Darling Harbour - Sydney, NSW AUS

Client: Multiplex

Our scheme for the Dupain Building, a fifteen storey commercial development in Darling Harbour, would have set new design standards for harbourside buildings in Sydney.

The spectacular north facing balconies of the Dupain Building feature a supergraphic representation of Max Dupain’s classic photo “Bondi”.

To build this image the famous original photograph was scanned and processed into black and white strips using a sophisticated computer generated technique. Each strip became curved and rippled like ribbons or driftwood. Together these strangely evocative balustrade forms create the vivid optical illusion of the original picture, which becomes clearer as distance increases, to emerge as if from a mirage.

This project was fully documented in 2005 but construction did not proceed.