The Art School in Hunter Street

This is the old Technical College which I believe was built in 1895/6.  I just love it's brick work.  It has incorporated the old Trades Hall building (greyish building on left) in a rennovation that was done in more recent times.     It now is the Art and Film School campus of TAFE.

This is what I have managed to find out about it:


The Trades Hall is a two-storey structure in Baroque Revival
or Federation Anglo Dutch style, with an ornate façade featuring
double pressed buff and red bricks, and moulded cement render. 

The much grander Newcastle Technical College was built a year earlier
and designed by W.E. Kemp, who was also responsible for the Sydney
Technical College in Ultimo.

A late Victorian neo-classical / Romanesque style with a highly
decorative facade of polychrome brick and stone, the building has an
asymmetrical composition, with the right side being larger than the left.


Thanks for hosting Bob.