Church- Anderson St Chatswood

Anglican Church, Anderson St, Chatswood

This Church displays it bricks in a very methodical way. All bricks are of the same colour, size and texture. The appeal of the masonry is brought out within the protruding brick columns as well as the same décor around the stained glass windows.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Mild Environments
Masonry Units- Protected
Mortar- M2

(Mild Environment = Environments remote from the coast, industrial activity and the tropics.)

Brookfield-Multiplex Construction Offices- Kent St

Brookfield-Multiplex Construction Offices, Kent St

This building has used different coloured bricks to highlight consecutive openings within the buildings walls. Including windows as well as identical filled in ‘windows’. Adding to the effect of the building when looking at it as a whole. This could also happen during the conversion from warehouse to office, as the building gives of an older style corresponding to that of the surrounding area of the Rocks.


Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Marine Environment
Masonry Units-General Purpose
Mortar- M3

(Marine Environment- 100 m to 1 km for a non-surf coast and 1 km to 10 km for surf coast shall both be regarded as marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

Converted Warf- Windmill St- Walsh Bay

Converted Bond Warf, Walsh Bay

This building was an original Bond Store Warf dating back to 1894. It has now been converted in a office warehouse building. however the original shape and character or the exterior has been kept. The clay bricks differ only in colour, with red clay bricks conversing with brown bricks to line the levels of the building and some openings.
Being so close the water a high level bond would have had to been used to keep the building maintained in the shape it holds today.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Severe Marine Environment
Masonry Units- Exposure
Mortar- M4

(Severe Marine Environment- Up to 100 m for a non-surf coast and up to 1 km from a surf coast shall both be regarded as severe marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

Harbour Rocks Hotel- Harrington St, The Rocks

Harbour Rocks Hotel- The Rocks

The predominant brick used for this building is of a white/gray colour. None of the bricks form any of the decorative aspects of the buildings, however I think that the bright colour of the brick is what has given the building some to draw character from. This older style building follows a pattern with the Terrace House, the front Façade was beautifully decorated which vast amounts of appeal and character while the remaining walls are left to there own clay brick devices, all being simple and repetitive.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Marine Environment
Masonry Units- General Purpose
Mortar- M3

(Marine Environment- 100 m to 1 km for a non-surf coast and 1 km to 10 km for surf coast shall both be regarded as marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

Palisade Hotel- Millers Point

Palisade Hotel- Millers Point

The Palisade Hotel is located in Sydney’s most historic location, Millers Point, The Rocks. Situated above the historic docklands. The old building has undergone few renovations since its erecting and is still standing with much of the same exterior it started with. This building shows many similarities in brick structure with the converted Bond Warf as well as the Converted Brookfield and Multiplex Construction offices. All of which would have been built within the same time period.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Marine Environment
Masonry Units- General Purpose
Mortar- M3

(Marine Environment- 100 m to 1 km for a non-surf coast and 1 km to 10 km for surf coast shall both be regarded as marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

Post Office- Millers Point

Post Office- Millers Point
This building is the original Post Office in Millers Point. And the area is among the first built up areas within Sydney so is very old. This Post Office has withstood a great many years and being near the coast the bond hold the brick together is of high strength.
The building is primarily made up of red clay bricks. The openings and sills are built in a brightened terracotta brick. This Adds a decorative aspect to the building, it is not structural.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- elements in Marine Environment
Masonry Units- General Purpose
Mortar- M3

(Marine Environment- 100 m to 1 km for a non-surf coast and 1 km to 10 km for surf coast shall both be regarded as marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

St Brigids Church, Cooge

St Brigids Church, Cooge

This Church differs to the previous by using two primary coloured bricks consecutively throughout the building. The layered four on four pattern which the bricks follow emphasize the different shapes which the building produce through the column, protruding windows and steeples.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Severe Marine Environment
Masonry Units- Exposure
Mortar- M4

(Severe Marine Environment- Up to 100 m for a non-surf coast and up to 1 km from a surf coast shall both be regarded as severe marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

Unit Block- Chatswood

Block of Units- Chatswood

I chose to include this building because I think it shows the huge contrast in Architectural styles and well as the needs of society and the technology advances since the construction of this unit block and the construction of buildings such as the ‘The Harbour Rocks Hotel’ and Terrace houses. Its purpose being solely for accommodation and as much of it in the littlest space possible. The Brick high-rise, although made possible through advances in technology, is starkly ugly and makes no attempt to blend with its surrounds. The identical units have been stripped down to the bear minimum of its structural components required to make it stand.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Mild Environment
Masonry Units- Protected
Mortar- M2

(Mild Environment = Environments remote from the coast, industrial activity and the tropics.)

Terrace House- Devonshire Pl, The Rocks

Terrace House- The Rocks

This brick terrace house has used different shapes, sizes and coloured bricks to create a decorated exterior to the front façade of the house. Being the main entrance the door and windows and lined with a décor of white, red and brown bricks, placed at different angles and sizes. However when looking at the side of the house I found it interesting to see the solid brick wall, with only two small windows punched into the wall. I would assume that this wall would usually be a connecting wall with another terrace. This was the way of saving space during the 19th Century, instead of going up, they jammed as many buildings together as possible!

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Elements in Marine Environment
Masonry Units- General Purpose
Mortar- M3
(Marine Environment- 100 m to 1 km for a non-surf coast and 1 km to 10 km for surf coast shall both be regarded as marine environment. The distances specified are from the mean high-water mark.)

The Greengate Hotel Gordon

Greengate Hotel- Gordon

The Greengate Hotel has held its place along the pacific highway in Gordon for the past 175 years. Through out those years it has been constantly converted. However they have chosen to keep the traditional brick exterior of a ‘pub’. Much of the brick exterior has been used as decorations to the building, from corners, doorway arches, balconies, stairways etc. All of which add to the aesthetic appeal of the building however had no structural purpose. These additions are what makes the pub more appealing to the modern eye.

Durability Requirements
Exposure Environment- Mild Environments
Masonry Units- Protected
Mortar- M2

(Mild Environment = Environments remote from the coast, industrial activity and the tropics.)