Tao Gofers architectural drawings, specifications, photographs and scrapbooks of Sirius building, Sy...
Tao Gofers architectural drawings, specifications, photographs and scrapbooks of Sirius building, Sydney, and Sans Souci housing development, 1974-2017
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1974-2017
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0.7 metres of textual material (1 box and 1 outsize box), includes photographs
271 architectural drawings - diazotype, paper vellum, photocopies
247 slides
2 transparencies
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Copyright status : In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
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Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
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Architectural drawings, specifications, photographs and slides relating to two buildings designed by the architect Tao Gofers in Sydney in the 1970s. The first, a public housing development named “The Laurels” at Sans Souci, a southern Sydney suburb, comprised five blocks of concrete-walled walk-up flats stacked in a modular arrangement.
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Tao Gofers architectural drawings, specifications, photographs and scrapbooks of Sirius building, Sydney, and Sans Souci housing development, 1974-2017
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Presented by Tao Gofers, July 2017 and February 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Tao (Theodorus) Gofers migrated as a boy to Canada, with his Dutch family. He studied Architecture at the University of British Columbia and moved to Australia with his wife in 1973. Both The Laurels at Sans Souci and the Sirius building at the Rocks were designed by Gofers while employed as an architect at the Housing Commission of New South Wales...
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npANmj51
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/npANmj51
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9580483
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