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Design and construction of Sidney Myer Music Bowl (YFA Job Number 320)

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TypeArchitectural projectIdentifierUMA-EV-000000011History

Project design was by Yuncken Freeman and Griffiths and Simpson during 1956. The project architect was Barry Patten. Construction commenced in 1958 with an innovative system of cables laced together and covered with aluminium faced plywood sandwich panels. To ensure the structure would be watertight yet aerodynamically stable and flexible, new construction techniques were developed. Ground anchors were required to be corrosion resistant. The shell also needed to be acoustically correct. Construction entailed input from a number of engineering and scientific organisations including the Aeronautical Research Laboratories and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Forest Products Division.

Unlike the Hollywood Bowl's concrete shell structure in Los Angeles which inspired it, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl combined a tensile structural system with a free-form roof. The structural design predates by nearly 10 years noted German architect and engineer Frei Otto and his experiments in using lightweight tensile and membrane structures. Otto's design of Munich's Olympic Park for the 1972 Olympics and the temporary West German pavilion at the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, were heavily influenced by Patten's design of Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is registered on the Victorian Heritage list for its cultural importance to Victoria, its architectural importance as the largest, purpose built, permanent outdoor performance venue in Australia and its engineering experimentation in new forms of construction involving use of membranes and a tensile structural system.

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Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Concept Drawings, sheet 3

Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Concept Drawings, sheet 2

Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Concept Drawings, sheet 1

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Sidney Myer Music Bowl Sub - Stage Lighting And Power Layout

Sidney Myer Music Bowl Stage Lighting & Power Layout

Sidney Myer Music Bowl Revised S.W. Drains

Details Of Fixing And Jointing Of 'Alumply'

Sidney Myer Music Bowl Sign Board To Be Erected For The Civic Week

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Restaurant Kings Domain Melbourne

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RS Reynolds Award, file 3

RS Reynolds Award, file 2

RS Reynolds Award, file 1

[2018.0115.00113] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [photographs, 3 of 3]

[2018.0115.00112] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [photographs, 2 of 3]

[2018.0115.00111] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [photographs, 1 of 3]

Lighting Scheme (revision) Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Lighting Scheme, Sidney Myer Music Bowl

[2018.0077.00535] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [3 of 3]

[2018.0077.00472] Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Contract Drawings

[2018.0077.00027] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [2 of 3]

[2018.0077.00026] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [1 of 3]

[1984.0047.00017] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [2 of 2]

[1984.0047.00016] Sidney Myer Music Bowl [1 of 2]

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DateBetween 1st January 1956 and 31st December 1958

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Design and construction of Sidney Myer Music Bowl (YFA Job Number 320)