Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Contributors

Introduction Judith O'Callaghan, Paul Hogben and Robert Freestone

1. The Beginnings: James Barnet and the General Post Office Peter Kohane and Mark Stiles

2. A 'Monument to Civic Foresight': Extending Martin Place, 1923-35 Robert Freestone

3. Martin Place: Heart of Patriotism Charles Pickett

4. Portraits of a Place: Visual Responses Shirley Daborn

5. Corridor of Power: The Prestige and Promise of Insurance and Banking Architecture Michael Bogle

6. Temples of Commerce: Banking and Insurance Chambers Sing D'Arcy

7. The 'Gold and Marble Palace': The Reserve Bank of Australia Russell Rodrigo

8. A Central Player: The Corporate Presence of the MLC Paola Favaro and Harry Margalit

9. A Sydney Social Hub: The Australia Hotel and the Commercial Travellers' Association of NSW Paul Hogben

10. The 'Taj Mahal' of the Eastern Suburbs Line: Martin Place Railway Station Judith O'Callaghan

11. Action Architecture: The Pedestrianisation of Martin Place, 1968-79 Maryam Gusheh

12. Animating Public Space: Designs for Civic Life Katrina Simon

13. From Commemoration to Protest: Sydney's Civic Heart Dijana Alic

14. Making New: Heritage Conservation and Contemporary Expression Catherine Lassen

About the Author

Judith O'Callaghan, Paul Hogben and Robert Freestone are based in the Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW Australia. O'Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Hogben is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Freestone is Professor of Planning. Hogben and O'Callaghan are editors of Leisure Space: The Transformation of Sydney 1945-1970 (2014). Freestone's books include Place and Placelessness Revisited (2016), The Planning Imagination (2014) and Urban Nation (2010).