This historic building is a landmark Bank Office in Martin Place, Sydney.
Wunderlite was invited by Devine, Erby Mazlin, consultant architects to the Public Works Department, to prepare an initial proposal for the restoration of the Banking Chamber ceiling. Acoustic panels had placed below the original ceiling sometime in the 1950's due to the resonance of the ceiling to the noise of manual adding machines which came into use during that time. We then produced a prototype acoustic panel to be used in the centre of each ceiling bay as a trial and were subsequently awarded the contract to strip and restore the whole ceiling.
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Our responsibility included grit blasting, priming and repairing damaged elements, making new dies to reproduce damaged elements and duplicating and replacing missing plaster pilaster designs to the top of the chambers columns. We then sanded, undercoated and painted the top coat base colours ready for the decorative painters. |
Our contract was completed ahead of schedule and this ceiling is now one of the architectural features of Martin Place in downtown Sydney.