Sydney Architecture Images- Colonial State Bank Centre

	Sydney Architecture Images- Central Business District Colonial State Bank Centre
architect	Peddle, Thorp and Walker
location	Martin Place
date	1986
style	Late 20th-Century Post-Modern
construction	dark glass facade. The building cost was 92,500,000 Australian dollars. 147 m 482 ft
type	Bank
Highly contentious replacement of the art deco Rural Bank. In itself quite a striking example of the "greed is good" extravagant deco-inspired post modernism of the mid-eighties boom.
State Bank Centre was designed by Peddle, Thorp and Walker and opened in 1985. It is regarded as one of the finest office buildings in Sydney, and many interesting features, including a 36-level glass-curtained tower and a two-storey atrium that looks down on a marbled banking lobby. The centre, now the Commonwealth Bank, occupies the site of the earlier Art Deco Rural Bank, the ram's head plaques from which are preserved in the new centre.




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