Saturday, 29 January 2011

North Strathfield, bank

This bank is located on Concord Road, in the inner west suburb of North Strathfield. It is an excellent example of suburban branches built by the Commonwealth bank in the art deco architectural style.

16 comments:

Julie said...

Golly and it has its ATM on the footpath within reach of the ram-raiders!

Lovely looking building though.

And that is something else gone by the board - going into a bank.

Boonie S said...

Great photo. I love art deco.

Have a nice day, Boonie

Hels said...

Great architecture and perfect choice of colours :) Well spotted

Dindin MK said...

The bank has cool art-deco style, but, architecturally, Burwood post office is better. IMO...
:)

Elisa said...

Great view of this building:)
Have a nice weekend

Jack said...

This is a very sober interpretation of art deco, isn't it?

Mark Kreider said...

Your architecture photography is very, very good indeed. The buildings and structures are interesting in themselves.

Mark said...

Great to see this is still a bank. Our Com Bank in Grafton is also in this beautiful style.

J Bar said...

Jack, I suppose this was one of many suburban branches that they were building in Sydney at the time, so they probably didn't go overboard with the art deco features on all of them. This building really stands out in this suburb because others are rather plain in comparison.

Kevin said...

It’s an attractive building. I hope they keep it as a bank branch.

Mary Ann said...

In small American towns, there always seems to be a movie theater from this era.

I really love Art Deco architecture--not much of it here in Beirut, unfortunately.

Lara @ Uproad said...

again, you captured so well a nice building!

Territory Mom said...

Thanks for stopping by my blog. You are a beautiful blog. You are an excellent photographer!

diane b said...

I like the simple symmetrical lines.

GVK said...

Interesting.That you should have a Commonwealth Bank, though we don't see much of the Commonwealth.

urbandon (Don Pezzano) said...

They must have built a branch in every suburb in Sydney in that style. Shame most of the art deco theaters in Sydney are gone.