The Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre
The Ultimo community is the location for the new Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre designed by Harry Seidler and Associates.
There have been many occupants of the site for this new aquatic centre. This includes the AML & F Company wool store destroyed in a spectacular fire in 1992, as well as the 19th century housing along Harris Street and Bullecourt Lane.
This website explores a few of the Ultimo histories that have been enacted on this block of Harris Street.
A rewarding on-site signage and public art interpretation of the immediate neighbourhood had also been prepared for pedestrian visitors to Bullecourt Place.
The Ultimo Community
The character of the Ultimo community.
The Ultimo Port
History of the Industrial Heartland of Ultimo.
The Ultimo Woolstores
History of Ultimo Woolstores and warehouses.
Aquatic Centre Commission
The history of Seidler and Associates and the development of their design for
the Aquatic Centre.
Public Baths on the Peninsula
The City’s first public saltwater baths were constructed on the end of
the Pyrmont peninsula in 1879.
YouTube
Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre construction animation
Aquatic Centre Interpretation developed by Graham Brooks & Associates and the City of Sydney.
