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  Designed by Harry Seidler (1923-2006) and completed in 1967‚ Sydney’s Australia Square Tower was immediately acclaimed as a landmark building for the country. At the time of its completion‚ the complex′s 170-metre-high‚ 50-storey cylindrical tower was the tallest lightweight concrete building in the world and Australia′s first true skyscraper. Indeed it remained the tallest building in the city until 1976.

   

  Born in Vienna in 1923, Seidler fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 for England. During the Second World War, he was at first interned, but later travelled to Canada to study architecture, going on to complete his studies under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1945-6. Emigrating to Australia in 1948, he became one of the key proponents of post-war modernism. p (fs)

  Harry Seidler’s Australia Square Tower with Alexander Calder’s sculpture “Crossed Shears” at its base. (Photo: Max Dupain)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Australia
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Australia
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Lay of the Land

  Interview with landscape architect Kate Cullity

  Text: Leigh Theodore Vlassis
• FOUND

  FOUND

  High Office

  Harry Seidler

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Bewdy Bonza

  Australian architecture turns up the volume

  Text: Rob Wilson
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Going Troppo

  Troppo architects: creative pragmatism with a social agenda

  Text: David Welsh
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Driza Bone

  Pro-bono architecture

  Text: Leigh Theodore Vlassis
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  A Peripheral Life

  Ian Strange's suburbia

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Never Never

  A photographer's view of the Australian landscape

  Text: John Gollings
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Terra Nullius

  New perspectives on Indigenous architecture

  Text: Jefa Greenaway
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Boolean Strings

  National Museum of Australia, Canberra

  Text: Brett Seakins
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Big Things

  Landmarks Aussie style

  Text: Leigh Theodore Vlassis
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Call Me Flower

  A blossoming pavilion in Queen Victoria Gardens

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FREEHAND

  FREEHAND

  Freehand

  Dig, Aussie, Dig!!! By Mister Mourau
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

  Thank You I’ll Do It Myself

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