Sunday, 17 June 2007

Air grate


Nicely weathered (brass?) basement vent in granite. Central Sydney (Department of Lands)
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12 comments:

  1. Kate17 June, 2007 14:14

    It's very artistic for an air vent, or is this standard fare?

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  2. kuanyin33317 June, 2007 15:10

    What a beautiful color, almost like weathered copper!

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  3. calusarus17 June, 2007 16:25

    Nice colors.

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  4. Sally17 June, 2007 17:05

    Kate : it's in a 19th century building - not standard these days!

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  5. alice17 June, 2007 19:07

    One of these nice details from the age where the time spent to work was not as important as the result...

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  6. Jilly17 June, 2007 19:30

    How beautiful! Looks rather Art Nouveau. Just love the style and the colour.

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  7. Anonymous17 June, 2007 23:11

    And perhaps the availability of cheap labour a less wonderful aspect, Alice? But I I have to confess that I've always loved those old Bridge Street Buildings.

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  8. alice18 June, 2007 00:29

    Sorry, Norman, I don't really understand what you mean...Hope I've not been indelicate without wanting it, Sally.

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  9. Ming the Merciless18 June, 2007 03:01

    Air gate - is that the pocket spaces from the basemen?

    The patina on the iron work is amazing.

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  10. Bergson18 June, 2007 04:26

    very decorative

    but in the event of flood it the grids should be stopped

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  11. Sally18 June, 2007 08:37

    alice: yes, real craftsmanship.
    norman not bridge St and the old Lands Dept Bldg - this is the current building (dformerly registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages, then Land Title office, now reamalgamated land Titles and Lands dept) at the top of Macquarie St.
    bergson It's higher up the wall than any flood i've known in Sydney, though who knows what the future may bring!

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  12. Anonymous18 June, 2007 18:37

    That's a relief for me, sally. Try as I might I couldn't remember that grille in Bridge Street, but assumed it must have been me losing my marbles. I have lost a few, of course, but feel better now I realise which building it was. The old B.D.M. Building is magnificent, and you've inspired me to have a look inside it again to see how it's changed.

    Apologies, Alice, you weren't at all 'indelicate'. It's just that old buildings like the B.D.M. couldn't be built nowadays, because, for example, the labour costs would be prohibitive. They don't build Norman Castles any more either, in part because modern technology while being far more efficient in many ways, isn't ideal for some older style structures; and in part because training and paying an appropriate work force would now be too costly.

    But I still prefer the older styles --- and they give me an added incentive to walk far more than might otherwise be the case.

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