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finishes. The MLC Building has technical significance due to intact fabric that demonstrates past building techniques and technology. The building contains rare examples of early porcelain enamel finished fluted steel spandrels beneath the windows. It is the best demonstrative example of the use of
Egyptian derived motifs in the design of inter-war commercial office buildings in Australia. Its quality of design and use of materials make it one of the principal contributors to the architectural character of Martin Place which is recognised as one of Sydney's finest urban spaces. It contains a substantially intact suite of late 1930s commercial executive rooms, including the lift lobby, ante-room and boardroom, which is the largest and most formal of its type surviving in Sydney (the finishes of some of these spaces have been dismantled and stored.)
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the sub-basement accommodated air conditioning plant and other services. A caretakers flat was included on the tenth floor. Most of the floors were left open so that partitions could be erected as required. On floors 1 to 5 a central corridor divided lettable spaces. The ground floor incorporated and insurance chamber on the Martin Place/Castlereagh Street corner and three lettable spaces. The executive offices of the company were located on the 9th floor, and were entered through a lift lobby and anteroom finished in traverine. The offices, boardroom and anteroom were finished in walnut and maple panelling and blue carpet. The 10th floor accommodated a caretaker's flat, and dining facilities for the staff.
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the principal contributors to the architectural character of Martin Place which is recognised as one of Sydney's finest urban spaces. The building contains a substantially intact insurance chamber and relocated boardroom. ante-room and lift lobby and relocated remnants of other architectural features. The former MLC Building is historically significant as one of a small group (about a dozen) of major commercial office buildings constructed in Sydney during the second half of the 1930s. It is associated with the well known
Melbourne architects Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, and as the winner of a design competition, reflects the architectural taste of the period.
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As at 16 October 2008, the former MLC Building is aesthetically significant as one of the best inter-war commercial office buildings in Sydney, and the best example in
Australia of the exterior use of Egyptian derived motifs in such buildings. Its quality of design and use of materials make it one of
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Internally the building originally included eleven floors above ground level, part of the ground floor and the whole of the upper five floors being devoted to the activities of the company, the others being available for letting. "Princes' Restaurant (now demolished) occupied the basement level while
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The building is an important contribution to the urban quality of Martin Place and
Castlereagh Street, having strong visual relationship with the Commonwealth Bank and APA Building and other major nineteenth and twentieth century office buildings in this locality. As the winner of a two stage design
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The MLC Building is one of a group of buildings which form the boundaries of Martin Place. Apart from the most recent buildings, and although individual buildings within the group have been constructed over a period of more than 100 years, there is a high degree of unity in building form, height and
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unusual because of its plaster relief panels depicting scenes of everyday life in Sydney (in a similar way to the AWA Building and the
Manchester Unity Building, Melbourne, c.1930. The chamber, although small, has very high quality finishes; such as moulded travertine and caste plaster bas-reliefs.
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replaced as well as flooring. All walls to the flat and dining facilities on the 10th floor were removed. All the executive offices on the 9th floor were replaced, except the lift lobby, staircase, boardroom and anteroom. On the ground floor, the insurance chamber remained relatively intact, as did
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Australia, often with
British assets, to cover the problems of world trade, internal communication, retirement and the constant hazard of fire. The Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Company, which commissioned Bates, Smart and McCutcheon to build its new Sydney Headquarters at the corner of Martin
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The MLC Building has technical significance due to intact fabric that demonstrates past building techniques and technology. The building contains rare examples of early porcelain enamel finished fluted steel spandrels beneath the windows. It is the best demonstrative example of the use of
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Australian firm of architects. As the winner of a two stage design competition for a major building, it more than other buildings of similar age reflects attitudes about architectural taste in the late
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Stapleton. These included the infill of the light well and relocation of the lift core and stairs, the widening of the Martin Place entry and the relocation of the executive suite to level 10. The existing granite lift core surrounds were relocated and reused and a matching surround made for a new
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The MLC Building has historic significance as the headquarters of the MLC Insurance company in Sydney since the
Victorian period. It is a major pre-war example of the work of Osborn McCutcheon, Bates Smart McCutcheon, a noted twentieth century Australian firm of architects. As the winner of a two
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Boardrooms were included in the original design of the following Sydney buildings, of these only four still exist. The boardrooms in the City Mutual Life
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panels between the windows were enamelled fluted steel panels, the flutes running horizontally. It contains other architectural features of note, including the polished granite surrounds to the lift doors at ground floor level, and two pairs of large bronze doors to both entrances of the building
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The MLC Building is a major pre-war example of the work of Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, a noted 20th century Australian firm of architects. The buildings designer, Osborn McCutcheon's contribution to Australian architecture was recognised in 1965 by the award of the RAIA Gold Medal and he was
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Of the substantially intact chambers those in AWA, ACA and Transport House are of inferior finish to the MLC Chamber. The significant chambers in Delfin House and the City Mutual Life Building are much larger than that of the MLC Building. However, the detailing of the MLC insurance chamber is
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The former MLC Building occupies a prominent position on the corner of Martin Place and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney. The steel-framed building was erected to a height of 46 metres (150 ft), the maximum allowable in Sydney at the time, although the tower rose another 15 metres (50 ft)
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course, running beneath the windows and around the doorways. The emblem of the Society has been incorporated into the detail over the main entrance from Martin Place and Castlereagh Streets. The granite was supplied by the firm Loveridge and Hudson Ltd.
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style with a strong Egyptian design influence. MLC also built a new headquarters in Melbourne as the Sydney Building was nearing completion. The overall form and structural similarities, though not the detailing, of the two buildings are very striking.
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was domestic and the MLC building is its only large commercial undertaking in Sydney between the wars. Other commercial buildings designed by the Bates Smart & McCutcheon during the period 1930â1942 include the AMP Building (1931) and
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the Castlereagh Street Entrance, but the main entrance vestibule and lift lobby was extensively altered. Princes Restaurant was removed from the basement.
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275:Location of MLC Building in Sydney
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953:Attraction Homepage (2007).
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1600:Metropolitan
1565:Bristol Arms
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1417:Nos. 163â169
1407:Nos. 139â153
1402:Nos. 121â127
1364:Qantas House
1334:MLC Building
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1279:GIO building
1267:Nos. 348â352
1239:CML building
1204:APA building
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210:2 April 1999
68:Martin Place
42:MLC Building
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32:MLC Building
1766:Tank Stream
1575:Dundee Arms
1570:Crown (pub)
1454:Wales House
1429:Trades Hall
1324:Liner House
1173:Sydney Mint
1151:Banco Court
1102:Hay Street
975:Attribution
931:RAIA, 2008.
601:Skyscraper/
542:â 1936â1937
540:Pitt Street
509:â 1930â1935
507:York Street
410:Description
388:Clive Lucas
111: /
99:151°12âē35âģE
87:Coordinates
82:, Australia
1781:Categories
1712:The Domain
1553:and hotels
1319:Kyle House
892:13 October
801:References
660:introduced
346:Place and
234:Commercial
207:Designated
170:Skyscraper
96:33°52âē03âģS
21:MLC Centre
1682:Hyde Park
1595:Hotel CBD
1590:Hollywood
1209:AWA Tower
1199:AMA House
994:CC-BY 4.0
905:CC-BY 4.0
658:mezzanine
530:Elizabeth
493:unknown.
488:Condition
356:Melbourne
343:Victorian
325:company,
297:, in the
142:Architect
132:Built for
127:1936â1938
1741:Memorial
1737:I â SMS
1610:Skinners
1560:Arthouse
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768:See also
599:Art Deco
477:lighting
453:spandrel
433:mullions
429:Sodwalls
239:Builders
231:Category
163:Art Deco
63:Location
1412:No. 161
1272:No. 354
1262:No. 343
1257:No. 341
997:licence
948:. 2007.
908:licence
687:1930s.
603:Moderne
591:William
458:facades
437:granite
337:History
293:in the
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1615:Sussex
1585:George
1467:No. 73
1462:No. 22
572:George
553:Market
441:plinth
66:42â46
55:facade
1739:Emden
1733:HMAS
1580:Grace
958:(PDF)
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