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Qantas House, n° 1 Chifley Square, Sydney, was designed in 1950, at a time when Australia was torn between the tug of Empire and allure of aluminium. Qantas Empire Airways, established in 1920 and nationalised in 1947 as Australia's international airline, itself represented these twin tugs. Its main income was the Kangaroo Route to London while its expenditure included the new aluminium Constellation aircraft purchased from Lockheed in the USA. The design of Qantas House, the international headquarters for Qantas Empire Airways, also reveals an intercourse between the new and old design worlds. The recent research I conducted for a Conservation Management Plan identifies the building as a regional transitional response to Modernism and as an identifiable variation of Postwar International Style.
Qantas House, n° 1 Chifley Square, Sydney, was designed in 1950, at a time when Australia was torn between the tug of Empire and allure of aluminium. Qantas Empire Airways, established in 1920 and nationalised in 1947 as Australia's international airline, itself represented these twin tugs. Its main income was the Kangaroo Route to London while its expenditure included the new aluminium Constellation aircraft purchased from Lockheed in the USA. The design of Qantas House, the international headquarters for Qantas Empire Airways, also reveals an intercourse between the new and old design worlds. The recent research I conducted for a Conservation Management Plan identifies the building as a regional transitional response to Modernism and as an identifiable variation of Postwar International Style.
Qantas House, Sydney
Geoff Ashley (author)
2022
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Modernism , Conservation , Postwar , Australia , Architecture , NA1-9428
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