The El Alamein Memorial Fountain is a spectacular fountain and outstanding work of modernist design in water which has been copied all over the world. It has been described as looking like a blown thistle. Throughout the decades of the 1960s and 1970s it was an icon of Sydney, rivalling the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House for the frequency with which it was represented in tourism imagery. Aesthetically it is rare in NSW as a local adaptation of the organic school of Scandinavian architectural design and as an example of the application of modernist design technology to fountain design.
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