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What do the Ritz Theatre and Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator reveal about the influences on life in Australia between the wars? |
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How do the influences revealed by these places contribute to our understanding of: urban growth; architectural and technological change; popular culture; the effects of economic change and past and present responses from Australians to international influences? |
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What is being preserved in these places; who decided what was important and should be kept and how is it being done? |
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Walter Burley Griffin and Aaron Bolot feature in the story of urban growth and development during the 1930s. Both Bolot and Griffin first set foot in Australia prior to World War I. Bolot migrated to Brisbane in 1911 (aged eleven years): Griffin came to Australia in 1912 (at age thirty-six) after winning the Federal Capital competition. Two decades later they collaborated on some of the most innovative architecture of the period.
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During the 1930s local governments along the eastern seaboard of Australia moved to adopt new technology for the disposal of waste in an efficient manner. The Willoughby Incinerator commenced operations in 1934 and was Walter Burley Griffin’s most successful adaptation of the vertical feed process incinerator to a steeply sloping landscaped site.
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The Ritz Theatre – designed by Aaron Bolot – was built in 1937. Bolot had worked with Walter Burley Griffin, producing drawings for the Willoughby incinerator and another located at Pyrmont. Along with hundreds of other cinemas in Sydney, the Ritz was built during the most creative period of cinematic design seen in Australia. Bolot’s design sits between the earlier picture palaces and the cinema complexes that are part of the American dominated cinematic world of the last fifty years.
Source: NSW State Heritage Inventory
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