Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:84:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 84 (pt 5/5)
Character Range: 149416–151912

goods hoist installed in 1986-7 to the south side for basement access, a nitrate bunker to the south which is a concrete building with earth mounded on three sides and a concrete and steel balustrade access ramp to the north (now not used).

  Figure 45: Bunker (EMAA 2018)

  Figure 46: North Side Ramp (EMAA 2018)

  3.3.2    The Annex

  The Annex is a two-storey building with a flat projecting copper roof with copper rainwater heads
  and downpipes similar to the main building.

  Walls are sandstone or sandstone coloured precast concrete. The west side has a pattern of panels and windows with coloured spandrels not unlike the pattern to the east side of the main building. Windows are bronze coloured aluminium. The north and south sides are mainly bronze colour aluminium louvres to plant areas.

  Figure 47: Annex – South – Loading Dock Area (EMAA 2018)

  Figure 48: Annex – South
  (EMAA2018)

  Figure 49: Annex – Liversidge Street (EMAA 2018)

  The main entry to the west is glazed and includes granite stairs and a granite ramp.

  Figure 50: Annex – Liversidge Street (EMAA 2018)

Figure 51: Elevations of Annex (NFSA 2018)

  3.4     Interior

  The interior of the building carries through the deco style in the detail of the floors, ceilings and joinery. A recurring element through the detailing is a chevron (arrow) which is used in most spaces of the building in one form or other. The entry foyer and side corridors have a high quality of detailing with marble and ceramic tiled floors respectively. The entry foyer has marble pilasters and sandstone surround to the entry doors.

  3.4.1 Basement

  The basement includes a range of service rooms (plant and equipment) and storerooms.

  Original walls are generally rendered and painted and later walls steel and timber stud lined with plasterboard. Perimeter walls still have rising damp problems and, in heavy rain, water penetration. This is managed by a false wall and false floor in part of the north wing.

  Figure 52: Basement – SB60
  Vault A3 (EMAA 2018)

Figure 53: Basement – SB64
Corridor (EMAA 2018)

  Floors are generally epoxy coated concrete and are sound.

  The structural system to the gallery floors is a concrete column which bells out and supports an "Innes-Bell Hollow Block" slab.85
  Blocks were placed in the formwork with spaces between so that the concrete effectively forms a waffle slab. Blocks were left out at the column head to accommodate extra reinforcement.