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New South Wales Club building

New South Wales Club building is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand New South Wales Club building rather than just read about it. In short: New South Wales Club building is a heritage-listed former clubhouse and now offices located at 31 Bligh Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Wardell and built from 1886 to 1887 by John Try.

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Reference excerpt

New South Wales Club building is a heritage-listed former clubhouse and now offices located at 31 Bligh Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Wardell and built from 1886 to 1887 by John Try. It housed the New South Wales Club from 1886 until the club's amalgamation with the Australian Club in 1969. It was then sold and the two rear wings demolished in 1973 before the surviving front portion was converted to offices. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History The New South Wales Club was conceived on 16 March 1883 and for its premises a block of land measuring 20 metres (67 ft) was bought with frontages to both O'Connell and Bligh Streets. At the club's first general meeting on 1 October 1883, the NSW Club appointed the architect William Wardell to design the building. The purchase of the land cost the Club £18,000, with the tender to John Try costing £15,800. To allay these costs, the O'Connell Street frontage was sold for £15,000. The clubhouse was opened in 1886, though construction concluded a year later. At the inaugural dinner on 20 January 1886, the Club crest appeared for the first time: an oval girdle enclosing the cross, lions and stars with the motto "Sic Fortis Etruria Crevit" translated as "Thus Etruria grew strong". The club served elaborate dinners and with Lord Carrington, the Governor of New South Wales and the Patron of the club dining there on the 14 October 1890. Other well-known members of the NSW Club included Sydney Burdekin, Richard Teece, Sir Samuel Hordern, Sir Marcus Clarke and Sir William Spooner. The Club's history reflects the changing demands of time, though it appears that the Club changed only when it had to. The staff ceased dressing in livery in 1943 due to the rationing of clothes and the basement was converted into a Ladies' Annexe for female members in 1965, with a separate entrance below-ground. Most of the changes to the building till the late 1960s were internal with the exception of the 1916 addition of an extra mansard-roofed floor to create more space and later housing billiard and card rooms and additional bedrooms. The NSW Club was affiliated with other existing clubs of the time. For example, in 1922 it provided honorary membership to members of the Union Club during alterations to its building. In early 1969 the NSW Club announced its amalgamation with the Australian Club. The Bligh Street building was then sold for $3.7 million to Capital and Counties (Aust) Pty Ltd and a year later, in 1971, the building was classified "A" by the National Trust of Australia with the preservation of the front portion of the building deemed "most desirable". By late 1972, an arrangement was made between Capital and Counties, the National Trust and Gordon Barton on behalf of IPEC Investments whereby Capital and Counties would lease the front of the Club building to the National Trust which would then lease it to IPEC Investments. Capital and Counties nominally leased the building to the Trust at one dollar per year, with the City of Sydney offering Capital and Counties an incentive by giving a bonus plot ratio which allowed additional floors for its intended office block site as compensation for the additional cost of preserving the original club building. The demolished wings and rear would be used by Capital and Counties as high-rise offices and in its deal with IPEC, the Savoy Theatre became available for demolition to give the new offices street access. Under the agreement the National Trust leased the front portion of the Club to IPEC for a period of 80 years with one of the conditions being that internal and external alterations acquire the Trust's approval. In early 1973 demolition of the rear portion of the club building commenced to make way for the new 25 Bligh Street. Ipec-Tjuringa engaged McConnel Smith and Johnson as architects to the site to restore the remaining front portion of the building and by 1978 the restoration had been completed. The saving of the club building was a first of the National Trust's efforts in negotiation with property owners to preserve important historic buildings under the procedures set out in the City of Sydney Strategic Plan. The President of the Trust at the time, Wyatt said that he hoped that the arrangements negotiated for the NSW building would serve as a model for the future. Although Barton had intended the building to be used as office, it was vacant for some years before former Prime Minister Paul Keating occupied its offices in 1996.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with New South Wales Club building

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what New South Wales Club building claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to New South Wales Club building before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about New South Wales Club building ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of New South Wales Club building

In research: New South Wales Club building appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses New South Wales Club building in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: New South Wales Club building is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1887 establishments in Australia, Buildings and structures completed in 1887, Clubhouses in New South Wales, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for New South Wales Club building outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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