The $100 million remediation that brought White Bay Power Station back from the brink of death by neglect has been recognised as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
An industrial behemoth with harbourside views, the White Bay Power Station was at risk of demolition or death by neglect, rain and bird poo despite its heritage listing.
“Against all the odds and after decades of neglect, these impressive efforts have saved building structures, and internal and external spaces of exceptional historic, aesthetic, technical and social significance that were destined to be lost,” the jury said. “After 40 years of it being dormant, it has taken a lot to bring it to the point where it is structurally stable and watertight,” Gasparini said. “It really was a building that had had little attention.”Visiting the site in March 2022 after record rains, he said he had to “wade through a slurry of watery bird poo wearing full PPE gear, helmets with torches, and masked up”.
The 19 awards announced on Friday celebrate outstanding practice, and excellence in conservation of Aboriginal, built, natural and cultural heritage ranging from books, events, advocacy, architecture and skills. “With its featherweight structure, it floats miraculously about the tree canopy, above the rocks, and above torrents of water making their way down to the iconic harbour shore,” Peter Lonergan wrote inAileen Sage Architects won the architecture award for the conversion of the old two-storey colonial post office at 119 Redfern Street to create an Aboriginal knowledge and cultural centre.
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