The Business School at the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney recently commissioned Frank Gehry to design and build a new and iconic building.
Named after the principal contributor, the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, also known as the "crushed paper bag" design by its detractors, has quickly become a must-see, hot-debated architectural feature in Sydney.
Mr Seasons and I checked it out one sunny Sunday September afternoon.
We had watched a program about its design and build and were intrigued.
In real life it is rather stunning from every angle.
I hope the photo's do it justice.
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| Eastern facade from The Goods Line. |
The UTS website has this to say about it's facade and interior spaces,
"The building’s remarkable exterior is the result of its two distinct facades – one composed of undulating brickwork, referencing the dignified sandstone of Sydney’s urban heritage, and the other of a glass ‘curtain wall’ that mirrors fragments of the building’s contemporary city surrounds."
"Frank Gehry imagined a building that was a cluster of ‘tree houses’, or vertical stacks of office floors with spatial ‘cracks’ in between. This is how he described his vision for the building:
"Each of the larger lower floors is divided into six floor segments. The building façade folds in between these elements bringing natural daylight deep into the centre of the floors."
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The interior walls reminded us of the game Jenga.
If we pulled one out, would it fall down? |
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| Polished stainless steel staircase |
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| Northern facade |
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| Approaching the Western facade. |
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| The glass Western facade |
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| The Ultimo Rd entrance. |
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| View from the Goods Line (see next weeks post). |
