3 matches for lady%20northcote%20children%E2%80%99s%20farm, themes: 'built environment'
Diverse state (14) Aboriginal culture (6) Built environment (3) Creative life (3) Family histories (1) Immigrants and emigrants (1) Land and ecology (3) Local stories (5) Service and sacrifice (4)-
Kitty Owens
Summon the Living
... Lady Northcote Children’s Farm ...Prior to the advent of electronic sound systems, bells were heard ringing throughout the day.
Large bells were attached to buildings. Handheld bells sat on tables and mantel pieces. Bells rang for morning prayer, school time, half time, and dinner time. Bells announced a fire in town or the death of a local. Some bells were passed around within their local community, or re-purposed as presentation gifts, being easily engraved and potentially useful.
This story was originally inspired by Graeme Davison’s book The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time.
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Open House Melbourne
Modern Melbourne
... Phyllis Murphy was one of only two female architects to graduate from the University of Melbourne in in 1949. In this image, she is surrounded by 80 male graduates. ...Modern Melbourne is a series of filmed interviews and rich archival material that documents the extraordinary lives and careers of some of our most important architects and designers including Peter McIntyre, Mary Featherston, Daryl Jackson, Graeme Gunn, Phyllis Murphy, Allan Powell and Peter Elliott.
Melbourne’s modernist architects and designers are moving into the later stages of their careers. Their influence on the city is strong and the public appreciation of their early work is growing – they have made an indelible mark on Melbourne. Much of their mid-century modernist work and latter projects are now represented on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Many of the Modern Melbourne subjects enjoyed a working relationship and a friendship with Robin Boyd, the influential architect who championed the international modernist movement in Melbourne.
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Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Arnold
Carlo Catani: An engineering star over Victoria
... of Lubeck, Germany. It was described as being of the articulated ladder type; it ran on rails and had a nine-man crew. It weighed 80 tons and had a capacity of 61 cubic yards per hour or approximately 200,000 cubic yards per annum when working one shift ...After more than forty-one years of public service that never ended with his retirement, through surveying and direct design, contracting, supervision, and collaborative approaches, perhaps more than any other single figure, Carlo Catani re-scaped not only parts of Melbourne, but extensive swathes of Victoria ‘from Portland to Mallacoota’, opening up swamplands to farming, bringing access to beauty spots, establishing new townships, and the roads to get us there.