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Sydney, Australia

            Former Railway House (Transport House), 11-13 York Street, Sydney. It is a 12 storey steel frame office building above Wynyard Station

Opened: 1936. Architects: H. E. Budden and Mackay. Awarded a Royal Australian Institute of Architects Sulman Medal in 1935 & Royal Institute of British Architects Medal in 1939. Period: Inter-war Style: Art Deco.

The scale and architectural quality of Transport House is a reflection of the importance of the Railway system to Sydney and NSW. It also documents the process of centralisation and rationalisation of state administration. Transport House is one of the most intact Art Deco buildings in Sydney, and one of the earliest fully resolved Art Deco expressions in CBD.

The building was designed to accommodate all the various offices of the Railway Department and included the Commissioner's Suite and the "Trouble Room". Externally the building was faced with trachyte at the ground level and above with green toned terracotta tiles; green was the colour for the railways. Windows were set in bronze features, including wrought iron balustrading and metal window louvres. These were produced by the Department's Chullora workshops. 

Internally there is many original art deco  fabric and finishes such as joinery, plaster ceilings, Art Deco motifs, glazed tiles and original office fitout elements.

Transport House is an outstanding building in the modernist tradition, and provides evidence of the advent of a mature Art Deco sensibility in Sydney in the unusual context of a Government department building. The large area of the facade completely clad in green glazed terracotta tiles is extremely rare in Sydney and NSW.

Taken on: February 27, 2012

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