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Eleven Floors of Vertigo
Try holding your camera steady for 0.8 second (after scaling all those steps) to photograph a vertical drop of eleven tall floors. Almost had to close my eyes as my knees went weak.
343 George Street is the former headquarters of one of the leading banks in New South Wales, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd., which had occupied this site since the 1850s until its merger with the National Australia Bank in the 1980s.
The design and execution, scale, form and materials of this building combine to present an extremely fine expression of the qualities and aspirations of a leading, well established and respected bank from the 1920s at a time when great confidence and trust was placed in banks.
The building is a good and early example of the Commercial Palazzo style..........Sydney Architecture
343 George Street, Sydney, Australia (Friday 16 Apr 2010)
Eleven Floors of Vertigo
Try holding your camera steady for 0.8 second (after scaling all those steps) to photograph a vertical drop of eleven tall floors. Almost had to close my eyes as my knees went weak.
343 George Street is the former headquarters of one of the leading banks in New South Wales, the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Ltd., which had occupied this site since the 1850s until its merger with the National Australia Bank in the 1980s.
The design and execution, scale, form and materials of this building combine to present an extremely fine expression of the qualities and aspirations of a leading, well established and respected bank from the 1920s at a time when great confidence and trust was placed in banks.
The building is a good and early example of the Commercial Palazzo style..........Sydney Architecture
343 George Street, Sydney, Australia (Friday 16 Apr 2010)