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Contemporary architecture

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Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay

Buhrich, Eva

AMP Building

Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay

Gold Fields House

Italian Forum

Buhrich, Eva

Buhrich, Hugh

AMP Building c1962

Galeries Victoria 2007

Interior of St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta 2009

Italian Forum Leichhardt 2009

Lidcombe Railway Station

One of the architectural models submitted for the proposed redevelopment of the Rocks 3 April 1962

Pacific Place Chatswood 2007

Robin Boyd's 'House of Tomorrow' in the Royal Exhibition building, Melbourne 1949

harmony (Buhrich House series 3), Castlecrag October 2009

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Contemporary architecture

Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay

Designed for and by Aboriginal people, the Aboriginal Health College at Little Bay is connected to both culture and environment.

Buhrich, Eva

Arriving in Sydney in 1939, Eva Buhrich worked in architectural design until the poor pay rates for women architects drove her to writing. She became a well-known commentator on architecture and design, writing for magazines, industry journals and the Sydney Morning Herald.

AMP Building

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Post War International style office building which at 25 storeys was the first to officially break the 1912 Sydney height of Buildings Limit of 150 feet and thus become the tallest building in Australia at the time of its construction.

Aboriginal Health College, Little Bay

Educational facility to provide health training for Indigenous Australians.

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Gold Fields House

Office building in Alfred Street at Circular Quay built in 1966. It was sold in 2014 and is to be converted into a hotel and apartments.

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Italian Forum

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Residential and shopping complex built around a central plaza off Norton Street in Leichhardt.

Buhrich, Eva

German-born architect and writer who was a champion of modernist design in Sydney.

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Buhrich, Hugh

Architect who designed two landmark modernist houses at Castlecrag.

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AMP Building c1962

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City of Sydney Archives

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Galeries Victoria 2007

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Christopher Chan

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/852258352/]

Interior of St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta 2009

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By

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/36583158@N06/4386213946/]

Italian Forum Leichhardt 2009

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chechuan/3243803716/]

Lidcombe Railway Station

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Wikimedia Commons

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lidcombe_Railway_Station_1.JPG]

One of the architectural models submitted for the proposed redevelopment of the Rocks 3 April 1962

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d7_12254 / APA 12554]

Pacific Place Chatswood 2007

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By

Christopher Chan

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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/375349032/]

Robin Boyd's 'House of Tomorrow' in the Royal Exhibition building, Melbourne 1949

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Wolfgang Sievers

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

harmony (Buhrich House series 3), Castlecrag October 2009

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