Conybeare Morrison & Partners archival recording package for the State Office Block, Phillip Street, Sydney, October 1996-April 1997

MLMSS 8205/Boxes 1-3
MLMSS 8205/Box 4X

fonds

October 1996-April 1997

Textual Records, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Graphic Materials, Photographs

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1.76 metres of textual material (3 boxes and 1 outsize box)

The State Office Block in Sydney was completed and opened in 1967, on a site that had remained within government ownership since first settlement. The finished building comprised a group of attached rectangular blocks including the main tower of thirty-five floors rising 128 metres, a nine-floor wing to the north fronting Phillip Street, and the Premier's wing of ten floors on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets. It was home to the Premier's Department, Cabinet meeting rooms, and press rooms from 1967-1980s

In 1989 Premier Greiner proposed moving the Department of Public Works out of the State Office Block, and renting their twenty floors to private tennants, calling the building inefficient and ineffective. While the building was withdrawn from the market in 1991, the Department of Public Works moved to the McKell building in Rawson Place.

In 1994 it was planned to move the Departments of Treasury and the Premier into the newly completed Governor Macquarie Tower. Soon after the elections in 1995, the government proposed that the building be sold. In 1996 the building was sold to Lend Lease Development. The building was dismantled from 1997-1998 to be replaced by the Chifley Tower.

Civil and Civic commissioned a consulting team to produce an Archival Recording Package for the State Office Block. This team consisted of Conybeare Morrison & Partners, Danny Kildare Photography, Jyoti Somerville (Architectural Conservation Consultant), and Dr. James Kerr (Heritage Consultant).

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Compiled from the collection

The State Office Block internal architectural audit and archival recording. 74-90 Phillip Street and 155 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Prepared by Conybeare Morrison & Partners, and Danny Kildare Photography

BOX 1
2 ring binders: Photographic Folio 'A' black and white proof sheets, October 1996; Photographic Folio 'B' colour slides, October 1996

BOX 2
2 ring binders: Photographic Folio 'C' duplicate colour slides, October 1996; Photographic Folio 'D' black and white proof sheets, November 1996 & March 1997

BOX 3
Photographic Folios 'E & F' colour slides and duplicates, November 1996 & March 1997; Document no. 4: statement of significance, prepared by Jyoti Somerville, Architectural Conservation Consultant, April 1997; duplicate black and white proof sheets; 2 colour slides

BOX 4X
Document no. 1: photographic record - photographic reference plans, October 1996; Document no. 2: architectural drawings record, October 1996; Document no. 3: comparative original drawings, Government Architects Office, N.S.W. Department of Public Works, October 1996; Document no. 5: photographic record - drawing schedule, photographic reference plans, photographic catalogue sheets, March 1997

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