sculpture 1962 at AMP Building Circular Quay 33 Alfred Street, Sydney
Source: Tom Bass School website
Aerial view of Adelaide looking south from above Government House North Terrace 1968 - Reference 3554.026.76