Willoughby Incinerator Arts Centry by Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin, the architect who designed Canberra and a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, also designed many other buildings in Australia including a series of garbage incinerators including this one at Willoughby New South Wales.

The Willoughby Incinerator is one of 12 designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Milton Nicholls for REICo Pty Ltd. from 1930-38.

The Incinerator operated from 1934-67. In 1968 a public campaign saved the building from demolition and it was listed with the National Trust and Royal Australian Institute of Architects as a building of significance. From 1980-89 the building was The Incinerator Restaurant and then adapted to an office. In 1999 it was listed with the NSW State Heritage Register. In 2007 Willoughby Council agreed to restore and adapt the building to create a café and community arts space.

A public artwork by artist Richard Goodwin, titled Exoskeleton Lift, us a large-scale fabricated polished stainless steel reflects the exterior setting and covers the structure of the external lift.

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