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Perth Cultural Centre
The Perth Cultural Centre is an area of central Perth, Western Australia, near the James Street Mall. It is home to a number of cultural institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, State Library of Western Australia, State Records Office, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Blue Room Theatre plus a number of coffee shops and bars. The Perth Cultural Centre precinct is bound by Roe Street, Aberdeen Street, Beaufort Street and William Street in the suburb of Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The .... A walkway called ''Gallery Walk'', named to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, connects the centre to Perth railway station. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth Railway Station
Perth railway station is the largest station on the Transperth network, serving the Perth central business district, central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It serves as an interchange between the Airport line, Perth, Airport, Armadale line, Armadale, Ellenbrook line, Ellenbrook, Fremantle railway line, Fremantle, Midland line, Perth, Midland, and Thornlie–Cockburn line, Thornlie–Cockburn lines as well as Transwa's ''Transwa Australind, Australind'' service. It is also directly connected to Perth Underground railway station, which has the Yanchep line, Yanchep and Mandurah line, Mandurah lines. History Establishment The foundation stone for the original Richard Roach Jewell-designed Perth station was laid on 10 May 1880, with the station opening on 1 March 1881 as part of the Eastern Railway (Western Australia), Eastern Railway from Fremantle railway station, Fremantle to Guildford railway station, Perth, Guildford. The station had one through platform with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen Street, Perth
Aberdeen Street is a street in the Perth suburbs of Perth and Northbridge that runs from a cul-de-sac west of Lord Street in the east to a cul-de-sac between Fitzgerald Street and the Mitchell Freeway in the west. The street has 42 locally listed places of significance, 18 of which are also listed on the State Register of Heritage Places. Tannery It had been the location of The Perth Tannery at number 257. History Aberdeen Street was named after the Earl of Aberdeen, who was Foreign Secretary in the Duke of Wellington's Cabinet when Western Australia was founded. A separate Aberdeen Road in East Perth was shown on the first street map of Perth issued in 1838, but a later survey by John Septimus Roe of this part of the Swan River Colony had removed that thoroughfare by 1845, and the name was transferred to the present Aberdeen Street. Aberdeen Street originally extended from Beaufort Street in the east to Charles Street in the west, after which it continued west a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attractions In Perth, Western Australia
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international. International tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, tourism numbers declined due to a severe economic slowdown (see Great Recession) and the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. These numbers, however, recovered until the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to the growth. The United Nations World Tourism Organization has estimated that global international tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Perth, Western Australia
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth Cultural Centre
The Perth Cultural Centre is an area of central Perth, Western Australia, near the James Street Mall. It is home to a number of cultural institutions including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, State Library of Western Australia, State Records Office, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Blue Room Theatre plus a number of coffee shops and bars. The Perth Cultural Centre precinct is bound by Roe Street, Aberdeen Street, Beaufort Street and William Street in the suburb of Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The .... A walkway called ''Gallery Walk'', named to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, connects the centre to Perth railway station. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picabar
Picabar is a bar and music venue located in Perth, Western Australia, within the Perth Cultural Centre. It is situated adjacent to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) for which the bar is named. Description The venue features an outdoor courtyard with access from the Perth Cultural Centre, near the steps and plaza, as well as outdoor tables along the edge of the cultural centre. It operates within the old Perth Boys School building, part of the Perth Central School complex in the early 1900s. , it employs 15 staff. History and operations Picabar is the family business of brothers Brian and Conor Buckley, and Brian's wife Melissa Bowen. It opened in 2012 in a space that was unused and had been boarded up for 12 years. The bar owners subleased the space from PICA with a six-month lease, and an option for a longer, ten-year term subject to PICA's lease from the state government being renewed. PICA's lease was not renewed, and both PICA and Picabar then ended u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackett Hall
Hackett Hall is a heritage listed building, previously housing part of the State Library of Western Australia. It is now a part of the new Western Australian Museum complex in the Perth Cultural Centre, in Western Australia. The name of the hall is related to the benefactor of the University of Western Australia, John Winthrop Hackett. It was located on James Street, Perth and its western end was adjacent to the southern end of Museum Street. The Museum Street section between the former James Street and Francis Street was closed from traffic to create the Perth Cultural Centre. It was designated as the main building of the Library in the 1930s as the ''Public Library of Western Australia in Hackett Hall''. There is a hall of the same name at the University of Western Australia main campus. It was photographed at the early stages as a library space. It was renovated in 1957, registered as a heritage building in 1992 with the State Register of Heritage Places, and had been lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J S Battye Library
The J S Battye Library (more properly known as the J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History) is an arm of the State Library of Western Australia. It stores much of the state's historical records and original publications including books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, and ephemera, as well as oral history tapes, photographs and artworks, films and video, and non-government records which are kept in the library's Private Archives collection. The Library provides a range of services, including reference, copying, and genealogical services, as well as consultancy and reader education. Founder The Library is named after James Sykes Battye, the first State Librarian, who began the collection in the early 1900s. It was established in December 1956. Librarians Mollie Lukis and Margaret Medcalf were successors to Battye as Battye librarians, and their long service to the Library was an important part of the library's development. Location The Battye Library is housed on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority
The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) was a statutory authority of the Government of Western Australia. It was established on 1 January 2012 pursuant to the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011 and reported to the Minister for Planning. The Act "... provide for the planning and redevelopment of, and the control of development in certain land in the metropolitan region; and to establish a State agency with planning, development control, land acquisition and disposal and other functions in respect of that land." The MRA combined the responsibilities and projects formerly undertaken by former redevelopment authorities for East Perth, Subiaco, Midland and Armadale. Projects overseen by the MRA have included Elizabeth Quay, Perth City Link, Perth Cultural Centre and Yagan Square. In 2019 the MRA merged with LandCorp LandCorp was an agency of the Government of Western Australia. It was responsible for releasing land for residential and commercial developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth Theatre Trust
The Perth Theatre Trust is a statutory authority which manages and operates cultural venues in Western Australia. It manages His Majesty's Theatre, the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, the Subiaco Arts Centre (leased from the City of Subiaco), the Albany Entertainment Centre, the Goldfields Arts Centre and the Perth Cultural Centre. The Trust leases the Perth Concert Hall from the City of Perth but the venue is managed by WA Venue and Events. The Trust also has a Museum of Performing Arts based in the His Majesty's Theatre building. History The Trust was created in 1980 to manage theatre properties in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. This involved bringing the Perth Concert Hall and His Majesty's Theatre within a single administrative unit. In February 1984 the now defunct Playhouse Theatre and National Theatre (the company; later reconstituted as the Western Australian Theatre Company) were taken over by the trust. The Trust also incor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth (suburb)
Perth is a list of Perth suburbs, suburb in the Perth metropolitan region, Western Australia that includes both the Perth#Central business district, central business district of the Perth, city, and a suburban area spreading north to the northern side of Hyde Park, Perth, Hyde Park. It does not include the separate suburbs of Northbridge, Western Australia, Northbridge or Highgate, Western Australia, Highgate. Perth is split between the City of Perth and the City of Vincent local authorities, and was named after the Perth, Scotland, city of the same name in Scotland. Built environment The dominant land use in Perth is commercial. Office buildings include 108 St Georges Terrace, QV1, Brookfield Place (Perth), Brookfield Place and Central Park (skyscraper), Central Park – the tallest building in the city and the list of tallest buildings in Australia, tenth tallest in Australia. Significant buildings The Perth Town Hall, built between 1868 and 1870, was designed as an ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Street, Perth
William Street is a suburban distributor and one of two major cross-streets in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. Commencing in western Mount Lawley, its route takes it through the Northbridge café and nightclub district as well as the CBD. Route description William Street's northern end is at Walcott Street in and commences as a four-lane single carriageway. It travels southwest along one block, for , before turning southwards. After it reaches Vincent Street, and the southern edge of Mount Lawley. The road continues in a south-south-westerly direction, at the eastern edge of Hyde Park and the western edge of . One block beyond the park, within the suburb of , William Street intersects Bulwer Street, which connects to three parallel arterial roads – Lord Street Beaufort Street, and Fitzgerald Street – as well as the major north–south road, Charles Street. William Street realigns itself one block further east through a reverse curve. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
