Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts

16 April 2009

Burnett House



Here is the external view of the Burnett House I was mentioning yesterday. Beni Burnett was quite an interesting character. He actually grew up in Asia; his parents were Scottish missionaries and he spent time in Mongolia and Malaysia. You actually do see the influence of his early years in his architecture. He subsequently became the Australian Government's Principal architect in the Northern Territory, and was commissioned to design quite a few houses in Darwin for senior public servants. Only a couple survive on the left and right of this building.

15 April 2009

Tea Time



Every Sunday from 3.30pm to 6pm the National Trust hosts a High Tea in the verdant tropical gardens of Burnett House. Burnett House is a rare example of Darwin’s early tropical architecture, having survived both the Japanese bombings in 1942 and Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Today is not Sunday unfortunately but I promised myself I woul go there for that occasion one day. In the meantime I visited the place under a nice tropical day and could easily imagine the life in the area a century ago...