Posts relating to architectural histories, homesteads, student projects, important landmarks and architects across Newcastle and the Hunter & Central Coast Regions of Australia
 The NEWYhistory App is available to Download for FREE on GOOGLE PLAY or APPLE STORE . The NEWYhistory App was officially launched at NewSpace Campus on Monday 6th November at the Hunter Living Histories meeting. In March 2017 Jarred Casely (UON educ. student) was engaged on the project and created the digital architecture for … More NEWYhistory App
“This competition for Newcastle is to produce a design in harmony with the opportunities and constraints upon the site; realistic and capable of implementation by the Council; enriching to the urban fabric of the city in contemporary terms yet recapturing the flavour of Newcastle’s illustrious past.”
The Objects of the National Trust as exemplified in its publication Hunter 2000 are: To make conservation an integral part of planning in the Hunter Region. To ensure that historic buildings and urban areas of special quality are conserved. To ensure the provision of adequate open space in urban areas. To protect distinctive landscapes. … More Newcastle East: Hunter 2000: Supplement No. 2 – 1974
On the 19-20 April 2017, members of the University’s Hunter Living Histories presented an overview of twenty years of work creating the 3D Virtual Newcastle Time Machine at the Digital Cultural Heritage: FUTURE VISIONS Conference in Brisbane. The following paper “Newcastle Time Machine A multidisciplinary approach to digital cultural heritage” by Hardy, A, di Gravio … More Digital Cultural Heritage: FUTURE VISIONS Conference
The Southon Family of Builders: Biographical Notes, Photographs and Newspaper articles. Transcribed and Compiled by Denise Porter (7.2MB PDF File) FREE DOWNLOAD Denise Porter has transcribed and compiled information relating to the Southon Family of builders, responsible for the construction of a number of notable buildings across the Hunter Region and beyond. She has decided … More The Southon Family of Builders
The illustrations above come from Thesis 608 held in the University of Newcastle’s Cultural Collections (Auchmuty Library). John Gibson was on 1233 ABC Radio this morning (8 October 2016) announcing the heritage nomination for the Carrington Pumphouse and the historic hydraulic works established in Newcastle in 1877. We were surprised to find that it had … More Carrington Pump House
Wallsend and Plattsburg [Manuscript]: A Study compiled by the Students of Fourth and Fifth Years, School of Architecture, Newcastle College, N.S.W., University of Technology. Newcastle November ’55 by R. Armstrong, R. Evans, K. Gannon, L. Reedman. DOWNLOAD – THESIS 611 – FULL (HI RES PDF – 126 MB) DOWNLOAD – THESIS 611 – FULL (OPTIMISED … More Wallsend-Plattsburg 1955
Early Architects of the Hunter Region: A Hundred Years to 1940 We are greatly honoured to host the online digital version of Les Reedman’s landmark work, ‘Early Architects of the Hunter Region: A Hundred Years to 1940’. Read it online here: https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/flipbooks/reedman/#p=1 The Scope of the Work This work is an anthology connecting the development … More Early Architects of the Hunter Region