The former Sailor's Home is located along George Street at The Rocks. The original block was designed by Weaver & Kemp and built in 1864 in the Victorian Italianate architectural style, as cheap, clean accommodation for sailors. The streetfront block seen here was designed by Spain & Cosh and built in 1926 in the Inter-War Free Classical architectural style. A continuous parapet in Classical Revival style links the blocks. It hosted sailors until the 1970s and is now the Billich Gallery and a restaurant. The previous colour scheme of the facade can be seen here.
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This is a fantastic facade
ReplyDeleteThe Od Sailors' Home still looks terrific. Do locals and tourists know it is now an art gallery? The white and blue colours are very fresh.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite a well known gallery and the artist is a well known Sydney identity. The former restaurant here Sailor's Thai was also a very popular establishment.
DeleteI don't know much at all about architecture but notice that often you use terms to describe construction that seem totally unfamiliar to me, such as "inter-war free classical architectural style". I'm not sure if we have a different term for it here in the US or if some of these unfamiliar terms are peculiar to Australia or if it's simply evidence of my ignorance. But this looks classical and I do like it a lot. Very clean and elegant.
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There's Art Deco and Modernist styles from this period. This building seems to be like a cross between those two styles.
DeleteI love the windows. It's a nice looking building.
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Beautiful architecture!
ReplyDeleteVery nice place for all those drunken sailors. ;D
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the sort of place that sailors would use.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely house
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