Wednesday, March 17, 2010

El Alamein Fountain


Yesterday in the Sydney Morning Herald there was an obituary to Robert Woodward (1923-2010) the designer of this fountain in the heart of Kings Cross. He was the winner of a design competition to commemorate the Australian Imperial Forces action in North Africa in WWII and the two El Alamein battles in particular. It was completed in 1961.

5 comments:

  1. Yeah, but some sort of crook design that allows all the water to run off the edge like that!!

    I remember it not long after it was "turned on" and the impact it had. Sydney has a small town mentality!

    My excursion today is up through Kx. Shall be interesting to see what I make of it in the daylight hours!

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  2. Excellent. I have wanted to photograph this for ages but am never there when the light has been great.
    Sydney - City and Suburbs

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  3. Enjoy your visit to the cross, it has character.

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  4. It looks like a dandelion! Pretty.

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  5. There is a fountain very similar in Rockefeller Center in NYC. A pair of them. Also constructed in the 1960's. Very beautiful.

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