Queen Victoria Building restoration concept drawings

ARCH 29

fonds

probably between 1983 and 1986

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2 architectural drawings (1 folder) - 77 x 84 cm or smaller - ink, pencil on paper

In November 1979, the Sydney City Council issued a restoration brief for the Queen Victoria Building which was extended for a further two months. Seven days before the closing date of final tenders Malaysian developer Ipoh Garden Berhad put a bid together. A team was established between Architects Stephenson & Turner and Rice & Daubney, Engineers Meinhardt and Partners, Kuttner Collins & Partners for administration, with financial backing by IPOH Garden Berhad. Key conservation groups backed the plan. Negotiations about plans and leases continued for almost three years. On 1 August 1983 the Lord Mayor and IPOH Garden, signed a ninety-nine-year profit sharing lease to restore the QVB building with restoration work beginning the following year in 1984. This required the demolition of internal accretions including offices, floors and partition. A new underground carpark, linking tunnels and an interpretively reconstructed interior were also constructed. The QVB was reopened in 1986.
Joop Van Heusden (1920-2013) was a Dutch postwar and contemporary artist known for his poster designs.

References:
Bryant, J., Gurr, L., Masson, L., Eisermann, A., Long, K. (n.d.). Conservation Management Plan, Queen Victoria Building, prepared for City of Sydney Council, Urbis Pty Ltd. Accessed 11 December 2023. https://meetings.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/documents/s40891/
Queen Victoria Building, State Heritage Inventory, Heritage NSW, State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment). Accessed 12 December 2023. https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/

By descent from father-in-law of donor who worked as a builder on jobs at the QVB in the 1980s and 1990s.

This collection comprises two concept drawings for the restoration of the Queen Victoria Building (QVB) which took place between 1983 and 1986.

1. Town Hall Tunnel (looking north), Restoration of the Queen Victoria Building for IPOH Garden Berhad and the Council of the City of Sydney / architects Rice & Daubney, Stephenson & Turner in Association; surveyors Chas A. Harding, Widnell & Trollope; engineers Kuttner Collins & Partners (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd & W.L. Meinhardt & Partners Pty Ltd
2. [Patrons dining in an Italian restaurant, Eat Street, lower ground floor of the Queen Victoria Building / concept drawing by] joop van heusden graphics. Signed by artist in lower centre left.

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The concept drawing of by Joop Van Heusden was published in 'Welcome to Eat Street' in The Queen Victoria Building: restoration, by Ipoh Garden (Aust) Pty Ltd, 74. Sydney : John Fairfax & Sons, 1986.

Date of production (earliest approximately 1983) estimated on the signing of the lease to restore the QVB building. Date of production (latest 1986) based on the date of its reopening.