A City Lost and Found by Annear Robyn;

Author:Annear, Robyn; [ROBYN ANNEAR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2014-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

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* The obsolescence period was reduced – and the annual depreciation deduction increased – in 1954, accelerating the cycle of rebuilding and demolition in US cities.

* The Age called it ‘almost a solitary example of life in the building trade in the city since the community plunged itself into its penitential sackcloth and ashes’.

* A similar sculpture had crowned the Equitable’s New York office (long since demolished).

* Harcourt being close to the Castlemaine goldfield, bystanders sometimes used to scratch at the surface of the granite blocks piled up at the Equitable Building site, looking for specks of gold.

* A psychiatric hospital.

* This is not a theory that comes Whelan-endorsed. Owen Whelan laughed uproariously when I ventured it to him.

* In fact, said the Age, ‘he speaks in eulogistic terms of that much abused individual, the Australian working man – the carnivorous ruffian who demands eight hours’ work a day, and who has consequently fallen under the disfavour of eminent English economists.’

* These granite panels are still a feature, having been retained, in modified form, when the building underwent extensive remodelling in 2003–04.

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