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(Female narrator): Remember the beautiful ornate ceilings of City Hall?
(Lord Mayor Graham Quirk): To let you know that this is where it’s all happening.
(Female narrator): In July 2011, the Lord Mayor gave cameras special access to see how City Hall’s heritage ceilings are shaping up.
And as ornamental plasterer David McCorrie explains,
traditional techniques are being used to restore and in some cases recreate the original plasterwork.
A skill that requires absolute precision and attention to detail.
(David McCorrie): Well, what we have here is the last remaining piece of an air grate
from the Lord Mayor’s office, of which there were 4.
So from this we need to reproduce the air grates to reinstate them as well as originally done.
What I’ll need to do is transfer this profile onto paper,
and then from paper to zinc,
and then I’ll form myself a running mould, then when I have the lengths,
I will take the measurements and cut them to size and put them together.
Well, this is the window sill. I’ve taken a profile, transferred it to tin, we’ll then reproduce it on this temporary workshop.
You mix your plaster and then you have to form it as it’s setting until you end up with the finished product.
(Female narrator): City Hall’s original architecture is coming back to life right before our eyes and there is plenty more for you to see.
Come and take a look inside the Visitor Experience Centre located from the Adelaide Street entrance of City Hall.
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