Tuesday 6 October 2015

The Rocks, Quay Chambers

Quay Chambers is a heritage listed building located along George Street at The Rocks. It was built as a commercial building in 1913 in the Federation architectural style. In 1988, a large commercial building called the Duty Free Store Galleria was erected behind it with the shopfront facade and building incorporated into the complex.

10 comments:

  1. How clever to retain the facade of the building for the new structure.

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  2. It has an impressive facade well worth preserving.

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  3. I do agree with the others, very clever indeed to save the facade of the older building!! Great capture for the day, Jim!!

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  4. Better to renovate and include than just steam roll and replace with yet another modern faceless building. Good to see.

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  5. nice way to preserve charm of old architecture.

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  6. Wonderful building and love the angle you chose to shoot from ~ Wonderful!

    Happy Week to you,
    artmusedog and carol

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  7. How nice that each building has a different design from the next one.

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  8. It breaks my heart when colonial/Victorian/Edwardian buildings are destroyed. So at least when the shopfront facade has been protected and preserved, we get a sense of what the streetscape must have looked like in 1913.

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