Robert Woodward (1923 or 1924–) graduated with honours from the University of Sydney in 19XX, after a technical drawing course before the Second World War, and was registered in 1952. While at universtity he represented Australia in hurdling at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and was a double blue in athletics and soccer. He went to Finland to work with Alvar Aalto and Viljo Rewell, then returned to Sydney and became a partner in Woodward Taranto and Wallace, a firm which designed commercial and industrial buildings, and the Balmoral Baths. After becoming involved in the design of fountains and urban landscapes, Woodward won the competition to design El Alamein fountain at Kings Cross. In 1988 he created the double helix fountain submerged in a stone pavement on the western plaza of Darling Harbour (1988).
Sources
—Landscape Australia. 1979. ‘People in this issue’, No 3. p79.
—NSW Architects Registration Board database, December 2004. (Sometimes birthdates were given for 1 January of the year after the actual date.)
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Davina Jackson
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