Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
“Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.”
— Harry Seidler · Sydney
The World Motivation
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
“Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.”
— Harry Seidler · Sydney
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Good design doesn't date.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
You cannot treat Sydney the same as the rest of the state.
At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
I do remember those days really well, when I was working at my uncle's office in Sydney. I never even thought about the future to be honest, it was all about getting work done and then my head was focused on the Mariners.
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.