Watch: Demolished Sydney
The skyline of Sydney has undergone constant change as buildings rise and fall. From the convict-built Commissariat Stores and magnificent Garden Palace, to towering skyscrapers and grand hotels, the buildings lining our city’s streets have played a defining role in creating the physical character of Sydney.
The stories of these Georgian, Victorian, Art Deco and modernist buildings reveal the changing forces and attitudes that have shaped the city, and the way in which our heritage has been valued and preserved over time.
Curator of Demolished Sydney, Dr Nicola Teffer, spoke with some of Sydney’s most notable architects, historians, artists, and social commentators to discover the role of heritage, both now and into the future.
Filmed for Demolished Sydney: Georgian town to global city, on show at the Museum of Sydney until 17 April 2017.
Past Exhibition
Past exhibition
Demolished Sydney
Demolished Sydney explores the buildings that once shaped the city’s skyline, from the convict built Commissariat Stores to the city's last island of industry, the Kent Brewery
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Dr Nicola Teffer
Guest curator
Dr Nicola Teffer is an art historian and curator who specialises in 19th-century Australian social history and photography. She was the 2012 State Library of New South Wales Nancy Keesing Fellow, and won the University of Technology Sydney’s Chancellor’s Award for her doctoral thesis in 2001. As well as Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story, Nicola has curated a number of exhibitions for the Historic Houses Trust and the City of Sydney, including No Ordinary Man: Sydney’s Quong Tart; Coffee Customs; Recollecting Rowe Street; and Spanning the Decades. She has lectured in art history at the universities of New South Wales and Sydney and her work has been published in a number of academic journals.
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