MLC Centre:
MLC Centre is a located in the Sydney City Centre. This Building High is 288 metres and has 67 storeys. It was designed by Sydney Architect Harry Seidler. This building awarded the Sir John Sulman medal by the Royal Australian Institute of Architect. It is one of the most talled reinforced concrete building in World. The MLC Centre was Sydney's tallest office building form 1977 to 1992. The MLC Centre is also tallest building in Australia for nine(9) years and its losing the title in 1986 by Rialto Towers in Melbourne. The Building includes a shopping centre and 1,186 seat Theatre, the Theatre Royal.
Location and features:
The building is a stark white, modernist column in an octagonal floorplan, with eight massive load-bearing columns in the corners that taper slightly towards the top. It is one of the world's tallest reinforced concrete buildings and was one of the tallest building in the world outside North America at the time of its completion. The Mlc Centre was Sydney's tallest office building form 1977 to 1992. The MLC Centre is wholly owned by Dexus, which acquired a half-stake in the property form the Queensland Inverstment Corporation in June 2017 and bought out its former co-onwer, the GPT Group, in March 2019. The Podium of the buildings include a shopping center and a 1,186 seat theater, the Theater Royal.
General Post Office:
The General Post Office is landmark building located in Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The building is construction in two stage and beginning in 1886 and designed under the guidance of Colonial Architect JAMES BAFRNET. A former police office on the present site of the General Post Office. In 1840s this building was givem a portico facade. The population of New South Wales and Sydney grew in the 1850s and 1860s. This is important postal service in Australia. The building constructed in two stage one stage was completed in 1874 and Second Stage begin 1879 with the designed modified to incorporate a clock tower. The building was complete in 1889 and the clock tower was complete after two later. Throughout its twenty five year construction process, the GPO was marred by two major controversies, the first of which related to the selection of brlls for the campanile clock and the seconds,more significantly, to the commission of Italian immigrant sculptor Tomaso Sani's "realistic" depictions of people for the carvings along the Pills Street Arcade. One of its first critic, Frederick Darley (later, the Chief Juctice of NSW)" denigrated the carvings as caricatures" and such was the controversy surrounding these works that it led to debates on aesthetics and taste within the New South Wales, The Building served as the headquarters of Australia Post form its completion until 1996 when it was privatised and refurbished. The Scaled back day to day counter postal services are now located on the George Streel frontage and the outlet is known as the Syndney GPO Post Shop. The Old General Post Office post boxes and poste restante services are now located in the Australia Post site in the hunter connection, on the corner of George street and hunter street. Despiyr significant internal alterations and additions, the facade has remained virtually unchanged and is listed both on the Commonwealth Heritage List and the New South Wales State Heritage Register, as recognition of its architectural and social significance to the history of Australia.
Location:
The site of the GPO falls within the traditionals countrys of the Cadigal people, a part of the Eora Aboriginal nation within the Sydney region and one of the many hundreds of communitited which make up the Indigenous people of Australia. Historivally noted for beig a harbourdwelling clan, the Cadigal people inhabited the shoreline stretching form the inner South Head to the Eastern Suburbs, and west to warrane (or War-ran, now the known as Sydney Cove) and also along parts of today's city of sydney to Gomora( now known as Darling Harbour). The current site of the Gereral Post Office is also situated over the now entirely enclosed Tank Stream, which was once the primary source of fresh water for the Penal Colony of New South Wales, shortly after the arrival the First Fleet on 26 January 1788, under the direction of Arthur PHilips, The First Governor. Today, the Gereral Post Office is located along the western end of Martin Place( N0. 1 Martin Place) and spans the entired the length of this section of public plaza between George and Pitt Streets.
