2011 National Trust Heritage Awards
Conservation for Built Heritage: Highly Commended
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most significant landmarks, and one of the most readily recognised symbols of Sydney. Officially opened in 1932, a distinctive feature of the Sydney Harbour Bridge's profile since this time has been the four painting and maintenance cranes. The original cranes, designed in 1929 and decommissioned in 1997, were in use for nearly seventy years. ICS was commissioned by the RTA to guide them through the decision making process with regard to the future of the four cranes which were removed from the Bridge in 1997. The result of this process was that one crane would be retained by the RTA and placed on external public display, one crane would be donated to the National Museum of Australia, and the remaining two cranes would be de-accessioned and subsequently disposed of.
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The opening of Barangaroo Reserve has allowed Sydneysiders to walk around a part of the Sydney harbour foreshore that had been closed off to the public for more than 100 years. The six hectare parkland has transformed one of Sydney's oldest industrial sites, stretching back two centuries. The topography of the park was inspired by the shape of the 1836 shoreline, which was cut...
The ‘Mead Morrison No. 6 Skip’ is the only remaining carriage that was part of a complex coal-loading process, which operated for over 70 years from the early 1920s at Waverton peninsula in Sydney. Its purpose would have been to transport...
