• Title
  Amalgamated Wireless (Australia) Ltd New Premises 45-47 York Street, Sydney, 1937-1939 [AWA building] / D. T. Morrow & Gordon, architects
• Call number
  PXD 529/2659-2885
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1937-1973
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings
• Reference code
  446995
• Physical Description
  226 architectural drawings
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Characterised by its geometric design, the A.W.A tower (ca.1934) was one of the eras most notable buildings. Architects Morrow and Gordon, designed the communications tower as an integral part of the building; its supports were part of the structure and, with the tower, it was the tallest structure in Sydney until the 1960s.
• Scope and Content
  Includes perspective drawings, site plans, work schedule and sketch plans, working drawings, detail drawings, structural drawings.
• Copying Conditions
  Reproduction Restricted
• General note
  
  Forms part of the Morrow and Gordon architectural collection. Location Number: PXD 532 (13,270 plans). Full Contents List available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
  See also ff. 12885-12907 for further plans relating to: Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.) Ltd.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823609
• Topic
  architectural drawings
  commercial establishments
  signal towers
  
• Place
  Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Building (Clarence Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985 - State Library of New South Wales (6 August, 1985 - 2 March, 1986)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16028869

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