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The AWA Tower is an office and communications complex in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia built for Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited. The AWA Tower consists of a radio transmission tower atop a 15-story building. It is located in the Sydney central business district at 45-47 York Street close to Wynyard Park and Wynyard railway station. ==History== The AWA Tower was designed by architects Morrow and Gordon from 1937–1939 and became one of the most notable commercial buildings of Sydney. It brought geometric Art Deco design and modernism to the city skyline with polished trachyte facing at ground level intending to signal a progressive and go-ahead firm. The 1939 steel-framed brick building was designed by Robertson, Marks and McCredie. The tower was modelled on Berlin's Funkturm Tower, built a few years earlier, and both took inspiration from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.〔(AWA Tower ) at Dictionary of Sydney, 2008.〕 The communications tower was an integral part of the structure and remained the tallest structure in Sydney (other than the Sydney Harbour Bridge) until the 1960s. The tower is high atop a high building. The tower was 48 metres, and at the 97-metre point of the building there was a viewing platform. The building is decorated with appropriate symbols of communication, including a winged Pegasus, said to be chosen by Sir Ernest Fisk, the pioneer of wireless technology and a founding director of AWA.〔Murray Goot, 'Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas, 1886–1965', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, pp 508–10〕 For many years, the tower wore the sign "Beam Wireless", a service providing radio contact to commercial shipping on the England–Australia route introduced in 1927. Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited was the first to manufacture televisions in Australia, and in the 1960s large AWA neon logos were attached to the building to symbolise this fact. In later years, the company expanded into a wide range of electronic products, including gaming systems. In 2000, when the company folded, the building was sold to Jupiter's Casino Group.〔( AWA Gaming History ) at Tabcorp International]〕 It is covered by a conservation order, and remains known as the AWA building, although the big red AWA signs have been removed.〔Sean Nicholls, "City Tower to lose historic logos", Sydney Morning Herald, 3 January 2003〕 The tower, which was demolished and rebuilt in 1994, remains illuminated at night, but the viewing platform has long gone. The tower (featuring the AWA logo) features in the science fiction film ''The Matrix''; when Neo and Trinity rescue Morpheus from the agents, the AWA Tower can be seen below as they make their escape by helicopter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AWA Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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