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Jozioau
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Topic: High Court of Australia, Canberra Posted: 08 April 2019 at 07:19 |
Continuing on from my recent Canberra visit, here are some images I took of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the land.
Opened in 1980, the competition winning design was by Edwards Madigan Torzillo & Briggs, the same architects who won the design competition for the nearby National Gallery of Australia the subject of a companion post here in Open Views. The Chief Justice of that day was Sir Garfield Barwick, and the building was nick-named "Gar's Mahal". Again, a classic modern Brutalist design of off-form concrete and glass. The soaring Public Hall can be booked for recitals and such functions when the courts are not sitting. This is a selection from a larger set of images posted in the Canberra album on my Flickr site. All a99ii with Carl Zeiss 16-35mm Vario-Sonnar. C&C welcome. 1. View from the lakeside promenade of Lake Burley Griffin. Australian High Court, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 2. On the left, from a boat in the middle of the lake. High Court, Parliament and Questacon, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 3. Forecourt, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 4. Split levels, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 5. Public Hall, atrium, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 6. Courtroom 1, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 7. Public Hall foyer and artworks, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 8. Connecting ramps, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 9. Main atrium, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 10. Mezzanine, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 11. Courtroom 2, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 12. Looking down from the mezzanine, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 13. Public Hall with States mural, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 14. Lake view from north foyer, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr 15. Forecourt with waterfall, High Court of Australia, Canberra by Joe Lewit, on Flickr Thanks for looking. |
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beardedspoooon
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 April 2019 at 01:56 |
Very nice. My wife and I are hoping to make the big trip to Australia in a couple years. |
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addy landzaat
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 April 2019 at 14:17 |
Really nice
Too bad the weather changed and the clouds moved in. Beautiful building in and out. TFS. |
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waldo_posth
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 April 2019 at 21:24 |
Impressive set of images, Joe - again. Canberra must be a fascinating place!
I very much like the images of the interior - my favorites among the are #14 - beautiful colors and the tilted verticals emphasizing ht height of the space - very effective! And the other one is #8 - a very courageous composition: You pulled that off very well - the verticals are truly vertical and the emphasis is on the ramp and the depth of the space that it signals - again, very effective! Although I really like the colors (an in particular the blue skies in #1 and #2) I wonder what different documentary tonality a B/W version would create. Thank you for sharing, all the best! |
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Jozioau
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2019 at 03:39 |
Thanks for the feedback and comments.
As can be seen in Show Us Cities .... Canberra, our National Capital is a fully planned garden city that was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin in the early 20th Century. Over the years the National Capital Development Commission has protected the intent of the original design principles and ensured that everything in the built environment accords with them. It is home to some magnificent public buildings by some of the world's leading architects, mostly commissioned through design competitions. I actually lived and worked there for six months in the late 1970s when I then worked for the Federal Government. It has grown and changed a lot. One huge improvement nowadays is SatNav in cars. The radial/axial road layouts are impossible to navigate without it, and it used to be common for visitors to be driving around in huge circles, catching glimpses of various monuments and vistas along their way before being swept off course into another radial roadway. |
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